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@ Bitcoin Nora
2024-06-10 15:01:10I have come to the conclusion that major influencers being publicly and loudly anti-war can actually be pro-war.
When Alex Jones or Tucker Carlson, for example, talk about how bad an idea a war with Russia is, I can't help but feel like they are normalizing it as a thing. It is sowing the seeds in our minds that a war with Russia will happen, and despite their "best efforts" to expose it, there is nothing that can be done to stop this. And if their influence is not enough, then what can plebs like us do, other than just accept it? Their opposition to the war with Russia is therefore more like a controlled manipulation of the plebs into accepting it, rather than a sincere effort to stop it. This makes their impact even more powerful than pro-war people because it demonstrates that the normies can be controlled into putting up with a war despite the overwhelming moral, economic and logistical arguments against it.
I'm not saying that Jones or Carlson are intelligence assets or anything, because I really have no clue if they are or not. But I am saying that the effectiveness of their public stance against a war with Russia is massively overrated, and even has a perverse impact. After all, what have they achieved? Two things I know for sure: 1) They have made people fearful by thinking about the war. 2) They have normalized it in our minds, which leads us to accept it.
A lot of what they say we will agree with, but we have to be careful that it does not poison our spirits. Because there's a war there too.