What in the name of the Illuminati is going on here? And why in the name of Alex Jones are you usually reliable nutters not freaking the heck out?

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    18 days ago

    It’s almost as if they’re bad-faith hypocrites who will drop any supposed values the instant it’s convenient for consolidating their power.

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    I mean, if President Joe Biden had brought Soros into the government as an “efficiency expert” and let him have access to federal government data, Republicans would have impeached Biden instantly. They would have set the White House on fire using the flames erupting from the heads of Fox News hosts.

    The only difference I can see here is that Musk isn’t … ohhhhhh, wait a minute. I get it. He’s not Jewish. I forgot your whole thing has to be antisemitic. My bad.

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      They would have literally set the White House on fire using pipe bombs.

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        Whoa now. Let’s not be hasty. As a Canadian, I beg you to step back, think a sec, and not get derailed.

        Burning the white House is our thing.

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        The question remains: Why arent leftists willing to go the extra distance to meet their repu(gnant)blican opposition.

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          Because if I go commit some right wing terrorism I get slapped on the wrist and a pardon from my daddy.

          If I do that as a leftist, they kill me.

          Until we have enough people willing to die for this, we’re kinda stuck.

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            If I do that as a leftist, they kill me.

            Even if you don’t do that, they’re still going to kill us if they can.

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    18 days ago

    Because all this is happening out in the open, there’s no secret conspiracy.

    A conspiracy theorist thrives on being one of the few who know the actual truth.

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    18 days ago

    It truly is the most deep statey info warrior bowling Greene lizard people pizza gate conspiracy that I’ve ever seen.

    Yet, nothing. lol.

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      Alex Jones use to complain about transhumanists but now that they guy who actually wants to put computer chips in your brain has control of the federal government his top concern is… (literally looking a infowars right now)… oh god just constantly glazing trump. Also, zelensky is a warmonger who wants nukes.

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      Or… They’re only interested in conspiracy theories when those theories reinforce their own persecution complexes.

      The twist here is that Musk’s shenanigans are going to seriously fuck them over, but they don’t realize it yet.

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    Not really the type of conspiracy they go for, it’s being done overtly, visibly, and in a way that everyone believes it is going on. Most of the “fun” of crazy conspiracies is that you have to convince everyone that you aren’t crazy, that it’s totally happening, and your proof is real… none of that is necessary here, they are plainly stating what they are doing, no smoke, no mirrors. Just blatant criminal power grabbing.

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    He has a small team installing invisible parasites that transferred directly into untraceable coins like Monero. That’s why he has a cloyd computing guy (Tom Krause) and a software engineer (Marko Elez) working closest to the system.

    It’s a heist because he’s desperate to be the world’s first trillionaire and take over everything… And he’ll do it too. Mark my words, he’ll be a trillionaire some time within four years.

    (And it looks like Reddit is nkw compromised too)

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    Conspiracy theorists are quiet cause there is no conspiracy to unearth here LOL. Elmo has literally bought US President and he is openly running (ruining ?) the government as his personal office. He even provides regular public updates at his personal platform X on how he is destroying US government institution by institution!

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    This is more evidence for what I call “the meta conspiracy.” I think conspiracy thinking has been actively promoted by the media and government in order to distract from actual government conspiracies. It both keeps people distracted with “UAPs” and “Adrenochrome” while also making any serious discussion of oligarchy, censorship, and oppression look ridiculous by association with crackpots.

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      I agree with the gaslighting part, but don’t necessarily think it was “the government”.

      I think it was billionaire/adversaries funded groups, probably Elon in part, definitely Russia/China.

      Elon understood Twitter/SM very early on. I remember reading somewhere how Tesla didn’t spend a dime on (traditional) marketing the first few years, it was pure social media manipulation / dark patterns.

      “The point of propaganda is not to make you believe something in particular, is to make you not believe anything.”

      • G. Kasparov
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        “We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.” - William J. Casey, CIA Director (1981)

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    Same set of dipshits that form groups like the oathkeepers, etc and stockpile weapons against a tyrannical government, but constantly advocate for everything counter to this country’s people and for a tyrannical government…

    Also the same set of dipshits that make up bullshit about “child trafficking” when it comes to Democrats, but embrace people like donvict, Gaetz, and so on…

    No one should be surprised at all.

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    Instead of echo chambering shitty journalism sites like commondreams, rawstory, new republic, etc, locations that feed you the headlines you want to hear or validate confirmation bias searching, and turning into Reddit, talk to people.

    It’s a blind faith thing. They believe. The MAGA ethos of Trump encompasses Elon Musk. It’s like Jupiter’s magnetic field extending its protection to its moons. The MAGAs are making excuses for Elon just like they do for Trump.

    The main argument: he’s not doing it for money, he’s already rich.

    When you ask why is Elon doing it then, the answers get sycophantic and delve into the straight, benevolent love of America. (I know, lol.)

    Remember, politics relies on drive by ideas that can be contained in a single, simple sentence, not essays. Essay readers are in the minority. Article readers beyond headlines are a minority. You have to have a punchy counter argument that fits a sentence as easily as the “he’s already rich, it’s love of America” or you’ll lose that debate.

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      You have to have a punchy counter argument that fits a sentence as easily as the “he’s already rich, it’s love of America” or you’ll lose that debate.

      Mmmm . . “He’s an unelected fascist who should be launched into the fiery heart of the sun.” ?

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    Now we know who’s been helping Russia spread their bullshit propaganda all over social networks for the last decade.

    What’s crazy is that we call them social networks without batting an eye… But don’t hold them to the same standards of a broadcast network, which would have prevented a lot of the shit show we’re in

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    I don’t understand the US, there was a big fuzz a decade or so ago when there were talks of Schwarzenegger as presidential candidate and 10-15 years later you get a non-elected foreign in the government?

    Honestly you need Arnold back, with his Conan sword.

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      The TL;DR is Propaganda works. And the US is flooded with it.

      And for those who think the “left” can just copy propaganda - no, it doesn’t work like that. Propaganda only serves conservative goals.

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            The usual: they control most of the media through subsidies. Keep calling everyone against them “far right” while making deals with actual ethnonationalist far right parties. At some point they even took part in the overtaking of one of the banks (but it wasn’t succesful), oh and they also control the biggests syndicates and funny thing they recently went to strike to protest the opposition.

            Also populism.