rightwingers have mastered whipping up their audiences into endless psychotic delusions and anger using social media, it’s really easy to turn an amped up angry audience into dedicated voters and harassers
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This is so funny because every bit of violence every bit of harassment every bit of delusional protesting is all coming from the left I challenge you to give me one example of conservatives being violent in the last three or four years
Another left-wing Reuters article that provides no evidence and I'm sure only identifies instances that help them with their narrative. Reuters have been so repeatedly and Incredibly discredited at this point it's considered just a rag.
they can't even risk looking at contradictory information...as long as they knowledge never penetrates their bubble, they are safe from ever having to interrogate their beliefs.
LOL Jan six okay you had to go back 5 years and that's it that's all you got? Keep in mind that was right after the summer of George Floyd riots were your side assassinated innocent people and police officers destroyed public property looted private property and seized and controlled public property
It is an incredible bias article and says nothing of the violence coming from the left. It's hard to take articles like this serious for one because of Reuters track record and two because it only focuses on one thing and does not correctly Aggregate and compare all instances of violence
Had it done that it would provide it with a lot more legitimacy. This was clearly written by a liberal to skew results and attack only one side. Therein lies the problem with articles like this they are half truths and refuse to provide a full complete and objective picture
This is even more evidence of bullshit leftist organization pushing a narrative over the truth. Just give me one example of conservative violence and don't say jan 6 cuz that 1 instance doesn't even begin to tip the scale.
You're using an incredibly leftist organization who is so biased that most of the shit they've printed has been way wrong. How many stories have Reuters purposely gotten wrong over the last 8 years. Answer just about every single one. If it is so frequent there should be no problem giving 1 example
Because Mike Flynn is a master at the psych-op and has been deploying the tactics on a wide scale for years now. It was all in the plans for a very long time.
The way Obama surfed an online tsunami right past Hillary and McCain into the WH and then unwound his own org afterwards was one of the greatest failures in my lifetime. And then followed up by picking Hillary and Biden to succeed him...
They use psychological manipulation that excites the amygdala. It's total brainwashing. fox uses an accusative, aggressive style to engage and persuade its viewers.
most of them arent in the same class. if it was just millions & millions of working class people Trump wouldnt be a thing. well, maybe he would bc the Democratic Party would ultimately still oppose working class policy & the politicians who represent it
either way the problem is theres no functional option for working class people. the way to win them over isnt to go "sorry youre so stupid." you start with directly materially beneficial policy, not just talk, not backing off or equivocating or saying its too hard
and perhaps most importantly, not adopting right wing rhetoric & ideas & selling ppl out based on polling bc its convenient, which just proves to people that all politicians are phonies who cant be trusted so you may as well support the ones willing to actually do what they say
Why? We don't fucking need them. We have millions of people who don't vote. Convince them to vote. Give them people to vote for. Why go after the votes of people supporting evil? Fuck em.
Because that's the exact same hostility that many conservative voters have for the left. Besides, getting a right winger to vote for a progressive candidate changes the vote difference by +2 instead of just +1 bc math
Like, you say that to a trump supporter, and they will spit in your face. People in cults do not just suddenly accept they've been lied to. It is a fantasy. Millions will go to their grave believing in Donald Trump no matter what happens this year or the next.
I've personally HEARD THEM, personally spoken to them and they're absolutely THAT hostile.
Have you ever been in a cult or known anyone who opened up to you personally about 1? Count me down for both and the other commenter is right. They will not do anything different until THEY decide to. Sorry.
The median Republican who voted for Trump isn't in his cult. Building class solidarity means addressing our common issues and working together to fix them. We have more in common with every working-class Trump voter than any single Democrat in Congress.
Because they'll spit in your face then hang your corpse in a tree for fun. Trump voters are evil, soulless ghouls. You can't unbrainwash them until you unbrain them.
Fear is much easier to farm than nuanced solutions.
Also, Dems/leftists whatever, will NOT march in lock step for the greater good. Every cycle there’s a handy wedge for a 3rd party, because progressives can’t do electoral math.
Right. From Center > Left there are like 90 factions. In any other modern Democracy, there would be 5 to 10 parties on that side. Our two parties only has allowed Fascism to entrench with no viable Opposition Party. Current Dem minority party will clearly never emerge to be what is needed of them.
They were doing before social media, it's just gotten a million times worse. Especially with Musk taking over twitter, all these other right wing sites like Gab and Truth, and FB kissing the ring and doing everything what Trump wants.
