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Submitted 4 months ago by someguy3@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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breadsmasher@lemmy.world 4 months ago
henfredemars@infosec.pub 4 months ago
Words have meaning. This irks me.
Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 4 months ago
It feels like a lot of the new vocabulary and discourse that has developed in recent years has revolved around the insidious idea that reality is a matter of opinion. We focus on “optics” and bandy about “narratives”, decry “fake news”. We’ve ceased to get or even expect journalism from the news, and we aren’t even surprised that flat earth screwballs still exist. We live in a world seemingly in retreat from the idea of objective truth as people talk about “my truth”. Words have meaning. Objective truth exists. We forsake it at our peril.
Wrote this at 4 am so forgive the unhinged rant. Just finding the words for it now and it’s been bothering me lately.
j4k3@lemmy.world 4 months ago
What do you expect from someone dumb enough to hitch themselves to Trumps wake. Mike Pence feared for his life for good reason while Trump was attempting a coup. Everyone that has hitched themselves to Trump since has found themselves in a near equal measure of trouble. Solving this equation of variables means the man is an absolute imbecile with no ethics or even fundamental survivalist reasoning skills. Either his past left him completely without a future, likely from criminality, or he is an unarmed toddler on a Colosseum floor with lions and professional gladiators.
BackOnMyBS@lemmy.autism.place 4 months ago
My conspiracy theory is that the Russians got dirt on Vance, so he’s actually Trump’s prisoner. It would explain his wild switch on his opinion of Trump and why he looks so stressed and extra fake all the time. He is trapped and has to go alone with it I hope we find out one day what the dirt is.
TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Vance’s goal is to abolish the US democracy and reinstate the monarchy. Trump is a means to an end and if he wins, they will immediately 25th Ammendment him, making Vance president. There is a whole group of tech bros backing this movement.
someguy3@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Give this a listen [On Point | Podcast] JD Vance and the rise of the ‘New Right’ #onPointPodcast podcastaddict.com/on-point-podcast/…/180222410 via @PodcastAddict
Zexks@lemmy.world 4 months ago
No one does this to them so they are incapable of ‘getting it’. Some CNN or Fox shit about Vance taking it up the ass from Trump with a few Facebook posts and maybe an AI deepfake to back it up might make them think twice. But then you have to get dirty with the people spreading the dirt. Who’s gonna jump in the mud pit….
theywilleatthestars@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Literally 1984
gandalf_der_12te@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
Yes, some people have no concept of truth. They say whatrver is usegul to themselves. More news at 11.
fubarx@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
What do you get when you mix sophistry (en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophist) and nihilism (en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nihilism)?
Nurgus@lemmy.world 4 months ago
callouscomic@lemm.ee 4 months ago
How is this a fucking shower thought? What the fuck is this?
linearchaos@lemmy.world 4 months ago
It’s an upside down shower thought.
They have no trouble making up this story because they make up all their stories.