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like I worked in Republican politics for a few years. Was doing online and social media subversive messaging strategy coordination and a bunch of other shit for the Republican party of muh state from 2009 to ~2012. I've always been involved in politiks from an inside baseball sense of pov. I saw how the Republican party reacted to the Citizen's United ruling, from the inside, as suddenly there were BILLIONS of dollars coming from EVERYWHERE. I was getting paid by companies getting paid by companies getting paid by the Kochs to build stages for "grassroots" Tea Party demonstrations and fundraisers and shit. The Republican Party became FUNDAMENTALLY corrupted after 2010. They were pretty fucked up after having to justify Bush and torture and Iraq and shit, so when suddenly they could make dozens of millions of dollars in the next few decades if they just continue lying for the people paying them, they just abandoned every principle they had left.

So like when >>3761539 says "don't start projecting an entire political party into thinking they're all fooling themselves." They literally fucking are. They're propping up science denialism to justify why they're propping up policies that only benefit oil companies. They're fighting for insurance companies. They're fighting for the prison industries. They're fighting for the war industries. They're shills for arms dealers and opioid manufacturers and bankers. They've absolutely fooled themselves into protecting all these things that give them money that are also destroying the country.

That's reality. If this upsets you, maybe you should reflect critically on the policies you support. If you want to use the reality that people are going to be talking shit about the retarded nonsense you support, to justify why you support the retarded nonsense. That's your retardation. If you want to be divided by how much you want to be a cuck for Exxon and Sentara and daggone Russia, you do you I guess.

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>>3586106
you can always filter a bullet through the back of your mouth into your brain stem?

>>3558324
>no it really isnt funny
maybe not to you. You're a go-nowhere cuck that gets triggered by people that don't have your self-defeating autism. The reality of your existence "really isn't funny" and yet here you are being a faggot anonymously at people don't care about you.
>its just a say ugly little man obsessed with being a masochistic icon spamming low quality shitty paintings in an attempt at saturation marketing.
So? Jealous?
>youre just going to worm your way around and ignore inconvenient truths
You're going to die. Everything you ever do will not matter on a cosmic scale. "art" is make pretend. So is everything else. There are no rules. Just conventions. Why does having a consistent ideology for how I navigate through an absurd existence bother you so much?
>no, just stop
You should just start. Being a faggot at me will probably not make you any better.

Seriously how old are you anon? If you want to carry on a dialogue in every fucking thread about your feelings like I'm supposed to keep up you should start using a trip or something.

>youre really not nearly as unique as you think you are
Who gives a shit? Seriously. Why do you think that matters? Just do stuff. Do you only act if you think you're being "unique?" Why?

Seriously are you fucking 14? Why choose to act like such a pretentious cunt? At least I have rules that make me do this. But is this just how you naturally are? Why?

>>3538157
>You say "all sources" but you decided that some and not others are "obviously lying".
Honestly without even going into history or psychology or anything else, if you look at a personality type like Trump's and there aren't "danger badman" alarm bells going off in your head, you're a dang rube.

And I'm not saying that it's one side versus the other side. In fact I argue that the entire "dichotomy" concept is make believe. Trump is not "the right." He's a silly ass lunatic narcissist that's propped up by a messaging machine that has conditioned people to think that any open dissent means you're one of THEM.
>You say Russians have vested interest in spreading their lies. I tentatively agree, but I'm not sure where you derive your trust in other sources from.
That's kind of just a media literacy thing. Journalistic ethics and professional integrity are real things that govern the conduct of reporters that to you are on "the other side."

But more practically, it's often about isolating the original source and seeing what the original reporting was. Plus the AP and Reuters are essentially just information gathering resources that drop the og beats that all the different outlets then spin to their own porpoises.
>Just because one alternative is evil it doesn't necessarily follow that the other is good.
And again, the existence of other potentially "evil" sources doesn't justify trusting unambiguously "evil" ones. This is still all what we're talking about when we talk about "whataboutism." It's like you're a battered wife that never presses charges because they think it could be worse.
>I doubt that, that's a very optimistic outlook on history and human nature.
You're trained to be cynical to justify why you support a party of corporate nihilists.
>But you seem to incorrectly believe that I'm a Trump supporter?
no idea who you are hombre