Bannon et P25 spawn reverse engineered Ms Arendt's dire warnings to create a playbook for perfect Authoritarianism. Web search 'Hannah Arendt quotes' and broadcast them to the world to expose the greatest fraud against in American History.

Yup. And it’s here. framingthequestion.blog/2025/07/13/c...

Clearly no one has read 1984.

To be honest... Abrahamic Fascism is an authoritarian, patriarchal, and misogynist ideology in MAGA USA.

"The water is just fine!" Said the MAGA boiling frogs...

MAGA Fascist ldeology voted for Hitler's Germany 2.0.

MAGA voted for a Pedo Rapist Felon for president, so yeah, fuck them very much!

That's why we see Donald Trump & his ilk doing their best to build false narratives to deflect from their destructive actions. youtu.be/7UtFg_YCBoA

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That's not what Section 4 says. Each officer may be individually impeached and removed for separate acts of treason. In terms of criminal law, no American has been able to commit treason since 1945, but impeachment is not a matter of criminal law. There is no appeal for impeachment.

Yeah, sadly there is no "vote of confidence" motion in the US, as in other countries, to get rid of a corrupt or ineligible leader. You're stuck unless he resigns or leaves by dying. He was twice impeached already.

Yes, but apart from all that...

If they only knew but, in many ways, they choose not to.

Thinks it's more if a case that Truth becomes irrelevant to the pursuit of interests.

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In the UK these are typified by those who read the Daily Mail and the Telegraph.

Well MAGA movement will eventually arrest Trump. But that wouldn’t be a cure from it but a sign of MAGAs growth.

Doubt it, they are too unrelentingly, incredibly STUPID and proud of it. Morons born and inbred.

Time will tell - but stupidity isn’t a bug in that context but a prerequisite. It’s a feature that is very hard to come by. drnicksanders.substack.com/p/the-silent...

It’s about purity of MAGA. Trump might be defined as not pure enough e.g. in light of released Epstein files.

They are not that analytical; far more visceral and stupidity is compulsory. Never forget the repugnuts mantra: Keep them stupid, keep them sick and keep them poor. They will NEVER turn on their "saviour"; far too invested and angry.

Yes. Their non analytically is their fundamental key feature, their prerequisite. It’s a movement based on ideological purity that functionally does not require a savior if it did grow out of their initial form. It requires priests that interpret and reflect on the movement.

I tend to think that it's a movement based on hate and stupidity. They revel in their low IQ. That and their hate, unites them in their war against "elites". They don't see themselves as exploited proletariat but rather temporarily embarrassed millionaires. In their minds they too can be Trump.

Well yes, hate provides energy/motivation and stupidity gives latitude. Hart to handle.

I know some high IQ ones. I think they're just Christian nationalists (people I met long ago at work)

And, Christian Nationalism is White Nationalism dressed up in religious costumes.

It’s bc their hate exceeds their knowledge

The most dyed-in-the-wool Conservatives are not the majority of his "base."I got no love for moderate republicans, either, but with the lowest approval rating of any President *in history*, it's clear that he's not fooling many at this point.

The thing holding this country together right now is not a love of Trump - it's the lingering belief in our Democratic system to self-correct. And that belief is being eroded with each passing day. Even Trump's own cabinet don't believe in him. They just want the bag that comes with fealty.

"...or fortunately." rotten motherfuKKKer.

The woman that described "The banality of evil" knows what she's talking about.

Mr. Conway, the mold has been broken. Even if this assault is repelled, the way forward is clouded and uncertain. Basic functions of our government have been corrupted beyond the ability to reclaim them. The court has allowed this to become law. Both parties have failed the American people.

I believe it!

PBS has an excellent biography of Arendt Worth watching.

Great documentary on her recently done by American Masters on pBS. Worth a watch.

It’s called indifference. As long as it does not directly affect a person they really don’t care to understand the difference between truth and a lie. It’s been here a long time and is reflected in our elections where only a small fraction come out and vote.

Published in 1932, it is still fresh and relevant today...

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Speaking as a homeless person, I would like to point out that morality is a luxury. Hannah Arendt had the luxury of not dying of typhus or starvation. For all of her fame, her naivete is remarkable - unless one recognizes that her naivete allows your wilful blindness.

