• jtrek@startrek.website
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    6 days ago

    This seems to be a common pattern. Conservatives recognize a problem (eg: housing is expensive) and then come to some pants on head wrong conclusion (it’s the {outgroups})

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      It’s not that they figured out the problem independently but were too stupid to come to a rational solution. It’s that their propaganda sources know these are problems and are proactively introducing them and providing nutty solutions so when they’re raised naturally the issue will both validate the conservative end goals and be vaguely idiotic to the liberals.

      “Every accusation is a confession” is real, even for things that seemed kind of outlandish like the elite pedophile cabal. I’m seriously concerned that the various baby blood and baby cannibalism conspiracy theories also aren’t just creative fiction by addled minds.

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      It’s also because these problems are multifaceted, layered and complex and generally don’t have simple solutions.

      They often gravitate to a “solution” that they “understand” and right wing politics have been pretty good at promoting those “solutions”.

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      Its because right wing media is own by fascist billionaires who feed them disinformation while defunding their school districts, leading to them being unable to think for themselves and buying the outright lies as fact.

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        5 days ago

        And the conservatives in the blue uniforms throw their hands up and just pretend to be powerless in response.