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It's astounding how accurate this is. I spent 2016 - 2024 playing this game with a friend that I eventually cut off.
He'd parrot something insane that he didn't fact check.
I'd point out the flaws.
He'd come back with his google search results.
I'd actually read them and point out half of them disagreed with him and the other half were verifiably trash.
He'd run away from the conversation and refuse to respond to anything political I say until he forgets; cuz he never learns.
they often posts links that easy to discredit or debunk, because they dont check the contents of the links themselves.
You just described every fucking republican I know.
Same. I lost my 15 year best friend over this earlier this year. It still hurts and it sucks but I'm not friends with fascists
It's sad cuz I've watching this guy pick up and put down 30 different interests all in a desperate search for external validation.
MAGA is a cult.
Do we know the same guy? My guy bought a bass and a bunch of music production equipment and never learned to use any of it. He's got dreams of being a writer and he hasn't written anything.
Overall he's lived in several big cities and never made friends, eventually moving back to where we used to live to be closer to his college friends (he's 30). He has struggled in his career, love, and social life and turned to Jordan Peterson. He likes reading. I think if he just joined a book club 7 years ago all of this could have been avoided because he would have made some friends.
Bruhhhh. If it weren't for the bass guitar / production equipment I'd say yes haha. Did your bro also join the trucker convoy?
No. That would be doing things. He doesn't do things. Except one time he drove two hours to visit our friends for the weekend. Except he was actually just crashing at their place so he could see Jordan Peterson live. He didn't tell them that until he was there. He's been super cagey about his politics. I got hints over the years but I figured he was starting to mellow out after the pandemic settled. Turns out he just learned not to talk politics around his friends. In January I finally confronted him about his beliefs on specific issues, hoping that I was over-extrapolating and actually he just had a few mixed views. Nope, full on fascist. We used to talk on the phone every couple of weeks. I've completely cut contact since. Sorry for venting.
Prediction: someone on the right is going to assassinate Trump for covering up the Epstein files and the left will get blamed.
Its either admit they were fooled and reassess their critical though process and political choices, or pick someone to blame for tricking them and shoot at them - so yeah it's likely.
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Ill happily take the ~~credit~~ blame for this one.
I'd rather not. I'm gonna get it. They blame trans people for all political violence in this country these days. But jeez I'd really rather not take the blame. It won't go well for us.
Trump and Epstein had close ties without the files. There trail of evidence is sketchy without the files. Normal people don't need more to conclude Trump and Epstein shady ties. But here we are.
Till
\sigh
'til
This is funny, but it's not really what I'm seeing from them. They all seem real upset that the Epstien files aren't being released. So far they're mostly blaming Pam Bondi, but if Trump keeps telling them to forget about Epstien, they might abandon him. They'll bend their conspiracy theories around Trump, but if tries to break them, they'll turn on him (...or say he's been replaced with a deep-state body-double clone).
There will be a bit of whining from the more vocal faithful, as there always is, but I don't think that this time is the time they'll really turn against Trump when they're already 11+ years brainwashed and have accepted and *'art of the deal'*ed his backtracks and flip-flops so many dozens of times in the past.
It's a cult and Trump is the cult leader. They won't stick firm to their demand for the files, because the great orange one has told them that demand isn't important anymore and is giving them new things to focus on. Epstein's files aren't core to their identity, but MAGA and Trump are - one will give.
once MSMs stop reporting the magats will forget right away, or drump up another conspiracy, that they were silenced by the dems.
they might abandon him
Lmao. What exactly about the past decade of American politics makes you think that this is even remotely possible? There could be real video evidence of him raping a child posted all over Twitter and it wouldn't make a bit of difference. It would be fake news, AI generated, etc. Let me be clear- these people will worship Trump no matter what. There is NOTHING that will drive the true believers away from him. Even when he dies a decent number of them will believe he faked his death and is fighting evil from the shadows and fewer still will believe he ascended to become a divine being.
What exactly about the past decade of American politics makes you think that this is even remotely possible?
I significant amount has changed over the last 10 years, including how Trump has engaged with QAnon and the conspiracy-element of his base. Early on, he didn't address or acknowledge Q, and only started dropping small dog whistles towards the community late into his first term. It was enough to keep them holding on without making direct promises.
The Q account evolved as well; they started off making bold predictions, like the imminent arrest of Clinton and other Democrats. When that became less tenable, they pivoted to vague, meaningless predictions like, "Watch the Water," or just throwing out a date with no context. The account functionally died after Trump's 2020 loss, and hasn't really been relevant since.