Wish the folks who wrote G*merG@te off as a “bump in the road” or “petty internet drama that’s not worth discussing” took it seriously. Because all the warning signs were there and because there was no immediate pushback against it back then is how we ended up here.
I have had friends that got off on trolling people and putting people down all the time (notice had)...it's an addiction to keep stirring up people for attention but they just get bitter and angry at everything because they don't realize the void can't ever be filled with that. It's not living.
How right you are. There are so many trollers that know exactly what to say, to keep stirring the pot of hate and contention. I can't imagine being filled with so much negative emotion and actually getting pleasure from spreading it to others.
It’s a Burlington Free Press article titled “VT Insights: Bernie Sanders 2016 campaign strategist first witness in Manafort trial.” I’m not sure why you posted it, though
Perhaps you can explain why Bernie is a hero in Moscow on Russian State TV next to Michael Flynn? Perhaps you can explain Moscow funding Facebook Ads for Bernie and Jill Stein in 2016? I'll wait....
Why would a random person in the English-speaking world know or care about the priorities and narratives of some Moscow propaganda TV show, much less be able to explain them to you?
Seems to me like you’re the one getting played by Russians embracing these figures moreso than anyone on the far left
You haven't been able to answer my inquiries. Because you didn't do your research of Bernie and his ties to the USSR, Communist Cuba, Sandinistas, and the East German Stasi. Ask Bernie's longtime pal, Kurt Stand. He worked in Bernie's DC campaign office. https://www.trevorloudon.com/2018/07/weekly-featured-profile-kurt-stand/
I’ve addressed every one of your inquiries. Your lack of reading comprehension is no one’s fault but your own— and possibly your teachers’ when you growing up, if you were already this dense before COVID
Don’t wait. They support him because they fear him and the honesty he represents. As with others Moscow really hates. They don’t fear Trump. In fact they fear him so little that he is the best investment they ever made.
Bernie Sanders 2016 voters turned out for Hillary at much higher rates than Hillary 2008 voters turned out for Obama. Some of us fucking volunteered for Hillary after the primary.
You’re doing “the Russians’” work of driving people away from the Democrats with this scapegoating tripe.
What's this about? Jack Bryan
@jackabryan
Can someone ask Tad Devine if he, while working for Bernie's campaign, shared polling data with his old boss, Paul Manafort, through Pat Caddell? Cause we're hearing he did.
7:59 PM · Aug 22, 2018
Since you like right wing mags so much here’s one for your hero Hillary. Sounds like she wasn’t so mistake free over there huh? Or is it bullshit right wing shit? Which is it genius
Perhaps you can explain why Bernie's campaign strategist, Tad Devine, met with Manafort/Christian Ferry (campaign managers for Trump/Lindsey Graham) and a RUSSIAN SPY named Kilimnik concerning Ukraine?
Perhaps you can explain why Bernie is a hero in Moscow on Russian State TV next to Michael Flynn? Perhaps you can explain why Moscow funded Facebook ads for Bernie and Jill Stein? I'll wait....
12 percent of Berniebros voted for a NAZI. We lost THREE SCOTUS seats for the next 30 years, Roe v. Wade, Chevron, and other SCOTUS decisions on voting. MATH. Bernie has been a Russian asset for four decades. Putin is just to proud of Bernie.
You lost scotus seats bc your team plays by the rules while the other doesn’t. Your ineffectual leaders let those slip by or elected other do-nothings to sit around and insider trade, appease republicans, sell us out down the river more, etc. you’re hopelessly lost lol may your luck run dry fool
cry more that your girl wasn’t as popular as the first grassroots campaign. He taught you all how to virtue signal better and you hate him for it? You guys don’t actually care about any of the shit you talk about so why get mad at a guy for giving you new vocabulary? lol hilariously inept
the fact Bernie “isn’t a Democrat” is part of the reason people like him. the Democrats now are serial failures who are constantly looking for scapegoats.
That is irrelevant. You are posting shit from Steven crowder. Do you even look into the things you post? That’s chump shit you expect of right wingers right? So why do you do it too? Is it that you are indiscernibly different from a right winger in your conviction to all the wrong answers
Perhaps you can explain why Bernie's campaign strategist, Tad Devine, met with Manafort/Christian Ferry (campaign managers for Trump/Lindsey Graham) and a RUSSIAN SPY named Kilimnik concerning Ukraine? I'll wait.