Truth!

You can't fix stupid, but you can vote it into office...

And that’s why FOX News is our greatest danger

Welp. That leaves me out. See you in the gulag, George!

On a parallel note, Hannah Arendt was once married to Günther Anders. So I asked ChatGPT what it thought Anders might make of AI. It told me: ‘If Günther Anders were alive today, I think he’d see AI as exactly the kind of development he warned about — another leap widening his “Promethean gap.”’ 1…

He’d likely say: • AI outpaces human imagination. We can build systems whose consequences we cannot fully foresee or emotionally grasp — just as with nuclear weapons. The gap between what we can make and what we can take responsibility for is widening again. 2…

• Moral lag. Just as with the atomic bomb, the ethical discussion about AI lags far behind its technical deployment. He’d call out the “obsolescence” of human oversight in a machine-driven environment. 3…

• Automation of judgement. Anders was suspicious of outsourcing moral or political decisions to technology. AI making recommendations in policing, hiring, warfare, or health would, to him, look like a dangerous abdication of human responsibility. 4…

• Mass media amplification. He’d also worry about AI-generated media — deepfakes, algorithmic propaganda — as a further industrialisation of reality distortion, something he already feared in the television age. 5…

• Everywhere-ness. His phrase “Hiroshima is everywhere” might become “The Singularity is everywhere” — meaning the transformative, potentially destructive effects of AI are not confined to labs but seep into daily life unnoticed. 6…

Anders would probably argue that AI is not just a tool but a world-shaping force we don’t yet have the inner equipment to deal with. He’d urge us to resist the passive “we’ll adapt” attitude and instead confront the ethical and political consequences before we are locked in.” …..

We cannot say AI didn’t warn us about itself.

Being able to rely on themselves and their own minds and their own skills and abilities will be beneficial in the long run, even if they know how to use the technology.

I just had a discussion about this on YT. Someone was mentioning that teachers who still make their students learn to do things without using technology is doing the kids a disservice. And I explained to them that teaching them to ONLY use technology is doing them a disservice.

One might say, there is a difference between riding a horse and sitting on a horse while it moves. While it appears to be a small difference, it’s all the difference.

Yes

Blind obedience to a tribal Messiah ... Intoxicated by hatred, imperial hubris and immoral deception. This is the zombie apocalypse we feared.

The normal media reporters who only majored in journalism or media or such are failing us. They only know how to ask 'both sides', and leave it up to the viewers. If they had dual degrees in journalism or media with economics, business, political science, etc., their output would better serve us.

I can highly recommend to study the work of Hannah Arendt to better understand how banal the unchaining of the Evil comes along. Evil emerges out of the masses, it’s an emerged property not a person but a few persons Start and lead the process of unchaining.

It's all so 1984-ish. bsky.app/profile/opsa...

If this is the way you need to read it, what is bigger than ALL-CAPS?

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The Party of Lincoln is no more.

How did we get here? Fox-style grooming.

It's getting easier: People use AI because it's convenient, but study after study shows that it erodes critical thinking skills. Moreover, each program has its own bias and info is generally only about 60% corrrect.

Any general assessment of the factual basis of llm AI is fraught. I've not seen any peer reviewed studies.

I read The Origins of Totalitarianism a few months ago. Its message is as current today as when it was written—as contemporary as George Orwell's work. www.goodreads.com/book/show/39...

Could you add alt text please? I'd love to reskeet.

fox state tv deliberately blurs that line as a matter of course. Or, they just lie outright.

Djt & I born same year. Watched his life. A psychopath, malignant narcissist according to the definitions. Genius con man who failed repeatedly but managed first with dad's money & then others in his revengeful agitator bullying style to move upward anyway. Lucky Loser. No more. RESIST his 🤡CRAZY✊✊✊

He has plenty of enablers to promote his authoritarian regime.

Indeed. Lots of people went along with the Nazi's and then claimed it had nothing to do with them.

Yup, we're there.

And here we are !

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Nail on the head!

Image is from a cover of 1984.

