• AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Anything to make it sound nefarious, because to Republican voters, everyone is as dishonest, tribal, and ammoral as they are.

    This is all Fox “News” and other conservative outlets do all day every day, take the news and add sinister innuendo to it. If Biden were doing a state visit to the UK, Fox would almost certainly say “Biden flees overseas to avoid American’s scrutiny of his administration’s failures” or the like. If he had that state visit planned but canceled it due to some urgent matter, the headline would be “Biden cancels state visit. Health concerns? What’s he hiding?”

    Republicans basically spin any positive or neutral information about their many enemies, everyone outside their in-group, as an attack on them. Republicans have no empathy, so of course the sun moon and stars all revolve around them in their view.

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      9 months ago

      They think they are the real ones and that any opposition is hate. Rather than, ya know, feeling sorry for them.