• Pratai@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    If you want to sell conservatives on supporting Ukraine, just tell them “it’s for the children.”

    That seems to work for everything with them wether it has anything to do with children or not. Also, you could say that Ukraine hates gays. It’s clearly not true, but since when did facts ever matter to them?

    Otherwise, they’ll see no benefit in supporting Ukrainian as the personally get nothing from it- and we all know that conservatives don’t care about anything unless it serves them in some way.

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      The irony of that is that Rush Limbaugh spent 35 years telling his conservative audience that Democrats sell everything by saying “it’s for the children!”, and that it was evil and despicable.

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        Things like discounted preschool, daycare and kindergarten for all = evil & despicabl

        also, free school lunches and CHIP = eViL sOcIaLiSm

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      Also, you could say that Ukraine hates gays. It’s clearly not true, but since when did facts ever matter to them?

      They do not hate them, but as a part of Eastern Europe it’s not so gay-friendly, at least on the grassroot level, so you could get some facts in to support this if you wish to do so. They’ll be in tears of joy when they will hear that the government will be supporting a nation with true men and stuff like this.