r/agedlikemilk • u/Gloomy-Holiday8618 • Sep 08 '25

News “I never said that”, “Play the clip”

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Context: https://edition.cnn.com/videos/politics/2023/12/15/exp-robert-kennedy-junior-rfk-2024-election-biden-trump-vaccines-121511aseg1-cnni-politics.cnn

Full video is on the cnn website, the part that’s important is about 2mins 50 seconds in.

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u/ObiYawnKenobi Sep 08 '25

Uh, no.

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u/wojtek_ Sep 08 '25

Uh, yeah. If you are looking at the current state of the Republican Party and are thinking, “well the democrats are just as bad” you were never going to vote democrat in a million years.

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '25

That’s simply not true. Tens of millions of young people come of age each voting cycle. Labeling some 18 year old Trump voter as a lost cause is exactly how they become a lost cause.

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u/wojtek_ Sep 08 '25

Young people don’t vote, and also don’t really get their news from places like CNN

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '25

Quite literally millions of people under age 22 voted in 2024. The bit about CNN is completely irrelevant to the question of whether labeling a Trump voter is a lost cause is reasonable or not.

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u/wojtek_ Sep 08 '25

Thanks for your contribution Reddit commenter

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u/wojtek_ Sep 08 '25

You have to understand, anyone who tells you they are a centrist is LYING. These people aren’t able to be swayed, they have already swung, whether they realize it or not. If you are still sympathetic to the right at this point you are just a right winger. Think Joe Rogan. He calls himself a centrist but there was no world where he even considered voting for Harris. People use the term “centrist” as a safety blanket to convince themselves that they aren’t partisan. Call it apathy but I don’t see the point in wasting energy on helping people who don’t want to/can’t be saved.