I find it most productive to consider how people get their brain melted like baby yaga.
He believed Fauci was the main conspirator with covid, which followed precisely with what right wing propaganda was telling him. The emails released by FOIA was a big deal for him. I was never able to get from him anything about his background other than be sources breitbart, Tucker Carlson, and other dubious sources.
Now in the gun thread, he seems to think a statistical analysis comparing firearms with hands/feet is somehow relevant to the debate around concealed/open carry.
The real question is probably something along the lines of, "If someone is captured by propaganda, do they know?" I'm thinking along the lines of acknowledgment of a problem is often the first step toward fixing.
The clown from the Anthony Fauci thread shown to be programmed by far right conspiracy propaganda is also programmed by far right gun rights propaganda. I'm shocked.
There would be a bureaucracy between potus and enforcement. It won’t be 100% but will surely help.
We need the fairness doctrine applied to cable news. We need Fox News to have to change their name. We need onscreen labeling for opinions. The UK enforces rules of accuracy and impartiality onto their broadcasters. That is why there is nothing like Hannity or Tucker over there.
It’s the same problem from 4 years ago. But since then a lot of old uneducated have died, a lot of young educated can now vote, we’ve found out that deplatforming works, YouTube has better algorithms, and we don’t have a sitting POTUS amplifying propaganda. Fox News and Facebook and Twitter are still in roughly the same fucked up state or worse
There are two approaches to take. Either we strengthen our population through education so they are better protected from propaganda or we control content. Obviously education will take time and leave out older generations. But those generations will eventually die off.
Deplatforming works. But we need a lot more content control. The shit going on at Fox News needs to end. I don't know exactly how, but it needs to happen. YouTube has been trying to address their rabbit hole algorithms. Facebook needs to be decimated or regulated hard.
It is complicated. It is a manipulated information ecosystem.
We have a large segment of our population captured in an alternative reality manufactured by propaganda. There are actors (many foreign) developing content and coordinating across platforms. The GOP base is the primary target. These people are fed orchestrated disinformation through various formats and platforms (radio, cable, news pages, chat rooms, twitter feeds, YouTube, facebook, etc.). Most of these people were not educated when those platforms were around.
I’m thinking this started out with two good guys with a gun, who both had a misunderstanding and felt threatened. Obviously neither were good shots. After the shooting started, several other good guys with guns in the crowd took action. It was a god damn 2nd amendment patriot orgy the likes only George Washington himself could describe
I get it. However, progressives aren’t immune to ridicule. When aspects of any group get too extreme, absurd, or hypocritical, it is more than appropriate to ridicule.
You are free to share some clips of Bill being hypocritical, pushing poor narratives, or being poorly grounded. The clips of Bill in this thread all appear fine. IMO this seems like a situation where you are mad because your ingroup (progressives) is getting clowned.
It's important for progressives to get their card pulled from time to time. Everyone should.
I watched the two clips shared on this thread by what the buck, and Maher seemed well grounded. Folks are free to share other clips if those don't capture the topic well enough. I personally find him smuggish and overly-righteous, but his comedy is decent.
He did clown the extremist end of progressivism some. There is nothing wrong with that. Or is there? I understand if someone identifies that way, they could be offended. I recommend anyone offended by Maher to cowboy up.
Are there different races in Egypt?
Is there a legal system in Egypt?
If the answers are yes, then one could apply CRT in Egypt. One could use CRT to understand the legal system’s role in promoting systemic racism in that country.
Has this guy's police department issued a statement? Is this guy working the beat tonight? Or is he being prosecuted? I haven't seen anything about the consequences on this guy?