Why Trump is actually diversifying GOP support:
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Why Trump is actually diversifying GOP support:
The Republican Party is less white than ever. Thank Donald Trump.
This is how Donald Trump made inroads with voters of color ahead of the 2024 election.
Vox (www.vox.com)
1. Many POC like strongmen
2. Many POC have shitty politics too
3. Many POC like 'law and order' politicians
4. POCs are not monoliths
5. Democrats haven't really done good work reaching out to POC for a very long time(Not saying I agree, but I find the white liberal belief that all POCs should be Democrat to be an utterly infantilizing one)
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@skinnylatte America already has Disneyland with the death penalty why would they want Singaporean politics?
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@humanhorseshoes Many people in America want *even more* cruelty to other people.
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in SF Chinatown there are posters with signs in Chinese that say things like 'don't vote for rotten people' (meaning progressive politicians)
and then there's also this... https://sfstandard.com/2024/09/23/republican-briones-society-moderate-asian-san-francisco/
not saying every Chinese person in SF is super conservative, but there is a sizable number
they also disagree nearly everything, so it's also hard to say 'all Chinese voters in SF like X'. the way i see both progressive and moderate and conservative politicians here making the mistake of doing
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Katie Barry Ishibashireplied to Adrianna Tan last edited by
@skinnylatte Anecdotally, I've had friends tell me there's a lot of outright misinformation in the Vietnamese and Russian language press that the older generations rely on. I remember my roommate who had great English on the phone with her mom saying "Ok that didn't happen. That also didn't happen." when her mom was explaining what she'd read.
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Adrianna Tanreplied to Katie Barry Ishibashi last edited by
@realmaplesyrup a big problem in the Chinese diaspora is growing Chinese state disinfo that is tilting people towards a pro-China, America-is-literally-dying and can’t even build housing and trains or clean the streets world view. So many people believe that. Of course that’s partly true, and the best disinfo has kernels of truth.
But the Chinese diaspora is also evenly split between obsessed with loving and hating China (the Epoch Times leaning super Trumpy)
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Katie Barry Ishibashireplied to Adrianna Tan last edited by
@skinnylatte Oh nooooooo. I mean, it is true that we are bad at building housing, but it doesn't then hold that everything the CCP wants is correct.
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Adrianna Tanreplied to Katie Barry Ishibashi last edited by
@realmaplesyrup there is a significant amount of cultural and mental head space in a lot of Chinese culture that equates unclean streets and perceived lack of public safety to be a sign of totally overstated utter chaos and decay.
Almost every conversation I have with anyone from E Asia is about ‘why is there poop on the streets? America is not world no 1 anymore’ (even very liberal people not into China)
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@realmaplesyrup basically mess = we need authoritarianism!
Going back to the people like strongmen claim I made
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Katie Barry Ishibashireplied to Adrianna Tan last edited by
@skinnylatte I mean I want to put the person who doesn't clean up after their dog on my street in the stockade, but not so much that I'd get rid of democracy. Also certain things are very good, like the drinking water, building inspection, licensing people for things like electrician jobs
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Riley S. Faelanreplied to Katie Barry Ishibashi last edited by
@realmaplesyrup Russia probably publishes "news" targetted at the sizable minority communities in countries that it considers hostile. It's not even a new trick; long before Russia Today, they funded the Morning Star newspaper, for an example. (Which wriggled its way out of the smoldering ruins of Komintern around 1990, IIRC.)
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Adrianna Tanreplied to Katie Barry Ishibashi last edited by
@realmaplesyrup the word for ‘mess’ in politics, streets and trains is the same word. It’s a very all-encompassing world view.