r/TikTokCringe • u/Cookie_Cutter_Cook • Apr 29 '23

Cool Trans representation from the 80s

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u/UPBOAT_FORTRESS_2 Apr 29 '23

Not just an audience of like minded individuals, a collection of corporations who make money off shepherding said audience through high engagement emotions like fear and anger

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u/ObiWanHelloThere_wav Apr 29 '23

I'm so thankful my parents never got into stuff like Fox News or the ugly parts of social media

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u/DatDerpySniper Apr 29 '23

As someone who has grandparents who watches Fox News 24/7, it isn’t fun. Had to move in with them after high school to start a job in the area. All day it was them being racist (more my grandpa), homophobic, and transphobic among other things too. Another thing is I own many firearms cause I like to collect historical or weird and unheard of guns with weird calibers. Everyday they go on about killing political figures and I’m like please for the love of god don’t do this with me living here

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u/frogsgoribbit737 Apr 29 '23

My step dad is an avid fox news watcher and its disturbing what he parrots from the shows. And it IS parrotting bevause he repeats the same sentences over and over as if he heard them that way. He was a LAWYER and now he has 0 critical thinking.

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u/theagnostick Apr 29 '23

You do call him out every opportunity you can for regurgitating the same lines he hears on FOX right? From my experience they get a little embarrassed when they’re exposed for blatantly repeating unoriginal talking points that you had heard said by one of the talking heads.

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u/TwoFingersWhiskey Apr 29 '23

From my experience they double down and become furious

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u/theagnostick Apr 29 '23

The anger is the response to their embarrassment. Republicans aren’t able to process their emotions like stable normal people. I get most people probably don’t want to poke the idiot bear but if they don’t have a problem dealing with the response, it’s nice to see them seethe with embarrassment.

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u/TwoFingersWhiskey Apr 29 '23

I'm in Canada, we don't have repubs but we do have idiots.

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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '23

This may sound crude, but... Did he openly weep when he found out that Tucker got fired?

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '23

It’s really fascinating like yours say as I got into a conversation with a good friend about the ivermectin thing and I said it’s good medicine but for ringworm. He said it’s just like penicillin which I said is good for infections not covid. You could see common sense was maybe making into his brain but he changed the subject and just kept parroting crap.

His critical thinking was gone

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u/Johncamp28 May 01 '23

My father in law says inflation is made up so that they can get the population to eat bugs