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Donald Trump and Elon Musk — a reality star-turned-president and a tech billionaire-turned-senior adviser — have combined forces to build an alternate version of reality that scholars say has never been seen before in modern history, Kelly Rissman reports

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Horseshit. They live in an alternate reality. I'm still stuck here in a world with real figures, and facts.

Still a dystopian hellscape, but a real dystopian hellscape.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Heritage Foundation as well

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Conservatives like to be lied to.

Q kooks prove that conservatives like to be lied to.

Sandyhook kooks prove that conservatives like to be lied to.

Pizza shop kooks prove that conservatives like to be lied to.

Birther kooks (Obama was a Muslim) prove that conservatives like to be lied to.

Bircher kooks (Ike was a Communist) prove that conservatives like to be lied to.

Start the Steal kooks prove that conservatives like to be lied to.

Hermain Cain kooks prove that conservatives like to be lied to.

Ivermectin cures Covid kooks prove that conservatives like to be lied to.

Laetrile cures Cancer kooks prove that conservatives like to be lied to.

Pet eater kooks prove that conservatives like to be lied to.

Ukraine attacked Russia kooks prove that conservatives like to be lied to.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

At least the Herman Cain kooks have an award they can earn for their kookery.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

At my family reunion this summer, I’m tempted to tell the right leaning members that Trump is doing great things, his far left accelerationist false flag presidency has done more work to put American imperialism and conservatism into an early grave than I thought possible

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Make sure to research and mention all the work Trumps done to undue all of Ragen’s foreign policy accomplishments.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Thank you for your service. Hope this helps:

[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Nonsense American exceptionalism. Trump is doing the same propaganda and cult of personality that have been done in numerous autocracies and dictatorships of the last century. But because we in the US consider ourselves as different from the rest of the world, we can't recognize it when it is right in front of us.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I'm not even sure it's Putin being a puppet master. Sure he plays a role in politics and corruption, but to me it's as if America is in denial that their own are truly responsible.

The blind faith citizens put into the people above them, left or right, as if they are Shepard's leading them to virtuosity and righteousness. It's all always been marketing and career politics, like the crime world. It feels as though America creates its terrorists and cries "why!?" as they fight against the "enemy" they created. You see it with entertainers too... People that follow them and talk about them as if they know them personally. People will actually vouch for a celebrity they never met. Not understanding these celebrities make money off of them, like news making money off tragedy and unhealthy drama.

"Don't take it personal" as they rape and use humanity for their own advancement. The same thing mob/gang men say before they kill a witness. They bleed us of our money with psychological marketing schemes providing us with an escape from reality. A reality caused by the games they play. It's a cycle. They make human experience worse and make offers to grab us back into the game once we start to see through it. Enticing us with false hope as if they were gifted with the power to dominate the universe more than any of us are able to.

Regular people are disposable products used by the people above them. We can be used, thrown out, and written off for any reason of theirs. Like a corporate business throwing out day old food or tossing excessive product.

It's all right under our noses and seen when detached from the narration and indoctrination pushed?

Everyone seems to run from reality through entertainment, drama, drugs, and sex. Even America's political debates are usually meaningless drama used to provide people with entertainment that distracts them from honest reality.

It's like all one can say to Americans is "what exactly did you expect to happen?".

This is the reality that's ignored that makes people submissive to evil men.

How can a country have heart if the citizens don't have the heart to stand up for themselves. How many of the people protesting are only out there because they miss the veil of privileged safety that allowed them to escape the realities of being human beings at the expense of others? ...as they pay taxes for young men and women to go kill for them and bleed out smaller nations for money and minerals to help continue the larger nations process bringing out false safety so their citizens can live a life of escapism, ignorance, and arrogance to what it really means to be human and respect the universe.

People tremble in the feeling of raw genuine existence and will do anything out of the fear it. To face it is not something many do, and I don't think the people that do willfully attach themselves to the identity of nations or organizations. Or ideology for that matter as it will always be degraded to nothing by the universe.

An existential paradox. How many lives has the question taken through suicide? How many lives have men taken through wars to hide from the rule of the universe? How many criminals and businessmen were made in a quest to flee the pressures of what it actually feels like to be a genuine honest human being? How many people seeking faith to deal with this existential crisis were fleeced by religions that lost their essence and foundations, only to become soldiers for the same evil that their religion claims they are against.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

It’s a feature, not a bug….

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

You can see it with Mississippi, Twitter, Rumble and Conservapedia.