Perhaps that is why Proverbs 12:22 states that "lying lips are an abomination to the Lord." Proverbs 6:16-17 States God hates a "lying tongue." And Revelation 21:8 includes liars among those who will face the "fiery lake of burning sulfur. " The original first sin was the 🐍serpent's lie in Eden.

And a woman took the bait because "a snake" appealed to her vanity, her greatest weakness. We have been collectively suffering ever since, if those fairy tales are to be believed. Religion. Talk about pure psychological propaganda.

I am certain no one would intentionally shift the focus away from the big lie and instead focus on the victim of the lie; thus shifting the message away from the need for truth, and the danger of believing lies. And, of course, bible stories may be viewed as myth, fact, fiction, or metaphor.

Or..early humans looking for fresh water and nervous of watering holes might have sought a snake that liked to dangle from trees and slither in water. Spotting such a snake meant a cave below it with easily accessible potable water. Why does the Bible mention only the tree? Caves are wombs.

What was the lie?

The serpent's lie to Eve, "she would not die," contradicted God's warning that eating from the tree of knowledge would result in death. It brought spiritual death, separation from God, and the introduction of physical death into human experience.

Yeah, no. Eat of the Tree of Knowledge and you would go hunting the Tree of Immortality and the gods did not want that for mankind. So they kicked us out of Paradise. Easy come, easy go.

Exactly. GOP where curiosity goes to die.

the first cause of war is when truth becomes a casualty

Yep

Henry A. Wallace was President Franklyn D. Roosevelt’s Vice President during WWII, 1941-1945. More from Hannah Arendt and a meme someone put together from an interview with Timothy Snyder, author of “On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century.”

Excellent post illustrating the current conditions in the U.S. The Gingrich principal, that the lie becomes more believable than truth and now people of the U.S. do not believe anything. Result, total self destruction. What will the next few months bring?

Wallace was behind Pioneer seed corn and helped feed the postwar world with new hybrids. Of course, in the long run, the hybrids create new problems, but one step at a time.

Conservatives and their churches have been creating those exact people who can't tell the difference from reality and fantasy.

Indeed, if you can believe in supernatural beings and magical thinking you can believe in anything.

If this doesn’t show that Americans educational system is broken idk what does

An outcome 50 years in the making.

Ain't that the fucking truth.

Yep, always said that Trump is the antithesis of an ideologue. He only cares about one thing - himself, it's irrelevant to him how he achieves his power & money. If adopting communism would do it, then he'd be communist The likes of Miller & Bannon etc are definitely ideologues

Charlie Kirk’s tweet about South Park’s ICE episode basically saying “they love me”, ICE appropriating a frame and linking it to their recruitment website. They are on Fantasy Island. To call out their immoral behaviour you are anti-Christian, have TDS or Fake News! It’s an alternate reality.

Pretty much 100% correct. My Trump loving SIL thinks she is talking to Musk everyday via an app on her phone. No amount of facts is going to change her “mind”.

Orwellian times… indeed.

Religious people are who that is describing

And 2 minutes after seeing this we will forget about it.

Thats’s why I like sarcasm. Sacraficial - Fact or Fiction… Nothing fake here. Unbelievable but nothing not understandable. Saw this coming in 2002. Just couldn’t act fast enough. We’re 35yrs behind reality, 100yrs where we should be. The distinction is being able to distinguish character/integrity

💣 The Trump Time Bomb 💣 3 Deadly Scenarios 1) Trump Admin, with the help of GOP and Courts, rig the Midterm/WH elections, and seize control. 2) Trump Admin back off the strong arm tactics, win fairly, and seize control. 3) Trump loses fairly but whips up a giant shit storm and seizes control.

Well, he has 70 million in that corner. Let’s reduce that number. Organize Act Engage NON STOP.

😥 We're heading there real quick!

It is the Nazism, because that’s exactly what they stood for under Hitler, and that’s what they stand for now.

Thank you for posting this. HOWEVER This a paraphrased statement from an article from 1949 about the current state of media THEN: www.yahoo.com/news/fact-ch... The meme is still very correct. Sort of. Here is Einstein's statement 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

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The PBS documentary about her is GOOD!

You mean the people I know who say "Whatever...they'll figure it out". These are the same people who gave me "Yes, Dear" when I told them the pandemic was a few weeks away...prepare. The unprepared.