During the Biden years, the community pivoted towards Epstien, with promises of unredacted files, flightlogs, client lists, and video evidence proving that prominent Democrats were all part of a Q-like conspiracy. The problem is, unlike the original Q conspiracy, which was based on imagined, malleable nonsense, this was based on real events with tangible evidence, which Trump directly promised to reveal. That means that, while the conspiracy has more credibility, its goal posts are harder to move.
This is already making it hard to keep the conspiracy-pilled MAGAs happy. Early on, Bondi gave a bunch of Q influencers copies of, "the Epstien files," and when it turned out to be a bunch of information that had already been disclosed, they got pissed. They've also ripped Kash Patel and Dan Bongino apart for saying Epstien didn't kill himself and Bondi for claiming she already had the client lists. So far, it hasn't trickled up to Trump yet, but if he doesn't figure something out, it will eventually. The only thing more important to these people than Trump is the conspiracy they created around Trump, and if he doesn't find away to keep that alive, they will leave him.
I like your optimism but most MAGAts aren't conspiracy theorists. Sure, they will believe the conspiracy when it's regurgitated by Faux News and the like, but probably the vast majority don't even know what 4chan is or think that "he's a hacker" if they have heard of it.
Yes Conspiracy brained MAGAts have been focused on Epstein, but because they could use that information to 'own the libs', not because they actually give a fuck about children. If they did they wouldn't have spent the last 10 years trying to prop up a sexual predator and probable pedo.
Even if the Q Cult turns on Trump, it's unlikely that the right wing media MAGAts consume will report on it, or if they do they'll make it look like he's being attacked by evil degenerate 'hackers' online. It's not like it would be at all hard to make the case that 4chan is full of degenerates.
you have no idea how much magats are into consiparacy theories, if you think its limited amount.
Like I said, they will happily believe in a conspiracy theory if it fits their worldview or it helps them clown on 'liberals', but there is a difference between people online who 'research' conspiracy theories and take them super seriously, and people who get their 'information' from Fox news.
fewer still will believe he ascended to become a divine being
I'm not actually sure that would be fewer considering the number of them that treat him like the second coming of jesus. Which is absolutely hilarious, mind you. Tell me none of these people have ever even read the damn bible...
Or the most likely scenario, target the names other than Trump while in the same breath giving Trump a pass... Like they do with everything.
Yeah, that's certainly what they're doing with Bondi, and I'm sure they'll find other people to attack. But Trump is starting to wade in himself; in a press conference the other day, when a reporter asked him about Epstien, he answered directly, saying something to the effect of, "Why are you still talking about this, who cares?" And the answer is, "his most loyal followers," so we'll see how it shakes out. If he can keep using surrogates to take the blame, he'll probably be fine, but if he keeps commenting directly, he might be in trouble.
"...to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them..."
Hey, that sounds really familiar!
Feels more like it shows how magas mental gymnastics work so glorious leader, maga and themselves are always best.
Could be wrong though.
reality warping fields the gop posesses.
Is the last line a reference to 'There is no war in Eastasia'?
Four legs good. Two legs better.
*Ba Sing Se
The American King invites you to Mar-a-Lago
Isn't it Ba Sing Se?
I feel a thousand years old. People are mixing up George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and the TV series Avatar.
In Nineteen Eighty-Four, Earth has been split into three large superstates: Oceania, Eastasia and Eurasia. These three states are in perpetual war with one another, with Oceania's alliances frequently shifting so that the current enemy and ally could change at any given moment and history is rewritten to affirm that the enemy and ally had always been in their present alignment.
Oceania was at war with Eastasia: Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia. A large part of the political literature of five years was now completely obsolete. Reports and records of all kinds, newspapers, books, pamphlets, films, sound-tracks, photographs—all had to be rectified at lightning speed. Although no directive was ever issued, it was known that the chiefs of the Department intended that within one week no reference to the war with Eurasia, or the alliance with Eastasia, should remain in existence anywhere.
Nineteen Eighty-Four spoilers
It's entirely unclear whether the information above is factual within the reality of the novel. Whether the three states exist at all, whether they are at war, etc. is impossible to know because all information is managed by the Party. This could simply be another part of the propaganda machine. Ultimately, it doesn't really matter if any evidence contrary to the Party's currently approved history has been memory-holed.
"There is no war in Ba Sing Se" is the Avatar line, while "Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia" is generally the line that gets quoted from Ninteen Eighty-Four in similar contexts.
I like how a children’s cartoon I watched as a kid is as quotable as 1984 is.
Well, yeah, The Last Airbender has better writting.
Series, yes. Movie, No.