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Sociopaths are gonna sociopath. The merchants of bullshit are the same cast of characters, on the same side of the political spectrum: team B of the pentagon/s

by freen 5y ago

Sociopaths are gonna sociopath. The merchants of bullshit are the same cast of characters, on the same side of the political spectrum: team B of the pentagon/soviet fame, Vietnam, civil rights, tobacco, trickle down economics, Iraq war, climate change, fishery collapse, gay rights, war on drugs, nationalized health care, covid skepticism, covid vaccine paranoia, hydroxychloroquine, injected disinfectant, and now invermectin. At this point is pretty clear: in that epistemological partisan context there are only carnies and rubes.

OrvalWintermute 5y ago
> The merchants of bullshit are the same cast of characters, on the same side of the political spectrum: ...Vietnam Fact Check 101. US Presidents involved in Vietnam Kennedy (D) Johnson (D) Nixon (R) While they may have been sociopaths, I have no idea about that, they were definitely not a member of the same political party, or highly similar. Relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War
- dragonwriter 5y ago
  > US Presidents involved in Vietnam It’s kind of surprising for someone who doesn't go with the “Vietnam started with Johnson” line not to go back to Eisenhower.
- freen 5y ago
  Robert Strange McNamara was a Republican. As were the cast of characters who were largely responsible for the disinformation campaign inside the pentagon that lead up to the Vietnam war: Team B. Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Cheney, Seymour Weiss, etc. some of those names should be familiar for their continued subsequent enthusiastic support of obviously brain dead massively deadly clusterfucks. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_B https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_B Just for good measure, let’s add watergate and iran contra too. Didn’t Ollie North end up running the NRA for a hot minute? Classic carnie move. Where is the GOP health care plan that Trump was promising was almost ready for years and years? Classic carnie move.

by freen 5y ago

OrvalWintermute 5y ago

> The merchants of bullshit are the same cast of characters, on the same side of the political spectrum: ...Vietnam Fact Check 101. US Presidents involved in Vietnam Kennedy (D) Johnson (D) Nixon (R) While they may have been sociopaths, I have no idea about that, they were definitely not a member of the same political party, or highly similar. Relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War

dragonwriter 5y ago
> US Presidents involved in Vietnam It’s kind of surprising for someone who doesn't go with the “Vietnam started with Johnson” line not to go back to Eisenhower.
freen 5y ago
Robert Strange McNamara was a Republican. As were the cast of characters who were largely responsible for the disinformation campaign inside the pentagon that lead up to the Vietnam war: Team B. Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Cheney, Seymour Weiss, etc. some of those names should be familiar for their continued subsequent enthusiastic support of obviously brain dead massively deadly clusterfucks. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_B https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_B Just for good measure, let’s add watergate and iran contra too. Didn’t Ollie North end up running the NRA for a hot minute? Classic carnie move. Where is the GOP health care plan that Trump was promising was almost ready for years and years? Classic carnie move.