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   William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Oct-2024 23:24:46 JST William Lindsey :toad:

   "Nobody can control the weather."

   ~ North Carolina Republican Rep. Chuck Edwards

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   https://www.cbsnews.com/news/chuck-edwards-north-carolina-hurricane-helene-fact-check/

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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Oct-2024 23:24:40 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "Antisemitic tropes have commingled on the site with false rumors and conspiracy theories amid the chaos of the recovery effort, according to a report released Tuesday by the nonprofit Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD)."

     #hurricane #Milton #Trump #Republicans #lies #disinformation #ElonMusk #Twitter #X #antisemitism
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     Warner Crocker repeated this.
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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Oct-2024 23:24:40 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     Writing from her perspective having grown up in rural Missouri, Susan Niemann says,

     "Perhaps by better understanding them, we can reason with them? Nah. The vitriol has reached a fever pitch now. The cult mentality of Trump supporters is strong. VERY strong.

     People have been told who to hate and that it’s ok to do so. No matter what facts are presented to them, they refuse to hear it."

     #hurricane #Milton #Trump #Republicans #lies #disinformation
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     https://adchick.substack.com/p/im-so-sick-of-all-of-it

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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Oct-2024 23:24:41 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "The attacks, which include wild claims that Jewish officials are conspiring to orchestrate the disasters, sabotage the recovery or even seize victims’ property, are being fomented largely on Elon Musk’s X."

     ~ Will Oremus and Maxine Joselow

     #hurricane #Milton #Trump #Republicans #lies #disinformation #ElonMusk #Twitter #X #antisemitism
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     https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/10/08/hurricane-helene-antisemitic-misinformation-x/

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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Oct-2024 23:24:42 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     Looking at the AI "slop" circulated on social media — the little girl with her pup — Jason Koebler says,

     "Something very disheartening is happening with this particular image, however. A specific segment of the people who have seen & understand that it is AI-generated simply do not care that it is not real & that it did not happen. To them, the image captures a vibe that is useful to them politically."

     #hurricane #Milton #Trump #Republicans #lies #disinformation #AI
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     https://www.404media.co/hurricane-helene-and-the-fuck-it-era-of-ai-generated-slop/

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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Oct-2024 23:24:43 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "Politicians and right-wing influencers have spread conspiracy theories online suggesting that Hurricane Milton has been geoengineered by nefarious forces, with the end goal of preventing Republicans from voting in the presidential election."

     ~ Tess Owen

     #hurricane #Milton #Trump #Republicans #lies #disinformation
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     https://www.wired.com/story/hurricane-milton-geoengineer-lasers-fema-conspiracy-theories-debunk/

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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Oct-2024 23:24:43 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "I do think there is something about religiosity that makes religious populations easier to manipulate. …

     Reality-denial has been baked into conservatism for a very long time. It is certainly baked into conservative Christianity. Anecdotally, I’ve seen the most conspiracy-theorizing in other conservative religious societies, and certainly not just Christian ones."

     ~ Jill Filipovic

     #hurricane #Milton #Trump #Republicans #lies #disinformation
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     https://jill.substack.com/p/the-breaking-of-the-conservative

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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Oct-2024 23:24:44 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "The scale and speed of conspiracies about Hurricane Milton being orchestrated and controlled by the deep state is incredible to watch."

     ~ David Gilbert quoted by Brian Stelter

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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Oct-2024 23:24:45 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "This tweet format has become conspicuously popular on the redpilled internet. The formula is simple: 1) Post a screenshot of a supposedly genuine text message, 2) express outrage, 3) ask if it’s true without really caring whether it is, and 4) do no further investigation into the matter. It’s a newfangled incarnation of a classic, the chain email. Pass it along or else no one will know the 'truth.'”

     ~ Scott Nover

     #hurricane #Milton #Trump #lies #disinformation
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     https://slate.com/technology/2024/10/charlie-kirk-elon-musk-hurricane-helene-fema-misinformation-x-twitter.html

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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Oct-2024 09:28:06 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     In Oliver Willis' view, what Americans are now dealing with is "disinformation terrorism" on the part of the Republican party, and the Democratic response so far has been weak tea.

     #hurricane #Milton #Trump #Republicans #lies #disinformation
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     https://www.oliverexplains.com/p/trump-and-fox-news-are-americas-disinformation

     Paul Cantrell repeated this.
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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Oct-2024 09:28:07 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "They’ve left normal life behind and are now lost. Gone.

     There is no reasoning with these people.

     The primitive way people are behaving may well be the undoing of America.

     The Republican Party has worked diligently over the years to create this anger and division."

     #hurricane #Milton #Trump #Republicans #lies #disinformation
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     Paul Cantrell repeated this.
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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Oct-2024 09:28:25 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "A wave of antisemitic rhetoric and online threats has been leveled at state and federal officials in North Carolina in recent days as they respond to the destructive aftermath of Hurricane Helene, according to a report released on Tuesday by a nonprofit research group that studies online platforms."

     ~ Eduardo Medina

     #hurricane #Milton #Trump #Republicans #lies #disinformation #ElonMusk #Twitter #X #antisemitism
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     https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/08/us/north-carolina-floods-antisemitic-social-media.html

     Paul Cantrell repeated this.
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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Oct-2024 09:28:32 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     Jonathan V. Last says one reason normalization of the unthinkable happens is that we're not wired to live with constant abnormality:

     "If you create a constant stream of abnormalities, then eventually people accept them as normal.

     Which is why authoritarians, like Trump, provoke. They seek to accelerate the neurological process, thus normalizing the authoritarian project and creating pathways to power."

     #Trump #Republicans #lies #disinformation #authoritarianism
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     https://www.thebulwark.com/p/biology-explains-why-people-normalize