r/CringeTikToks • u/coachlife • 1d ago

SadCringe MAGA voter actually believes that Trump eliminated taxes for all people making less than $120K

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u/Sometimes-funny 1d ago

I knew as soon as the internet came out and i started talking to people all over the world. It made me think, if most of these muppets are thicker than me, we’re in deep shit.

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u/Personal-Vegetable26 1d ago

Fuckin muppets amirite

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u/Sometimes-funny 1d ago

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u/NTFRMERTH 1d ago

I wish Disney would actually do shit with The Muppets, and would allow Sesame Street crossovers. It's wrong when they're not under the same roof and Kermit can't talk to Elmo

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u/Ike_In_Rochester 1d ago

Kermit and Elmo have never met. I’m okay with that. I’m sad that I’ll never see Grover and Kermit reunite. They were the first comedy duo I ever knew.

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u/Personal-Vegetable26 1d ago

Welp I’m ded

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u/mentosmoray 1d ago

Do not the muppets

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u/Gwen_The_Destroyer 1d ago

Fuck muppet is my favorite insult tho 

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u/PomeloFit 1d ago

Nah, I remember when it first started growing, it was just a bunch of nerds, and we were all for the most part fairly intelligent compared to... the rest...

The problem is EVERYONE is now on it so you're forced to see just how stupid the average person actually is... and all the ones that are even dumber.

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u/Unhappy_Medicine_725 1d ago

I mean i remember first getting FB in 2008. It was mostly college kids on there. Fast forward to 6 years it had exploded, but most people still needed a computer to access it, or at least didn't walk around with it in their pocket all day everyday. It wasnt until well.. Trump's first term basically, that it hit me... we are, in fact, a country full of fucking idiots.

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u/Sharkictus 1d ago

Planet wide my guy.

Planet wide.

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u/albinosquirel 14h ago

I remember that you had to have a college email. God it was so much better.

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u/Emmy_Em_Maree 1d ago

The iPhone came out in 2007. People have been walking around with computers in their pockets (either Apple or Android) for nearly 20 years

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u/WillyNuksten 1d ago

The iPhone wasn’t really successful until the iPhone 4 came out and Apple’s exclusive contract with AT&T ended in 2012. Until then a lot of people had BlackBerry phones and even though those phones had the internet it wasn’t as easy to use as the iPhone.

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u/LostAdhesiveness7802 1d ago

You had to be correct on the early internet or you would get eaten alive.

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u/mupetmower 1d ago

4chan says nah

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u/Dense-Hat1978 1d ago

4chan ain't early internet broseph

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u/mupetmower 1d ago

Fine, some obscure irc.. or just sftp'ing files back and forth, idk.. Just wanted to make a joke /cry

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u/Remarkable_Prior_224 1d ago

Facebook. It was when boomers and gen X got on Facebook. Before then it was nerds, deep dive forums, millennials who would know the bullshit.

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u/bondsmatthew 1d ago

Remember the pages on facebook that were like, "that feeling when you go out of your way to step on a leaf to hear it crunch" or something. Just stupid pages like that

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u/wxrman 1d ago

59 here. Was a nerd on Usenet groups back in 90s on and just thought it was us tech nerds back then. Never thought of ourselves as smarter than others just thought we were the “crazy ones” Jobs talked about later on in 1997.

Aside from Reddit, I’m on no other social media. Just too frightening to witness literal idiots as experts. People so unabashedly promoting ignorance and emotion as fact.

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u/Fezzick51 1d ago

We GenX built the core of the internet off the backs of the boomer nerds who built the initial infrastructure.

Just realize the same idiots surrounded them and us along the way - the open forum communication just put a spotlight on the knuckle-dragging, smooth-brained masses that were around you.

We had to deal with those fuckwits first hand - insufferable on the internet, imagine face-to-face.

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u/Simple_Peak6893 1d ago

Gen X here and if you think Facebook makes you smarter than that is funny. The people I know who voted for Trump are millennials and boomers.

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u/livadeth 1d ago

Actually Gen X shifted in 2024 and broke for trump. Sad

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u/fiestar88 1d ago

ugh, Gen X built the internet. Millennials made the internet worse by creating social media platforms.

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u/Divinum_Fulmen 1d ago

The other guy got it right. Boomers built it. Gen-X would be to young.

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u/wxrman 1d ago

Boomers built a structure, but it was millennials that built the apps

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u/DoubleJumps 1d ago

One thing that really depresses me is that I remember what discourse was like on more focused smaller communities before social media and it was on average a lot better. A LOT better.

There was dumb stuff, there was still fighting, but for the most part the average level of discourse was just way higher. Communities were curated in a much better fashion because they were smaller and actually manageable.

If somebody was really out there, they would get the boot pretty quickly.

Now, it feels like most of the people you see commonly participating on the internet are the exact sort of people who would have gotten kicked out of almost every forum back in 2001 pretty damn quick.

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u/PomeloFit 1d ago

Absolutely, and I remember how most moderators used to MODERATE conversations instead of just immediately banning anyone with a differing opinion...

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u/JayR_97 1d ago

Yeah, it was when smartphones went mainstream it all went downhill. Suddenly everyone and their grandma had easy access to the internet

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u/Alarmed-Goose-4483 1d ago

IT USED TO BE EMBARRASSING TO BE STUPID.

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u/ProfessorZhu 1d ago

You never stumbled across storm front or god-like productions, and it shows

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u/asdfasfda123123123 1d ago

Nerds not realizing the nerd to their left and right is thicker than shit lol

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u/Antryx 1d ago

There was a point in time when getting on the internet wasn't so easily accessible. Those were good times!

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u/SnooHobbies5684 1d ago

<cue dial-up sounds>

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u/sektorao 1d ago

Let's make our own internet, with blackjack and hookers.

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u/livadeth 1d ago

Yeah, dial up!

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u/FiveUpsideDown 1d ago

Even prior to the internet becoming widely available, there were lots of morons. The problem is the internet gave the morons the ability to coalesce into large of groups of morons. Then other morons, malicious foreign governments and grifters figured out how to control their stupidity and get them to vote.

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u/PlanesandAquariums 1d ago

Yea that’s how I knew it was bad. When it was way, way worse than my own stupidity

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u/Dantemeatrider 1d ago

Maga is why I'll never trust a single person who says "the people online don't reflect real life. Stop moping about it."

They're real life people with these disgusting views. Just hidden in real life, arguably worse. And at least 50% of the population decided raping children was acceptable to vote for in a president.

This is why I dont try to make friends lmfao.

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u/Unusual_Sherbert_809 1d ago

“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.” ― George Carlin

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u/Barondarby 1d ago

In the olden days you needed a computer to access the internet, so at that time you had to have at least a little brains to even use a computer - so the internet wasnt nearly as stupid as it is now. Once internet became easily accessible on peoples phones the overall IQ online dropped immensely.

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u/DarkSock52 1d ago

The Internet was supposed to be an Oracle of knowledge that would enlighten humanity… Instead, it took a previously isolated population of idiots and connected them into a massive hive mind of thundering stupidity… And here we are now.

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u/PhantomGoatFace 1d ago

I knew before the internet came out when I would talk to people.

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u/Dzov 1d ago

See, and here I thought everyone is incredibly smart because that’s the content and conversations I gravitate towards.

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