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by akimbostrawman 491 days ago
Posts like this make me wonder how far the overton window has to shift until someone notices they have left the continent. Maybe take a step back and look around to notice that the destruction you describe after less than a month has been happening to the other side for almost two decades. But the other side is evil and wrong so why even bother.
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I understand that people on the right believe that to be true.

But, in fact, things like anthropogenic climate change that the right refused to acknowledge, and believed that the media was lying to them about, are true.

It matters what is actually true. The fact that the two sides may have felt the same isn't relevant. The truth is that it wasn't the same.

Another factor: Republicans think it's authoritarianism when the mainstream media doesn't tell them the things they prefer to believe. But here's another clue for them: It's only authoritarianism when the government uses its monopoly on power to force the media to say what they say. It's not authoritarianism when the media says something because they think it's true, or even when they say it because they are trying to please an audience that mostly thinks it's true.

I can't really fathom how disconnected from reality you have become if you honestly believe this. I do hope you drift back to consensus reality at some point.

be well.