Trump loves dictaters.

Don’t be like that. Dogs are awesome.

That’s a lot of words for 'We manipulated them."

I think you hit the nail on the head. It’s being made about hypothetical implications, instead of being taken at face value…

Here’s another one: Are you more of a silly person or a serious person?

There are implications to both, and few would self identify as strictly one or the other, but I can easily see which side I tend to align with without labeling myself a “Serious/Silly Person”

It’s really blowing my mind that this concept isn’t more intuitive. (I’ve had this conversation with a family member who has a view very similar to yours)

I feel like I understand what they said, but maybe I’m not wording my question right.

Imagine that I’m asking whether you like blue more or green more. I’m not asking you what your favorite color is, or what color you’d paint your car, but generally which one of those two colors you tend to see yourself liking more.

I’m not asking anyone to strictly identify with one or the other. It’s a question of where on the spectrum between them you fall.

I am more of a big picture person and my partner is more of a details first person.

In the essay, Dreher argued that many on the right were displaying what he believed to be ugly qualities that define the modern left: language policing (see: Trump’s renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America”); rewriting history (see: a MAGA podcaster’s description of Winston Churchill as the “chief villain” of World War II); and, above all, identity-based politics. Dreher wrote that he saw white Christian men feeling disempowered and advocating for their own racial, gender, and religious interests; he was most disturbed by how often this form of “identity politics” seemed to manifest as aggressive antisemitism.

Woke is a slur to them. Literally the idea of being more aware is so offensive to them they made it hate speech.

I feel validated…

Musk thinks he can control him… lol

That I can agree with

So they are just shit people doing shit things? Doesn’t sound like a conspiracy to me.

So they are living their lives as their part? Who are the ones dictating the story?

You really think anyone can plan, organize, and execute something of that scale?

And I bet hen goes to church every Sunday to “follow Jesus.”

Sounds like an 80’s action movie hero

Not a movie, but you could take a look through some Summer’s Eve marketing videos.

Not OP, but thanks. Was always curious myself!

That’s fair

Just thinking fantastical ideas for fun

I’ve never thought about it before…

It would be fun head-canon to imagine that they created very little of it, and the rest was found throughout all the ruins in the galaxy. As if all intelligent life was suddenly wiped out just a few thousand years before humans arrived.