Perhaps you can explain why you post so much? Have you been to a psych yet? It’s about time we figure out why you need to spend so much time on here instead of with family or friends. You obviously live a sheltered & sad life & that’s tough but you don’t need to blame leftists for your problems
I just wanna say before you block me that if you aren’t an operative, then you represent the same cancer that sits at the heart of the democrat party. You think the world is so limited as you warm benches for republicans and adhere to the scraps of governance they give you. Pathetic politics
Do some more research. You don't even know Bernie. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. He's been a Russian asset for four decades. USSR. Communist Cuba. Sandinistas. East German Stasi. Ask Bernie's longtime pal, Kurt Stand. He worked in Bernie's DC campaign office. https://www.trevorloudon.com/2018/07/weekly-featured-profile-kurt-stand/
You really are just a fuckin joker aren’t you? Everything you post is right wing shit, you don’t even know which side you belong to lmfao. Go back to twitter you right wing sympathizer. Continue your little games of blaming leftists for your own failings. It’s funny stuff clown 🤡 keep it up!
This sounds dangerously close to encouraging a million leftist men to start podcasts. Fellas, let me be absolutely clear: we don't need you to start a podcast.
We should all rally around one random set of podcasters and drop everyone else into the ocean, personally I think @wtyppod.bsky.social should be that one. There would be trains, trains everywhere
I don't think this is a correct quote, and it's also missing a lot of context. Also keep in mind Carlin was a comedian. He's not telling people not to vote.
Well, I got it from AZ Quotes. Hopefully, they check their quotes for accuracy before they put them on their website.
I recently watched George Carlin on Bill Maher's show and he was, debating a Republican and Carlin said that elections were meaningless and that corporations controlled everything.
why is the left so bad at convincing normal dipshits that the republican party is full of pedophiles and money grubbing con-men? Why can't we meme things that are true the way they meme things that are obviously false?
I would posit that it's at least partly because most of them have become so conditioned to believe that anything we say is the same kind of psychological manipulation they've already fallen victim to, so they basically just won't believe anything that's not their favored source.
They just deflect or make some excuse. I've seen people tirelessly show them stuff like it, they just treat it like any other evidence from liberal/left leaning sources and throw some bs in return.
hey now you're using social media rn
I'm suggesting at least bothering the people that elected the ethnic cleansing government
don't tell me it's a waste of time while you're wasting your time
Unironically I think money has a big role to play here
Both progressive liberalism and full-fledged leftist politics are essentially entirely grass-roots, since the interests of those with money are fundamentally opposed to the latter and tend to oppose the former as well
Essentially, this means that the far right has a massive, billionaire-funded propaganda machine that has no need to be profitable as long as it helps those paying for it achieve their political aims.
Socdems and leftists alike, meanwhile… have a few Z-tier internet celebrities.
in a way the inane accusations & hypocrisy of rwers help dems by muddying the waters enuf2 shield em frm genuine criticism + the indefensible behavior makes rwers ez targets for well meaning ppl angered by it enuf2 defend dems uncritically while reinforcing a partisan identity in contrast 2em
You've landed smack in the heart of the Dem political strategy for the last 30ish years. "R Bad. We aren't R. So (ignore the details) we are we are good by default"
in the middle of that is where the responsibility of the individual clashes with the responsibility of the society. people would be less angry if we had living wages and a regulated housing markt; if the public services were sufficient, et c
We keep asking why are they still mad. But it seems to be the mad that gives them purpose. And they are epically reactive to whatever dear leader wants them to be. And he uses their ignorant fury on command.
Imagine thinking your selfish desires as as individual are collective justice
And thinking you aren't psychologically fascist you are nothing like them cuz your personal delusions and aspirations for power are actually justice unlike theirs
You leftist pussies already ran from Twitter; did you think the truth wouldn't eventually find you here too?! How delusional are dumpy white democrats these days anyway?!🤦♂️
Now apply that to the left (because it fits there too) and break through. The citizenry is bombarded with psyops intended to traumatize us, because trauma makes us easier to control. The whipping up is coming from the predator class, to control the whole citizenry with the psyops that hit.
I found a SUPER relevant quote from Colbert in Apatow's book "Sick In The Head". Colbert talks about his audience and how he used these same tactics albeit responsibly. But you see the extremely rare full honesty about the process and intent. From page 462
Newton's laws of motion apply perfectly to MAGA shut-ins:
A MAGA at rest remains at rest unless acted on by an unbalanced idea.
The acceleration of a MAGA depends on the MAGA's mass and the improbability of the idea.
When two MAGAs collide, the second exerts equal and opposite force on the first.
I agree. Do you ever worry that the only solution is to do the same on the other side? And that we are in the process of doing so here and now?
On reflection, if it's the only way to resist the authoritarian assault on democracy, count me in the choir, but boy, do I wish there was a better way.
