• gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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    5 days ago

    That’s part of why I’m just losing my fucking mind that everyone’s like “omg wow I’m shocked idk what is gonna happen next”, and the breathless shock that legacy media has about fucking everything that’s happening now.

    There is a fucking playbook, you fucking imbeciles. It was published over five fucking years ago. It’s just up there on a website whose url is the same as the fucking title of the playbook. They said they’d follow the playbook. They’re following the fucking playbook. They will continue to follow the fucking playbook. You’re not fucking allowed to be surprised by this.

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      5 days ago

      And they kept gaslighting us by denying the playbook’s existence when it was publicly available for everyone to see.

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      5 days ago

      I really think this is all the result of putting news behind a paywall, while lies and propaganda are widely and freely disseminated.

      We’re fucked.

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      Yeah it’s one thing for regular people to do this, but I think media just keeps digging and it’s beyond repulsive. They would rather do anything but journalism and in this case journalism means sitting for 2 days reading in the comfort of your home… There’s always been a debate between whether it’s purposeful or lazy and I think I’ve gravitated towards lazy on the part of hosts and writers and purposeful on the part of decision makers that they’d hire people so opposed to work in the first place. Mehdi researched heavily and was removed… it seemed like executives fixing the glitch of accidental good journalism.

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      People can barely keep it together to read a paragraph long comment nowadays, let alone go out of their way to download a 900 page document explaining each and everyway they’re about to get fucked.

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        5 days ago

        Summaries are a thing that exist.

        Or, more specifically: why did legacy media largely ignore the fact that P25 existed for like four and a half years? It only started getting covered every once in a while months before the election, and the vast majority of coverage was along the lines of “well orangeboi says he has nothing to do with it and has no idea what it is, and we are too fucking lazy to do any real, incisive journalism to nail him to the wall on that”.

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    When this madness is over, the next administration should outlaw the Heritage Foundation somehow. They clearly have proven to be actively working against the interests of the American people.

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      Not just Heritage. There’s so many of them it’s hard to keep track. Sourcewatch.org tries to. But you can definitely start with the cosigners of Project 2025 and all the companies (especially media companies) that those people are on the boards of. (I think that should catch things like Rumble, Daily Wire, Victory Network, etc.)

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        Dictatorships always end badly. But it can take decades.

        In the case of the US, the closest analog - the Third Reich - lasted 12 years. I’m hoping the American Reich won’t last nearly as long but I’m bracing for about a decade.

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          I don’t think that Nazi Germany is a great analogy for the US right now. Honestly there isn’t a very good analogy. The Republicans are using a lot of things from fascist playbooks, but… history doesn’t repeat itself

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    Muricans are stupid and will continue to be stupid. It’s their thing

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      they’ve anti-invested in education. don’t expect it to get much better. they’re also encouraging all the “patriots” to breed like rabbits. i don’t think mike judge knew he was writing a manuscript for project 2025

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      The problem is a what to actually do. Congress and the courts are controlled by people who largely agree with Project 2025. Most of the American public has no clue that it’s a real thing, and thinks it’s so out there that anybody telling them about it is on LSD and not credible.

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        You mean to tell me, that in America. Where you can legally acquire, a genuine, US Army certified Rocket-Propelled Grenade from a gun show in Vegas for cash… you guys can’t think of what to actually do?

        Zoinks Scoob, I think I’m getting a clue.

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          Problem:

          The people who have argued hardest for the ability to buy things like that and actually do it and have hoarded the weapons already are the racists

          So if we try an unorganized attack of any kind, we give the insane motherfuckers who want Red Dawn to happen a reason to start unloading. I’ve personally seen some of what these crazies have stockpiled, that is not a can you want to open

          We’re basically fucked on using weapons until those guys are hurting enough to be on our side, which might be too late to matter, anyway

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            Ukrainians stood up to what was thought to be the second strongest military in the world at the time, with little more than styrofoam and gasoline.

            And if they kill all the workers and soldiers who will be left to fight their wars and make their goods?

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              And if they kill all the workers and soldiers who will be left to fight their wars and make their goods?

              According to Musk, it’s AI apparently. The details were a bit sketchy though.