Well, it's Lemmy, so in all honesty I'd say that there definitely are a lot of tankies here who are as delusional as the far right MAGA idiots. Blind adherence to ideology makes madmen of us all, just as does a cult of personality like Trump's.
TheSanSabaSongbird
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I'm still blown away that more people haven't figured out that the entire Epstein empire was an elaborate Israeli intelligence op. Can I prove it? No, but it's by far the simplest explanation for the available facts.
Maxwell wasn't some minor player in the establishment of the state of Israel; to the contrary, he played a major role and was arguably critical during the post war years.
I am not a conspiracist, but the lack of coverage does seem a little odd.
You are confused as to why people "roll their eyes" when MAGA says "drain the swamp." They're rolling their eyes because Trump and his party are by far the most openly corrupt and nakedly transactional politicians in US history. We'd all love to see less corruption in DC. Supporting Trump is pretty much the dictionary definition of asking for more corruption.
It's irrelevant anyway. We know that he flew on Epstein's plane. Why? Who knows? Maybe because he saved money that way?
Doesn't matter because again, we know for a fact that he flew on Epstein's plane. Full stop. End of fucking story.
Or, you know, we go back to the time when the news media had real gatekeepers and not just any random jackass could churn out some bullshit copy and broadcast it to the world, let alone have it get published by their local paper.
It's nice that the Internet has democratized access to a national or even global audience, but let's not pretend for a moment that it hasn't caused a ton of problems in the process such that now many people have no idea of what to believe while others believe whatever they want.
It's still pretty easy to tell the difference. You have to have a pretty low level of media literacy to not be able to easily spot it. Unfortunately we already know that most people don't have a clue when it comes to mass media, and even if they did, we also know that people tend to believe whatever reinforces their priors.
It also raises the very thorny issue of who adjudicates what is and is not "memetic effluent."
Well, TIL. For some reason, despite not really knowing anything about him, I had the impression that he's a reasonable guy.
That's what you would think, right? But it turns out....
As a whole Lemmy users are deeply stupid or deeply ignorant or both. I think it's an age thing, but I could be wrong. Most of what gets tossed around here as Lemmy's received orthodoxy is pure amateur hour bullshit that has very little to do with reality.
Another cause for this is that Lemmy's userbase tends to be very ideologically driven as opposed to forming political views on the basis of evidence and solutions based rationality.
Obviously I'm not very popular around here. Fortunately I don't care. I'm just killing time and if I can shake even one person's ill-founded convictions, I am happy.
There won't be a " bloodless coup." It won't happen because there is only one president at a time, so no matter how the election goes, Biden sits alone at the levers of ultimate power until Trump is sworn in.
The only way a "bloodless coup" could happen is with the full foreknowledge and cooperation of the US military's senior officer corps, but that's impossible both because it's too difficult to coordinate, and because the senior officer corps absolutely despises Trump as a liar and a coward and for many other reasons that I'm sure will occur to you when you think back on his presidency.
He is widely seen as a gutless incompetent and deeply dishonorable idiot.