In contrast, #Musk had posted >20X this yr about #Trump. In those posts, #ElonMusk defended Trump, arguing that he is a #victim of #media & prosecutorial #bias in the #criminal cases that Trump faces.
Musk’s posts…signal…a willingness to tip the #political scales as the owner of an influential #SocialMedia#platform, something that no other leader of a social media firm has done. And Musk exerts outsize #influence over the political discourse on X, where he regularly posts to his 184M followers
Make no mistake. #Trump is thrilled with the recent decision banning him from the #ballot in #Colorado. It's just another opportunity for him to act like a #victim, and fleece his supporters.
If you're a #trans person who is assaulted or murdered in #Texas, do not expect #justice. The #hateful#bigots that populate Texas #juries have no problem ignoring the #law, and rejecting facts that are inconvenient to their predetermined opinions. They're happy to let someone off for capital #murder if the #victim is a trans person. Pack your shit, Texas friends. Life is too short to waste away in a state that prides itself on hate and violence.
He always wanted to be king of something, & he’s certainly the king of #disinformation:
#Trump has made casting himself as the #victim of unfair prosecutions a centerpiece of his campaign message. He had been #fundraising off the potential of a #GagOrder even before it was issued. “Today really isn’t about gagging me,” he wrote in one email to supporters on Monday. “It’s an attempt to gag the American people.”
The #jury in this case utterly failed the #victim, a 15-year-old boy. She hit him with her car, knocking him to the ground. She then ran him over, stopped, put it in reverse, and ran him over again. She then #fled the scene. The boy suffered multiple fractures of the pelvis, six fractured ribs, a punctured lung, and numerous bruises and abrasions. When she was finally arrested, she claimed she had no idea she hit and ran him over.
A new POLITICO Magazine/Ipsos #poll provides some bad news for #Trump:
Even as he remains the clear frontrunner for the #Republican nomination,…
The survey results suggest Americans are taking the cases seriously —particularly the #DOJ’s #2020election case— & that most people are skeptical of Trump’s claim he’s a #victim of a legally baseless witch hunt or an elaborate, multi-jurisdictional effort to “#weaponize” law enforcement authorities against him.
Once again, #Elon has cast himself, and the white Dutch invaders of #SouthAfrica as the #victim. And he's cast the #NewYorkTimes as the enemy for committing the crime of reporting on an anti-#apartheid rally. Because as we all know, it's the poor white farmers who were victimized by four-plus decades #segregation. 🙄 Elon must be afraid that his family's emerald mine could be at risk.
Awww... Poor #RFKjr. He's such a persecuted #victim. How dare the #media report on the things he says! And people like him always try to hide behind the #FirstAmendment, as if the First Amendment was some sort of validation of his #deplorable remarks. You're not a victim, Bobby. You're just an #entitled D-bag who wants to dodge #accountability for your destructive #lies.
Russia has not only weaponized information, refugees, energy, and food crises— but also the #Russophobia#narrative. In a UN General Assembly speech this September, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov blasted the West, stating “The official Russophobia in the West is unprecedented.”
This is not a surprise; for Moscow, the Russophobia argument is a powerful weapon that has historically crushed domestic opposition movements, scapegoated the West, and appealed to Western moral sentiments.
The U.S. Department of State details how, amongst its top “persistent #disinformation#narratives,” is Russia’s “#innocent#victim” Russophobia argument. Indeed, Putin’s use of racism and Russophobia to support his attack on Ukraine mirrors the strategies of his Kremlin predecessors
I specificically chose the :fediverse: with :activitypub: because I don't want to deal with the #GAFAMs - espechally #NSAbook and espechally not since :birdsite: :twitter: went to shit.