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  • I don't think I'm following. Why do you think MTG is faking it? Who do you think is manufacturing anti-Trump propaganda?

  • I read about a half dozen of the authors comments and I'm not seeing it? They seem to be polite and diplomatic but the closest thing to defending her is providing details about the "Jewish space lasers" incident.

    Is she not a character making a play for respectability? I don't understand how reporters pointing that out is an issue, it is factually what is happening. I agree she isn't a respectable person and never will be, but it doesn't change what is currently going on with her.

    I also don't understand how it is a cheap ploy for the news media to cover her defection/excommunication. That seems inherently newsworthy to me, I think it would be weird if they didn't cover it and ignored the situation.

  • They aren't that I have seen, do you have examples? She was getting a lot of attention for how the Epstein saga played out in Congress, and now is the highest profile example of a MAGA true believer who is willing to talk publicly about being driven out of the cult. There's perhaps a tendency currently to focus on these recent events more than her history as a piece of shit, but I've yet to see any articles that ignore who and how she is.

  • Both, and there's more than one end game because there's multiple factions behind Trump who have slightly different end games in mind. There is a shared purpose and common cause built up around Trump but also some fundamental tensions within the party about what the post-Constitutional order will look like once they've fully consolidated power.

  • No. I think people are extremely diverse in how they experience and engage with their individual subjectivity. I think a lot of people are like that at least some of the time, but it's more complicated and probably a nonconscious behavior for most people when they are doing it. Describing it as a "mask" I think is potentially misleading because I don't think that's necessarily how people experience this phenomena subjectively.

  • VR is the best medium for horror. Everything is scarier compared to flat games.

  • Your mom is an asshole.

  • My standards aren't especially high when it comes to cleaning before guests are over but definitely higher than many. Any area they will be in or anything they will interact with is my top priority, beyond that I am a lot more relaxed. If someone tried to make me feel bad about something minor like cat hair or a little dust they probably won't ever be a guest again because that's dickish and rude. As a guest you should never make your host feel embarrassed or uncomfortable, even if there's a legitimate issue it should still be approached respectfully and with kindness.

  • The basics of investing. Open a Roth IRA (or the closest equivalent if you're not in the US) and then try to max it out every year. Learning how to manage money for the long term now will save you a whole lot of hassle down the road.

  • It was mostly different elements of the Left, not really "Bernie Bros". Bernie himself was out there campaigning for Biden and Harris the entire time. I think we need a better name for the Left factions who supported Trump in the election, misidentifying them is only going to create more divisiveness. Those "Bernie Bros" who listened to Bernie during the campaign and did what they could to stop Republicans don't deserve to be lumped in with the dumbasses who actually helped them win.

  • I think it is more a declaration of a willingness in the US military to engage in extrajudicial killings of Americans whenever Trump is ready to give the order. He is probably referring more to death squad type operations rather than full on military engagement.

  • My first impression reading his bizarre comment was that Trump believed a MAGA cultist killed the Reiners for their politics, and he was happy about that and taking credit for what happened. Basically, "look what happens to meddlesome priests".

  • I vote in primaries every year, it's not just the Presidential election that has a primary.

  • I think Tucker Carlson might be able to, once Trump is out of his way.

  • It might be more prevalent with fentanyl but it's not unique to it, I remember seeing the fold happening decades before fentanyl was around. I do think it is unique to opioids though, there's a similar thing that can happen with dissociates but it's got a different character to the movement and poses.

  • It's not just fentanyl, it's opioids in general. Junkies have been doing this long before fentanyl was available.

  • 20 years sounds incredibly optimistic for any Samsung appliance.

  • Definitely. There would have been people watching everything in real time and making the decisions about what to do.

  • That doesn't seem true though, most actual leftists don't like tankies and the people on Lemmy complaining about tankies seem to mostly be leftists themselves. Tankies are like LaRouchites, no one takes them seriously because the things they profess tend to be silly and they usually have that obnoxious College freshman master-debater energy. It's not a left or right thing.

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