Soatok Dreamseeker3d ago

The "2024 election was stolen" conspiracy theories are just a rehash of the "2020 election was stolen" conspiracy theories and this is both sad and frustrating.

People choose to believe these narratives because they validate feelings and beliefs about how unfair the outcome of the election is; because they are profoundly ignorant of how the elections are conducted, secured, and validated; because it's easier than looking at America for what it really is.

If you see these kind of posts and can't help but notice the presentation style has a certain "FOX News" aesthetic, yeah, that's kind of deliberate.

Show threadSoatok Dreamseeker3d ago

The biggest problem with the kinds of Democrats that fall for this nonsense is this unfounded belief that we're somehow The Good Guys.

Exhibit A:

https://www.inc.com/don-reisinger/jeff-bezos-says-big-tech-companies-should-ignore-employee-outcry-partner-with-us-government.html

This might be a subtle point but they're not arguing "We're the guys who only perform good actions, or actions in service of goodness", they're saying "goodness is inherent to your [national] identity", which lets them turn a blind eye to bad actions that conflict with their self-image.

MAGA shatters their illusion.

There are no "good guys". There are only good and bad choices, if you're lucky.

The belief of Goodness as an identity is best avoided.

Jeff Bezos Says Big Tech Companies Should Ignore Employee Outcry and Partner With the U.S. Government

The U.S., he says, is 'the good guys.'

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Show threadVVelox

@soatok It's not that surprising they love to view themselves as the "Goodguys". If forced to have to view it as a collection of choices instead of a default "Good" they are then forced to have to acknowledge all the racist, classist, etc shit they have backed and continue to back. It forces them to confront stuff they've backed instead of just blaming the "Badguys" of everything.

As such I would not say MAGA shatters their belief of being the "Goodguy", but re-enforces it. They say the "Badguys" are extra bad now. Sure, they are right that the Republicans are worse than they were, but it does nothing to change what they've done or are doing. Just makes it easier to asside by saying the "Badguys" are now extra bad. Especially since the stepping stones to everything that is going wrong now they had a hand in laying and this belief makes it easy to brush that asside as well.

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Show threadSoatok Dreamseeker3d ago
@vvelox It doesn't shatter it for everyone, but the ones for whom MAGA does shatter, they resort to conspiracies.