Murtaza Hussain
@mazmhussain
Very disturbing thing I have noticed recently is that U.S. officials no longer care about being perceived as lying. After the "SignalGate" scandal several top officials went public to claim that the information they shared was not classified (immediately disproved after it was then published) or that it was somehow "planted" there by a nefarious infiltrator, for which no evidence at all was provided. The reason they are doing this is because they don't care about convincing people necessarily, they just have created their own separate right-wing media echo chamber that just need to feed narratives to run with. We are well past the era of reasoned debate or persuasion. We are still far from that point thanks to separation of powers and a strong judiciary, but this is how dictatorships operate. Over time it generates a level of cynicism in the system that makes it unsupportable.
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tricil
@tricil.eth
oh we've *been* in a post-truth society since Trump Era One. It's just the mask is fully off now
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shazow
@shazow.eth
The gate was opened long ago, now we're just building confidence about commuting through it.
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Sophia Indrajaal
@sophia-indrajaal
There is so much that is disturbing about it... Incomepetence in military planning. Russian involvement. Incompetence in opsec (signal is great, personal phones are not). Bombing as foreign policy (that was one of the few things from the first term that I could get behind, now the mask is off). And of course, as you pointed out the lying.
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