• BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.cafe
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    2 days ago

    I once had an argument with a MAGA who told me that NYC has always LOVED Trump, and that he’s the “King of New York.” He actually said that.

    I told him that I guessed he isn’t from NYC, because I am a New Yorker-in-law, and can definitively say that New Yorkers despise him, and further they have always despised him, and further, they have always deeply resented that somehow he represents NYC to many in the world. Turns out I was right, he’d never been to NYC. He was just repeating nonsense from the Conservative Propaganda Machine.

    Trump is hated more in NYC, than probably anywhere else. His own home town despises him.

    • ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      Yeah. The bad parts (I mean aside from the general entitled assholery, racism and classism, hooking up other elites, tossing bills at his victims, etc) are really truly fucking bad.

      At one point the feds had not adequately culled the visual files like pics and video, and you could append various extensions to files labeled pdf. Body parts are black boxed; context is not. I made that mistake exactly once. Jesus fucking christ there is some evil shit in this world, and a great deal of it exists in Epstein/Trump’s world, by deliberate choice.

      The feds have since shut that loophole down, which is a bit rich: they don’t want to shut the reality of those horrors perpetrated upon children down, just the visual evidence of it. I genuinely hope the afterlife involves all these people getting fucked sideways with a rusty lawnmower blade into eternity.

    • A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip
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      2 days ago

      Well that’s what journalism and similar vocations are for.

      I listened to dozens of podcasts, read dozens of articles that analyze these files. Deeply, often disturbingly so. And it still gets worse with every new episode/article.

      Of course, it means I have to put some trust in these people, and I don’t do that lightly.