It feels like topics I used to only see on r/conspiracy—like Epstein and the deep state—are now all over mainstream subreddits.
The US is doing what it always has done, only now the pretexts are weaker than ever. Did things really have to get this obvious before people finally realized that western governments only care about what’s best for the oligarchy?
We left the US when I was 8 years old and god I’m so glad about it. The US has always been like this but at least used to invent bullshit reasons like democracy, freedom and WMDs but nowadays this is more like a sidenote. I think a lot of this just sounded too crazy to acknowledge that it’s actually real.
Yeah, they claimed Trump was ‘anointed by Jesus to cause Armageddon’ to justify Iran strikes. It’s an intellectually bankrupt appeal that deliberately targets the lowest common denominator.