RE: Member of Congress Among 5 Reportedly Shot at Baseball Field
June 18, 2017 at 9:46 am
(This post was last modified: June 18, 2017 at 10:04 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(June 18, 2017 at 8:09 am)wallym Wrote: I don't really think the problem is with all of them. I think the problem's root is the efficiency of rhetoric. Between social media, 24 hour news, a la carte news that reinforces biases, click bait, data driven political messaging, identity politics, social engineering, etc...What do you think people have been manipulated into thinking was true? As opposed to what is, ofc, I mean? Honestly, I think you'd have alot more traction here with simply accepting the trumpster for what he is, and questioning whether a violent response is ever warranted, even in the case of a little hitler. It would seem less ridiculous than burying your head in the sand -about- what comparisons between the trumpster and his supportersand the reich are accurate.
What they're telling me, what you're telling me, is exactly what I read on the Huffington Post, or heard a talking head on MSNBC say, or see being passed around Facebook. There is no mystery where the information comes from. You see it with Fox News. You see it with Christians. Some part of your brain recognizes that they are being manipulated in a way that has them believing stupid shit is true. But for whatever reason, when it comes to Huffington Post, or an MSNBC panelist, or that Facebook meme being passed around, when it's time to wonder if maybe their are people on the left who might try to copy the highly effective strategies we saw from fox news or religion, you just said "nah"?
And the point is, again, if the system has become that ruthlessly efficient that it's sweeping all these people up, who's left? But you don't think you're being manipulated, so you're really only relevant to that discussion as an example.
Fun fact, did you know that well into the gassings, there were some germans who could still believe that hitler wasn't an anti-semite, he was opposed to a particular -kind- of jew, the bad kind. No one doubts the efficacy of rhetoric, but common human denial seems to be impervious to it.
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