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eli friedmann Profile picture
@eligit
Sep 14, 2020 • 3 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
The perfect encapsulation of the current era:
Trump/Qanon : "Democrats are pedophiles!"
Meanwhile only one presidential candidate has been accused of raping a 13 year old.
And it's not Biden.
@sarahkendzior has accurately labeled this phenomena "preemptive narrative inversion"
Only one candidate has expressed sexual interest in their own child.
And it's not Biden.
And yet Qanon is a pro trump organization.
Up is down.
Black is white.
Gaslighting is all.
I'm basically off of facebook but from what I understand it has been swamped with Qanon insanity.
Qanon is a pro trump movement obsessed with the notion of cannibalistic pedophiles.
This is what happens when reality is inverted and annihilated.
Literal mass insanity.

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eli friedmann Profile picture
Nov 15, 2024
Just one larger reality that I think some people are missing in all the insanity:
The premise of the Republican Party is that government is bad.
"The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the Government, and I'm here to help"
Ronald Reagan, august 1986
So as deranged psychopath felon trump stocks his administration with dangerously unqualified hacks and kooks, ask yourself, who is served by this?
Much has been made of Trump as an aberration.
A creature outside of traditional Republican politics.
In some ways this is true.
He has little interest in policy and used to be a Democrat.
But what do right wing extremists see as his USE?
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Oct 9, 2022
“Must be from a real estate agent.”
“Maybe.”
#davidlynch
Pretty funny to know that David Lynch lives in the house they shot Lost Highway in.
Correction:
Lynch owns the Lost Highway house but uses it as a recording studio.
He lives in the Llyod Wright designed “Beverly Johnson” house right down the street (off Mulholland Drive).
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Oct 8, 2022
Impossible to tell the far left from the far right.
Both are pro fascist invasion.
Hope Putin is paying you at least.
Every time he starts losing you guys get performatively upset.
I wonder what these folks would do if Putin rolled tanks into their cities?
Would they be against the invasion?
Or would they flip sides and sign up to be fascist collaborators?
I honestly don't know.
As for diplomacy?
Well, the ball is in Putin's court
He can leave Ukraine and give up on this psychopathic fascist operation any time he wants.
Now that his supply lines are cut it makes the decision even easier.
Now that he's facing internal dissent it makes it even easier.
Done
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Oct 7, 2022
One reason the original Hellraiser was so memorable was the grit
That was a movie that smelled bad.
Sweat, blood, tears, rot, and maggots permeated every surface.
It was visceral.
Sticky.
Nauseating yet hypnotic.
This new one is as smooth as a calvin klein commercial.
Too smooth.
Not sure the world of 2022 is compatible with making old school horror.
No digital anything.
Stop motion effects.
Truly gnarly.
The new version also has this very "televisual" feel to it.
The old one was low budget but always felt cinematic.
This feels like an episode of black mirror.
Which is fine, but forgettable.
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Oct 7, 2022
Until Putin is neutralized, the civilized world has a problem.
That problem could manifest as a manageable (if deadly) annoyance or global nuclear annihilation.
Or anywhere in between.
Sad fact.
What happens within Russia is nothing we can control.
It will probably get even uglier internally.
Many may die.
But our focus must be on
1)stopping the fascist invasion
2)doing everything possible to prevent nuclear war. Nothing more important than that.
Nothing.
Nuclear war is the main concern.
More people could die in one week, even one day, then all of the holocaust and Covid combined.
It’s a whole separate category of event.
So hopefully some people smarter and more connected than I are working the problem 24/7.
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Jan 4, 2022
Yep.
Trump did not tell his “followers” what to say and think.
It was the reverse.
His “followers” told *him* what they wanted to hear.
And he obeyed.
Happily.
Because he is a psychopathic empty shell of a person.
A black hole desperately searching for validation.
Trump’s cult is the crystallization of decades of white conservative Christian resentment.
The fake grievances they thrive on were not invented by trump.
Those fixations were already here when he was a grade schooler.
Trump was just psychopathic enough to echo back what he heard
Trump did not weaponize his cult against us.
His cult weaponized HIM (and themselves) against us.
Against America.
Another civil war.
Very similar to the first one.
A white supremacist right wing anti democratic assault that has a good chance at success.
Don’t be confused.
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