spaceghoti @ spaceghoti @lemmy.one

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You haven't had 30 years to learn that GOP meme. You're not as stupid as you're saying.

How could you have had a chance to hear it every day over the last thirty years when the meme has only been around half that, if that much?

You mean we shouldn't call attention to silly people doing silly things so we can laugh at them?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZpfxRxhQA8

There may be an argument that laughter can sometimes be the best medicine.

Welcome to the party you helped create, Newt.

Sadly, I'm forced to agree with you. In spite of their claim to be "Originalists" they have a curious habit of ignoring both law and precedent whenever it suits them. I don't trust them to accurately name the color of the clear sky at noon.

The same. If the Supreme Court acknowledges the validity of this law then criminals like Jim Jordan could be removed from Congress.

When you look at their goals for what they're trying to do, they do want the government to protect their interests, and nothing else. They want an army and a police force, and everything else the government does they want dismantled. To accomplish the latter they must convince the public that the government is bad and can't help them. That's why the government always does little enough and less that's helpful whenever Republicans take power.

Of course. The point is not to disregard malice at all times. It's to make sure you're not dealing with simple incompetence before you land on malice as the root cause.

Surprisingly, no. Pence established himself in the House in years past. He had a good relationship with Capitol Hill until Trump disavowed him. Now he's nobody because the base despise him for his perceived betrayal.

Hanlon's Razor: never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by incompetence.

My heart bleeds for him. Just another slime ball who whines whenever his privilege is challenged.

Mission accomplished. Grover Norquist declared this goal many years ago. You can't shrink the government if people have faith in it. That's what every Republican since Reagan has been working toward, and we're seeing the fruits of their labor.

In that moment? Yes. He can be God for a day.

The problem, as we saw in the nineties with the rise of Fox News, is that if no one pushes back on the disinformation and bad narrative, it gets repeated as unassailable truth.

We have to push back if we want to avoid the same outcome.

It's a shame that I can't read the whole argument without logging in, but I'm not registering for this.

It is notable on how you didn't try, even after I clarified what I was looking for. Good work, Komrade.

So as predicted, nothing concrete. Thank you for this pointless exercise.

It's pointing out that we aren't immune to Russian propaganda, that it's clear that the Russians have found success in meddling in our elections and your own comment was a clear demonstration of that fact. No, it doesn't touch on our own interference but that's a moot point here. Unless you have evidence that we are currently meddling in foreign elections, and even then you would need to demonstrate that our goal is to undermine democracy around the world as the Kremlin is doing.

But somehow I suspect you'll continue to sling mud without providing anything concrete to back up your assertions.

The report doesn't put the US on a high horse:

Washington "recognizes its own vulnerability to this threat," said the report, noting that U.S. intelligence agencies found that "Russian actors spread and amplified information to undermine public confidence in the U.S. 2020 election."