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What percentage of the population do you think will believe these are real documents
with the way they’re stripping education, far too many
Okay, devil's advocate for a moment in assuming that this invoice is valid, how the fuck does giving EVs access to HOV lanes cost a damn thing?
had the same thought. wasn’t trump just using the white house to sell EVs just a few months ago too? none of what they do is cohesive
The American people are so fucking sick of congress doing fuck all, what the fuck are these assholes even getting paid for, they're either deadlocked on on vacation, there is absolutely no working together anymore so it's just 100% partisan bullshit all the time. Please scare us again with the 10000th government shutdown, who fucking cares, do your jobs.
Will Senate Democrats choose to keep government open and working for the American people, or will they prove they’d rather fund HOV lanes for electric vehicles than support continued paychecks for our troops?
Absolutely. Electric cars in HOV lanes don't kill innocent people in far off countries. Unless the car is a Tesla.
Jesus Christ this is petty. I couldn't finish reading this blubber that was penned down by a 15yo with schizophrenia
The really truly was thing is that I know hat many Americans will read this and actually be db enough to believe they're reading facts.
Yeah. I do not trust any .gov sites since they took over. Not just propaganda but I wouldn’t trust it be accurate if they were trying.
You know, this is an interesting point. I was a little frustrated to learn that .gov websites block VPNs (of they can detect them). But perhaps, practically, this is now more of an ad block feature rather than a bug.
They block VPNs. That doesn’t make sense. Why are they doing that?
I didn't look into the "why" but I know there are blog or forum posts explaining it, I just didn't bother reading them
Federal .gov.
I run a .gov site for a municipality, and I promise my postings are nice, boring shit like meeting agendas, permit forms, and burn ban notices.
Boring government is good government.
Probably varies wildly by location. I can imagine local government employees in deep red areas being emboldened by the blatant AI-slop propaganda on the federal sites
Boring government is good government.
Boring government is middling government. Both good and bad government is exciting, though in completely different ways.
The social contract is unraveling and the ruling class will only have itself to blame when the guillotines come out.
If they cared about the future of their kids, they would relinquish their wealth.
0% chance my kids are going to suffer so the Musks and Bezos' can live like gods.
Guillotines huh?
Shut the fuck up, MAGA. This is 100% your fault and stupidity.
No one believes you Hitler.
Unfortunately a fuck ton of idiots do.
And executive branch pages (HUD website) and overriding email signatures for gov employees, etc. Whole thing is propaganda. GOP probably has internal master class sessions on it.
Fuck this administration.
Even the AI is awful for fucks sake
they’re posting straight up propaganda on the Congressional web page.
You're not going to believe this but...
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Just not true. Not like what is happening right now. It is apples and oranges, and pretending it is the same just makes it worse.
Not like what is happening right now.
Tell it to Colin Powell and his Aluminum Tubes or the Curveball hoax. Tell it to Ron DeSantis as he waterboards Gitmo inmates for the 100th time, on the pretext of national security.
Tell it to the Reagan Admin and its lies about Nicaragua that justified sponsorship of the Contras and their massive rape and murder campaigns aimed at convents full of nuns.
Tell it to the House Unamerican Activities Committee or the Hoover FBI hit squads in their campaign to crush civil rights activism.
Tell it to the police that dragged Eugene V. Debbs into jail for his anti-war advocacy or the West Virginia National Guard as they butchered coal strikers at The Battle of Blair Mountain.
This is as American as apple pie.
You're experiencing recency bias. What Trump is doing isn't new. Your perception of it is new.
It's important to note a distinction here, maybe not a difference in kind but certainly a difference in degree, in attitude, in perspective.
You could argue all writing is propaganda. We take a slice of the world and distill it into words but we will always write from our own perspective. It is impossible to write from someone else's point view. All writing is a slice of the world, mangled and tainted with ourselves. Good writing cannot escape this, maybe it hews closer to the world, maybe it injects less of our opinions but it is always biased. The best writing often shows us the world from a viewpoint that enriches our own understanding.
There has never been writing on that website that strays so far from reality, that is so heavily injected with a very specific viewpoint. And it is a viewpoint that benefits very few of us. It does not enrich our understanding of the world, it frays and decays it. This is an important moment because we have never seen writing like this on these websites. There are laws written to prevent moments like this, but they have failed. It is a clear, obvious and direct signal that our institutions have given up on meaning, on the rule of law, and on the american dream. Sure, maybe we've always been a fascist country, but we have never, ever, been this fascist before. This is new territory for us and it is worth consideration.
You could argue all writing is propaganda.
All writing with political valence, sure.
This is new territory for us and it is worth consideration.
It's relatively old territory. The trick is that during the War on Terror, the War on Drugs, and the Cold War, you had fewer people skeptical enough to question the Congressional narrative.
A big part of that is the domestic nature of the allegations. Much easier to just make up some bullshit about Iraq or Vietnam or Korea than Chicago or Portland or LA.
It's not a lie if we don't call them on it