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During dt's first term I believed this as well and eagerly awaited the Mueller investigation. Then when he won reelection I concluded I was consuming media in

• potato3732842 11mo ago
  Speaking of Mission Accomplished and 9/11, I recently watched Tucker Carlson's 9/11 series. I was expecting garbage but it actually did an amazingly good job building off of Fahrenheit 9/11 using the stuff that's come out in the 20yr since. If you take a step back the contrast does a really does a good job illustrating how just by sprinkling bullshit into the data the state, the media, etc, can do a sufficiently good job keeping people from connecting the dots or knowing what questions they ought to be asking. Moore knew something stunk, but he was groping around in the dark in a totally different political climate less receptive to questioning authority.
  • tremon 11mo ago
    What's the intention behind your second paragraph? It seems to suggest that the current political climate is more receptive to questioning authority?
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• itsalwaysgood 11mo ago
  Biased newsfeeds are one thing, cronyism and flooding courts/weaponizing the judicial system are a different thing. It could be the case that the level of cronyism and weaponizing we see today is the same amount as in the past. It's up to the reader to determine how much of their opinion is due to bias, and how much is due to a real increase in nefarious political strategy. Some are more diligent about checking their sources that others.
  • lo_zamoyski 11mo ago
    > weaponizing the judicial system To be fair to Trump, he was the target of lawfare after his election loss in 2020, for instance. He claimed later that he would have vengeance. Not a magnanimous move, but Trump is not magnanimous. He has stated before that he enjoys destroying his enemies, with relish and verve. In any case, when we fixate on one political figure or party, we lose sight of the general picture. In sociological terms, Trump is not very important. He is more of an expression of the times than their cause. He may catalyze certain changes, but he's hardly alone in doing that. In the broad sense, the general historical trajectory is not really deflected by him. A wiser perspective is to look at broad trends. One should read Plato's Republic. The decadence of society described in that book - degenerating into timocracy (rule by honor), then oligarchy (rule by wealth), then democracy (rule by freedom), ending finally in anarchy - are a good context for understanding how these processes tend to play out.
    • dragonwriter 11mo ago
      > To be fair to Trump, he was the target of lawfare after his election loss in 2020, for instance. To be fair to reality, no, he wasn’t. He committed a number of very serious crimes flagrantly out in the open and the Justice Department was inordinately slow in responding to them out of a number of factors, including institutional partisan bias (even under Democratic Administration the bulk of the federal criminal investigatory apparatus has always been Republican, including political appointees at the FBI, and every single FBI director in the bureau's history), concern over appearing political trumping concern over enforcing the law, and, well, a number of other things.
      • AnimalMuppet 11mo ago
        One I wonder about but cannot prove: I wonder if the Justice Department wanted the prosecutions to wait until 2024, so that they would tar Trump during the campaign. If so, they were well-served for that bit of trying to put a thumb on the electoral scales. Trump was able to delay the cases until after the election. If they had begun a year earlier, we might be living in a very different world.
• jayd16 11mo ago
  Why would losing an election mean you were wrong?
• cosmicgadget 11mo ago
  Mueller report unfortunately got way too little coverage.