Caltrops - Balance of Power





	[quote name="Vested Id"][quote name="Mischief Maker"]<A HREF="https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/service-mettle/">Oh hey, look what I found after less than 15 seconds of googling</A>.[/quote] Thanks for the Snopes link kid [quote]Bush jr's campaign manager was "Turd Blossom" himself, Karl Rove. One of the main pillars of Rove's brand-identity as a campaign staffer was his signature move of taking your opponent's biggest strengths and crafting a smear that turned it into a weakness. So Republican primary opponent John McCain did something laudable like adopting a Bangladeshi orphan into his home? Rove twisted it into a smear campaign in the south that his youngest daughter was the illegitimate product of an affair McCain had with a black woman. Was John Kerry a decorated war hero while Bush jr. was a silver spoon rich kid who dodged the draft in the national guard, then still managed to go AWOL? Rove crafted a smear campaign that there was something "fishy" about those medals Kerry earned. So when your thought leader says that Rove's campaign smear transformed his worldview, he's not Neo taking the red pill, he's Cypher eating the steak and saying, "ignorance is bliss!"[/quote] Swift vets began as a grassroots thing, which makes sense because (and this is the much stronger counterargument) Kerry was hated by his fellow soldiers for a long time because of his Winter Soldier testimony. Moldbug is a lot more protective of his brand - yes, right-wing thought leader - these days than in the past; if he's saying the claim is merited he's probably telling the truth. [quote]Also speaking of your thought leaders and their "red pill" terminology, the long-running fan theory that The Matrix was a big allegory for coming out as trans was recently confirmed:[/quote] Recently asserted, in a political environment where that has major advantages, in the twilight of their careers. The Wachowski brothers saga is the all-time warning tale against pornography. If you look at a lot of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bound_(1996_film)">lesbian porn</a>, you might go to sex clubs. If you go to sex clubs, you might decide you're a woman. If you decide you're a woman, your <em>brother</em> might decide <em>he's</em> a woman.[/quote]