SeizeTheBeans [comrade/them, they/them]
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22·23 hours ago65K is the number the UN just “officially” declared a few days ago. But yes, it probably is an order of magnitude more than that
25·1 day agoI would just say to consider Chapo_is_Red’s response and then Nopeace’s response to that in this same thread. And OP’s response, “could be true for all we know.” It could be. But that’s the problem. The narrative on any given event is so openly and nakedly just an agenda that doesn’t even need to have a tangential relationship to reality, so our best bet at landing somewhere within the realm of truth is to first assess who benefits from the story as it is being presented. It might be true, but it’s on equal footing with all the so-called conspiracy theories because that’s all any of it is anymore, an ocean of spin. It’s not that feds weren’t always compulsive liars because of course they were, but the lesson there isn’t that they can be taken at their word like most people used to do before the post-truth era, it’s that we never should have trusted them about anything to begin with. But we should even less now because it is a lot worse than it used to be, where they practically flaunt how batshit they can be with the media fully on board no matter how contradictory the shifting narrative gets in comparison to what it was the day before and vast swathes of the public will eat it whole because their team is the faction currently pushing it.
You’re right, not everything is a government plot. But everything they say is a narrative they’re pushing, and it may or may not have any relationship with reality. If it is true, you have to ask how they benefit from actually telling the truth this time.
Just kill them.
Funny, that’s what me and a growing number of people have been saying we need to do to fix the fascist pundit problem. Its effectiveness has even been recently demonstrated.
The use of stochastic terrorism has become a core tenet of modern fascism. It works, it keeps their hands looking clean, and it keeps the liberals from getting too nervous about the actual dirty work, since it’s just free speech of course.