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  • ameancow@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I care a lot more about material outcomes the current administration’s attempts to like… destroy motherfucking democracy, than conspiracy stories about a diary, and I care more about power structures that support things like sex-trafficking islands for billionaires than one family’s attempts to keep their private shit under wraps.

    It is insane, I read the whole thing and stand by it, it’s more useless hype and distraction-for-clicks that’s preventing national mobilization and unity against a force that will someday take away even your ability to read these emotion-validating stories on the internet that make you feel better about yourself for whatever reason.

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      6 months ago

      Define “destroy democracy”.

      It’s a meaningless buzz phrase the Democrats bandy about to stir up hysteria and prevent people from thinking critically. It wasn’t Trump who tried to weaponize the government to force a political candidate from running and tried to keep said candidate tied up in court so they couldn’t campaign.

      People capable of critical thinking burned out on the hysteria between 2016 and 2021. This is why Trump got reelected in 2020. The Democrat hysteria didn’t work and the Democrats actively trying to weaponize the government to stop Trump was so blatantly obvious that it turned a huge number of people against them.

      Also, you’re doing precisely what I described. Denying reality in service of your political party. You call it a “conspiracy theory” because then you can use that label to deny reality. Biden was a pedo and has dementia, it was obvious. you didn’t care because he was “on your team”.

      It’s also not a theory. It’s a fact.

      • NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world
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        6 months ago

        Lets not say “destroy democracy” and instead say “dismantling the government and systems in place to protect citizens and the basic rights of human beings in favor of a theocratic fascist regime.”

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          6 months ago

          You can say it, but you’d be hysterically wrong, like any other time Democrats or Republicans have whipped themselves into hysteria to protect themselves from reality.

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            6 months ago

            Change is hard, but denialism won’t make it easier for you. We’re in a state of fascism and decline regardless of how much you want everything to be the same.

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              6 months ago

              We were closer to fascism in 2021-2024. I don’t see Republicans scouring every minute detail of Democrat politicians lives looking for a way to imprison them over spurious at best charges, or drag them before a party loyalist judge on a forced bench show trial.

              Denialism won’t make it any less true. Our only saving grace was that the Democrats overplayed their hands so wildly that all but the most damp chinned of cultist drones didn’t realize it. This is why Trump won in a landslide.