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On 2026-04-08, Scott Dorsey wrote:

Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:

[2] Loud-mouthed people with well-known names and reputations
supporting conspiracies and MAGA are demanding that Trump be curbed.
MTG is now the Voice of Reason, which as appalling as it is amazing.

I can't figure out MTG. She seemed to be a very opinionated person with no education but who thought she knew how things worked and who sincerely wanted to fix problems.

During her campaign she made a number of statements which made it clear that she didn't have a high-school understanding of history or diplomacy. She repeatedly talked about WWI while confusing it with WWII and then talking about
how the US was never in WWI.

It took her a while to realize that history wasn't what she thought it was and
that the world didn't work the way her conspiracy-theory friends had told her.
Once something like that happens, what can you do? It's a hell of a spot to be in.

I blame all of these problems on poor elementary education. Because she is certainly not the only one whose understanding of history never reached the fifth-grade level.

There is only so much education can do, when people, regardless of their education, are exposed to such far-right propaganda, and are somehow
hooked on "algorithmic social media" with biases and hidden
meddling. Because then even if they acquired decent knowledge in grade
school, that can still be undone.

Still, openness and transparency, and doing away with peer pressure
centered on one single solution and educating people on how there are
more communication media than the commercial ones might help. Because
one thing is someone who's using Facebook because that's the only thing
they heard of and see others using, another thing is somebody who might
still be using Facebook and Instagram, but who is also on IRC, USENET,
the fediverse, &c.. Then it's harder (but still possible) for them to
end up in a polarizing bubble.

Has MTG at least become sane or is she still doubling down on everything
else including democrats controlling the weather with some machine?
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Nuno Silva
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Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> wrote:

Has MTG at least become sane or is she still doubling down on everything
else including democrats controlling the weather with some machine?

MTG has become anti-Trump, and seems to have realized that the conspiracy
stuff she saw on the internet is likely false. However, this is not the
same thing as becoming sane. She may be just as insane but operating from
a different position, and it's hard to tell. She's definitely having to
stop and regroup at this point but where she's going to regroup to is anyone's guess.
--scott
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