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0 sats \ 9 replies \ @Undisciplined 19 Nov \ parent \ on: Why doesn't Nixon get more hate (or does he?) econ
I don't know what your fringe view is, exactly, but the bit you offered is clearly fringe. Note that I'm not saying that means it's right or wrong.
Maybe, but it was relevant to what the post was asking about.
Let's posit for a moment that the normie view of geopolitical history is purposefully corrupted, since the largest information apparatus in the world is literally designed to do exactly that:
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." - William J. Casey, CIA Director (1981)
That means the OP is essentially asking, why don't more people believe the lies perpetuated by the mockingbird media? Asked another way, why do people still believe the truth if the truth is not the (perceived) social consensus?
It's the same as asking, why aren't there more shitcoiners and less Bitcoiners?
There's a massive media apparatus to scam people with shitcoins and FUD Bitcoin, and most "crypto" holders own non-Bitcoin tokens... does that make Bitcoin maxis "fringe"?
I reject use of the word fringe btw, it's intentionally marginalizing/derogatory language employed by these disinfo operatives.
Why does the normie media still feel the need to publish these limited hangouts if Nixon is so universally disliked? Why, half a century later, are they trying to win over the "Fringe", or are they?
You're right, though, it's still not enough.
Clearly you think my "fringe" view is wrong, so I'd like to see you introspect on your arrival at these cold and substance-less takes:
"clearly despising many Americans, and just generally being a Dick"
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Again, I don't know what your view is exactly or what the evidence for it is, so no I don't think it's false.
I think Nixon sucked for the first two reasons I stated. The latter two are additional reasons why people don't like him.
I'm not particularly knowledgeable about the contents of the Nixon tapes. I know there's a bunch of suggestive stuff in there, but I'm not that well acquainted with it.
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You do know he got us OUT of Vietnam and the Bretton Woods system, right?
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I do, but I also know that my family members were enslaved to fight in the stupid war that he escalated first, and I know that hundreds of thousands of innocent people were killed and maimed in that escalation.
Getting out of Bretton Woods is a pretty dubious distinction, since the substitute is the runaway unbacked fiat system we have now.
Just because the mainstream opinion is that Nixon sucked, doesn't mean he didn't.
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Did he escalate it by sending your family into the meat grinder? or by bombing the shit out of the meat grinder in an exit effort?
The financial system he inherited didn't leave many options, can you say for a fact he made a bad trade-off? How much worse would it have been had we continued to let the globalists seize our property?
You seem pretty confident that he made the worst possible decisions despite your also couching your views as "not particularly knowledgeable"
Have you considered that maybe you're the normie?
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You keep putting words in my mouth. Maybe how things "seem" to you isn't very accurate. I never said (or even thought) that he made the worst possible decisions.
I also didn't describe my views in general as "not particularly knowledgeable" and you know that. Why you're trying to misrepresent my own statements back to me is rather perplexing. However, since you are incapable of having a discussion in good faith, I'm signing off.
Have fun defending mass slaughter.
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defending mass slaughter.
Ah the old virtue signal, a normie staple when they can't back up any of the nonsense lies they believe
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Ah the old calling someone names in lieu of an argument