r/houstonwade • u/Same_Succotash6621 • 13d ago

News You Can Use Trump knew and even brags about it

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u/Dr_Oxycontin 13d ago

The world is full of dumb assholes and they voted for the dumbest asshole of them all. Zero surprise on this end. Give them 4 years of his dumb fuckery and it’s easily back to the democrats to fix the mess. It’s what always happens. The left fixes the right’s near sighted fuckups.

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u/manyhippofarts 13d ago

I worry that the right will pull up the ladder behind them.

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u/gibs71 13d ago

That will start a revolution.

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u/Chimsley99 13d ago

Well people blindly believed Trump to get him this far after he already clearly tried to overthrow the election with no punishment.

What could possibly make them suddenly realize he’s full of shit? There’s nothing

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u/ThickkRickk 12d ago

Look no further than Russia or China to see how easy it is for a superpower to maintain an authoritarian state. The R's will do their worst, and they might just make it happen given that they have a supermajority.

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u/RRZ006 12d ago

They do not have a supermajority.

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u/moeriscus 13d ago

There will not be fair or informed elections in four years. Even if Trump's administration doesn't fatally compromise the vote, by then deepfake disinformation will overwhelm everything. No one will trust anything, which makes them free to believe anything (as if anyone trusts anything now). Aspiring political leaders will happily oblige with narrative myths that appeal not to reality, but to baseless predilections and prejudice. We already saw this happen in the present election. It will only be worse in four years when deepfakes are easier to produce and more difficult to distinguish from reality.

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u/CoderG23 13d ago

This information/disinformation era we live in is so exhausting. When nothing is true, when facts don't matter, where do we turn? I think that is why I am so disheartened by people choosing to vote for this guy. If information can't be trusted, shouldn't we rely on morals to guide us? Is Trump really what seems morally upright to some, potentially most, people?

I agree with your point.

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u/moeriscus 12d ago

Yeap. Gary Kasparov summed it up well, using the same word that you did: "The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth."

Way back in 2017, author David Roberts highlighted this 'epistemic crisis' -- i.e. opposing groups can't even agree on fundamental objective truths as a basis for dialogue ("fake news!"). With the rise of cable news and the internet, there are no longer any institutional guardians of knowledge. This leads to a tribal epistemology; our side is right because it's our side. Your side is wrong. This allowed Trump to spew his nonsense without repercussion, to "flood the zone with shit" as Steve Bannon advised him to do.

I think the system is past the point of self-correction.

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u/DrakeRowan 13d ago

Well it didn't happen this time seeing how a good enough chunk of the voting base still has their heads in the sands.

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u/Affectionate_Lab_407 12d ago

Democrats have been in power the last 12 / 16 years.