It’s para social. The person consuming it feels as though they are part of a relationship. EFIT: like TV but more interactive.

“And you ain’t in it!”

There are many influences. One is pure resentment of elites as know-it-alls which propagandists amplify. A bit of Dunning–Kruger effect at the same time as people without specialized training can’t even comprehend what they don’t know. Another is how difficult it is to think probabilistically so that people can’t easily appreciate risk. And as more and more people proclaim conspiracy theories as truth there is peer pressure to confirm.

And to shift blame

Vance has less charisma and would not have the staying power Trump has demonstrated.

Do you think he has a raging clue

Not sure if this is true but it’s an attractive explanation

Well, I didn’t know that. I meant no disrespect. I was working off what seemed to me to be a humorous superficial resemblance. Apologies.

For sure

And my Mastodon!

Not OP but usually mash means that there is one SSID shared across multiple routers and access points

How many liberal tears in a banana? For scale purposes of course.

Didn’t the corrupt supreme court just take away Chevron Deference? This needed rule will be disqualified by the captured courts.

That’s the way to get other good dogs killed.

He is really unable to accurately represent any perspective other than his own, the poster boy for malignant narcissism.

Yeah, me either. I made a mistake. I meant “far right”. I’ll edit it to fix.

It’s the strangest thing when people who were targets of Nazi persecution become Nazis themselves (Loomer is Jewish). But then again, it also seems to be a feature of far right personality organization to behave this way. Like Roy Cohn (Trump’s long ago attorney/mentor) was gay but denied it including when he died from AIDS. Some kind of self-hatred and projection combined. As though ones sins could be pushed off onto something other which can be persecuted as a scapegoat, which as I think about it is a well known narcissistic family dynamic. In any event, it’s Weird!

Endeavour is really good

It’s the same picture.