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I'm quite surprised to see way too many people here suffering from TDS. You can dislike him (I don't particularly like him), and still avoid falling for the anti-Trump propaganda.

Last case in point: the "we will pay off $35 T of debt in Bitcoin" clip. Related: Tucker and the CIA comment.

In both cases, the tone and body language of Trump and Tucker are transparently saying that those are comments not to be taken literally.

Are so many people here really unable to process non-verbal clues, and to detect facetious comments that do not need to be taken literally?

I don't doubt there are a lot of people in the spectrum here. But remember that inability to read people's faces is also a psychopathic trait...

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MBE 1y ago

I can’t take anything the guy says seriously. I’m amazed he’s lasted this long in the political world. Total clown

hh 1y ago

Sure. But that wasn't my point really.

What I'm saying is that there are an awful lot of people who seem unable to process non-verbal cues. This is problematic in itself, regardless of whether they misinterpret what Trump says, or it's another person's comments.

Reflecting a little bit more on it, I actually would be happy to believe that it's a willing and selective inability to understand humor only applied to people they dislike, like Trump or Tucker. That would be a lot more reassuring.

And by the way: it's not people who "don't get" Trump or Tucker. A LOT of conservatives do the same with people on the other side they dislike. It's just that people like Biden or Kamala, or many political commentators on the left generally speaking interestingly seem to be unable to use the same type of wit and humor when they express themselves, so there is less space for such misinterpretations.

Hoshi 1y ago

does that mean that you take serious what the other politicians say?

MBE 1y ago

Good question. Take the new UK prime minister Keir Starmer. I didn’t vote for him but he’s clearly a serious man. So I think a fair amount of what he says can be respected, however I’m under no illusion that politicians are largely powerless in the bigger broken system.

Hoshi 1y ago

I just read that the guy you propose as a model for trustworthiness labels protesters of murders indiscriminately as right wing extremists and threatens them for protesting, heavily increases mass surveillance, and so on. I doubt that this where the promises that got him elected. Maybe it‘s not the lies that you dislike about Trump but his positions.

hh 1y ago

Don't underestimate the Brits' ability to willingly vote for some who is very explicitly telling he's going to ride them harder than anything they've experience before...

MBE 1y ago

What’s your definition of protesting? You don’t expect him to condone criminal damage as acceptable do you?

Hoshi 1y ago

I take that as confirmation.

MBE 1y ago

That you’re misled?

Hoshi 1y ago

I guess many people are here because they don’t like Elon. Both guys regularly disturb the safe space of people who need the illusion of an universally accepted „progressive“ moral compass.

hh 1y ago

Ah, yeah, Musk is another case. But again, as I said in the other reply, I wasn't specifically talking about their political views, but a worryingly widespread inability to process sarcasm, humor and non-literal meanings, verbal and no -verbal cues,