Agreed 100% with this thesis. PLUS RW has ample überwealthy backers who can endlessly support chaos & mayhem because it allows them to retain control with pretend “solutions.”
But question still remains: why can’t the left come together—except using positive emotions instead of anger & delusions? 🤔
Ha maga idiots... getting whipped up by propaganda. So beholden to their immediate emotional realities that they open the for their own destruction. Wonder what that feels like?
Especially since nobody from the @democrats.org is providing any consistent, coordinated daily pushback. Republicans are running messaging circles around Democrats. There are even pro-Trump commercials on my local station, with no opposition messaging at all. We need a new party folks.
And they accuse their opponents of doing the same thing because sociopaths can't believe that anyone would actually have any kind of ethical standards they actually follow when no one's looking.
Of course, most of their establishment opponents are *also* sociopaths, they're just not as good at it
Right. This is why you cannot triangulate this base by appealing to their alleged grievances. You can only outvote them by mobilizing your own base, win elections, and addresss the root casues like our tattered social fabric.
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At least when these clowns link to right wing sources, I look at the articles to debunk it. Meanwhile they're too scared to think critically.
Or maybe it's because there wasn't nearly as many examples to cite as there was with Right Wing examples?
Please share with the class your work.
We enable genocides with taxes.🪞 The politicians are puppets for the billionaires.🤑
The cure for social cancer is parity for all.
#PetitionForParity 🌏
#neuromarketing
Plus, Orwell’s neolanguage, hour of hate, etc.
Most brains are still wired to react, and it takes very little effort and BS to manipulate them 😔
Alt right somehow got nearly 21% of the votes
It's fucking HARD to look a Trump voter in the face and say that though.
Have you ever been in a cult or known anyone who opened up to you personally about 1? Count me down for both and the other commenter is right. They will not do anything different until THEY decide to. Sorry.
Also, Dems/leftists whatever, will NOT march in lock step for the greater good. Every cycle there’s a handy wedge for a 3rd party, because progressives can’t do electoral math.
According to something I barely remember. Could be totally wrong, but it tracks.
The idea that corporations should have human rights is asinine.
Whiners gonna whine.
https://bsky.app/profile/damnnothere.bsky.social/post/3lpjoayve4s2h
Seems to me like you’re the one getting played by Russians embracing these figures moreso than anyone on the far left
Russia’s far-right. They play propaganda to both the left and the right to buy legitimacy and divide their opponents across the board.
You’re doing “the Russians’” work of driving people away from the Democrats with this scapegoating tripe.
@jackabryan
Can someone ask Tad Devine if he, while working for Bernie's campaign, shared polling data with his old boss, Paul Manafort, through Pat Caddell? Cause we're hearing he did.
7:59 PM · Aug 22, 2018
https://www.nfoic.org/blogs/judicial-watch-obtains-documents-proving-hillary-clinton-aides-knew-about-benghazi-attack/
https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/ielapa.950807211
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeMGqTwWA6U
He didn't like any politicians.
I recently watched George Carlin on Bill Maher's show and he was, debating a Republican and Carlin said that elections were meaningless and that corporations controlled everything.
2. They already know Ds have just as many conmen and peds.
No matter how many pedos are in the conservative party, because to them their pedos are good, only the "boogeyman" pedo on the left is bad.
And more importantly: why wouldn't one even bother?
Maybe making burner fb accounts to dump this shit in the nazi groups?
I'm suggesting at least bothering the people that elected the ethnic cleansing government
don't tell me it's a waste of time while you're wasting your time
Both progressive liberalism and full-fledged leftist politics are essentially entirely grass-roots, since the interests of those with money are fundamentally opposed to the latter and tend to oppose the former as well
Socdems and leftists alike, meanwhile… have a few Z-tier internet celebrities.
And thinking you aren't psychologically fascist you are nothing like them cuz your personal delusions and aspirations for power are actually justice unlike theirs
...I sense a septum-piercing and colored-hair.
A MAGA at rest remains at rest unless acted on by an unbalanced idea.
The acceleration of a MAGA depends on the MAGA's mass and the improbability of the idea.
When two MAGAs collide, the second exerts equal and opposite force on the first.
On reflection, if it's the only way to resist the authoritarian assault on democracy, count me in the choir, but boy, do I wish there was a better way.
But question still remains: why can’t the left come together—except using positive emotions instead of anger & delusions? 🤔
Calling these beasts right wingers is like calling Moby Dick a fish.
Of course, most of their establishment opponents are *also* sociopaths, they're just not as good at it