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Originally Posted by Swordsmyth
Meh. As "Thing X is just a distraction from Thing Y" narratives go, this one is pretty weak.
I mean, what is there new to say about the "Afghanistan disaster", other than that the Earth has made one full orbit of the Sun since it occurred? Or how many of the people who would be inclined to think that the "FBI/Whitmer entrapment case" is "bad" do not already think so? And so on.
How is "I support/oppose things other than [as distinct from 'in addition to'] the current thing" really any less blinkered, flighty, or capriciously obsessive than the "I support/oppose the current thing [to the exclusion of other things]" phenomenon? (Different sides, same coin.)
How long will it be before the "Trump Raid" is added to the list of things from which we are being distracted by some newer thing?
When is it ever not possible to compose a menu of items that deserve more attention than they are being (or have been) given?
As far as I'm concerned, anything that promotes greater skepticism of the current system (and the people who run it) is a good thing - and so the "Trump Raid" thing belongs on that list at least as much as any other thing on it (maybe even more so at the moment, given that it's easier to lean into recency bias than to work against it).
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(I was just very recently discussing with someone about the seemingly increasing prevalence of tediously wheel-spinning and unfalsifiable narratives of the "controlled oppostion", "everything is scripted", and/or "X is a distraction from Y" variety. So I still had some words left over that needed being said.)
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