Taylor Lorenz
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And also what?
And also she said, what?
She said she didn't date anyone before Charlie turns out she did.
Like, why can't we question her?
Why can't we, you know?
And so I think that that's opened up this sort of
fracture in the movement.
And Candace has just plowed through it and been like, you're right.
It is weird.
And by the way, like something is weird in society.
Something is sick in society.
Again, it's capitalism guys.
Like we know it's actually a lot of systemic like issues, but conservatives are very good at, especially successful right-wing influencers are very good at identifying these problems, speaking to people's emotional feelings, and then leveraging those to like spin these narratives that ultimately serve their worldview.
It's not just Candace, though.
She's indicative of this broader.
Look at somebody.
Look at the rise of someone like the Drea, the Drea Chronicles or whatever, that leftist conspiracy theorist that is suddenly getting hundreds of thousands of views claiming that, you know, just ridiculous nonsense that like Elon Musk is trialing Neuralink on undocumented immigrants or like there's a data center being built below the Trump ballroom or something like there's all these like leftist conspiracies, too.
And you're seeing actually a lot of people that are gaining traction online in the past several months are conspiracy theorists.
And conspiracy theories, they're hitting so hard right now because everyone's just getting really blackpilled and getting really fed up with both political parties, fed up with the system, fed up with institutions.
They don't know who to trust, but they recognize that we're all getting exploited and fucked over.