• Soktopraegaeawayok@lemmy.world
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    Trump administration screwed the pooch big on this. This has got to be a mistrial… it being inferred he was a left wing extremist like some others in the news right now was so stupid… dummies…

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      it being inferred he was a left wing extremist like some others in the news right now was so stupid… dummies…

      I have to disagree because I think this conclusion is a trap.

      The people listening to that stuff and eating it up? Yeah, dummies.

      The people SAYING that stuff though? It feels very intentional because it’s a win-win for them. At the beginning they get the base riled up, donating, and engaging with the propaganda machine. Then later on when Luigi suddenly gets off on a technicality, the outrage over that fuels even more furor, donating, and posting/watching.

      Conservatives live on outrage. It is irresistible to them. Especially to the white persecution complex ones like my extended family, god damn.

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        Putin has been trying to get a “color revolution” going here for nearly two decades and Trump loves the idea because they think they could end local governance and any hint of new elections if that happens. That’s why you see rhetoric everywhere about how “you can’t fix this with elections” and “this only ends one way.”

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        Well, unfortunately, as of recently, there has been an uptick in violent leftist extremism. If this administration has been expecting violence from the left, unfortunately, the left has certainly delivered.