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This is like the 3rd time I’ve agreed with her this year.
Much as that sucks, it could be that we’re being fed bullshit to divide us. Weird, I know.
She’s still an idiot whose views only align with mine in a few cases because she doesn’t really understand reality.
But she actually seems like someone who maybe cares about the truth sometimes. She was indoctrinated, but maybe she could be pulled out of it? Not when she’s surrounded by the right wing echo chamber, but it gives me some hope that the redcaps in our own orbit might have a chance?
She seems like a crazy person that's also a true believer.
She went to Washington wanting to expose, among other things, a secret child-sex abuse ring involving people at the highest levels of government and society. And lo and behold, there was one, but it was being protected by the people in her own party.
True believers sometimes have some hope because some have just followed misinformation too far. Some will snap out of it when confronted with reality. The Final Experiment actually managed to turn some true flerfers. No effect on the grifters, obviously, but it shook some believers loose.
Yeah, I clock her as a True Believer as well. She's also a person who believes the end justifies the means.
Put those two things together and they explain everything she's ever done, including Jewish space laser claims.
MTG has always smelled like foreign/capital influence and the stank keeps getting worse.
That’s what I thought, too, but her latest utterances don’t make sense in that light.
Maybe her net worth has finally exceeded her values, so she’s finding something like a conscience and isn’t moneyed enough* for that to really factor in? She’s very, very new money, and likely can’t really imagine what that means? People are likely trying to tell her.
* : if foreign money bought her, I’m sure she was fairly cheap. She may have realised that recently…
They're not supposed to make sense. Russia did this exact thing within its own borders after the fall. You have the most outspoken poles of the political spectrum do complete 180s. Why?
Because you're trying to keep the people from organizing. You foment distrust in leaders and movements and try to keep people home by all means. You're trying to get people disinterested in the messy world of politics.
Meanwhile, you identify the people who are willing to break the rule of law and follow orders and put them to work nipping at the edges of those brave enough to organize.
It's happening now.