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Leopards Ate My Face
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The video link is helpful. Memes are not journalism. You're right to hold on to skepticism.
Me either. I personally get some fulfillment by doing deep dives on the claims of rage bait screenshots. It's a good habit to get into, because even if you don't feel like doing the work for "this one," you're still primed to know that that work needs to be done before taking it seriously.
Propaganda works by taking advantage of what people already want to hear.
Yeah, to balance I sometimes check /r/conservative these days. They're obviously full blown MAGA but boy are they not regretting a thing.
And if you look at approval ratings he's doing pretty fucking well
https://www.axios.com/2025/02/09/trump-approval-ratings-poll
Its leopardsatemyface, where do you expect the individuals having their faces eaten be found aside from social media? Most of those taking place on social media many on Lemmy would be unwilling to go to, and may even be blocked by the instance (x for example, depending on the instance of course).
This community is not about large scale shifts so much as individuals having their faces eaten by the leopards eating faces party.
So I'm not sure what you're expecting to see instead.
Not OP. I get what your asking for, but this isn't supposed to be a news community. The whole point of this community is schadenfreude on the concept that people have completely voted against their own interests. Essentially, it highlights people get blindsided when the party they voted for enacts policy or actions that harm them...especially when they were told this exact thing would happen.
There used to be absolutely tons of Brexit items up here as well (at least on the reddit side). We're about to see 4 more years of it.
It would be like if you went to an unboxing community and got frustrated at the fact that no one then did anything with the items after they were unboxed - they absolutely will....it's just not the point of that community.
No one said it wasn't allowed. It absolutely would be, feel free to find one and post!
Who is claiming "large scale shifts"? These are anecdotes that fit, nothing more.
I honestly don't understand why you're surprised. I'm not being contrarian, I don't understand why you'd think this would be some meta analysis community. Its a specific community with a simple topic.
At the risk of being controversial, you MAY need to follow more communities than LAMF to get the big picture of trends in American political perceptions.
You may also get upvotes for sharing here if you find something concrete though.
"(A farmer) votes for billionaires, (he) is surprised when they act like billionaires."
The OP's post and headline doesn't claim any larger opinion shift is occurring.
Just that a farmer who voted for the LEFP is getting his face eaten by the LEFP.
That's the point of the instance.
The water dump in the added links is definitely true, and has impacted mostly-republican farmers in the Central Valley for no useful purposes.
Ah. I see the issue, you misread. Allow me to quote myself with some emphasis added:
I think you missed the "not" on your first read.
Then your comment should have been a reply to them, not a top-level comment on the original post.
Another article: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/06/trump-california-water-policy-farmers-00202751
The thing is that it's not that easy to post it as its own post, as farmers haven't all voted for Trump
Did a bit more research, found this 2019 article: https://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckjones/2019/08/30/amid-trump-tariffs-farm-bankruptcies-and-suicides-rise/
Here's a post on Bsky it that makes the screenshot verifiable: https://bsky.app/profile/thetnholler.bsky.social/post/3lhrdl5nt222s