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[–] Benchamoneh@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago (3 children)
[–] frunch@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago (2 children)

proceeds to spin carnival wheel of 4chan conspiracies

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[–] Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I mean most of these huge pop artists are pure astroterf from the record labels. But what does this have to do with Trump?

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[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 13 points 11 months ago (3 children)

So, the same people who religiously listen to Ted Nugent are amazed that a different singer could influence people?

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[–] BetaBlake@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago

When you're stupid everything is confusing and anything can be a conspiracy.

[–] Pratai@lemmy.ca 10 points 11 months ago

If your political party can be easily brought down by a pop singer, your political party’s problem isn’t pop singers.

[–] TBi@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

They believe it’s a PsyOp because it’s what they would do if they could. It’s all projection.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

Idk it seems pretty reliant on carbon chemistry. There’s people involved and everything.

[–] CaptainHowdy@lemm.ee 7 points 11 months ago

Makes me love her even more

[–] S_204@lemm.ee 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I've said for years she was designed in a lab and programmed for public consumption.

I'm gonna be proven right y'know. Just waiting for Trav to get back to me and confirm.

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[–] half_built_pyramids@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

Laura loomer, more like Laura groomer

[–] Nightwingdragon@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

You know, even the most batfuck stupid conspiracy theories usually have at least some grain of truth to them, even in a "six degrees of separation" kind of way. At least you could trace the line of thinking back to its roots. But this?

This barely even qualifies as a conspiracy. This is what a Walmart version of ChatGPT would come up with if you told it to come up with a conspiracy theory based on a random word salad that just happens to contain both the words "swift" and "trump". There is no logic here. It doesn't even make sense. It's like trying to treat "Person woman man camera TV" as if it were a real sentence with meaning. It's like saying "Penguins paint rocks because giraffes see in purple." It's a stream of consciousness from someone who hasn't taken his meds today.

This is just Trump and his team's usual tactic of distorting the meaning of words in order to lessen their impact when they're used against him. Ever notice how everything is an insurrection now? Everything is election interference. Every President gets impeached. That way, when those words are used to describe him, at least a percentage of people won't look at it a major scandal surrounding a man engaged in criminal activity. They'll look at it as just another wild conspiracy theory, just like all the others, and to be mentally dismissed just as quickly. And that's the whole point. In his mind, his behavior doesn't look so bad if "everyone is doing it."

[–] brazos01@lemmynsfw.com 6 points 11 months ago

Maybe this is the best simulation/timeline. Idk anymore.

[–] dynamojoe@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

So being named Time's Person of the Year is a PsyOp, just like Trump's in 2016?

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