• CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldOP
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    5 hours ago

    All of this bullshit is so obviously lawfare conducted against a man because donnie dumb-dumb is a manbaby who was butthurt that his stupid reflecting pool project did a faceplant on day one.

    Say, whatever happened to the cons being so GRRR, ME MAD at all the “lawfare” they swore was being done to American citizens by Biden and the Deep State ™?

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      They really only think about things that they’re told to in their propaganda media. For example, the owner of a convenience store down the street from me said he voted for Trump because he thought his admin would be “better for crypto”. He has a crypto newsletter with all sorts of stupid links to conservative BS on “X” and AI memes that say “John Thune is a traitor” (I think for not supporting the CLARITY crypto act). Anyway, I mentioned living in Minnesota and he muttered “that state is so damn corrupt…” as if it is realistically any worse than any other state, and as if he really knows anything about it besides the propaganda BS that came from the targeted attack on Tim Walz and Minnesota. Guaranteed a dozen “red” states are more so damn corrupt.

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        This 100%. I was in Costa Rica last year with my brother who lives in Seattle. We crossed paths with another family of tourists from Dallas TX and they couldn’t stop asking my brother about whether it was “safe” to go to Seattle. They acted like it was a war zone or something. Clearly they had been fed lies upon lies and they bought it all.

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          yeah, people have been told that Portland and Minneapolis were BURNED to the GROUND repeatedly, even though nothing even remotely close to that happened, and that Seattle was a lawless area of anarchy. Not surprising a family from Texas would have absolutely no idea what was going on in reality.

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            There were posters on various chat rooms, notably Denver Post’s (before they shut it down) that would constantly make that claim.

            I kept asking them exactly which cities “burned to the ground”? Where is the evidence for any of their claims, etc…they’d either try to get me silenced, claim they didn’t literally mean it, but lots of buildings did burn to the ground, or tell me “everyone’s saying it, watch the news, whole cities are on fire” or to do “my own research”, LOL.

            They love to make statements, pretend they are just axiomatic self-evident truths that everyone just accepts without evidence and without question, and the very minute they run up against someone that has the fortitude to ask them about their premises, they faceplant.

            Also, even with the instances of arson, it’s not really clear that there is any pattern that would tie this to BLM protesters per se. It’s certainly not endorsed by BLM. And we definitely have no idea how many were done by undercover cops, right wing agent provocateurs, and just random bad actors looking to get their kicks. We definitely know that there is a history of right wing government agents using agent provocateurs to undermine populist movements…

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        For example, the owner of a convenience store down the street from me said he voted for Trump because he thought his admin would be “better for crypto”. He has a crypto newsletter with all sorts of stupid links to conservative BS on “X” and AI memes that say “John Thune is a traitor” (I think for not supporting the CLARITY crypto act).

        The owner of the convenience store has a crypto newsletter? Wow.

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          He’s a bit eccentric and of course, really into crypto. Attends conventions and wears an XRP hat. He said he started the newsletter because he was tired of explaining it to family members and their friends. His newsletter doesn’t really explain anything at all though

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            That’s pretty funny. I guess “I’d like to subscribe to your newsletter” is still an actual thing someone might say to someone, and not just as a joke.

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    This is fucked up that the president is the United States would become obsessed with destroying the life of an innocent person he has probably never even had any past history with like that, just because he refuses to admit he made a mistake.

    What’s even worse is that no one seems to bat an eye at this, like it has become accepted as normal behavior.