Interesting that countries around the US are implementing different internet safety rules for their children. Also interest that Republican leaders are crying out the most about this.

arendt would be called a nazi today if anyone bothered to read her work. she's not, of course. she was a rudder. a rock.

What kind of retarded comment is "Arendt would be called a nazi today . . .?" Please explain.

it'd be great if more people would read her. and pitkin.

we need to lend our shoulders to these ideas that are good. and not relent.

Orwell brilliantly understood and articulated this concept.

Murdoch and Reagan understood this which is why Reagan gave Murdoch his citizenship and helped him by eliminating the Fairness Doctrine so he could create the propaganda machine we have today.

The Fairness Doctrine could not constitutionally apply to cable. And Presidents don’t give citizenship.

Presidents demand the citizenship to be given. The old felon is selling citizenship is for between $1 to $5 million a piece. The Fairness Doctrine would have stopped the media descent into fascism.

No - Trump is selling Gold Cards which are similar to Green Cards. Neither Green nor Gild Cards grant citizenship. Reagan did not give Murdoch citizenship. And why would a wealthy, white, English-speaking, Christian man who had been in the U.S. for over a decade need help to become a citizen?

Why aren't MAGA people considered cult members?

be brave, for your elders, your children, and other vulnerable people in your family, neighborhood and workplace, for they are all in the sights of this dark entity a.k.a. the republican syndicate regime.

Great book! 📕 Well worth reading.

A true MAGAtard whore! Those are the only ones who support a rapist and pedo..probably abused by her own husband!

comparing nazid and commies is hilarious corny ass ai image as well

My understanding of the Jonestown massacre is that some of those in authority, including some that held the guns on those "made" to drink the Kool Aid, escaped afterwards... so much for true believers.

That really is the truth..the lack of distinction between fact and fiction,truth or falsity...

The MSM self censoring and capitulating to Trump, agencies reporting only favorable results and his own constant stream of easily disproven lies wears people down so they can't trust anything they're told and are incapable of recognizing truth when they hear it.

If it come from a site like the no news Fox, that already admitted in court that they lied to their viewers because they couldn't handle the truth, its not the truth! But where are these dumb viewers, still watch the moron channel 24/7!.

They are deep into the propaganda that their cult leader needs them to believe..Why has the orange dropped over 20 points in the polls, because the real Republicans do not watch the shit the MAGA do..they know the lies and BS he spreads and will never vote for a MAGA again!

They want the opposite of education. #PublicSchools

This has been Putin’s most brilliant play in modern Russia. There’s no truth, and there are no objective facts, so nothing really matters.

People inherently know injustice! I’ve always believed the majority of America cares about it! Republicans wouldn’t be gerrymandering if they didn’t fear it.

It's a lack of critical thinking too....

They watch propaganda 24/7 because they were told they had to by the death cult leader! Like all cult minions, they listen to those that control them..

And the MAGA would pay. They buy any grift he has!

Has anyone seen or heard from Leonard Leo?

Well, shit, that’s a lot of Americans

Right!

It does beg the question of how do we regulate the media so that the pervasive propaganda that has spread so widely across overlapping channels can free so many citizens of the tools of tyranny.

Just like religion, which also has an issue between fact and fiction, and people can be conditioned to believe almost anything ...

Social media has amplified the gap between reality and fiction

Nailed it. Hannah speaks Truth across the ages. Chillingly prescient. Ditto the graphic. Thanks, George.

This wouldn't surprise me. Give her a pardon and a job because we need more babies. 🤔😐

She aughtta know! She was Lee Harvey oswalds father!

I prefer Orwell who saw all this coming while she still shacked up with Heildigger!

To paraphrase Charles Dickens: these are the chains we forged in life [through indifference and intolerance].

"The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist." - Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

We have a lot of the main media to thank.

We’re no longer heading there…

Agree… cripe!

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Do not normalize anything. Speak out, rage on. 👊💙🇺🇸 Yes, and get sarcastic as hell.

💙 RAGE RESISTANCE 💙

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On the nail.

This is why Dems need to run more adds exposing the truth NOW …they also need to advertise for people to check their voter registration now!!!!

Our king would never deceive us!!!

The Magats!

