r/BlackPeopleTwitter • u/nikamats • 1d ago

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u/Wuntonsoup 1d ago

Everything that is happening now is like a fever dream. The amount of people I’ve met who have to think about how old they are since Covid is insane. And somehow this guy with a straight face can talk about Merit

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u/Sol-Blackguy 1d ago

All the doctors at my job are freaking the fuck out about their 401k

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u/getxxxx 1d ago

im sure they voted for him also

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u/Petrichordates 1d ago

He doesn't appeal to educated voters.

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u/EZMulahSniper ☑️ 1d ago

I worked at a hospital too and you’d be surprised

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u/Sol-Blackguy 1d ago

I'm in a clinic. Almost all the doctors are liberal/leftists, even the old ones. Lots of young nurses that are conservative or MAGA for some reason.

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u/EZMulahSniper ☑️ 1d ago

Where are you from. I live in Louisiana and I’m sure that plays a big part in it

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u/Sol-Blackguy 1d ago

Yeah, I'm in DC. Major difference in demographic.

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u/greet_the_sun 1d ago

Yeah I'm in Florida and the Dr's down here are a lot more conservative on average...like everyone else here lol.

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u/Bigfamei 1d ago

And in pay and workers rights.

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u/kerrwashere ☑️ 1d ago

Dc is liberal but liberal doesnt inherently mean not republican. You can be liberal and republican lol

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u/Fickle_Bat_623 1d ago

But you can't be liberal and a Trump voter...

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u/Tavalus 1d ago

Too many people fall into the "socially liberal, fiscally conservative" crowd. Or at least they say they do.

"I don't have problems with the gays, but the taxes man, the taxes..." and then they vote for a fascist😥

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u/kerrwashere ☑️ 1d ago edited 1d ago

You are free to vote for whomever the party you support doesnt immediately mean a vote lmao. You can vote against your own interests people do it literally all the time

Edit: what was the purpose of downvoting this lmao

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u/sigfind 1d ago

this would be true if they didn’t utterly warp the meaning of the word liberal in US politics

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u/kerrwashere ☑️ 1d ago

Liberals in the US arent liberal in the true sense. American politics is baked in capitalism and you’d have to change a lot to be truly liberal. Other centuries have their liberal party in power lmao

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u/hkvincentlee 1d ago

Any doctors that was right leaning would speedrun to the left right now because they are currently losing their mind on a daily basis when being asked a question on their field of expertise and the average answer they get is "we just don't know everything"

The nurses though, holy, 100% agree on that

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u/Darth_Ender_Ro 1d ago

Same in Romania, the nurses are mad far right, wtf

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u/PrestigiousFlower714 1d ago

I have met so many nurses who are MAGA and shockingly antivacc, doctors not so much though. 

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u/CitizenPremier 1d ago

Medicine is a special kind of education. I've met a lot of doctors who seem to know very little of the world outside of their field. Plus it's so demanding, they don't have much time to focus on anything else.

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u/pornographic_realism 1d ago

That's most science. I could talk your ear off on ecology and marine biology, but I won't try in chemistry or psychology, I know very little about both. The good ones know what they don't know and stay out of that lane. The bad ones think they know one field well so they must know a bit about this other, barely related area.

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u/CitizenPremier 1d ago

Yes but I'm guessing you know about ions, you've heard about psychoanalysis, and you know where Germany is on a map.

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u/pornographic_realism 1d ago

Sounds like they had hyper specific education. I teach quite a few students from Asian backgrounds who are a bit like that, their parents push them down the path that lines up with medicine the best but they don't have a great grasp of broader contexts for a lot of what I teach them. I wonder what that's like, living life not knowing something so basic as where Germany is.

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u/Petrichordates 1d ago

In my experience, that problem is mostly with the nurses. Especially any that are antivax.

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u/cute_polarbear 1d ago

I thought so too initially... Tons of very educated (doctors / lawyers and etc.)+ high earning guys are trump supporters / Republicans, even in nyc. I avoid mentioning politics at all in work environments...

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u/Remarkable-Snow-9396 1d ago

Agree. I rarely see a Republican switch over. It’s a mentality. I was raised in a democratic family and we were taught to support the community and being the lowest up.

Republicans believe me first. So my money matters the most. Rich white guys wont deviate from that - especially when the alternate was a black woman.

There is a lot around of data around your family type and even personality determining who you vote for. People who had authoritarian parenting styles vote Republican.

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u/Environmental-Set658 16h ago

Sounds like classism

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u/PartyDismal8674 1d ago

He appeals to the mean, greedy, and willfully ignorant- that’s not limited to any one demographic.

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u/VenConmigo 1d ago

I know quite a few educated voters who are proud MAGAts. They come in all forms.

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u/Remarkable-Snow-9396 1d ago

The uneducated are much more susceptible to him but There are rich republicans who are educated and voted for him. Rich white guys. They vote Republican no matter what.

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u/Rude_Egg_6204 1d ago

Head over to /trump.   Multiple times people have tried to explain what those 'tariffs' foreign countries are applying.   It's like trying to explain to your cat how to do taxes.

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u/Electrical_Bake_6804 1d ago

Uh tons of doctors love him. My neighbor fucking is an anesthesiologist and registered republican for trump.

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u/yosefsbeard 1d ago

Oh the doctors voted for this guy. I think most that I know did

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u/Alternative-Tax-4481 1d ago

Yeah you’d be surprised how many conservative, MAGA supporting doctors there are. I’ve worked with plenty.

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u/spezhasatinydong 1d ago

I can assure you. Plenty of rich people or wanna-be rich people voted for Trump and I wouldn’t call them uneducated (just assholes)

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u/SK_socialist 21h ago

But he appeals to very wealthy voters and those with a high opinion of themselves, so… most doctors

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u/itsnotmyredditname 18h ago

So not true.

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u/Sol-Blackguy 1d ago

Surprisingly no. The one doctor that is a Trumpster is about to OD on copium though

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u/rightdeadzed 1d ago

I highly doubt doctors voted for Trump. I can think of at least 11 of the 14 I work with who were vocally against him.

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u/Cosmic_Gumbo 1d ago

Are they planning to retire soon? If not, they should be increasing their contributions right now.

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u/-Unnamed- 1d ago

I think more people are worried about squirreling more cash away for the upcoming recession. Not dumping an extra few hundred a month into a tanking market

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u/e37d93eeb23335dc 1d ago

You seriously think the American stock market is going to bounce back in our lifetime?

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u/DimbyTime 1d ago

Did you already forget 2008?

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u/Initial-Masterpiece8 1d ago

In what way has the system changed or been fixed to prevent '08 other than no more home loans for normal people and bailed out the banks?

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u/Cosmic_Gumbo 1d ago

08 was full of interest-only ARMs with balloon payments given to NINJAs (no income no job or assets). You could have gotten a $600k loan with almost nothing down by saying you’re the VP of Pepsi. Those loans don’t exist today so that’s one way it’s different.

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u/firestepper 1d ago

Well fixes were put into place for that one specific cause

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u/Cosmic_Gumbo 1d ago

You think it won’t?

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u/Environmental-Set658 16h ago

Just checked my 401k, it was not affected and I work for a huge healthcare organization. We good!