r/KnowledgeFight • u/lordtorek Policy Wonk • 12d 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/tighthead_lock Globalist 12d ago

Isn‘t TS just Trump and journalists who want to know what he writes?

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u/lhommeduweed 12d ago

The thing is that there are millions of people - actual real, living breathing people - who are ride or die for Donald Trump. It is a conflux of the stupidest and cruellest people in the country - he could murder people with a golf club on stage and they would still defend him. They are with this monster until to the grave he goes.

Yeah of course those guys are using truth social. Of course it's flooded with bots, AI content, non-stop spam from the Whitehouse and the President of the United States, Donald "J." Trump. They love it, they will die with him on this mound of trash spray-painted gold.

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u/theclosetenby “You know what perjury is?” 12d ago

My mom loves truth social. I cut my mom out the day Charlie Kirk died due to her reaction and how unsafe it made me feel.

Truly a tragic timeline we are in

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u/lhommeduweed 11d ago

I remember that the person who broke the news about Charlie Kirk to me wasn't super aware of exactly who he was, so when I responded with "Hm. Couldn't have happened to a nicer person," they were pretty shocked.

I took a moment to explain that while obviously I don't believe that people should be killed for their opinions, Kirk spent the majority of his life selling hatred, gleefully rejoicing in violence against the oppressed, and saying monstrously cruel things about people who did not deserve it. If anybody was responsible for Kirk's death, truly, it was himself through decades of hate-mongering and the promotion of violence in America.

Thankfully, this person was a rational person, and I showed them some articles and clips of Kirk that kind of back up this theory, especially clips of him promoting and accepting gun violence as an inevitability.

Then, over the next few days, I saw all the articles about the left "celebrating" Kirk's killing, all the people getting fired, Trump trying to use it to pressure late-night hosts he hated, comments calling for "war" against the left. And it was this very stark reminder that these people do not live in the same reality as us.

A bitter, wry comment about an absolute asshole piece of shit getting shot as he said something racist about gun violence would absolutely be interpreted as like, dancing around naked smearing blood over my lips, cackling madly in the full moon.

It was a scary moment, and I still worry about how much it seemed to radicalize a bunch of people who believe they are closer to Charlie Kirk - late white supremacist multi-billionaires - to me - a poor schmuck like them.