People talking to themselves in echo chambers and making bold claims used to end up in mental asylums.

Let’s MAGA by bringing that back, especially for this mentally challenged felon.

  • FauxLiving@lemmy.world
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    Eventually people will become media savvy enough to recognize weasel words. In case you’re not:

    ‘Canada is considering joining the US’ is not wrong, it’s just misleading.

    The reading that most people will take from it is “Cananda is considering joining the US and that consideration is leading them to join the US” as this is generally how ‘considering’ is used in English.

    But, it isn’t technically untrue. The ‘Canada should join the US’ topic has been a pretty hot topic in Canada. Overwhelmingly people are against it, but you can’t be against something without considering it.

    ‘Considering’ is a weasel word that allows for people to imply one thing without technically lying.


    You’ll also see ‘after’ used a lot as a weasel word.

    “Stock prices fall after oil futures increase” implies a causal link (i.e. that oil futures rising caused stock prices to fall) when, technically, it only states a temporal link: Oil Futures rose and then 24 hours later Stock prices fell. So stock prices fell after oil futures increased.

    It’s just as technically correct to write “Stock prices rise after local farmer’s prized cow gives birth”. Sure, those are two things that happened and the sentence is describing the correct order of things but it implies that these two events are linked in some way.

    Hopefully this makes you one of today’s lucky 10,000

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      Same deal with the word “entitlements”. MAGOPs like to throw it around like it’s a pejorative term. “Entitlement programs like Social Security…” Bitch, everyone who’s paid into those programs is entitled to receiving those benefits because that’s what an entitlement is. It’s not the same as saying “President Trump feels he is entitled to a free, used 747 because the interior design looks like a whore house with wings.”

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    The US is just a temporary union of entities with an experimental system of governance. Some states should consider joining Canada under a democratic political system that has worked for hundreds of years.

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      Last state out has to pay the national debt!

      US holds like half the debt of the world. That would be a really interesting scenario.

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          2.3 billion dollars in physical currency

          21.8 trillion dollars in total currency

          8.5 trillion dollars in debt owned by foreign countries

          36 trillion dollars in debt total

          Foreign entities are promised half the current total supply of USD

          Oh it would be an absolute mess

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      The entirety of the east coast rightfully belongs to Canada and a huge chunk of the SW rightfully belongs to Mexico, the “purchase” was made under duress, there was no real consent involved, they’re prolly lucky they didn’t receive the Native American treatment being mostly of Spanish descent.

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    For many years, the government was operated by the people who conceived and operated the Conservative Propaganda Machine, and they knew the difference between the truth, and their propaganda.

    But now most of those people are dead, or near it, and we are now being operated by those idiots whose entire political education came from the illogical, nonsensical, immoral spewings of the Conservative Propaganda Machine. They are so poorly educated in logic and critical thinking skills, and have been so deftly manipulated by professional liars like Rush Limbaugh and his disciples, that they think The Truth is anything they claim it is, and worse, they truly believe their own propaganda - to the point that they will create policy based on their own lies.

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      The difference between a cult and a religion: In a cult everyone truly believes in what they are being told and the person at the top knows it’s all bullshit, when that person dies it’s a religion.

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    That’s always been his strategy: keep repeating the lie until it becomes true.

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        Yeah, it’s more like keep repeating the lie until people start believing it. It’s the same way FOX news works. I couldn’t go more than a day without hearing Hunter Biden’s laptop pertaining to everything. State secrets and national defense issues, his laptop. Why Russia is invading Ukraine, laptop. Why dinosaurs died, his laptop.

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    Canada is NOT considering it. Fuck off US, then fuck off some more. And when you’re done fucking off you can fuck off again. Forever.

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    Dipshit dementia don needs to be removed from office. Then again, the puppet masters will have even more power then.

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      Maybe but they wouldn’t have a cult figure to wrap this fash around.