I have a close family member who visited North Korea back when they were still mostly closed-off to tourism from America, he managed to get in on a special tour.
The tour consisted of things like giving tours of “normal North Korean grocery stores” and shopping malls.
He came back and was enthralled. He said “Wow, our media got it all wrong, they have everything! They have food and produce and phones, they’re not being held back, they even had kids playing in the hotel lobby where I stayed!”
I said to him “Are you dumb?” and he got mad.
Turns out, he was in fact, very dumb. He fell hard down the alt-right pipeline and then the conspiracy hole where he never came back from. I haven’t talked to him in a long time because he straight up lost his mind. This is not a rare occurrence, most of America’s conservative movement has been powered by this breed of people, they are also the entirety of Trump’s political capital, a fiercely loyal voting group that supports anything their leader says, and they are violent and armed. You can’t buy that kind of power.
Every time I see any kind of official federal government announcement, I imagine it’s being delivered by this lady:
I have a close family member who visited North Korea back when they were still mostly closed-off to tourism from America, he managed to get in on a special tour.
The tour consisted of things like giving tours of “normal North Korean grocery stores” and shopping malls.
He came back and was enthralled. He said “Wow, our media got it all wrong, they have everything! They have food and produce and phones, they’re not being held back, they even had kids playing in the hotel lobby where I stayed!”
I said to him “Are you dumb?” and he got mad.
Turns out, he was in fact, very dumb. He fell hard down the alt-right pipeline and then the conspiracy hole where he never came back from. I haven’t talked to him in a long time because he straight up lost his mind. This is not a rare occurrence, most of America’s conservative movement has been powered by this breed of people, they are also the entirety of Trump’s political capital, a fiercely loyal voting group that supports anything their leader says, and they are violent and armed. You can’t buy that kind of power.