It's starting to look like Merrick Garland wanted Trump dead when he ordered the FBI to raid Mar-a-Lago for those classified docs back in August of 2022.
I’m not parroting shit. Like I said, I’ve been following Trump’s shady dealings for 20 years. Clearly you haven’t.
He’s well-liked among two groups: the ultrarich because he makes them money with his schemes and the wannabe rich because they are willing to do anything to get ahead. He was never well-liked by other groups.
> He’s well-liked among two groups: the ultrarich because he makes them money with his schemes and the wannabe rich because they are willing to do anything to get ahead. He was never well-liked by other groups.
That’s not how I see it. I used to be a leftist and I know for a fact that all their argumentation is based on ideologies, where an idea is more important than reality.
While Conservative ideas are based on experience and tradition rather than wishful thinking.
Also conservatives understand that if someone else is paying, they are not free.
I will never agree to any similarity between left and right. it’s children’s minds compared to grown ups.
> I socialize with a lot of Leftists. At this point, Right and Left exist in different worlds.
You’d be surprised. #HorseshoeTheory is a thing, but I think there’s also a sort of inverse #HorseshoeTheory where people on the left and right converge on what ordinarily would be centrism or liberalism, but is now considered right wing due to the shifting #OvertonWindow. #Destiny and #BillMaher are two really good examples of this.
That’s been the case ever since Milo’s “Feminism is Cancer” tour.
Milo is one seriously vile man but his tour was brilliant and served as one of the main catalysts for blowing up the campus narrative about the left being tolerant and peaceful. Everyone else followed his lead. Shapiro, Kirk, Owens…All road Milo’s coattails to fame. But really, it was all Steve Bannon. He produced that whole tour. Pure brilliance.
I can promise you he very likely didn’t write a word of that, or anything else penned under his name at Breitbart. For that you probably want to thank Allum Bokhari.
Milo was a brilliant performer with only one real act. He became a reductive version of himself after the F.I.C. tour. As far as writing goes, he could best be described as a lazy dysfunctional drug addict and fame whore who crashed out owing numerous people outstanding debts, allegedly.
@LookBehindYouNowAndThen I’m not sure if he’s a supremacist, more likely a racial separatist/“race realist”. Wouldn’t be shocked if he’s racist, but yeah #TheProtocolsOfTheEldersOfZion is quite the deep cut, and his alt-right views are probably the only way he even knows what that is (I only know what that is when I started researching the origins of the #Israel v. #Palestine conflict and it came up as I was skimming #Wikipedia)
I’m not parroting shit. Like I said, I’ve been following Trump’s shady dealings for 20 years. Clearly you haven’t.
He’s well-liked among two groups: the ultrarich because he makes them money with his schemes and the wannabe rich because they are willing to do anything to get ahead. He was never well-liked by other groups.
@glimse
> He’s well-liked among two groups: the ultrarich because he makes them money with his schemes and the wannabe rich because they are willing to do anything to get ahead. He was never well-liked by other groups.
Do you have a source for this?
@realcaseyrollins @glimse
As far as I can tell, Trump is popular among a range of social classes but also captured the college-educated conservative vote.
@amerika @glimse I would have loved to see him try to find one source corroborating his claim lol
@realcaseyrollins @glimse
I socialize with a lot of Leftists. At this point, Right and Left exist in different worlds.
Choice of media, choice of story of the day (the thing everyone talks about), vocabulary… it’s all different.
So there are things that are not strictly “true” which are taken as fact because they are needed to keep up these political tribal identities.
It’s odd and unnerving but I think only when the two sides are BOTH extremist do we get actual options.
@[email protected] @glimse @realcaseyrollins
That’s not how I see it. I used to be a leftist and I know for a fact that all their argumentation is based on ideologies, where an idea is more important than reality.
While Conservative ideas are based on experience and tradition rather than wishful thinking.
Also conservatives understand that if someone else is paying, they are not free.
I will never agree to any similarity between left and right. it’s children’s minds compared to grown ups.
@amerika @glimse
> I socialize with a lot of Leftists. At this point, Right and Left exist in different worlds.
You’d be surprised. #HorseshoeTheory is a thing, but I think there’s also a sort of inverse #HorseshoeTheory where people on the left and right converge on what ordinarily would be centrism or liberalism, but is now considered right wing due to the shifting #OvertonWindow. #Destiny and #BillMaher are two really good examples of this.
@realcaseyrollins @glimse
I think that’s probably accurate. JFK would be seen as an extreme Right-winger now!
That’s been the case ever since Milo’s “Feminism is Cancer” tour.
Milo is one seriously vile man but his tour was brilliant and served as one of the main catalysts for blowing up the campus narrative about the left being tolerant and peaceful. Everyone else followed his lead. Shapiro, Kirk, Owens…All road Milo’s coattails to fame. But really, it was all Steve Bannon. He produced that whole tour. Pure brilliance.
Also, Milo’s probably an intel asset.
@amerika @glimse @realcaseyrollins
@truthbait @glimse @realcaseyrollins
Milo is hysterical but he did write one of my favorite editorials:
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2015/04/20/tax-the-poor-the-moral-and-economic-case-for-regressive-taxation/
I can promise you he very likely didn’t write a word of that, or anything else penned under his name at Breitbart. For that you probably want to thank Allum Bokhari.
https://www.breitbart.com/author/allum-bokhari/
@amerika @glimse @realcaseyrollins
@truthbait @glimse @realcaseyrollins
Quite possibly true; I have enjoyed Mr Bokhari’s writings on other topics so that would fit.
Milo was a brilliant performer with only one real act. He became a reductive version of himself after the F.I.C. tour. As far as writing goes, he could best be described as a lazy dysfunctional drug addict and fame whore who crashed out owing numerous people outstanding debts, allegedly.
@amerika @glimse @realcaseyrollins
@truthbait @amerika @glimse I used to like him back in the day. He was a major reason why I ended up on the #Fediverse.
A source for what exactly? Public opinion?
You don’t have to @ me every time.
@glimse Yes. If it was public, you should be able to find, say three instances of that opinion being espoused.
Unless it was like a super secret public opinion that nobody said out loud?
@realcaseyrollins @glimse
Like… the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Ziyon?!!
@amerika @glimse Pretty sure that was pretty popular in #Russia, and served as the origins for the modern antisemitic conspiracy theories we see today.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Protocols_of_the_Elders_of_Zion
You’re talking to a white supremicist.
Their site makes it clear.
That’s the reason they’re citing a racist conspiracy theory.
The mods won’t ban him though, because that’s the kind of user they wish to court.
@LookBehindYouNowAndThen I’m not sure if he’s a supremacist, more likely a racial separatist/“race realist”. Wouldn’t be shocked if he’s racist, but yeah #TheProtocolsOfTheEldersOfZion is quite the deep cut, and his alt-right views are probably the only way he even knows what that is (I only know what that is when I started researching the origins of the #Israel v. #Palestine conflict and it came up as I was skimming #Wikipedia)
I don’t make excuses for white supremicists.
Guess you do.
How the fuck is a “racial separatist” not a racist?
Gotta love how this community puts the full depravity of conservatism on display for everyone.
@LookBehindYouNowAndThen
In any case, his alt right views don’t exactly map to this conversation, so I’ll allow it for now.
If lemmy.world wants to ban him, they probably can, but he’s on annihilation.social, which is a different instance entirely.
@realcaseyrollins @glimse
Exactly.