I feel like it has the same target audience as the bit about water pressure in shower heads

And what we've done is create communities of belief where saying "Slow down, is this true?" is perceived as an act of betrayal. The vast majority of people in those communities will instead indulge you: tell you that the things you always suspected, and feel correct, are in fact correct.

not op but I imagine they're referring to Josh Marshall

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Perfect summation of how he uses tariffs as well. You called it months before liberation day

He's not trying to "reshore American manufacturing." He's trying to extort companies and trading partners.

“but we should cut pay for these overpaid politician fat cats” is the easiest and cheapest attack line in the world and it’s enormously counterproductive because it ensures that these positions get filled by actual fat cats who don’t need the money

Anyway I'm so glad that, out of an abundance of respect for norms and afraid to appear partisan, Merrick Garland paused investigations into Trump before the 2022 midterms. Would hate to see what would happen if we lost our norms and saw government used as a partisan weapon instead!

This represents a fundamental misunderstanding of what propaganda and psy ops are. Put simply: When they're done well, you don't believe you're being affected.

braun and watson both gunning for new contracts, if i'm not mistaken

There is also ample survey data that people of any age identify the time period when things were best, e.g. the Good Ol Days, as whenever they were 10-15 years old.

They weren't the Good Ol Days, they're whenever you were a kid. That's what you miss: being a kid.