1) What can I add that’s not blindingly obvious? The Trumplicants don’t care if the image is fake or not because they believe that if it wasn’t that specific thing, it would be something just as bad. So maybe that little girl isn’t real, but there are undoubtedly many such little girls suffering from the hurricane all be…
1) What can I add that’s not blindingly obvious? The Trumplicants don’t care if the image is fake or not because they believe that if it wasn’t that specific thing, it would be something just as bad. So maybe that little girl isn’t real, but there are undoubtedly many such little girls suffering from the hurricane all because of the heartless, evil Democrats. Just like when some voter fraud conspiracy theory fell apart because of a lack of evidence, the same folks didn’t care because they just KNEW that there was some real voter fraud conspiracy out there that we just hadn’t heard about yet.
In a sane world someone who was fooled by a fake image would suffer some degree of embarrassment and be forced to admit their naiveté. But the Trumplicants have long since passed that point. Some Trumplicant could announce BEFORE publishing a fake image that it was a fake that they had just created, and the rest of the cult would accept it as a legitimate reflection of reality. Just like Trump could tell all of us BEFORE the election that he was going to claim fraud and how he was going to do it, and it made not one whit of difference to the cultists.
And even when they admit it’s a fake, it doesn’t matter to them because the fake image is serving some higher purpose in their minds. That’s what happens when you believe that the means justifies the ends.
2) But at least thanks to MTG, I’ll know who to blame the next time my golf round is rained out. I’ll blame THEM.
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1) What can I add that’s not blindingly obvious? The Trumplicants don’t care if the image is fake or not because they believe that if it wasn’t that specific thing, it would be something just as bad. So maybe that little girl isn’t real, but there are undoubtedly many such little girls suffering from the hurricane all because of the heartless, evil Democrats. Just like when some voter fraud conspiracy theory fell apart because of a lack of evidence, the same folks didn’t care because they just KNEW that there was some real voter fraud conspiracy out there that we just hadn’t heard about yet.
In a sane world someone who was fooled by a fake image would suffer some degree of embarrassment and be forced to admit their naiveté. But the Trumplicants have long since passed that point. Some Trumplicant could announce BEFORE publishing a fake image that it was a fake that they had just created, and the rest of the cult would accept it as a legitimate reflection of reality. Just like Trump could tell all of us BEFORE the election that he was going to claim fraud and how he was going to do it, and it made not one whit of difference to the cultists.
And even when they admit it’s a fake, it doesn’t matter to them because the fake image is serving some higher purpose in their minds. That’s what happens when you believe that the means justifies the ends.
2) But at least thanks to MTG, I’ll know who to blame the next time my golf round is rained out. I’ll blame THEM.