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GW Hayduke

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  1. When someone points out how trump and Biden are different on Russia, ittle Anastasis’ feel feels for trump start to show.
  2. 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
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. ? https://www.npr.org/sections/insurrection-at-the-capitol/2021/01/16/957680133/house-lawmakers-open-investigation-into-capitol-attack
  6. 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
  7. Are you referring to this? If so, there was a won of ridicule toward Trump supporters in it.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. Why wouldn't it apply there? You thinking it wouldn't apply in a country like Egypt makes me think you aren't aware of what CRT is.
  13. I always feel the need to establish this when I enter a conversation that deals with race
  14. 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?
  15. You post a lot of twitter takes and most of them are slanted or straight up terrible. Have you ever considered to cut out twitter from your information diet?
  16. You are the work as it relates to this thread. The subject of this thread are your narratives crafted with inflammatory opinions based on meaningless facts and stitched together with innuendo. Your beliefs shared here are the product of propaganda. We are looking at you, how you think and the information you cite.
  17. Words have meaning dipshit. Use them correctly. Your melted brain felt the NIH acted "behind the back" of trump in 2017. I provided you a link to the NIH website that was the announcement in 2017 about lifting the funding pause. The trump administration had access to the internet. Your melted brain wants to use incorrect language like "ban" to make the lifting in funding pause sound more nefarious. I provided a link of Obama's 2014 announcement of the pause where they specifically describe the situation as a pause in funding. Below is about 4th step propagandists use. Internet giants, such as Facebook and Google, use processes called algorithms to provide users with content they think is wanted. Algorithms are important in the information environment. Search returns have been found to sway voter decisions. Regardless of who controls the returns, algorithms also enable echo chamber development, which polarizes the electorate. Algorithms also had a role in the 2016 elections. Google search autocompletes and returns favoured Trump, spreading false information with a far-right bias. Fake news supporting Trump trended on Facebook through algorithms. And Trump was more searched than Clinton on Google. The more Trump was searched, the higher content about him ranked in subsequent search returns – a competitive advantage when first page search returns garner 92% of all click through traffic.
  18. For fucks sake man. It wasn't a "ban." It was a "pause." Google is your friend. It takes 15 seconds to use. https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2014/10/17/doing-diligence-assess-risks-and-benefits-life-sciences-gain-function-research Below is from the medium article linked above about understanding the propaganda rabbit hole many are in today. The below is about step 3 and using echo chambers to inject inflammatory content. The online world is a crowded market space. It isn’t enough to simply create content that resonates with an audience; it must be delivered directly to them. In a Digital Age, propagandists can reach you through the Facebook pages you follow, your social media feeds and networks, trending topics on Google, and traditional media. Step Three then is to inject this deliberately provocative content into echo chambers identified through audience analysis. The key here is to have a desired actionable outcome from the content – whether that be to share it, sign up for a mailing list, or troll the comments section of news sites. An online echo chamber is a digital space where content reflecting a specific point of view reverberates, exposing those within it to only that one prevailing perspective. Digital technologies enable the creation of echo chambers or filter bubbles. In fact, it only takes a matter of days to become part of a filter bubble, as two German journalists discovered in a recent online experiment. Once inside an echo chamber, a user is fed content fitting pre-existing views and preferences, such as political party affiliation. Echo chambers are created in part by algorithms that sort information, but more so by the choices individuals make about content consumption.
  19. From the medium article I linked above. They describe a 7 step process used by propagandists. In the Digital Age, this traditional approach is evolving into a participatory propaganda model in which the target audience is no longer mere passively consuming persuasive messaging but also becoming active in producing and distributing such content. The original propaganda message triggers, reinforces, or exacerbates pre-existing sentiments associated with the message in a way that prompts the consumer to actively engage in its propagation through available social networks, both on and off-line. Even if modified through the consumer’s own interpretation, the core message remains intact, and even acquires ‘new life’. At the same time, online monitoring tools enable the original propagandist to follow and assess the spread of his or her messaging, adapting strategies in a constant feedback loop. In this context, then, a more appropriate definition might be: In reviewing the Donald Trump 2016 presidential election campaign, seven steps emerged that clearly demonstrated the application of a Participatory Propaganda model: Conduct hyper-target audience analysis; Develop inflammatory content that erodes faith in the opponent and manipulates audience cognitive biases: Fake news; Memes; Data Leaks/Hacks; Inject this content into echo chambers identified through audience analysis; Manipulate Feed and Search Algorithms; Mobilize followers to action; Win media attention: Be a trend; Stage a Scandal; or Commune with the news; and Rinse and Repeat.
  20. The NIH announced in 2017 that they were lifting the funding pause. It wasn't a secret. It wasn't "behind anyone's back." They posted the announcement on their website. I found that out in 15 seconds using google. https://www.nih.gov/about-nih/who-we-are/nih-director/statements/nih-lifts-funding-pause-gain-function-research Here is one idea on why you think the way you do. https://medium.com/politicsmeanspolitics/have-you-fallen-down-a-participatory-propaganda-rabbit-hole-6f71c83f04fa
  21. The Atlantic is bullshit. Did they not read the emails? This is about bringing justice upon that mad psychopath Anthony Fauci.
  22. We use diplomacy (or the military) to get countries to do things. It works best with a lot of allies. Our relationship with allies was heavily strained under trump, but are much better now. Adopting scientific research standards or sharing data on diseases in the populations are the type of things diplomacy can accomplish. Enforcement and ensuring use of standards is more difficult. Diplomacy isn’t 100% effective
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