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Obviously every piece of evidence against is valuable given the unjust world we live in, but I have to think for a moment about how crazy it would be for anyone not currently convinced of his crimes to see this and then suddenly change their mind
Human beings are bayesian. Nobody changes their mind instantly on almost anything. They collect information and compare it against their internal view of the world and update that view accordingly. Confirmation bias makes us interpret data in a way that more likely agrees with what we already think and believe (yes - all of us - you to dear reader).
A slow steady push of data and facts may change some folks over time. But you can’t expect to just flick a switch and see all of MAGA change at once. But nobody reports on that one guy who read this and suddenly thinks “yeah - he probably did something”.
To be fair, there IS information that can make you immediately re-evaluate a person.
To me, it was Musk’s “pedo guy” rant back in, what was it, '16, '17? Up until then, I thought he was an okay guy, doing tech things to improve humanity in general, and all the negative stuff being just… him being on the spectrum. It took me the moment he started throwing a very heavy accusation around quite baselessly to realise how shitty he is. A singular moment, a singular event, a singular piece of information made me re-evaluate everything I knew about him and see him for the shitstain he is.
And the Nazi salute. The pedo thing made me think he was just a piece of shit. But that confirmed he was also a fascist.
Oh, the fascist confirmation came in 2020 + the takeover of Twitter to “give right wing voices the platform they deserve” or whatever absolute pile of bovine faeces he claimed.
And to think, we don’t even know what could have been covered up or erased during Trump’s first term when him and Barr were fully in control of the DOJ/DOC.
Right? We are dealing with the crumbs that are left over after two terms of trump that have come out despite total control of all three branches of the government plus the local jurisdictions in which this stuff occurred plus whatever other state actors were involved in the whole operation. It is a miracle anything made it out of that.
I don’t need any more evidence.
There is already enough circumstantial evidence against him. If I was on the jury I know how I would vote.
This. And a jury has already voted him guilty. Multiple times.
If only we had criminal justice system…
Oh wait, -we- do have a system that’ll hold us accountable for crimes. If only rich people weren’t allowed to do things like rape children or lead an insurrection.
It is frustrating that we as a nation keep rooting around in a dead guy’s files while ignoring what multiple living women are saying under oath.
Well, women have the ability to lie… Unlike the president, who many people are saying is biggly honest, and the most honest man in history.
