Megathrust

First, the backstory: Yesterday, there was a post in this chamber about a “megathread” that had something to do with a Facebook post from the Trump campaign. I did not read it, nor did I look at the comments. I assumed it was just a repeat of what Trump has been saying about Clinton for years. <br><br>The reason I didn’t look at it is that I have never been interested in seeing Republicans try to make Trump out to be a saint, just like I have never been interested in seeing Democrats try to make Clinton out to be a saint. Back in 2016, I did my best to ignore all of that, because it always seemed like a waste of time.<br><br>Then today, I saw a comment in a completely different thread from a Republican who was talking about “all these threads just dump all the lies about trump and don’t talk about Hunter Biden.” <br><br>All of this has made me curious about the “megathread”, so I looked it up. And what do I see? A bunch of Republican comments about Hunter Biden and a bunch of Democratic comments about Trump. If you scroll up to the top comment in the thread, you will see that the comment with the most upvotes is about Hunter Biden, and it was posted by a Republican. <br><br>I wonder what the people who posted that thread think about this. Do they think that they did a good job? They just created another echo chamber where Republicans talk about Hunter Biden and Democrats talk about Trump. Are they happy about this? Are they still patting themselves on the back for creating this thread? <br><br>It is very easy to make yourself look very silly if you try to be a centrist without actually being a centrist. If you want to be a centrist, then you need to be a real centrist, not just some Republican who occasionally posts about being a centrist in order to hide your real agenda. <br><br>The idea that Republicans and Democrats can have a constructive debate is just plain ridiculous. The people on both sides are much too brainwashed for that. <br><br>If you want to be a real centrist, then you need to criticize both Republicans and Democrats. That is the bare minimum. But that is not what most self-identified centrists do. They usually just go along with whatever the mainstream media is saying about a particular issue, and then talk about how they are a centrist because they sometimes criticize Trump and Pence for being bigots. <br><br>The mainstream media is not centrist. It is very far to the right. It is so far to the right that most people cannot even imagine what a real centrist is. <br><br>And by the way, just because you are a centrist does not mean that you have to be wishy washy. There are some issues where the two sides have very different opinions, but where one side is completely right and the other side is completely wrong. In those cases, it would be wrong to be wishy washy. <br><br>For example, there is a controversy going on right now about whether the government should have the power to control peoples’ minds through hypnosis. If you look at the two sides of this issue, you will see that one side says that the government should not be allowed to control our minds, and the other side says that the government should be allowed to control our minds. In this case, the two sides are not both right. It is very clear that the government should not be allowed to control our minds. <br><br>In cases like this, it is wrong to be wishy washy. The government should not be allowed to control our minds. If you disagree with this, then you are wrong. <br><br>The government does not have the capability to control peoples’ minds through hypnosis right now, but they are working on developing that capability. There is very clear evidence that this is the case, and you can easily find it by doing a simple google search. <br><br>In the future, this will be a huge issue. It already is a huge issue. But the mainstream media hardly talks about it at all. They talk about Trump instead. Whether or not Trump is a racist is just a side show. Whether or not Trump is a racist is not as important as whether or not the government is allowed to control our minds. Whether or not Trump is a racist is not as important as whether or not the government is allowed to read our thoughts and see our memories. <br><br>No one should be allowed to read our thoughts and see our memories. No one should be allowed to control our minds. And yet there are many mainstream pundits who openly advocate for the government to have these capabilities. <br><br>We should not be debating whether or not Trump is a racist. We should be debating whether or not the government should be allowed to read our thoughts and control our minds. <br><br>These are the types of issues that a real centrist would be talking about. <br><br>”Centrists” who argue with Trump/Clinton about whether or not Trump/Clinton is a racist are completely irrelevant. The mainstream media makes them out to be very important, but they are not.<br><br>The mainstream media also makes the third party candidates out to be irrelevant. But the third party candidates are much more relevant than the “centrists” who argue with Trump/Clinton about whether or not Trump/Clinton is a racist.<br><br>There is a third party candidate running right now whose main issue is AI. He has a whole list of very specific policy changes that he wants to make in order to protect us from AI. Some of his proposals are good and some of them are bad. But at least he is proposing specific policies. At least he is talking about the issues that really matter. <br><br>And yet the mainstream media says that he is irrelevant. And yet the “centrists” all talk about how important it is to control which mainstream media outlets you get your news from, and how important it is to go after people who rely on RW propaganda and try to educate them, in order to try to control what the mainstream media says and who is president. <br><br>It is completely ridiculous. We do not have a functioning democracy. And these mainstream “centrists” just enable it and perpetuate the status quo. <br><br>If you want to be a centrist, then you need to do a lot more than just criticize Trump/Pence for being bigots. You need to criticize the mainstream media for being far right and for hiding what is really going on. And you need to put a lot more emphasis on the issues that really matter.