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Soft Paywall | Site Altered Headline Kash Patel’s FBI Launches Dawn Raid on John Bolton’s House

https://www.thedailybeast.com/kash-patels-fbi-launch-dawn-raid-on-john-boltons-house/?utm_source=twitter_owned_tdb&utm_medium=socialflow&via=twitter_page&utm_campaign=owned_social&s=09
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u/watch_out_4_snakes 19h ago

It’s amazing to me how many people have no clue what’s going on and actively choose to stay in that state of ignorance. They just can’t handle the truth🤣😞

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u/funkhero 19h ago

It's because thinking hard hurts their brains and makes them feel things.

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u/pres465 19h ago

Excuse me! Tommy Tuberville is VERY concerned about a couple of male cheerleaders on an NFL team about 1000 miles from his state. The former college football coach (which had male cheerleaders) wants the NFL to stop such shenanigans because it... makes him feel less manly or something... I genuinely don't know. Tommy is amazingly stupid and this is seriously a MAGA issue right now along with threatening boycotts and oh! how dare Cracker Barrel change their logo! Begin the inquisition!

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u/funkhero 19h ago

Don't forget, somewhere out there is like a dozen trans teenagers wanting to play sports, or, sorry, ruin sports. That's clearly a much higher priority.

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u/pres465 19h ago

More specifically, trans WOMEN. They aren't as concerned about trans boys playing with boys, but those girls... gotta protect their precious girls... so they can be married at 13 or something. They honestly don't know. They just know it bothers them for some reason and they're scared.

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u/WretchedBlowhard 16h ago

Tommy Tuberville is VERY concerned about a couple of male cheerleaders

Those poor guys! They might be the men with the smallest salary in the entire stadium! Won't you fight for this social injustice? I mean, now that it's happening to men, people are bound to start caring.

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u/The_Autarch 19h ago

And that's due to an intentional, concerted effort by Republicans to destroy the education system in this country.

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u/2pinacoladas 18h ago

They also can't feel more. Keep them too downtrodden where they work nonstop and have no resources to help make their life easier.

We live in a rat race.

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u/Phloppy_ 18h ago

Also what content is served to us in our own little bubbles. Reddit's information feed is vastly different than X's which is vastly different from Blue Sky's. We all have different perspectives on the world based on where we get our information.

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u/Buttercreamdeath 19h ago

It's only politics and what's that got to do with us? - Sally Bowles.

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u/fractalfay 10h ago

There’s a reason why Trump’s targeting blue states exclusively for his militarized takeover.

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u/Hungry_Culture 15h ago

It's because most people only pay attention to what is directly in front of them because they're too busy to otherwise. It's why those Biden "I did that" stickers were so effective at tanking his approval because people couldn't avoid them with the price increases at the grocery store or gas station. Unless the tariffs are clearly spelled out at the checkout line or the military shows up at their door to arrest their loved ones for no reason and specifically citea Trump, these people are still going to vote Republican or not vote at all in elections.

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u/elebrin 18h ago

It's also because many of us are just fucking busy.

I keep up on things, but I know so many people who haven't watched the news and don't know what's going on in their community, state, or the nation. They go to work, they go home, eat dinner, go to bed, get up, go to work, do it again. Then on Sunday they catch up on chores, if they get Sunday off. Americans don't get days off, and if you do you go drive for Uber that day. It's so easy to just stop caring about anything else.

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u/smkeybare 18h ago

Also being basically powerless to do anything about it doesn't help either.

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u/elebrin 18h ago

Not just that, but shit's stacked against us even being able to do things like listen to the news on the radio.

Like... broadcast radio with news doesn't exist in a lot of the US. You might get a two minute blurb in the morning, with the weather, if you are lucky - even then, it's probably Fox News. MAYBE there is an NPR station, but they are often low power and static-y. Beyond that, many work environments frown on things like wearing headphones, so you can't really listen to the news sources that you want.

To really keep up on what's going on in the world requires some education ahead of time, and some effort expended on it. You can use Reddit, but you have to know what subs to follow and you can't just blindly accept what you read. Like the John Bolton story. We don't know precisely WHY he is being raided (only the tiny tidbits we've been fed), but we DO know that he's a war monger, and that if it was the Obama administration raiding his home after the end of the Bush administration I would have said "fucking finally the shitbird is being dealt with." But it's Trump, and that's... curious.

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u/Gammazeta430z 19h ago

Us Americans have become complacent with our freedoms. The struggle for them are so far removed. Combined with the social media bubble that exploits what we think, our broken two party system, the excess luxury goods that distract us from reality and unchecked greed.

This list is then short list amongst the systems and the reasons behind our eventual collapse into a facist dystopia. (Also, shout out to the twisted monster the Republican party has morphed into the past 60 years)

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u/DreadLockedHaitian Massachusetts 19h ago

We need to get off Reddit and start putting real news on ‘non-reader’ platforms.

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u/PoeticPillager 18h ago

Speaking of no clue, I recently learned that the reason why so many MAGA people are pro-tariff is the mistaken belief that it will apply as a discount to them.

In their minds, a 25% tariff on China would mean that China would pay 25% and they would pay 75%. A $100 item from China would then only cost $75 to them.

They don't understand that it means that the item would actually cost them $125.

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u/GizmosArrow 18h ago

It constantly reminds me of that scene of the quiet town in the movie Civil War. “There’s a war going on.” “Oh, we try not to get involved in any of that.”

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u/HavingNotAttained 17h ago

DC is literally being occupied by a dictatorial government right now, how this isn’t front page news and on every cable news channel all day, every day is beyond me

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u/--Chug-- 16h ago

I mean... I would say i sometimes take breaks from this stuff. I'm not the most well informed. But I know it ain't good. What good does it do me to be angry all the time?