I have been a little checked out of uspol for a while.

[afreytes@mastodon.gamedev.place]

I have been a little checked out of uspol for a while. I still am but stuff gets through the filters despite my best efforts.

And listen, if you are all in on everything, and you know everything about everything, and you are prescient, and you have a PHD in political science then this post is not for you... I'm not gonna say anything new. Move on, I don't need or care about "I knew that!", replies.

Anyways...

With everything that has come out of the Epstein files... I have been kinda ...

[afreytes@mastodon.gamedev.place]

Trying to revisit in my mind all the accusations I half remember from pizzagate. Becuase every accusation is also a confession with these people, right?

And mind you, I'm not saying that anyone named in the files is innocent, just because they were used to misdirect and misinform before the content of the files became known.

But it seems to me these people have no creativity. So, of course, their mouth can only speak about what's hidden in their heart.

Also, also... Something I find...

[afreytes@mastodon.gamedev.place]

DEEPLY interesting is that the FBI really WAS investigating these people and knew about a lot of this stuff.

And I realize now... That all the small "micro"-aggressions against the FBI that have been happening for years now... Are also part of the same/parallel misinfo/misdirection campaigns.

And it seems to me even a seemingly innocuous thing like putting someone totally unqualified as head of FBI is all part serves to undermine it. (Not saying that FBI is "good" either.)

[afreytes@mastodon.gamedev.place]

And so it seems to me, "they" ---you know, rich people--- have been building a massive wall of misinfo and deniability and I wonder if Trump isn't the president not just to make the rich richer but to see to it these people do not face justice and don't get held accountable for their actions.

It feels childish to make a case for a conspiracy this crude, but then again these people aren't really the pinnacle of sophistication.

And next I'm gonna go into unpopular opinion for sure...