2026-05-03 12:00 UTC
@Remittancegirl slightly tangential, but it always was hard for me to understand why the WTC conspiracy stuff had so much purchase with some people, when the stuff Bush had done in the open (illegal war, torture programme) should have been enough to condemn him.
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@Remittancegirl@mstdn.social 2026-05-03 12:02
@modulux Oh, I completely agree. Something in us wants to believe there is some greater hidden logic than the awfulness that is completely visible to everyone. What is that? A kind of libidinal enjoyment of 'what we don't see'?
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@LynnD@cosocial.ca 2026-05-03 12:48
@modulux I think that’s easier to explain. The rest of the world looked at all of the things that Bush did and wondered WTF; however, many USians looked at it and thought that it was fully justified because those “A-rabs” dared to attack the good ol’ USA, and needed to be “taught a lesson they won’t soon forget.” I got into a rip roaring argument with Bush supporters, and this was their argument (they became Trumpers and I no longer speak to them). @Remittancegirl