Truer words were never spoken

Wow that’s scary and explains why we are where we are!

Disinformation has taken root and is choking critical thinking.

They were groomed by right-wing media for 40 years while the rest of us were complacent.

That sounds eerily familiar…

excellent description of how we got where we are now

Now a huge percentage of Americans due to deliberate dumbing down by Reeps.

There is a distinction about Donald Trump that everyone needs to fully grasp, Trump is "insane". He is a "Self Delusional Malignant Narcissist" who has replaced everyone around him with loyalist flying monkey's & has control of our military that is in full control of Nuclear arsenal! That said ....

Very confusing George, are you calling americans communists or Nazis here? Might be less confusing to skip both and just call americans americans. the rest of the world understands what americans are already.

Yep

We are there. Now what? What’s the plan?

A MAGA told me that since all media lie, it’s okay for her to watch Fox and Newsmax.

Brexit was the Tories’ poisoned crown — it won elections and then devoured them. Trumpism is the GOP’s crown of thorns. The reckoning is coming.

With all due respect to Arendt, every sane human accepts the distinction between fact/fiction and true/false - the problem is too many do not know when their facts are fictions and their truths falsehoods - as Socrates noted, people who think they know things they do not know are the big danger -

'The Met said it estimated 500-600 people were in Parliament Square when the demonstration began, but “many” were not taking part.' But they arrested 474. Make it make sense. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Sad but true🤔🤪

So true

Thank you Fox“News“ and Zuckerberg - and lately other Oligarchs!

Terrifying, when you consider the level of introspection in the general population is next to nil.

Propaganda media is strong in the stupid of our society. As long as Fox news is allowed to bend every fact & create their fiction. We will have two separate society in our country. Also the RACISM in white christian nationalist is strongly pushing for a white only country.

Arendt's most important (and today most relevant) quote. She would be horrified at the devolution of her adopted country.

Almost there

So very true.

Sounds like little donnie tiny wanker!

Orange Hitler is "rewriting" history. Now he leaves out the dirty violent J6 he instigated & was THRILLED by. He makes up shit on the fly as if he took action when he did NOT. Taking credit for programs he did NOT initiate.

An economy that he didn't earn. Job #'s that are fake. Unemployment #'s - Fake Fake Fake. Do a search on his "truth social blog AI tool". It tells the truth despite his lies. He hasn't figured out how to corrupt it yet. Not to worry! The resolution? Make AI a prolific liar like him!

those that believe absurdities, will commit atrocities

Monitor the responses from genAI tools. At some point they will exert influence/control over these to generate the ‘truth’ people are being fed and then we’re all fucked. More pernicious than simple search rankings, it has three potential to doom democracy and needs more oversight not less.

Yes true - it’s called the banality of evil.

Apathy: 68 million+ registered voters didn't even show up in November.

A lot more showed up but there ballots were deleted and therefore not counted-ballotproof.

I think they showed up I don’t think their vote was counted

It only serves Maga's interests to fool Democrats to become complacent, believing they did everything perfectly, and that some mysterious magic was used (under the Biden administration) to steal the landslide victory. Nothing will be learnt, and Maga will achieve another victory in the midterms.

I choose to speak into existence a landslide victory in the form or a blue wave, where all of these motherfuckers will be held to account.

All the tens of millions of people who didn't even register to vote last time could still make that happen, despite the gerrymandering and other tricks. But it might be an increasingly steep uphill battle from there on.

Or you can believe aipac told them to be good little washington generals Fuck off and bye centerrorist

Yes, because people will stay home but I’m saying 68 million people did not stay home

Why didn't the vast majority of them register to vote? I believe they're public records, so with such an astronomical number, it shouldn't be too hard to find names of people who claim to have voted but who don't appear on registered voter lists.

Musk helped steal the election. Where have you been?

I've been in the reality where Musk couldn't even manage to deliver live streams on Twitter to interview Trump in Aug 2024 or DeSantis in May 2023. Are you talking about the vote hacking stories on the "thiswillhold" Substack?

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He figured out how to create those and install all kinds of backdoor hacks in the federal computer system stopped money going out to all kinds of humanitarian aid claimed he was going to find millions dollars of waste and then disappeared

His 20-something programmers were explicitly granted full administrative access. Deactivating protections with legitimate access rights is as simple as clicking "disable" or "delete" in a few configuration screens. It isn't "hacking" at all.

