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   Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 21-Dec-2023 16:11:38 JST Paul Cantrell

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   • Jeremy Kahn

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   Be sure to click that ad link early and often! Money straight out of their pocket

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     Jeremy Kahn (trochee@dair-community.social)'s status on Thursday, 21-Dec-2023 16:11:40 JST Jeremy Kahn

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     And now that I've looked at their site, I'm getting sponsored ads in Google

     🙄💀 Oh, _that_ guy

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     Jeremy Kahn (trochee@dair-community.social)'s status on Thursday, 21-Dec-2023 16:11:41 JST Jeremy Kahn

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     I mean, that's worth zooming in on and subjecting it to a deeper semiotic reading

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     Jeremy Kahn (trochee@dair-community.social)'s status on Thursday, 21-Dec-2023 16:11:42 JST Jeremy Kahn

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     Also, do I detect some specifically antisemitic tropes in the image decorating THE AMERICAN LEFT?

     Is that Schumer with his nose being embiggened by the "scrap paper" boundary?

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     Jeremy Kahn (trochee@dair-community.social)'s status on Thursday, 21-Dec-2023 16:11:44 JST Jeremy Kahn

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     I mean JFC, The Onion would be embarrassed to run this as a parody

     THE AMERICAN LEFT: FROM LIBERALISM TO DESPOTISM

     I mean, if ONLY

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     Jeremy Kahn (trochee@dair-community.social)'s status on Thursday, 21-Dec-2023 16:11:45 JST Jeremy Kahn

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     Ooh I think it was these guys

     https://online.hillsdale.edu/

     And I was right about their not so hidden agenda to whitewash[sic] American history.

     Those boring stock videos of white people enjoying coffee at laptops and nodding sagely at how wise the forefathers were (Lincoln notably absent)

     Turns out they're a Koch Bros Operation

     https://www.reddit.com/r/KochWatch/comments/14pfczn/hillsdale_college_ads_on_youtube/

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     Jeremy Kahn (trochee@dair-community.social)'s status on Thursday, 21-Dec-2023 16:11:46 JST Jeremy Kahn

     OK, last night at a local pizza joint I saw the creepiest TV ad during the Mariners game

     appeared to be an online learning college-esque program for "teaching our great American history"

     was giving Prager U vibes but wasn't Prager.

     It had a hyper anglo name like "edgewood" and used an .org TLD not .edu, & I witnessed exactly 1 non-white person in the 2m ad (in a 2s b&w clip of a civil rights protestor pushed around by Bull Connor)

     Anybody know who it was, & should I be worried?

     #lazydon