Well, Cruise does like jumping on couches…

Some people can’t be happy unless they’re constantly angry about the people they were told to hate.

We call them gammons over here.

They provide simple answers to their problems. Easy scapegoats. My ex thought highly of Farridge, Yaxley Lenton, etc. He thought Trump wasn’t really racist, but was playing some kind of 4D chess to get the racist vote so he could drain the swamp.

My ex was pretty intelligent when it came to other things, but he fell for every lie coming out these grifters’ mouths.

One thing that’s significant: he still uses Facebook. Social media amplifes the right. It’s weird how on a completely non political video in incognito mode, YouTube will dish up right wing videos. You can watch one seemingly innocuous video and the next thing, you’ll get flooded with more and more extreme right content and before you know it, you’re far right.

It’s clear that my ex, and another colleague I had who’s into the right, parrot the same talking points they see on twitter and Facebook (classic one was parroting Musk’s civil war predictions during the Southport riots). They’re both anti establishment, without realising the people they admire ARE as establishment as they get.

Add an exclamation mark at the start.

!bewholesome@lemmy.world

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