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   William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 23:01:46 JST William Lindsey :toad:

   "I believe this election turned out the way it did in no small part because a large number of Americans are now submerged in new factories of lies more insidious than anything Orwell imagined,"

   ~ Rebecca Solnit

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   https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/09/authoritarians-like-trump-love-fear-defeatism-surrender-do-not-give-them-what-they-want

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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Nov-2024 03:45:01 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "Most American voters who had correct facts about the major issues voted for Harris. Those who didn’t voted for Trump. However, when they were blindly presented with Harris’s policies, they greatly favored them.

     What explains this dichotomy and breakdown?

     Dan Froomkin 'blames the press' in part for failing to inform many Trump voters when it came to the reality of the economy, inflation, immigration and crime."

     ~ Wahajat Ali

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     https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/how-corporate-media-helped-re-elect

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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Nov-2024 03:45:02 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "and that while the worst of it is the foreign and far-right intentional distortion of reality, too much of the mainstream media has been deferential and will be more deferential to authoritarianism and will not stop letting the right set the agenda about what to be concerned about and what matters. In fact, I don’t have to believe that disinformation is impactful; I know it because it’s been documented."

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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Nov-2024 07:21:17 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "My husband and I were correspondents [in Russia] in the first few years of Putin’s term, and Putin moved with extraordinary speed and focus to dismantle the fledgling institutions of Russian democracy. That has been the template and the playbook for other would-be authoritarians who are working within a democratic system."

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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Nov-2024 07:21:18 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "What I was trying to say to Trump’s opponents and Trump’s critics is that it’s not just that he was at a real risk of winning, which I thought for a long time, but also that he is very likely to move very, very rapidly to create new facts on the ground while his opponents are just busy fighting with each other over their ideological priors."

     ~ Susan Glasser

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     https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/trumps-angry-new-threats-on-truth-social-take-dark/id1728152109?i=1000676625643

     Robert Link and bhaugen repeated this.
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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Nov-2024 07:21:19 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     I couldn't agree more with Stephanie G. Wilson:

     "I’m not going to give any hot takes about the campaign, what it did wrong, or any particular tactics. … I don’t think small fixes would have made a difference. In this campaign, as in all of our country’s issues, we can’t fix systemic problems with individual solutions. A lot of that monday morning quarterbacking is self serving, and a lot of it can be a circular firing squad. No thank you."

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     https://www.freedomoverfascism.us/p/how-to-keep-functioning-and-getting

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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Nov-2024 07:21:20 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "For many outside of progressive, liberal, and left-leaning circles, social media platforms rife with conspiracy, disinformation, and hate are what people are seeing daily – and where they develop their sense of the world they live in. Social media is now the media."

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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Nov-2024 07:21:20 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "In this ecosystem, what matters is what resonates, regardless of how outrageous, and getting riled up is rewarded by the algorithm. Again, there is the interaction of such visceral instincts with the more factual grievance of the system not working in their interests."

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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Nov-2024 07:21:21 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "Politics isn’t about politics anymore.

     That significant numbers instead see it as a vehicle to channel their fears and resentment-driven emotional instincts – beyond facts – is the existential challenge facing democracy today. ...

     The tech revolution has changed everything."

     ~ Hardeep Matharu

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     https://www.bylinesupplement.com/p/the-psycho-social-techno-politics

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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Nov-2024 07:21:22 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "For American democracy, this election has been like going to the doctor for a routine annual physical, only to be shown an X-ray revealing a sinister dark mass over the heart. ...

     This election has taught me that our country has made a fundamental shift in its core values."

     ~ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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     https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-08/kareem-abdul-jabbar-diagnoses-trump-s-election-2024-win?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTczMTA5OTQ4MiwiZXhwIjoxNzMxNzA0MjgyLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJTTU43SlhEV0xVNjgwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJBRjJFNDMxQTgzRjk0OTU3QUIxNzg5NTgwOEU2Q0YxMiJ9.1wQ5ZazWs0U5MDzFBHG6fNv42NYi6pNgr4x9WwQOnw

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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Nov-2024 07:21:22 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     “He’s good and bad. People say he’s a dictator. I believe that. I consider him like Hitler. But I voted for the man.”

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     ~ Scranton, Pennsylvania, voter Matt Wolfson

     https://www.inquirer.com/politics/election/donald-trump-voters-pennsylvania-economy-fascism-20241111.html

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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Nov-2024 07:21:23 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "Could we easily make up for the loss of these workers by replacing them with native-born workers? No. Employment among native-born adults in their prime working years is higher than it was at any point during Trump’s first term. There just isn’t a large pool of idle but employable native-born Americans to put to work."

