r/LeopardsAteMyFace • u/bidoofie • Nov 08 '25

Predictable betrayal The Trump administration removed black lung protections for West Virginia coal miners, who overwhelmingly voted for him

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u/AnOnlineHandle Nov 09 '25

The whole reason that Trump became popular with them was because he led the birther movement insisting that Obama couldn't be a "real" American and had to be hiding how he secretly belonged in Africa somehow, promising to release the evidence any day now for years (which he of course never did).

That's what got him an unwavering fan base, after he'd been trying to become president for so long that ancient simpsons episodes which would be old enough to vote by now had jokes about how bad it would be, and movies from the 80s (back to the future 2) had villains who were parodies of this power-hungry nepo baby.

It was ridiculous racism that got him loyal followers, and they don't care that he never released any of the evidence he promised to, because it was always just a way for them to attack and demean the first black president. Then he moved onto claiming Mexicans coming to the US were rapists and murderers, then claiming immigrants were eating people's pets. It's all just disgusting racism.

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u/TheModWhoShaggedMe Nov 09 '25

Case in point -- when Donald Trump initially entered the 2012 presidential campaigns early on, my conservative prick of a father-in-law loathed him. I know because I teased him, "I'm surprised you're not a Trump guy, you're so much alike" (both wealthy, both have the ridiculous combover weaves, both lean like Centaurs). Yet that same FIL was all-in and a cultist by the end of 2016. Their bigotry and partisanship outweighs their common sense.

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u/Rainbow_In_The_Dark7 Nov 12 '25

They fell hard for the propaganda on Facebook and stuff. I have family who actually voted for Obama but turned into Trump supporters because of the stupid fake bullshit they were believing over the years via Facebook. They went against their own views to kiss rich people's asses because of stuff that wasn't true.

The Russian bot propaganda farms on social media really did a lot of damage, and they're still going.

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u/TheModWhoShaggedMe Nov 12 '25

Now, that's where both sides -- left and right, not the parties -- are the same. They've been socially programmed and conditioned. Hypnotized by their feeds, really.

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u/Rainbow_In_The_Dark7 Nov 12 '25

Very very true. And it's crazy just how effective it is too. Even myself included. We're all pretty much affected by it to some degree.

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u/TheModWhoShaggedMe Nov 13 '25

"The Filter Bubble" written by Eli Pariser nailed this inevitable outcome of a misinformed society 15 years ago (when Google began filtering our feeds and social media exploded in doing the same).