Rumors on X Are Becoming the Right's New Reality

(theatlantic.com)

22 points | by 2OEH8eoCRo0 16 hours ago ago

4 comments

  • ohnoitsahuman 12 hours ago ago

    Crazy stuff gets community noted really quick. Frankly, I like it as it's taught me to be quite a bit more suspicious about crazy stuff.

    • rsynnott 28 minutes ago ago

      The trouble is, rebuttals are not terribly effective for conspiracy-minded people. They may even be taken as evidence that the conspiracy theory is real.

  • jauntywundrkind 15 hours ago ago

    "living in bespoke realities" is an incredible way to put it.

    not sure which would-be-king is madder. amazing how much keeping people afraid is effective, how terrormongering offers such direct control. i hope we can reject this, now, and in a longer way find a less antagonistic means to coexist.

    ideally we would carry some mark for the things we do and say but it feels like everything washes off. in Vampire/Werewolf/Mage, you begin to carry a mark of Jhor if you dabble too deeply in death, an aural stench which cannot be rubbed off. https://whitewolf.fandom.com/wiki/Jhor

  • 2OEH8eoCRo0 16 hours ago ago