I’ve come to two realizations recently:
One
The sudden tankie willingness to believe that Trump cares about a cease-fire in Gaza, and got tough with the Israelis and then they capitulated which Biden could have done at any time, sheds some interesting light on how the tankies think. They accuse anyone who disagrees with them of shifting their realities around, such that anything Biden does is good, anything the State Department says is always true, even if it contradicts itself or basic common sense or reality. I always thought that this was just a lazy reality-free arguing tactic, but in retrospect, I should have realized that it’s a tell about their own thought process. Just like it’s a warning sign if someone constantly suspects their partner of cheating, or is constantly on an absurdly hypervigilant lookout for scams and people trying to cheat them out of money, this is a key revelation about the way Hexbear itself looks at reality.
Trump is a capable diplomat, if believing that lets them trash Biden. Trump cares about Palestinians, if believing that lets them trash Biden. The cart is firmly in its place in front, and everything else including the horse can follow along depending on what the cart dictates.
Two
Hexbear’s censorship, and wild hostility to anyone who comes to “their” place and tries not to toe the party line, really does do a pretty effective job of distorting the view of reality and consensus that their users are able to experience.
Take a look at these and compare:
That’s 100% damage control.
The fact that Trump of all peoples could get a ceasefire this easily before even being sworn into office is an indisputable proof that the peoples who said that Biden couldn’t do anything about the genocide or that he was doing everything he could were lying, and that Biden could have gotten a ceasefire and much more out of Israel all this time, and pretty easily and quickly too.
This is a terrible look for the Democrats and for all the Blue MAGA who were vouching for them.
So now they’re trying to gazlight everyone int thinking that anyone who think this temporary ceasefire is a good thing is secretly a Trump supporter to distract everyone from the fact that Biden had one entire year to simply call bibi and pressure him into making some concessions but never even considered doing it because he was sure that folks would continue to vote blue anyway.