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   Teri Kanefield (teri_kanefield@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 26-Jan-2024 09:10:04 JST Teri Kanefield

   One more comment about the border issue in Texas.

   Heading into the 2018 midterms, Trump tried to do the same thing: Create a border crisis and campaign on the (invented) issue that scary brown people were invading.

   It didn't work in 2018 (the Republicans lost) and I am sure it won't work again.

   The idea that it work will comes from being inside an information ecosystem (or bubble): They can use it to rile their base, so they think it will rile everyone.

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     @matty @amerika @caekislove @Teri_Kanefield You should learn to read
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     Matty (matty@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Friday, 26-Jan-2024 09:10:00 JST Matty

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     FSE blocked Gleasonator?
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     Caek Islove ? ❤️ (caekislove@gleasonator.com)'s status on Friday, 26-Jan-2024 09:10:01 JST Caek Islove ? ❤️

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     @amerika @Teri_Kanefield Can mastodon dot social users see posts from your instance? I wish I could troll them, but Gleasonator is blocked. 😢

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     ≠ Brett Stevens ≠ (amerika@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 26-Jan-2024 09:10:02 JST ≠ Brett Stevens ≠

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     The US is in breach of its contract with Texas.
     
     We're gonna #secede!
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     Teri Kanefield (teri_kanefield@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 26-Jan-2024 09:10:03 JST Teri Kanefield

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     Also I want to remind everyone that right now, Abbot is huffing and puffing.

     He's making threats and talking big.

     Jackson actually did defy the court. And yes, Southern states defied Brown v. Board.

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     Teri Kanefield (teri_kanefield@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 26-Jan-2024 09:10:04 JST Teri Kanefield

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     One mistake the GOP made is to cater to a small, vocal part of the base.

     The two mindblowing books I read in the past few weeks (attached) opened my eyes to how small these partisan ecosystems are.

     Some of the people insisting that Biden should do X or Y do not realize that they, too, are speaking for a very small subset of the voting population.

     It's fine to say what Biden should do, but he will go where the larger numbers are.

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     accretionist (accretionist@techhub.social)'s status on Friday, 26-Jan-2024 13:12:41 JST accretionist

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     anyone watching media/ social media in october 2018 in the usa could see the regular drumbeat of hysteria about invading "caravans", especially as broadcast by trump

     and then in in november 2018: *poof*, the entire problem magically disappeared post elections

     i wish GOP allegiants could admit to themselves how easily they are manipulated. problem is enough of them are in on it: they know it's all a lie, they don't care, and they play along. they're happy about the manipulation. this is the modern GOP

     finally, remember also "jade helm"

     an idiotic alex jones conspiracy theory, and abbott played into it for political reasons, having the texas state guard "monitor" what was a regular military exercise (rick perry even came out to say it was a regular exercise)

     i sense abbot is doing the same here: playing at the game of manufactured outrage for dim wits, and already aware he will back down if any real consequences present themselves

     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jade_Helm_15_conspiracy_theories

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     Tony S. voted for Democrats (tonystark@progressivecafe.social)'s status on Friday, 26-Jan-2024 13:13:19 JST Tony S. voted for Democrats

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     “The loud and insistent voices that dominate the airwaves and social media networks―and that dominate journalists’ accounts of American political life―do not represent the broad swaths of the public who care about politics, but whose lives are not defined by politics.” -The Other Divide

     In other words, social media users don’t reflect reality. But they appear to think they’re in possession of the most popular opinions and they are not.