In a thread yesterday, I noted that after WWII, many Americans asked how it was possible that large numbers of Germans could hear Hitler's dangerous, crazy ranting targeting minority communities and lusting after blood and still support him.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
"Every time he opens his mouth and another lie spills forth, all she has to do is look into the eye of the camera and utter those famous words of Ronald Reagan, 'There he goes again,' followed by a reference to how dangerous it would be to have a man who spreads such lies as President of the United States."
#KamalaHarris #Trump #Republicans #authoritarianism #lies #disinformation
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mickymorsereplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy The fascist gop have made their corrupt and depraved bed. They have been a criminal cabal since Reagan. Ask Mitch Mcconnell about his relationship with Oleg Deripaska, a Putin oligarch.
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Ideal CHreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy @sufferforme
I'd say the same holds for colonialism.
I find it hard to consider sane the other half (or almost?) who know the effects on real people of #Nakba and support the US policy of enabling *that*. -
William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by [email protected]
"Thereโs a reason this simple front page headline in The Orlando Sentinel went viral: because itโs so rare for Trump to be held to normal journalistic standards, rather than being sanewashed by a complacentโฆand at times complicitโฆmediaโฆ.
Itโs really just that easy, ABC."
~ Todd Beeton
The headline Beeton references is below.
#Trump #Republicans #authoritarianism #media #lies #disinformation #sanewashing
/24https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/harris-trump-debate-abc-news
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2eMama for Harrisreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy who is going to tell them?
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by [email protected]
About those projections by Nate Silver, founder of FiveThirtyEight, projecting Trump as the big winner of the coming election, and Kamala Harris as quite an underdog:
As Alex Henderson reports, conservative political consultant Stuart Stevens reminds us that Silver is paid by none other than J.D. Vance's sugar daddy, Peter Thiel.
#NateSilver #PeterThiel #JDVance #Trump #media
/25https://www.alternet.org/nate-silver-stuart-stevens-polymarket/
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James M.replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy here's a contrast with the NYT front page, on the same day:
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Gerrit Venema ๐ช๐บ๐replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
Absolutely bone chilling. It is this kind of "rumors" that carry unacceptable probabilities of leading to real pogroms.
Anyone caught amplifyjng them should be shunned until they show remorse of their actions. Anyone caught initiating them should be banished from any platform until they make amends.
Of course that happens only in a society that still has the power to clean up it's own information sphere, and is not stuck in some loop of doom and terminal information pollution.
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Deep Mudreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy enough of these goddamned sugar daddies. Let's tax them to where they stop trying to destroy our country
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Deep Mud last edited by
@deepmud As the old Yiddish saying has it, from your mouth to God's ears.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Gerrit Venema ๐ช๐บ๐ last edited by
@gvenema I agree. And I appreciate Parker Molloy for pointing that out and linking this kind of wildly irresponsible lying designed to demonize people easily recognizable as the other to the tactics of the ugly old blood libel. Excellent commentary on your part.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to James M. last edited by
@jamesmarshall Thank you. Astonishing, isn't it? Has the New York Times absolutely no shame? Wait. don't answer that โ I think we both know the answer.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to TCat - Vote Blue last edited by
@TCatInReality Follow the moneyโฆ.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to 2eMama for Harris last edited by
@lbaker356 The media, do you mean? If so, I think they know full well and simply pretend not to know.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Ideal CH last edited by
@ideal_CH @sufferforme Yes, I agree.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to mickymorse last edited by
@mickymorse You're right. And I won't ever forget Paul Ryan whispering to a group of Republicans when he was speaker of the House that Trump was in cahoots with the Russians. It has long been an open secret.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Runyan50 last edited by
@Runyan50 Could well be, I think.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Runyan50 last edited by
@Runyan50 I've often thought that they imagine โ fatuously โ that when the fascism they're helping to usher in arrives, it will be fascism-lite for them, no matter how brutal it is for lesser beings.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to J.Sสแดสแด๐๐บ๐ฆFสแดแดแด แดแด&Dแดแดแดแดสแดแดส last edited by
@JSharp1436 Yes, Pizzagate popped into my mind immediately when I read this story. And we know how dangerous that lie turned out to be when a North Carolina man drove from North Carolina to D.C. with a rifle to shoot up the pizza place alleged to be the scene of those totally invented horrors, and found it didn't even have a basement โ where the horrors were supposedly taking place.