The U.S. will mark the anniversary of the January 6 insurrection on Saturday, a milestone that will confer upon the reality-dwelling citizenry a grim reminder of the potency of propaganda and how quickly it can warp perception when introduced into the public square.

Just three years ago, most of the country watched with dismay and horror as a violent MAGA mob beat back authorities and stormed the country’s citadel of democracy. The Donald Trump-incited crush of disillusioned rioters, fueled by a stream of fantastical lies, believed that the 2020 election had been stolen by sinister forces working to undermine the democratic election.

Of course, not only was their belief flatly incorrect, but evidence later emerged indicating that it was Trump who, in fact, had tried to subvert democracy.

Facts, however, have little bearing on the sentiment inside the Republican Party, which has been fed a steady diet of lies and half-truths by Fox News and the rest of the sprawling right-wing media machine. To wit, the false notion that Joe Biden nefariously stole the 2020 election is now widely shared inside the GOP. A CNN poll conducted over the summer found that nearly 70% of Republicans believe Biden’s win was not legitimate, a number that has continued to tick up.

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    You said something wrong I called you out.

    No, I said that America is the only country to use nuclear weapons on a civilian population. You gave me some bullshit about a side effects from a test site ‘counting’ as if that carries the same weight as literally evaporating hundreds of thousands of people in an instant.

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      I gave you an example of another country using nuclear weapons against civilians and you are taking it much too hard.

      Learn from it and take the L. Its not like you lost credibility at your super cool club because you were wrong once.

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        I think bernie sanders needs to learn the word ‘ceasefire’

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        The US has the only nuclear first strike policy and has demonstrated its willingness to evaporate living humans with nuclear weapons in order to dominate as much as the world as it can for capitalist extraction. It would be best for the rest of the world if it fell apart and silently faded into the background.

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          You should invite your Hexbear friends to come and talk to me.

          I crave the attention.

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            I subscribe to their comms because they’re actually funny. Maybe you should try and interact with actual users there.

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                    I’m honestly not sure what you were asking, and again- as an anarchist it’s fucking hilarious getting banned from the ‘anarchism’ comm because I’m sick of the democrats aiding in a genocide and I’m certainly not going to fucking vote for them.