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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Mary Ann on December 13, 2022, 10:01:22 AM
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https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217459653
YorkRd (304 posts)
Does Musk have enough power to swing elections?
I think twitter already can and has swung elections. The scariest parts is how it can force multiply extreme rightwing positions, distribute those positions and reinforce the general Republican propaganda platform of well crafted lying and gaslighting.
What can Democrats and democrats do in response?
Funny, how this is SUDDENLY a problem. To answer your question, DUmmie, what you can do about it is grouse and complain to each other on DU.
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What can Democrats and democrats do in response?
Why do anything? Most of the media are still on your side.
If you want to do something, you could take the left’s own suggestion and build your own.
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https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217459653Funny, how this is SUDDENLY a problem. To answer your question, DUmmie, what you can do about it is grouse and complain to each other on DU.
:cheersmate:
Weird huh. Never was a problem when Team Twitter censor was playing for the fascist democrats.
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Never seemed to be a concern with the DUmmies when Jack was running the show.
Wonder why that is? :whistling:
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Keeping in mind that this is coming from the same morons who claim that Zuckerburg and Facebook are "Reich-Wing". :whatever:
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"Swing elections"? Like Twitter and other social media did in suppressing the Hunter Biden laptop story and labelling it a Russian fake?
"Swing elections"? Like Google has tried intermittently to do for nearly two decades by falsely labelling conservative news/commentary sites as sources of malware?
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Here's a howler from Johnny2X2X, one of the dumber ones.
Johnny2X2X (15,128 posts)
2. Dems are way less orgqanized
probably because valuing free thinking is at the core of being a Democrat. But we don't tout our good news very well at all, and kid of let bad news for us spiral because we want to hear all sides.
He deliberately added a q to organized. That's not a typo.
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Posted ~4 hours ago, just 9 Replies. Not exactly a warm welcome for a LP Noob.
hatrack (56,677 posts)
3. I don't know - does Myspace?
Because I think this is where this is heading anyway . . . .
I think hatrack means that (s)he believes Twitter will soon die. The pretentiously named AntivaxHunters (I promise, that is not me) misses that point:
AntivaxHunters (1,328 posts)
5. Not a good comparison
MySpace was before smartphones. This is a very different age when everything is connected to the internet & that often includes & means Twitter.
:blah: :blah: :blah:
This is a very different age than the age of MySpace. Literal revolutions are planned, fought, & waged on Twitter. Arab Spring is a good example of that.
Cold Water-of-Reality tossers:
Sympthsical (5,805 posts)
7. Any media can influence elections
It is, by definition, kind of what they do. The first mass media in America - newspapers - were largely partisan enterprises meant to buttress or damage political parties. This idea of objectivity was mostly a 20th Century invention, and it has been increasingly going out the door with the spread of social media. Now it's just The Narrative. What makes a good story? What gets engagement, the clickies and eyeballs?
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brooklynite (83,457 posts)
8. Answer: no.
First: MOST voters don't hang out on Twitter.
Second: Among people who do participate in social media, far fewer use Twitter (330 M) vs Facebook 2.13 B (the platform used by Russia to influence opinion.
Third: Twitter and Facebook didn't shift Clinton voters to Trump. At most, it reinforced the opinions of some people who didn't like her.
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2. Dems are way less orgqanized
probably because valuing free thinking is at the core of being a Democrat. But we don't tout our good news very well at all, and kid of let bad news for us spiral because we want to hear all sides.
Is this like some sort of weird reverse projection, where one takes someone else's desirable traits, and associates them with oneself?
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"Extreme rightwing positions" such as any position the mainstream right has held since reagan held office, and anything that runs contrary to their far left idiocy.
:thatsright:
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Is this like some sort of weird reverse projection, where one takes someone else's desirable traits, and associates them with oneself?
Yes, it's their other projection.
They accuse their perceived enemies of what they do, and attribute to themselves, the virtues ethics and morals of those perceived enemies at the same time.
One might call it reality swapping.
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Here's a howler from Johnny2X2X, one of the dumber ones.
He deliberately added a q to organized. That's not a typo.
as dumb as he looks:
(https://scontent-sea1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.18169-9/10440948_10206109540591038_8315691109531757939_n.jpg?_nc_cat=102&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=174925&_nc_ohc=znMHcPWOTAgAX9Aktat&tn=eBGTnyDKLJ8Yylt3&_nc_ht=scontent-sea1-1.xx&oh=00_AfB_i_MozWKh9mgDUzCtdiE-5QUQXKVDcgTxq79Yh35bVw&oe=63C364FD)
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:rotf:
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A DUnizen of Detroit?
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A DUnizen of Detroit?
grand rapids, big Witless supporter:
https://www.fastbackgroundcheck.com/people/john-persak/id/f-2072340825694687561
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