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Reposted from Substack Rachel Maddow looks at how China has learned to take advantage of Donald Trump's divisiveness within American society by mimicking his supporters online using techniques that were successful for Russia in the 2016 election....
by Frank Vyan Walton
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on Wed Apr 17, 2024 at 09:07 AM PDT
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The process of corporate watering down and suffocation of media that does its job moderately well has been quite successful. Money and creeping one-sidedness. First get rid of the older “More expensive” people… ease out the more effective ones who ask...
by IreGyre
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on Sat Mar 09, 2024 at 07:50 PM PST
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The Cold War was in full swing. We were told we were losing. Russia had beat us to space. Russian primary school children were learning math that even our college students couldn't hope to comprehend. Drills for the inevitable communist nuclear attack...
by BillyBookWorm
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on Sun Nov 26, 2023 at 10:22 AM PST
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Dr. John Dee 1574: "Some persons have super-normal powers not of a magitien but of a peculiar and scientific qualiti" Metaphysical studies generally seek to explain inherent or universal elements of reality which are not easily discovered or...
by Angmar
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on Wed Sep 27, 2023 at 03:00 PM PDT
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Just a quick small story to double check your source before retweeting/sharing Pride materials online. The 4chan trolls have already started with their (paraphrased) “Pride is for all gays, lesbians, trans, and MAPs” bullshit that they hope people will...
by MisterC
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on Fri Jun 02, 2023 at 09:35 AM PDT
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We’re having a roundup today of recent Truth Sandwiches on Zombies Lies that Will Not Die (including Trumpish Cult lies), Voodoo Economics (with Starve the Beast), and trollishly trying to own the Libs, but ending up with the Wrong-Wingers pwning...
by Mokurai
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on Mon Jul 31, 2023 at 04:00 AM PDT
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Fossil fuel interests love to steal social justice language and use it to trick people into supporting the oil and gas industry. This fossil fuel “woke-washing” often comes in the form of false class struggle arguments that wrongly present climate...
by ClimateDenierRoundup
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on Wed May 03, 2023 at 06:18 AM PDT
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This wasn’t the first time my Twitter account was compromised by Russian Trolls and Hackers. Both instances was accompanied by a notification that my Microsoft account had been logged into by someone in Moscow Russia. In both cases I was informed I had...
by Lefty Coaster
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on Wed Jan 25, 2023 at 04:39 PM PST
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It didn’t take long for the racist trolls to return to the platform most had been long banned from. In fact, within what seemed like a few hours after Elon Musk closed his $44 billion deal to buy Twitter and his firing of several executives, the flood...
by Rebekah Sager
639 comments
on Fri Oct 28, 2022 at 08:04 AM PDT
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So, if you’ve followed my account for the now almost two decades here, you can find that I’ve written a lot about the arts. The arts, film, television, and recording industries are one of the largest, most profitable exports we have as a country, and...
by Christopher Reeves
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on Wed Sep 14, 2022 at 10:07 AM PDT
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This is one of those do as I say, not as I do, moments. That’s because I’m as guilty as a lot of people of going after objectional posts and people on Twitter. I know, my targets probably don’t even see my attacks, and they couldn’t care less about...
by RickElia
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on Wed Jul 06, 2022 at 07:04 AM PDT
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Okay. I touched on this debate a few weeks ago, about how people want to redefine the roles of progressivism in science fiction. Over the past few weeks, Disney has become a target because they dared to cast a black woman in the new Obi-Wan Kenobi...
by Christopher Reeves
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on Fri Jun 10, 2022 at 11:05 AM PDT
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I recently started posting little blurbs in the comments of Facebook posts of The White House and a number of other Democratic people and organizations. I figured that most of the RWNJ comments have nothing to do with the subject of the posts, so I...
by Woubbie
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on Wed Mar 02, 2022 at 07:19 AM PST
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The Internet is now a shadowland of smoke and phantoms, where nothing is quite what it seems. The Age of Innocence is gone, and with it hope for the “healing power” of universal communication. Much of what remains is a moonscape of conflicting memes—“a...
by dratler
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on Sun Dec 12, 2021 at 03:46 PM PST
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Former Assistant Director of the FBI, Frank Figliuzzi, recently posted on Twitter: The fact-checking site Snopes looked into similar claims and found massive evidence of foreign-based social media accounts pretending to be Americans while cheerleading...
by thomhartmann
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on Wed Nov 24, 2021 at 08:11 AM PST
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Facebook, as kos keeps saying, is a menace. Here are a few paragraphs from a recent report MIT Technology Review, Karen Hao In the run-up to the 2020 election, the most highly contested in US history, Facebook’s most popular pages for Christian and...
by chloris creator
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on Wed Oct 06, 2021 at 01:47 PM PDT
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The stories of Covid deaths and disability are often tragic, and they’re happening by the millions in America. These stories — and the grim spectacle of armed white people protesting at schools, election sites and hospitals — illustrate a dangerous new...
by thomhartmann
114 comments
on Fri Oct 01, 2021 at 07:11 AM PDT
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It’s almost impossible to run any sort of social media platform without community standards. Those guidelines may be eternally shifting, the proper application of those guidelines may be extremely difficult without a supportive community and dedicated...
by Mark Sumner
93 comments
on Wed Jun 02, 2021 at 09:15 AM PDT
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We’ve all made grammatical and spelling errors and had someone “help” us by pointing it out. We’ve also had people argue hour perspective was wrong. How they do it and are response tells a lot about us and them. Yesterday...
by TexDem
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on Fri Mar 19, 2021 at 07:30 AM PDT
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My dismay was acute earlier this week when Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez revealed she was an assault victim and thus the violent mob that trampled our Capitol was an especially traumatic event for her. Our Republican cousins are violent-prone, misogynistic,...
by paradox
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on Fri Feb 05, 2021 at 07:22 AM PST
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- It’s extremely early. I don’t believe that polls are meaningful predictors of the eventual outcome of a presidential election when they are this far out from November. Polls will only potentially be meaningful when we are past Labor Day, especially...107 comments 159 Recs
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