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rose_griffes) wrote2020-11-30 05:32 pm
rose_griffes) wrote2020-11-30 05:32 pm
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this is a thing that is happening
I was trying to explain to someone on Facebook just how implausible it is that the Democratic party engineered a win for Joe Biden with massive fraud. I went with: which is more likely, that the Democrats successfully executed a conspiracy across multiple cities and multiple states, or that a man who has cried foul in almost every contest he ever participated in (including some he won) is doing so again?
But it's not really that simple, is it? It's a whole worldview. If you (believer in the conspiracy to commit election fraud) accept that there was no election-changing fraud, then it follows that everyone who pushed that narrative was also lying. Or duped themselves. That "news" outlets such as Breitbart, OAN, The Federalist, and some people / shows on Fox news were participating in the lie, either knowingly or unknowingly. That your friends and family who believe in the fraud are also victims of the lie, rather than a group of enlightened folk who can see the truth.
Anyway. So that conversation was a failure. I did include links to several right-wing publications that debunk the Trump campaign's various lies, but I don't know that it did any good.
I guess I'll just count it as a small positive that at least this person hasn't gone down the QAnon rabbit-hole on top of all the rest of this.
Related to the elections: I cannot begin to express my utter disgust at the vast majority of Republican senators, congresspeople, and so on who either say nothing or who go along with this horrifying charade.
FYI, the test for COVID-19 antibodies came back negative. So... *shrug* What does it all mean? And will I be able to smell lavender again someday? Who knows.
I tried reading The Alice Network by Kate Quinn, but didn't get very far. It just didn't click for me. Same with And I Darken, by Kiersten White. It's an interesting miss because I found her Guinevere novel to be so compelling. Ah, well.
Currently re-reading Courtney Milan's The Duke Who Didn't, and wondering if the book misses have more to do with my own state of mind than with, well, anything else. I do have at least two other books downloaded that I ought to want to read, but I'm not feeling it for the moment.
But it's not really that simple, is it? It's a whole worldview. If you (believer in the conspiracy to commit election fraud) accept that there was no election-changing fraud, then it follows that everyone who pushed that narrative was also lying. Or duped themselves. That "news" outlets such as Breitbart, OAN, The Federalist, and some people / shows on Fox news were participating in the lie, either knowingly or unknowingly. That your friends and family who believe in the fraud are also victims of the lie, rather than a group of enlightened folk who can see the truth.
Anyway. So that conversation was a failure. I did include links to several right-wing publications that debunk the Trump campaign's various lies, but I don't know that it did any good.
I guess I'll just count it as a small positive that at least this person hasn't gone down the QAnon rabbit-hole on top of all the rest of this.
Related to the elections: I cannot begin to express my utter disgust at the vast majority of Republican senators, congresspeople, and so on who either say nothing or who go along with this horrifying charade.
FYI, the test for COVID-19 antibodies came back negative. So... *shrug* What does it all mean? And will I be able to smell lavender again someday? Who knows.
I tried reading The Alice Network by Kate Quinn, but didn't get very far. It just didn't click for me. Same with And I Darken, by Kiersten White. It's an interesting miss because I found her Guinevere novel to be so compelling. Ah, well.
Currently re-reading Courtney Milan's The Duke Who Didn't, and wondering if the book misses have more to do with my own state of mind than with, well, anything else. I do have at least two other books downloaded that I ought to want to read, but I'm not feeling it for the moment.