This is, without hyperbole, the same shit fascist Italy and Nazi Germany pushed. The "enemy within." It historically is used to justify mass violence.
I'm just a simple country political scientist but it does concern me when one of the two major parties in a two party system holds Orwellian hate rallies.
If you stop looking at the Robovan pictures and just repeat “A bus, but it can only carry 20 passengers” over and over again, eventually you start to understand the intellectual bankruptcy of not just Musk but most of Silicon Valley.
NYT Oct. 6 vs. Oct. 9 Asking the person who lied to you to comment on another thing knowing she will lie, without telling your readers that she previously lied, is an endorsement of that liar's credibility This is to the dot what modern propaganda looks like
I know this is very serious, but on The Weather Channel there is a meteorologist reporting from Tampa in the pouring rain and wind… and there is a sprinkler visibly on in the background. It’s so absurd
True. In my mind, it’s sort of like late-term Reagan, where the theory is he was just dragged around and did what his handlers said because of dementia. Trump is told to go out and play the hits and just sort of goes along. Just my theory.
I think this was a more purposeful pivot following the debate. When they lost all those donors, they realized Trump himself is the campaign’s biggest liability.
Trump’s campaign DOES have a strategy: to hide their candidate while making it seem like they aren’t. The Trump campaign strategy is completely unconventional because the candidate is debilitated, not because it’s ill-considered. It’s a sound, crass strategy.
It's so obvious US leaders don't care about the mental health of children when they only target non-US owned social media, like TikTok is somehow 'unique' in that regard. Plus, it's the social platform few of those people actually use. It's not like Facebook is addictive or harms mental health... 🙄
More than a dozen states and the District of Columbia have filed lawsuits against TikTok on Tuesday, alleging the popular short-form video app is harming youth mental health by designing its platform ...