Summary
Trump’s support among Latinos has plummeted as he nears his first 100 days in office, with many saying they feel betrayed by the scope of his policies, particularly immigration enforcement.
Almost three in four Latinos (72%) now disapprove of the way Trump is handling his job as president.
Many Venezuelans, for example, have been impacted by the decision to revoke their Temporary Protected Status (TPS).
“Today, I feel the same way I felt in Venezuela— that they’re going to come take me somewhere I won’t be able to escape from.” “This is completely different from what I thought it was going to be.”
That’s where we disagree. Media bubbles exist but the internet makes it so easy to find opposing viewpoints that failing to do so should absolutely be considered a personal failure. They’d rather believe a comforting lie than confront the truth and that is how shitty people live their lives.
The internet absolutely does that I agree. The problem is. That you think that everyone else is as terminally online as we are. And in that way you are as bad as they are. This isn’t an accusation against you specifically or anything. I’m just pointing out how we can all ultimately do bad things unintentionally. By simply assuming that everyone else is like us.
You don’t need to be terminally online to know that Donald Trump is a piece of shit. You’re trying really hard to justify intentional stupidity. Empathy is good but you don’t need to employ it to the point that you force a reason to let these people off the hook. In fact, I would argue that nothing will change until we all accept our role in educating ourselves. It’s not anyone else’s job to do that.
I’m not the one here trying to justify anything. That’s you. You’re the one here trying to pull off some ridiculous conspiracy theory where more than half the voting population are either mentally handicapped or evil in order to justify your 2 minutes hate.
Simply unwilling to acknowledge that the majority of people still get all their information from the mainstream media. The same mainstream media that we call out here on a daily basis for being tepid spineless and inaccurate in their coverage of everything including Palestine. The same mainstream media that has given Trump and Republicans far too much undue deference and respect. Propping them up. It’s not that you can’t understand the people who voted for Trump it’s that you don’t want to.
The fact that you could be on Reddit or Lemmy and claim that you are somehow not terminally online is especially hilarious. Being on either of those is absolutely terminally online. Brother we both are. You just lack the self-awareness. And that’s the problem.
The amount of time I spend online is entirely irrelevant to the question at hand. Your focus on that particular point, which I never disputed, is pretty odd. You can find the information I’m referring to in a 30 second Google search which pretty much everyone does on a regular basis for things they care about. The problem is that a good chunk of people don’t care enough to find out whether or not they’re being lied to by the media they consume. I don’t think it’s necessary to excuse that level of ignorance but you seem insistent on doing so. That’s not being understanding it’s justifying idiocy for no good reason.