How did people become so detached from reality?

[EnergizedLib]

This is a multi-parter.

https://www.jezebel.com/donald-trump-coin-crypto-losses-scam-rugpull-blame-democrats-trump-family-profit-alt5-sigma-ai-financial

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A man featured in a recent Reuters investigation of the Trump family’s cryptocurrency profiteering, who essentially watched his life savings be wiped out by the price collapse of crypto and stock investments hyped by Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump. All told, he found himself down by $32,700 on shares of ALT5 Sigma, a little-known crypto company chosen for “partnership” with Trump’s World Liberty Financial, which subsequently lost more than 90% of its value in the last 10 months. But no matter, the guy knows exactly who is to blame for his financial misfortune: It’s clearly the fault of Democrats that his money now lines Trump’s coffers. He told Reuters that wicked Democrat and “anti-Trump investors” possessed the power to drive the company out of business by taking short positions against Trump-boosted crypto projects.

“When a stock has presidential backing in a way – at least from his sons – you would think it would go up,” said the man, a 45-year-old machinist in Indiana identified only as “Matt.” “Here’s the dark side. I know all of these globalists have TDS and they are just going to short it.”

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https://www.rawstory.com/trump-weather-2677157001/


Then there’s this freak right here:

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-weather-2677157001/

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"I’m telling y’all that someone with an extreme case of TDS geoengineered this weather in DC. Same way they geoengineered Trump’s inauguration to be one of the coldest in U.S. history. People with TDS hate Trump more than they love America," she wrote on X.

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Now, I am guilty of having had many grandiose thoughts and ideas in my life, very few of which have ever come true, but since when does someone control a heat wave in the middle of summer? A heat wave in July? That’s never happened before, and according to the article, she pointed to the cold on 1/20/25 as part of the same plot.

Yes, because it’s never cold during January, it’s never hot in July.

And as far as the crypto thing - I’ve made some not-so-good choices in my life, some I’d like a mulligan on, but I’ve *never* been conned by this doofus. How many get conned over and over and over again and then blame someone else.

I don’t get it. We’re supposed to celebrate 250 years tomorrow when we’ve devolved to an unrecognizable point as a nation these last 11 years?

[alfredo]

1. They call his stock move

“Pump and dump”

It’s illegal,unless Tumo does it.

[The Wizard]

2. 24 hour news cycle

has pitted Americans against each other. Undermining unity is from Putin's playbook.

[unblock]

3. You find this all the time with scams. People have a very hard time believing they're the sucker

Especially after a big loss, it's far more comforting to believe you made a good decision and are a merely victim of some outrageous injustice.

That's especially true for magats, who are addicted to martyrdom.

[EnergizedLib]

8. But then they preach personal responsibility

[alfredo]

16. For thee, not me.

[Skittles]

13. outstanding assessment, unblock

it's very human to not want to admit being taken for a fool

[Wiz Imp]

4. Mass brainwashing by right wing media

started 40 years with talk radio led by Rush Limbaugh. To this day, 50 million people listen to that garbage weekly. Then came Fox News. And now the right wing internet sites. Maybe 1/3 of the population only ever sees or hears "reality" as seen through the right wing lens. At this point, probably about 1/3 of the population does not believe in objective reality. They believe what their right wing leaders tell them to believe.

[rampartd]

18. do you think they might use subliminal messaging

maybe some kind of mass hypnosis?

or is it all repetition of lies and redefinition of terms?

[RockRaven]

5. People engage with facts/evidence and arguments with their emotions before their reason gets its pants on.

And social media and cable news prevent their being any time to breathe before the next round, so reason never catches up.

[NewHendoLib]

6. it's a cult. Period.

[3catwoman3]

7. When I was old enough to be able to read the headlines in the National Enquirer...

...when in line at the grocery store with my mom, starting about age 8, and saw things like "Woman Gives Birth To 3-Headed Alien Baby," and the like, even then I wondered (although not in these words), "Who is stupid enough to believe this bullshit?"

I'm now 75. The gullibility of human beings continues to horrify me.

[KPN]

11. Me too ... and I had a friend who's Mom always bought the latest

National Enquirer. I always assumed it was sort of a vomic book for adults. Now I know differently,

[KPN]

9. What we're celebrating tomorrow ought to be a funeral.

[flvegan]

10. Lack of critical thinking combined with bullshit social media. It happens here

believe it or not.

How often is DU plagued by some bullshit nonsense clickbait YouTube video, the only merits of which are giant yellow arrows. Even then, the poster ADMITS that they have no earthly clue what they just posted, what value it has, what merit it has, what reality it has.

And every poster here who just read that and can admit that applies to them, also just said to themselves, "I don't care."

Fucking clout chasing, useless fucking mouthbreathers who only see value in likes, clicks, subscribes, bell rings, recs or whatever. THIS is YOUR fucking fault.

[EnergizedLib]

12. It's funny

I saw a MAGAt say social media exposed Democratic propaganda, hence November 2024.

Social media, if anything spread lies, manipulation, brain rot and radicalized people.

[CBHagman]

14. About the phrase "People with TDS hate Trump more than they love America"

One of my relatives used a variation of that statement. Of course I never asked him just how supporting Trump would equal loving America.

[Xipe Totec]

15. Herein lies the gordian knot. Trump is not the solution; Darwin is. nt

[BigmanPigman]

17. When did Fox Ruse start?