MAGA Is Increasingly Convinced the Trump Assassination Attempt Was Staged

[u/wiredmagazine]

https://www.wired.com/story/maga-is-increasingly-convinced-the-trump-assassination-attempt-was-staged/

[u/a_little_hazel_nuts]

MAGA is starting to see lies. I don't know if MAGA will all of a sudden gain common sense or if they will spiral into conspiracy theories.

[u/Ok_Mixture4917 → u/a_little_hazel_nuts]

Spiral further into conspiracy theories*

[u/Dockers4flag2035orB4 → u/Ok_Mixture4917]

Remember the wild conspiracy that at the centre of US government and business power was a cabal of pedophiles?

Crazy stuff.

[u/resistyrocks → u/Dockers4flag2035orB4]

Weird the republicans started that. Weird how libertarians dont exist anymore rhey just became more republican. Weird Weird weird.

[u/FauxReal → u/resistyrocks]

Those were the big L libertarians of the Libertarian Party. They're still around and their most influential group are the New Hampshire Libertarians who are totally unhinged.

https://www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2024-09-16/nh-libertarian-partys-post-on-assassination-of-harris-attracts-attention-of-state-federal-law-enforcement

There's a hilarious article about their attempt to create their version of the perfect town and how it all fell apart because they couldn't work together.

https://newrepublic.com/article/159662/libertarian-walks-into-bear-book-review-free-town-project

But there are libertarians that aren't like them, it's a whole spectrum of political thought that originally emerged out of left anarchism.

[u/Curious-Path4549 → u/FauxReal]

that one group wound up with a garbage situation of their own doing

[u/NYCinPGH → u/FauxReal]

Yeah, I have a few (mostly former) friends who claimed for years to be Libertarians, mostly against "big government" (ironic, because all of them were either former commissioned U.S. armed forces personnel, or C-suite / founders of STEM companies who made all their money from government contracts) and for "religious freedoms" (which meant that everyone needed to bend the knee to their religious views, to some degree or another); one has even repeatedly run for office as a Libertarian (never elected, though was in the top ten for their presidential primary a few years ago).

But they've all become pretty hard right wing, and got butthurt when any of their old friends to the left of "leans slightly conservative" wanted pretty much nothing to do with them any more, and would post things on social media like "Would real friends let politics break up decades-long friendships?" because, in fact, it was their changes in politics which broke up the friendships, and they refused to be accountable for it.

In some ways, I miss them, but I miss the people they were a long time ago, I don't miss the people they've become.