Dr. Maddkap, WerepsychologistOct 16, 2024

I’m trying to avoid politics. Really I am. But I saw a Trump billboard on my way home from Philadelphia, and it finally set me off.

it was the tagline underneath that got me. It read “migrants are entering the country every day, who pays?”

What the ever loving fuck? Migrants? Not illegal immigrants, which is a horrible phrase to begin with, but just migrants.

it’s no longer trying to make people hate folks for doing something illegal. Again, that’s bad enough. Now it’s trying to get people to hate folks who are from other countries at all.

This tactic isn’t just out of Hitler’s playbook, this actually IS Hitler’s playbook. Get people to blame a group of vulnerable people for all their problems and use their anger to get into power.

it almost made me physically sick. God help us if this man gets elected again.

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@drmaddkap It's genuinely scary that the polls are so close. And disheartening if I'm honest. It says something about the whole country when someone like Trump can get so much support.
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Show threadbluestarultorOct 16, 2024

@xoagray @drmaddkap Bear in mind polls are often skewed. Many polls are done primarily by landline and are only "taken" by people with time to burn, meaning they lean heavily older and conservative.

Don't let it discourage you from voting; that's what they want.

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@bluestarultor @drmaddkap Oh I still fully intend to vote. That was never in question. I've also seen the polls be wildly wrong. Not only for the reasons you mentioned, but also because there's just a straight up margin of error that can be + - 3 points most of the time.