Alt title: Have they tried calling their Representatives tho?
I think the idea is people are stupid enough to think that if somehow it’s proven that Trump did even more awful things his followers would wake up and realize that he is awful, I just don’t see that happening.
On Reddit, for the last couple of months, every thread about the GOP’s fascism has highly upvoted comments implying that the fascism is a distraction from the Epstein files; as though the fascist dictatorship wasn’t the plan the entire fucking time.
Liberals continuing to display why the USA is a failed state.
It’s sad. I even see it here in other posts. People don’t want to admit the government they have placed their trust in keeping public order never intended to protect their interests. The order it was protecting wasn’t what they thought it was.
This was the inevitable conclusion of the American capitalist-imperialist experiment.
I personally think people are in denial about how fucked things are. They’re focusing on inane shit that will lead nowhere because it’s all their brains are trained to handle. Screw Trump followers waking up, liberals haven’t even woken up to liberalism being destroyed right in front of them.
So the problem with this line of thinking is seeing it as binary. What actually happens in cases of cults is that some split off, and the remainder are more fanatic than ever. For examples, see the Great Disappointment of the Adventists, or 1975 predictions with Jehovah’s Witnesses.
The trouble that MAGA has is that it doesn’t take many to split off before they’re no longer a meaningful political force. Over the last six months, both Democrats and Republicans have been getting phone calls of death threats if they don’t do everything Trump wants. Members of congress have made certain decisions because of this. That is going away.
The absolute level of sarcasm you unleash by telling a leftist more than one thing is bad.
Do leftists really have a problem understanding both sides can be bad? I figure you have to be pretty well versed in that in order to be a leftist.
I think it’s more that the Epstein files are gettingore.coverage than the destruction of our faux democracy
The effective declaration of martial law in DC is getting plenty of coverage and people here (and elsewhere) are still dismissing it as a distraction from the Epstein files. This is more of a head in sand business.
Yeah. The thing is that it is a distraction from the Epstein files. But it is also distraction from all of his previous crimes, because that is how he has always functioned. He is a barrage of shitshows to distract from any individual shitshow. That was his previous adminstration as well. So even without the existence of the Epstein files, he would still be doing all this shit, it is just what he does. He normalises his crimes and his fascism by constantly doing new crimes and fascism.
And yes, the military deployment in the capital is pretty ominous to put it mildly.
So he distracts from previous crimes by doing current, arguably worse crimes? He’s making it legal to torture immigrant kids, but somehow the kids Epstein hurt in the past require more attention?
“Epstein distraction” is basically a meme at this point, and online people love regurgitating memes.
Do we actually think that if we bring it up in our online spaces often enough, they’re actually going to hold Trump and the rest of the rapists accountable? They see us as sheep, being “aware” and nothing else only makes us bleating sheep.
As far as I know, nobody cares about democracy.
certainly not enough to do anything about it
Priorities … not in order.