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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Nov-2024 07:21:24 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "For example, they account for an estimated 30 to 50 percent of workers in meatpacking.

     If these workers are deported, the food industry will probably have great difficulty replacing them. Even in the best case, the industry will have to offer much higher wages — and, of course, these higher wages will be passed on in higher prices.

     (Oh, and while we produce most of what we eat, we also import a lot of food — whose prices would be raised by tariffs.)"

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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Nov-2024 07:21:24 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "Undocumented immigrants are more than a fifth of the construction work force, so deportations would severely hamper efforts to increase the housing supply. (And no, contrary to what JD Vance said, immigration hasn’t driven the recent spike in housing costs.)"

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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Nov-2024 07:21:25 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "If you’re upset about grocery prices now, see what happens if Trump goes after a huge part of the agricultural work force; immigrants are around three-quarters of agricultural workers — & roughly half of them are undocumented. (& do you really doubt that many workers legally here will be caught up in Trump’s threatened dragnets?) Undocumented immigrants also play a large role in food processing."

     ~ Paul Krugman

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     https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/11/opinion/trump-deportation-inflation-grocery-bills.html

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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Nov-2024 07:21:26 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "The question they should be asking is, 'Why?'

     Instead, they waste time on their typical and tired blame-the-Democrats assessments while ignoring the underlying causes that led to this fraught and dangerous era, a fascist is putting together the most extreme cabinet in modern American history. Good job, everybody."

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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Nov-2024 07:21:26 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "Surveys show that Trump’s supporters don’t just tolerate his autocratic tendencies. They positively like them. ...

     Most Americans don’t want explicit autocracy. But many Trump supporters are open to it, and most of his voters will support or tolerate authoritarian policies and acts."

     ~ Will Saletan'

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     https://www.thebulwark.com/p/how-authoritarian-are-americans-trump-surveys-autocracy

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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Nov-2024 07:21:27 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "It was Joe Biden’s fault. It was Kamala Harris’ fault. But apparently the bleak permanence of American racism and misogyny, the almost unimpeded rise of fascism, and a system so broken the Republican Party actually nominated, and America elected, an insurrectionist in direct violation of Article 3 of the 14th Amendment had nothing at all to do with the dark turn we’ve taken."

     ~ Mary Trump

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     https://www.marytrump.org/p/the-media-want-to-blame-kamala-harris

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     Warner Crocker (warnercrocker@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Nov-2024 07:29:55 JST Warner Crocker

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     @wdlindsy In my evil vindictive flights of fancy I'm actually looking forward to this.

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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Nov-2024 07:33:22 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "Russia has been engaged in a good deal of dick-wagging with Trump since the election. …

     Trump is going to be a tool of Russia."

     ~ Marcy Wheeler

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     https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/11/12/russia-attempts-to-collect-its-winnings/

     Robert Link repeated this.
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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Nov-2024 07:33:22 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "Russia appears to be doing what every other entity that helped Trump get elected is doing, as they try to collect on their support: exerting what levers of pressure they have to get their objectives.

     It turns out they likely have more levers of pressure — some of which are more powerful now, before Trump’s win is certified — and larger demands than most of the people who helped Trump get elected."

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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Nov-2024 07:33:23 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "I will not spend a lot of time here blaming whoever caused this tremendous loss. People everywhere are already doing that.

     Assigning blame is useless unless viable solutions are offered and implemented.

     That said, here are my top three reasons why we lost the election:"

     1. Racism
     2. Sexism
     3. Misinformation and disinformation

     ~ Pamela Hilliard Owens

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     https://wearespeaking.substack.com/p/that-was-then-this-is-now

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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Nov-2024 08:42:32 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     Melissa Ryan offers readers today a helpful reading list for those seeking resources as we, in this period prior to the man's inauguration ask, "How do we prepare for the road ahead? How and where can we fight back? What do we need to know?"

     The list has twelve book titles.

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     https://www.altrightdelete.news/p/your-end-of-year-reading-list

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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Nov-2024 08:42:32 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "Speaking with Russian state media on Monday, Russian presidential aide Nikolay Patrushev noted that while the U.S. election may be over, Trump is still beholden to 'certain forces.' …

     'To achieve success in the election, Donald Trump relied on certain forces to which he has corresponding obligations,' Patrushev told the business daily Kommersant…."

     ~ Ellie Quinlan Hougtaling

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     https://newrepublic.com/post/188284/vladimir-putin-donald-trump-election-obligations