MolotovHalfEmpty

I am the deer that doesn't know what's happening but is fixated because sparkly.

I was just about to use this example. Not only that, but many politicians (never mind the public) asked at the time didn't even know that the Governor General and said powers even existed at the time. He had, however, been on the CIA's payroll for some time.

The British Royal Navy will claim that one of its vessels was hit and almost sunk by the Houthis. It will quickly be revealed that it was crashed into by another British Royal Navy vessel operating in the area. The Houthis will post a barrage of memes about it and the accident will cost the hundreds of millions and it's ability to continue its support of the mission.

Azov/Right Sector accidentally release definitive proof that they fired on their own citizens during the Maidan after footage of it is included as B-roll for a pro-Ukraine propaganda video shared all over the internet by NAFO accounts.

TikTok gets sold to a US group who immediately destroy it with obvious and smothering propaganda and moderation that makes posting anything difficult. It hemorrhages users for a month or two. And then China relaunches Musical.ly which grows exponentially and absolutely dominates again.

The UK is dragged into the war by hawks and defence industry goons in a newly elected Labour government under Keir Starmer.

Trump then wins the election and begins a withdrawal of support, money, and troops by the US, leaving us in the lurch.

Russia hits some UK military targets abroad and maybe does some cyber attacks here, which will enrage the defense folks but the not the public, just to remind us were a yapping little dog without the US.

Suddenly there will be an embarrassing climb down and U-turn as we pivot to supporting a peace agreement rather than getting our shit kicked in without full US backing.

I'm convinced this is only getting any kind of coverage again because various governors and stayed are trying to implement mask bans, clearly for invasive facial recognition and tracking, and the media can't really cover it (either in opposition or to try and make it sound like it's about covid stiff, not surveillance) without the context of Covid.

Project Seafarer was a real project in the 80s too. And a smaller version of Project Sanguine that in the previous decades had been campaigned against and sabotaged until they were forced to abandon it.

That's just any soup for me.

They should do it. Fire the staff and burn those bridges, cut them loose, maybe tell the press thr mismanaged the campaign. Heck, run the campaign themselves. What could go wrong?

Why go to restaurants when you could just eat take out at home?

Why talk to friends about things when you could just watch the news?

Why have sex when you can jerk off in the mirror?

If everyone involved in your politics is an older, right-wing, white man with broadly identical politics - including your candidate - I wonder what that says about the status quo you've devoted your life to defending.