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   William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 04:46:10 JST William Lindsey :toad:

   "Trump owes his victory in great part to low-propensity voters of all races, including young men, and those voters don’t necessarily form their views based on mainstream media reporting. Rather, far too many are stuck in an online social media bubble where they are delivered a steady diet of rightwing propaganda."

   ~ Stephen Robinson

   #Trump #fascism #disinformation #YoungVoters #SocialMedia #YoungMen #gender #MaleEntitlement
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   https://www.publicnotice.co/p/how-tiktok-x-helped-trump-beat-harris-2024

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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 04:46:01 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     It's elitist, you see, in the eyes of the lofty people occupying bully pulpits at Washington Post to think there's something shockingly inhumane about a plan to round of untold numbers of people, put them in camps, and ship them out of the country — just because. Because we want to pretend they're the problem.

     Elitist to care about the human lives of those people and the barbarism of any nation cooking up such a scheme….

     #Trump #fascism #disinformation #media
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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 04:46:02 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     Jason Linkins responds to the truly astonishing — the very definition of blind hubris — belief of Washington Post's editorial team that they can lecture Democratic voters about "elitism" following this election. About Bezos, he says,

     "The only successful way for a plutocrat to own a newspaper is for the Richie Rich in question to follow my two-step plan: Shut your mouth, and write those checks."

     #Trump #fascism #disinformation #media
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     https://newsletter.tnr.com/index.php?action=social&chash=2c89109d42178de8a367c0228f169bf8.1087&s=cdd6377d8462caad2b4695418c877aea

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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 04:46:03 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     As Josh Koblin reports, since the election in the US, MSNBC's ratings have plummeted while "the opposite has happened at Fox News."

     #Trump #fascism #disinformation #FoxNews #MSNBC
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     https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/13/business/media/msnbc-fox-news-ratings-election.html

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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 04:46:03 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     " Politics is an entirely new game now that has little to do with right and wrong – or at least far less so than it did before.

     It’s all about making the public believe what you’re saying, and this time, the majority of Americans chose to believe MAGA. MAGA is better at making itself believable to more people, as hard as it is to digest and believe."

     ~ Keith Owens

     #Trump #fascism #disinformation
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     https://wearespeaking.substack.com/p/we-are-losing-a-war-of-words

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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 04:46:04 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     The quote below from Brian Tolentino is making rounds on social media. It came to me via Facebook, so that's the link I'm providing for it.

     Our society faces a massive educational challenge, and this is evident with the recent election. When we get our information from soundbytes on social media, we're vulnerable to manipulation and are fertile ground for disinformation.

     #Trump #fascism #disinformation #YoungVoters #SocialMedia
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     https://www.facebook.com/EverythingLibraries/posts/pfbid02avDxdPVKc3qjXN7BtaPyzr8Drgm6r7CVKAQ4sYoGbRzzjSVL5m93m98iFfxc9qjKl

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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 04:46:05 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "What we can say, though, is that this was not an electoral landslide, but a narrowly contested race in which Trump is likely to have benefited as much from who didn’t turn out to vote for his candidacy as who did turn out to vote for him."

     ~ Philip Bump

     #Trump #fascism #cruelty #disinformation #VoterApathy #media
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     https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/11/12/what-numbers-actually-say-about-2024-election/

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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 04:46:06 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "This election was about identity after all—an American identity which has become more tolerant of authoritarianism and less committed to democracy over the past decade. As Trump’s opponents try to figure out why they were defeated and how they can resist him over the next four years, they need to confront the dark reality about who we have become as a nation."

     #Trump #fascism #cruelty #authoritarianism #disinformation #education #IdentityPolitics
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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 04:46:06 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "The decline in voter participation is what allows the Republicans to cosplay a mandate. If the elite political media plays along, that play-pretend becomes reality. Any story you read that uses the word mandate in any way except ironically is playing you for a fool…."

     ~ Charles Pierce

     #Trump #fascism #cruelty #disinformation #VoterApathy #media
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     https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a62896778/presidential-election-2024-turnout/

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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 04:46:07 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "Americans didn’t elect Trump because they were offended by the Democrats—they elected Trump because they like him. They know everything they need to know about Trump. He has been broadcasting his cruelty, hatred, and self-obsession into every American home for nearly a decade."

     #Trump #fascism #cruelty #authoritarianism #disinformation #education
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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 04:46:08 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "A cultural and political chasm has opened up between Americans who still care about the integrity of their democracy and those who do not. We have entered an age of political nihilism in which our traditional conceptions of ideological and identitarian conflict must be abandoned. This election was about the identity of the United States as a whole, and it didn’t tell an inspiring story."

     ~ Matt Johnson

     #Trump #fascism #cruelty #authoritarianism #disinformation #education
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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 04:46:08 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "The old narratives about the Democrats’ contempt for the working class and their racially divisive politics don’t apply to this election. The argument that Americans are in so much economic pain that they had to vote for Trump doesn’t hold up: Unemployment is just over 4 percent, the stock market was hitting all-time highs before Trump won, and inflation has plummeted from a peak of over 9 percent to 2.4 percent."

     #Trump #fascism #cruelty #authoritarianism #disinformation #education
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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 04:46:09 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "The median age of a Fox News viewer is 68, and liberals have joked about the network 'brainwashing' their conservative parents. But rightwing social media content has effectively targeted and radicalized younger people, who — unlike the typical Hannity-obsessed grandpa — can vote for the next several decades.

     #Trump #fascism #disinformation #YoungVoters #SocialMedia #YoungMen #gender #MaleEntitlement
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