• ToastedPlanet@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    9 hours ago

    I’m going to fast forward through the fact that the entirety of the above comment was full of nothing but baseless conspiracy theories pretending that they aren’t conspiracy theories and that some other conspiracy theories are the actual conspiracy theories. Own it.

    I’m fast forwarding because the comment has completely missed my argument’s actual point.

    So I live in a world where the rich and the powerful can commit whatever crimes they want and be elected world leaders.

    My argument’s position is not that governments couldn’t do this in theory. My argument’s position is that they have no reason to do this in practice. They don’t need to make our deaths look like suicides to kill us. They can kill us.

    They can kill us and lose no support whatsoever in a fair and free election. And it’s way easier than covering it up, because they can use the investigations as a talking point in their rallies without the downside of consequences because there are no consequences. The people still think it’s true because they are trapped in information silos. And they all accuse everyone else of having TDS, Trump derangement syndrome. edit: typos

    • HasturInYellow@lemmy.world
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      5 hours ago

      It has not been that way for that long though. They used to lose support if they openly killed people in the streets.