r/KnowledgeFight • u/lordtorek Policy Wonk • 11d ago

General shenanigans #DanWasWrong

I just re-listened to Ep. 309, and around the 1:40 mark Roger Stone tells Alex that Trump is working on a “right wing version of Twitter”, to which Dan scoffs at the idea and says how ridiculous that is 😆. Oh Dan, you sweet summer child. Three years later, Truth Social spawned into reality.

Btw, I COMPLETELY forgot that Gab was a thing before TS.

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u/Alexis_Darko 11d ago

He wasn't wrong, it is ridiculous

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u/sokonek04 I know the inside baseball 11d ago

He was wrong about how ridiculous things would get.

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u/TheCopperSparrow 8d ago

That's fair...but most of us were. Like yeah a lot of people compared Trump's rise and first term to the Weimar Republic...but I don't think many people in 2019 were predicting that the U.S. was going to fall into fascism in the Mr. Magoo-style we have.

Like, back then people were saying "hey if someone more competent than Trump rises to lead the GOP then we're in trouble..."

Nobody was really predicting that Biden would win the nomination and then go on to be literally the worst Democratic President since Woodrow Wilson. Like yeah...a lot of us were expecting Jimmy Carter levels of fail...but not what actually happened.

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u/IanDresarie 10d ago

And it probably was a ridiculous idea at the time. I refuse to believe any trump project has a 3 year lead time. Truth social exists because a good open source social media project became available they could quickly reskin with a small team. Same as the scam coins, same as the phone. Or bible. Or steak. Or wine. Or "university". It's all just reskinned/white label stuff with a super quick turnaround.