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Originally Posted by Dominate
Average Trump voter.
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whatever it is, I don't take my opinion from news sources, podcasts, tiktoks, etc. - I assess stuff from the source and figure out how I feel.
with acknowledgement to "things can be faked", I try to be discerning as well - i.e., when the first assassination attempt happened, I would have been uncertain (until Trump posted about it) but I also happened to be watching his event and saw it first hand (online, so as first hand as that is).
likewise, I'm not gonna just listen to whoever and whatever people have to say about him (because most of it IS the vibe of "ahhh he's a devil" which is pointless in my opinion), but I do get to just... watch him say things himself or post things himself that form my opinion of him.
I'm a green voter generally, which I know amounts to pretty much nothing - and I don't personally know much of Harris' other than she's not been in the news for various things. perhaps Trump's news stuff is trumped up (haha) - is he really a felon? did he really do XYZ? or this or that? :shrug:
but unfortunately for him (not in the sense of winning the presidency, just in the context of this conversation) I already had a low opinion of the value he'd bring to my country. I did NOT have a low opinion of Harris, albeit that was because I hadn't bothered to form one beyond a simple bit of research.
I'm happy to have a sensible conversation around this, bc I'm able to articulate easily - I don't hold tightly to my beliefs that aren't formed by my own senses, either, so I would cherish a conversation where someone tried to flip my vote (not that it matters now, but even in the future).
that said, facts are facts are facts.