• ProdigalFrog
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    5 days ago

    Reposting a comment I made on a similar post about the 180 mental gymnastics MAGA are displaying.

    What you’re witnessing here is described in When Prophecy Fails, a study on cults and how they justify continued belief after experiencing events that should disprove their belief.

    Cult members will simply invent new reasons to continue their belief and remove the cognitive dissonance they may feel, which oddly results in a further entrenched belief, instead of a weakened one.

    • @[email protected]
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      24 days ago

      QAnon was a public exhibition of how this happens with MAGAts. I doubt it does but none of this should surprise anyone

      • Doom
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        44 days ago

        From the beginning too. remember the deep state bullshit?

        They really believe AOC, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib and the like are the deep state not the born rich New York scum bag who literally befriends everyone powerful

  • @[email protected]
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    1346 days ago

    Classic propaganda tactic. Speculating about alternative answers after you already know the answer or when everyone knows where the answer is.

    He speculates why did all these rich and powerful people not abandon him? Because he was secretly a good guy? No, you liar, it’s because they were his clients so he could blackmail them if he wanted to.

    He speculates why did he get favorable terms from previous trials? Because he was secretly a good guy? No, you propagandist liar, it’s because he was ultra wealthy and well connected.

    If he was secretly a good guy, he wouldn’t have offed himself in prison, so there’d be a giant investigation over that.

    • @[email protected]
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      25 days ago

      Man you got my gears turning. I never considered blsckmail. I wonder if he was running a honeypot operation for israel. I bet everyone in the list just happens to be super pro israel

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        6 days ago

        I’m not saying whether he did or not. I’m saying that if he was a good guy, he definitely wouldn’t, and all of his “chivalrous” friends would be dying to get to the bottom of it.

  • @[email protected]
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    6 days ago

    Wow, what a nut job. He starts by trying to say maybe Epstein worked for the CIA and was trying to get blackmail on foreign officials for our government. Sir, even if that were true, you should want every member of the CIA using children as rape bait for blackmail in prison. (And the people showing up to use said services… you know… the guy your trying to defend)

    • @[email protected]
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      156 days ago

      I mean, he’s not pulling that out of his ass entirely. The prosecutor who gave Epstien a slap on the wrist in 2007 claimed he only let him off easy because he was told Epstien, “belonged to intelligence.” That may be entirely bullshit, or it may he that the intelligence got wind of his sex-trafficking and offered to keep him out of prison if he set up a few honeypots. I would guess that it’s at least partially true, since the authorities seem to he withholding a lot of information from the public, but in any case, there’s no way he was a CIA agent or, “Patriot.”

    • @[email protected]
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      546 days ago

      This is just one of the Republican insiders being honest for once in their life, claiming Epstein for one of their own like he always was.

    • seanblxck
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      156 days ago

      My exact reaction. It’s no longer mental hurdles, it’s mental high jump

  • @[email protected]
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    486 days ago

    Why are Democrats not going on the news and taking every opportunity to call the Republicans pedo protectors?

  • @[email protected]
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    396 days ago

    Hey wanna know something about Epstein? Alongside being a massive pedophile, he was also a Eugenicist who wanted to make a Musk style baby-mama ranch. He worked with the guy who founded Colossal (the “Direwolf” people, remember that?) with the idea to basically do Eugenics.

    Alongside providing children for Trump to rape, that’s why the right want to rehabilitate him, because they wanna do Eugenics.

    • @[email protected]
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      226 days ago

      I am surprised how few people know about the Epstein breeding ranch. From what I’ve seen it was his big project before being arrested, he had a massive facility on thousands of acres of land with its own airstrip all ready to go in New Mexico. If he hadn’t been arrested and died in jail he would probably be raising his first brood by now. Given how much he tried to spread his eugenicist ideas around in the crowd he hung out with I wouldn’t be surprised if there are more deranged assholes out there like him and Musk trying to pull off their own human breeding projects.

      • @[email protected]
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        146 days ago

        oh there is, and I think they’re gonna come out the woodwork with this “I’m superior, I must spread my seed” shit.

        • @[email protected]
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          136 days ago

          Feeling the need to spread seed based on a self described superior gene set.

          I swear I’ve heard that before…

          elon musk does a heil hitler salute

          Oh right.

    • @[email protected]
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      66 days ago

      The last thing the world needs is more people walking around with Trumps or the likes DNA. It’s like it was scraped off the floor of a trailer park orgy.

      • @[email protected]
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        126 days ago

        It’s never the actually smart people who believe their DNA should be spread, it’s always the psycho cocks with a God complex and a belief that they are superior because of their skin colour or nationality.

  • @[email protected]
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    436 days ago

    Cult. Endless denial. Forever rejecting reality. What more would it take to have these people given straight jackets?

  • @[email protected]
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    104 days ago

    The word patriot has lost all meaning. It is a word used to excuse the scum of this country from the most heinous of acts. This moron somehow spun Epstein into a patriot as if he was doing some grand operation to get “dirt on US adversaries” . “Who else gets this prison deal?” Every fucking criminal billionaire including Trump! They all deserve the chair along with anyone that believes their bullshit.

  • @[email protected]
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    566 days ago

    Trump really painted himself into a corner by promising the QAnons all of the dirt on Epstien, and I’m very curious to see if a narrative like this can dig him out. They’ll usually twist reality into knots to keep their narrative alive, but, “Epstien was a white hat,” might he a bridge too far, even for them.

    • @[email protected]
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      405 days ago

      Doesn’t matter.

      Remember that “I could shoot someone in the middle of 5th Ave” line? Turns out he meant “I could rape a child,” and these people would STILL love him.

      This is their loyalty test now. This is how low this sleeze will take them this week.

      • @[email protected]
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        75 days ago

        I think that’s true for some MAGAs, but the QAnons have invested deeply in the child-trafficking conspiracy. I think if he created a narrative of, “Yes, I’m on the client list, but it was a double agent for the deep state,” they would swallow it (most of them already believe some version of that), but telling them that their is no conspiracy and they need to move on will not go over well. (Of course, claiming to be an Epstien double-agent is gonna make him look crazy to anyone not Q-pilled, so he can’t do that).

        • @[email protected]
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          I think that’s already where Newsmax is going (per 1 random post I saw 2 days ago and can’t find anymore) calling Epstein possibly an amazing patriot as a CIA/Mossad agent getting intel about… I dunno, the Clintons?

          The retcon fantasy is framed up for the Q nuts. I expect they’ll find a way to stumble into it on their own.

          Edit: found it

          https://lemmy.today/post/33293629