'Sponsorship' menus obtained by Raw Story provide answers.
  • Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world
    29·
    10 months ago

    No commentary. 🙋‍♀️

    Edit: oh shit I said no commentary but this word must have fallen into my entry.

    cuckold

  • Waldowal@lemmy.world
    14·
    10 months ago

    I know I’ve seen that spider eyes women in the center in many other photos from Trump’s campaigns. I’m guessing these are the same 8 women told to act like they’ve never had a chance to meet him.

    • HeyListenWatchOut@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      10 months ago

      Dude, none of those people have to be told to like him. It’s a cult.

      It’s strange to believe because we like the think none of us are susceptible to it… but these people love him in the same way a significant number of people of North Korea love Kim Jong-un.

      Yes, he’s a dictator. Yes, he’s horrible to them…

      But watch that documentary about the eye surgeons who came in to North Korea to literally gave them a cure for hundreds of people who basically were blind… who then cry and thank a picture of KJU rather than the doctors.

      It’s bizarre.

      • relevants@feddit.de
        2·
        10 months ago

        I don’t know if you can quite make that comparison. North Koreans don’t really have a way of informing and educating themselves out of this belief. Adult Americans, while also preconditioned by a purposefully weak education system, could know better if they chose to seek out more perspectives.

        • HeyListenWatchOut@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          10 months ago

          Adult Americans, while also preconditioned by a purposefully weak education system, could know better if they chose to seek out more perspectives.

          Ever heard of the term “manufacturing consent?”

          Additionally, thanks to - as you succinctly put - the lack of education - I’d argue even more specifically in regards to media literacy - it is quite hard for many folks to realize what is and is not true, as well as how to figure out how to tell which is which using critical thinking skills.

          True it’s not the same as North Korea, but the issue is similar. Cult-like thinking that should not be taken as “fake” or “under duress” necessarily… but as a result of generational propaganda effectively radicalizing a populace for what you’d otherwise call absolute lunacy.

          The Germans weren’t faking their love of ol’ Dolph… and the Italians didn’t fake their love of “el duce.”

          They genuinely worshipped them.