• octopus_ink@lemmy.ml
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      6 days ago

      I haven’t seen any behavior on the part of vocal Trump supporters to make me think those words weren’t meant.

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      7 days ago

      That’s something we will never know, but I would place my bet on desensitizing or trying to deliberately shock the reader, rather than on not meaning what they said.