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Right-Wingers Say Super Bowl Is Rigged So Taylor Swift Can Endorse Biden (www.rollingstone.com)

submitted 9 months ago by ZeroCool@slrpnk.net to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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[–] tmyakal@lemm.ee 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Wait, so you're hoping that the American government is covertly manipulating the roughly 1 in 3 Americans who watch the Superbowl expressly to retain the incumbents power because it means we'd avoid a fascist autocracy?

[–] beardown@lemm.ee 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Yes, because the alternative would be even worse

I fully agree that our current system is incredibly broken though. It's just that Trump, and the Heritage Foundations Project 2025, etc, would make things drastically worse than they already are

We aren't a meaningfully "free" country, at least not by any charitable definition. But that doesn't mean we can't get worse. We can, and we will if Trump wins

[–] miak@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

But if you become a monster just so you can destroy a monster, have you really accomplished anything worthwhile?

[–] nomous@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

I just want the fascists on my side.

[–] beardown@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago

Depends how bad the other monster was, I suppose.

Becoming Tony Soprano as a means of stopping Sauron, for instance, would likely be worth it.

Here, the combined intelligence agencies of the West appear to think that Trump is an existential threat to Western civilization. If they're correct about that then I guess that justifies rigging the Super Bowl. Especially when you consider that there are significantly worse things (Gaza Genocide) going on right now. To say nothing of the bad things that they/we did in the past