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Donald Trump didn’t win by a historic landslide. It’s time to nip that lie in the bud
(www.theguardian.com)
Lies are a crucial foundation for fascism.
this post was submitted on 03 Dec 2024
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Too late. It's that whole thing where it takes ten times the effort to undo misinformation than to introduce it (or however that goes). This narrative is here to stay. Those who try to counter it will just be in the role of the "Well Ackchyually" guy in the conversation
Well, facts do matter. And as much as possible, sane people need to push back on fascists just redeclaring terms to mean something else. They keep trying to do the same thing with the term insurrection. They have been calling anything and everything an "insurrection" to try to dilute the fact that their so-called president stoked a real insurrection.
I'm not in disagreement
A lie can make it around the world before the truth even has a chance to put it's shoes on.
Bad actors take advantage of this so often I'm surprised truthful material gets out into the world at all.
This is one defeat that I think we can no longer blame on Russian interference.
Kamala Harris was such a disliked candidate that she lost the popular vote to a convicted felon that previously tried to spark a right wing insurrection against Congress. A convicted felon whose previous tenure led to the Supreme Court bringing back state level abortion bans, and who was running on the manifesto of turning America into a right wing Christian theocracy staffed by Trump loyalists. Not even Hillary Clinton did this terribly.
Biden should never have ran for a second term, given that he was already showing signs of forgetfulness four years ago, and when he was eventually pushed to resign, the Democrats should have held a snap primary instead of immediately backing Harris.
I quote the lyrics of the ABBA's song: "The winner takes it all - The loser’s standing small". And this is the truth: in a few years, no one will ask how DT won the election. He simply won and has a strong mandate to pursue his policy. - n'est-ce-pas?
That horse left the stable a long time ago. Once the MAGA crowd latches onto something they don't let go. They're still claiming TFG won in 2020, for crying out loud.
Doesn't mean everyone else has to coddle them in their stupid fantasies.
Yeah but history is written by the victor so that’ll be cleared up by the Trump regime eventually
Did Mehdi really write this on the 3rd? I've heard him saying this at least a week ago. Seems kinda pathetic to rehash this over and over again.