How is that some 100 million Americans refuse to believe what their own eyes saw happening on t.v. on January 6, Nina Burleigh asks?
Her answer: look to people like Peter Thiel and "the well-oiled and oligarch-financed right wing messaging apparatus" his money and that of other super-rich men trying to tear down democracy have set into place to spread disinformation.
#Trump #Jan6 #disinformation #PeterThiel
https://americanpoliticalfreakshow.substack.com/p/invasion-of-the-body-snatchers
Ok as we don't give a damn about being PC here, lets surmise that despite what happened being televised around the world, those who refuse to believe it actually happened are either thick, stupid or both.
@zleap I honestly think more belligerently intent on denying reality — and any connection to a truth shared by others — than thick or stupid.
They are dangerous either way, as they seem to be also able to spread this in such a way that others follow this narrative that for example Jan 6 was all a set up and never happened.
Reminds me of Wile-E-Coyote cartoons where he is about to get buried in rocks and just puts up a small cocktail umbrellla as if that is going to protect him, only he still gets buried in rocks.
@zleap Yes, dangerous either way, for sure — but I think the cunning, planned out malicious actions of an ill-intentioned person may ultimately be more dangerous than those of stupid people, especially when that person achieves a position of power.
Well lets hope it does not come to trump regaining the white house, as this 100 million will be the first to moan when certain freedoms are removed.
@zleap Indeed — let's hope.