Star link hacking

Why would anyone think voting equipment specifically designed to be disconnected from the world ("air-gapped") and separately certified to be compliant have any means to communicate with satellites, of all conceivable things, when they're purpose-built not to connect to anything at all?

imo ETA’s whole point is E only rigged trumps seat not Down ballot because there are too many anomalies in the information that they have now so they’ve asked for the ballots to compare it I’m assuming it will all go away if they can’t get the ballots “will only take 1 line of Code”

Why do you think that they didn’t register to vote? I think I read that information can only be obtained through the courts. I doubt just anybody can just ask for voter rolls. Supervisor of elections offices get suspicious when people ask for information.

The point of the lists being public is precisely to allow the integrity of elections to be verified. Social security numbers etc are restricted, of course, but basic information about registered voters is broadly available: www.ncsl.org/elections-an...

Yeah, but it stops there, doesn’t it? Registration doesn’t prove they voted or we can’t see that part. ETA would already have the PA rolls

The difference between registered voters and votes counted isn't more than a fraction of the 68 million. If anywhere near that number had been stolen, most names would have to have been removed also from registration lists, which can be checked.

A true lack of understanding!

That’s the elephant in the room

We are there in real time

Aye - MAGA 😬

Someone's truth is subjective. Facts can be verified by evidence.

1984: A party member is expected to have no private emotions…he is supposed to live in a continuous frenzy of hatred of FOREIGN enemies and INTERNAL traitors, triumphs over victories, and self abasement before the power and widom of the party.

Real, fuctioning & educated democracies have no fascist nor communist leaders. Dictatorships of the proletariats, cult worship, military takeovers, they’re all crap. Only govts including protected free and fair elections with checks & balances have ever even begun to work towards the general good.

And that’s not going away. It is a new era of redefining what it is to live and how.

A Historian explains how this usally ends. youtu.be/UFHFxgaTVbg?...

The first step in any recovery is admitting there is a problem. The USA is not there yet. If HX is an indicator on how this is going to end. It is not going to end well. 🕊

Repeat the truth . Truth is. Bury it , hide it , lock it away . Truth is and always will be

Maga are there. It's wild.

Propaganda plus AI. Gonna be hard not to go full Third Reich.

Apropos CBS.

HannH Arendt, always worth re-reading, especially "Eichmann in Jerusalem (A Report on the Banality of Evil)" - which we are witnessing the 21st century version of today. It's only going to get worse.

Or matter. Just so it confirms their hate.

Sounds like this could apply to religion, too.

I really believe this. I’ve spoken to so many people who state, in some manner, that “you think what you think and I think what I think” and I’ll say there is objective truth. There are things that are factually true and can be proven to be true or false and they just stare.

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The Trump Regime

Resist the fascism, racism and stupidity of the FELON's regime! Vote every single conservative, from city/county level on up - to the STREET!

It is not unfair to point out that it is the evolution of the GOP from Newt Gingrich forward that led us to this moment. Indeed, Newt remains one of Trump's staunchest supporters.

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Great quote - there seems to be an epidemic of oneirataxia

If you didn’t see that Trump was a pathological liar in 2016, and still don’t after 30K+ proven lies since then, you’re no longer gullible - you’re a lifelong ignoramus.

It is astounding how Trump's supporters ignore facts and create their own reality. So damn sad.

I feel like that's all conservatives on nearly every topic. 😬 Ban abortions and abortion magically won't happen anymore. Stop tracking maternal mortality rates and no one is dying anymore. Tell people not to have sex and they won't. They're all insane.

Exactly.

This is absolutely so true and if only ppl could understand and appreciate this fact!

...while "good men" watch millionaires play baseball on teams owned by billionaires in stadiums financed by taxpayers so bread&circuses could be broadcast on MSM which is beholden to shareholders. Whom are we pretending is "We The People"?

It's scary to think just how relevant this statement still is. With all the mis- and disinformation, the AI hallucinations, and the deliberate gaslighting by people amd institutions we used to trust, where can we find reality? Where can we find the truth?