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Not exactly morons. I know a super smart guy who is one of them. They lack critical thinking and integrity rather than intelligence. Also quite a lot of them seem to be conspiracy theorists outside of the MAGA stuff, so I'd bet there's a high incidence of psychosis related mental illness.
i used 2 follow some asian tubers," college educated", but dumb as rocks in regards to politics and news, just spouting misinformed outdated right wing talking points, then over the pandemic a controversy occured and they fell in with the maga crowd and they just sound like your lame low informed trumper, funny thing it was the women keeping them honest, and in check, and researching articles, when they got rid of them all the men start thirsting for trump, and they "couldnt understand why influencers wouldnt collaborate with them", and they had to reuse old jokes, and materials and nobody "asianfluencers" and those 2influnecers i talked about are exactly like your person, deep into conspiracies during covid, also had a southern right winger peddling this sht to them constantly(often with subtle jabs) most older fans agreed that the southerner was the blame for thier shift to hard-right from being moderate right.
Yeah, seems familiar. There's no substance to these people and I wonder if anything they ever do is just an ego trip.
I was reminded by what you said of the guy I know saying stuff like 'I want to be famous' and I asked what for and he didn't know.. Just wanted to be famous. I was puzzled. I mean he didn't want to be successful at something he was passionate about, which would be understandable, just famous for anything? Idk, I couldn't understand it.
And wanting to be treated the same as other people even though they're super toxic... I know that he was somewhat charismatic and had started a social type group which got a bit popular, then he later got kicked out of his own group - by women members. I don't know the full story there but I could guess.