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>thats why its so strange that this was never mentioned on NPR or anywhere else that i saw. actually it was mentioned once on NPR, extremely briefly. but it was never debunked, they never published an attempt to debunk it.

I remember hearing about it more than once on NPR and "On the Media" which is basically NPR. In fact, I just did a search on NPR's website:

https://www.npr.org/search/?query=2000%20mules&page=1

>3,558 results


scrolling through that list of thousands of results, only 6 or so have an actual match for the search term (lol). that explains why i never heard about it. the rest seem to be articles that are about elections, generally related, but do not mention 2000 mules. there are no debunking in those search results, only descriptions calling the movie "widely debunked" (by who?)

i just read the one article on that list that appears to directly address the movie.

https://www.npr.org/2022/09/08/1121648290/a-publisher-abrupt...

it links two articles that claim to debunk the movie, both of which are behind a pay wall. it then goes on to basically say nothing. they contact the groups that the movie accused of helping stuff ballots and those groups say "thats malarky." thats it.


someone downvotes me on a thread that has been made non-visible by the mods many days after the thread was posted and everyone stopped looking at it... how is that possible


2000 mules is utter BS from a source that specializes in such things. If there were a shred of evidence about even a single claim made by this film, the conservative super majority in the supreme court would be all over it.

Wikipedia summary: 2000 Mules is a 2022 American conspiracist[4][5][6][7] political film from right-wing political commentator Dinesh D'Souza. The film falsely[8][9][10] claims unnamed nonprofit organizations supposedly associated with the Democratic Party paid "mules" to illegally collect and deposit ballots into drop boxes in the swing states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin during the 2020 presidential election. D'Souza has a history of creating and spreading false conspiracy theories.[11]


Not sure if related but also a book on this as well:-

https://www.amazon.com/Stealing-Your-Vote-Inside-Election/dp...

Whether or not there was election fraud I don't know. All I know is I cannot trust anything the mainstream media has to say on the topic (or any other topic for that matter).


Instead of reading conspiratorial books from authors with a profit motive, ask a simple question. If there was election fraud, how come the conservative super majority in the supreme court is not all over it?

Ask for evidence first, before putting your faith in conspiracy theories, from books or movies.

If you believe in things without evidence, and then vote based on that, we're all screwed. This is the path to ideocracy.


For the same reason that I doubt anything will come of this in Venezuela either.


I said I dont know if there was election fraud? I'm guessing there almost certainly was some level of election fraud, whether it was sufficient to sway the election I don't know.

You seem to be arguing that if it appears in a book, then it's defacto a conspiracy theory driven by the profit motive. (The assumption being that everyone you disagree with is greedy and manipulative whilst your motives are pure of course). Books can outline evidence too? Maybe you should read the book first before jumping to uninformed conclusions yourself.

And anyone with eyes and a brain can see the media lies constantly (by obsfucation, cherry-picking, deflection etc). So again, I don't know what the truth is but I certainly would never accept the media narrative on face value.




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