You may or may not presently understand that this is what your employer and by extension yourself are engaged in, but you will.
I’m no paragon of virtue and I’ve participated in things I didn’t believe in for a paycheck. So I can’t hold others to too high a standard. But I do see what’s happening.
Trump’s goal is to flood our perceptions with the spectacle of farce. A serious world is one where actions have consequences. Only a surreal one can have bribed presidents, bribed judges, a media acting like North Korean television, impunity for criminal public officials.
Your job is to enable that.
Highly doubt you are alone. Probably most women cannot relate to men who refer to them as "females." Maybe why they end up in these spaces marinating in BS.
noun: aura; plural noun: aurae; plural noun: auras
1. the distinctive atmosphere or quality that seems to surround and be generated by a person, thing, or place.
“seems” is the critical word in this definition.
Colbert’s “truthiness” describes Shapiro’s “credibility“ with these chips.
Any idea where a bunch of middle-aged guys got the idea that Ben Shapiro was an important voice to listen to?
Was there a group that spent the better part of the decade providing him outlets and respectability?
I see your point and liberal Democrat here, what did we do as a party to try and bring them in? We talked to my demographic(women) we talked to miniorities, we talked to LGBTQ, we did not talk to men, men in general.
Cool gonna need you to show me where in the party platform we talk to men, will wait. Hint we don’t, we talked to women, we talked to young folks, we talked to lgbt, we did not have anything for just men. Now let’s hear but they had their zoom call…tip, I’m not the only one saying the Dems have an
Yes and they turned out, anyone who says otherwise is wrong. Now find me something within the Party Platform that talks to men, we have a section in ther for women, lgbt etc. look I’m a female here and we depend on community, ever think just throwing money at them won’t always work?
Some we just won’t ever get and I admit that, yet many we can, without forgoing our base we already speak to and for. Either we are the big tent that welcomes everyone within reason or we aren’t.
He is a sophist, nothing more. He doesnt deal in actual facts, rather cherry picked ones. He is a one dimensional thinker, never considering any order of effects.
Like when a fucking gishgallops and nutpicks the most reactionary teens and young adults who don't represent the issues well at all so he can look good "Destroying" them?
And lmfao Jesus Christ, these people are entirely vibes based.
PhD in English, here. I've never heard Ben Shapiro make a single logical argument that works without subscribing to one set of untenable & illogical biases or another. Whomever wrote that blurb is a shill.
These fellows were mostly raised by women from the 2nd Women's movement. Concepts like equal opportunity in male dominated jobs, no fault divorce, concept of date rape and NO means No. Understanding sexual harassment. (not a full list.)
The only time I would support both siderism, is if these kind of pieces presented the counter argument to each of these opinions ... pro Trump Rep, and anti-Trump (or pro-Harris Dem..... side by side.
This is like "You have to listen to those with whom you vehemently disagree & can't talk back!"
these guys seem to spout BS as their basis for their opinion. E.G., “Inflation is out of control, because every year things cost more.” That has been true since the Great Depression. And the Great Depression was a lot worse. Gangs have been in Chicago for decades before I was born. What garbage.
Is this a conversation on how a bunch of uneducated guys spend their time listening to other bitter guys talk crap in order to feel a little bit better about how they fu(ked up their lives and are now a bunch of MAGA losers?
It is amazing that anyone hears Ben Shapiro's voice and thinks "yeah, I'd like to hear this sound again and again!"
It's like listening to a leaf blower with an unlubricated engine, only whiny.
I feel like I read dozens of these “voter roundtables” during the campaign, and they were only ever with Trump voters, undecideds who didn’t like Biden, or Dems who were considering not voting at all. Couldn’t bring myself to read this one. I feel like I’ve heard their point of view plenty.
Lyle Lanley. He’s quick on his feet. He’s a monorail magnate by training. He goes into city councils meetings—into the belly of the beast. He’s very data driven, has the facts, well researched, just gives you an aura of credibility.
Bang on. We now live in a world where at best, a rough, vaguely approximate “semblance” of truth passes for the real thing; all while countering a blizzard of “alternate facts.”
These guys all struck me as deeply confused, esp the one who said Trump is a “man’s man” & went on to define that as a self-sufficient man who can change a tire. Trump! Change a tire!
“aura of credibility” is to to “concept of a plan”
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“trump is an erudite thinker” is to “Hegseth is a sober leader”
Double-doublespeak with a dash of vocabulary &, poof, there is no mapping the path to truth nor proof of lies. The willing public get lost in the word-crumbs trailing to nowhere.
It’s disturbing that there are now fifty shades of truth. . .
The first philosophers settled the question by kicking a rock.
There’s fundamental, empirical, immutable fact that will kill you if you try to deny its validity in any degree.
Not like I’m some visionary in this regard, but the moment Kellyanne dropped that “alternative facts” turd on CNN, I knew we’d not only be in for an endless tsunami of bullshit, but that we’d now entered into a disturbing “post-truth” world where reality would be forever turned on its head.
Exactly the moment of disaster.
TV as Reality.
It’s The Apprentice as the chosen alternative to the best and most qualified and experienced real person in the White House.
His criteria of “quick on his feet” is that Ben says a fountain of bullshit fast like the guy on the Micromachines commercials. It would be nice if the NYT would consider how Lawrence Powell’s memo has come to fruition, the Conservative movement created a closed feedback loop and Gish Galloping = 👍
It used to be, if you can fake authenticity, you've got it made. Now it's if you can fake reliability, you win. The lies circle the earth before the truth puts its pants on. And so it goes.
Ben Shapiro.... makes things up, has no political or policy experience, never really worked as a lawyer, debates people half his age, doesn't interact well with actual experts and never debates them... yeah....'aura'.
Why are we still talking about these guys, except to confirm what we already know? The line between "The Boys" and real life is getting really, really thin.
The fact that Matthew, 43, is from Tennessee and felt the need to put "White" in his bio tells you everything you need to know about Ben Shapiro's audience!
What you're "discovering", sir, is merely what many of us have known for years; namely, "The Average American citizen (and voter), is a dumb-as-a-post, ignorant, gullible, credulous, nihilist, malicious prick, who wouldn't know what 'critical thinking' is, if it came up and bit him on the leg."
What I'm trying to point out is, at the end of the day what caused the Trump disaster was NOT issues like "Kamala Harris ran a bad campaign". Rather, it's the cumulative effect of decades of the voters themselves becoming progressively more and more ignorant.
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I’m no paragon of virtue and I’ve participated in things I didn’t believe in for a paycheck. So I can’t hold others to too high a standard. But I do see what’s happening.
Your job is to enable that.
1. the distinctive atmosphere or quality that seems to surround and be generated by a person, thing, or place.
“seems” is the critical word in this definition.
Colbert’s “truthiness” describes Shapiro’s “credibility“ with these chips.
And subsequently having hired attorneys and been through litigation at the highest levels of the attorney food chain, my opinions have not changed.
There are some brilliant lawyers but it’s the exception to the rule.
Burn it all down.
Was there a group that spent the better part of the decade providing him outlets and respectability?
The impression of plausibility.
Like when a fucking gishgallops and nutpicks the most reactionary teens and young adults who don't represent the issues well at all so he can look good "Destroying" them?
And lmfao Jesus Christ, these people are entirely vibes based.
"An Aura of credibility"
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Just. Idk.
Response: Rohypnol.
Why not; 'Men Who Backed Trump and Men Who Did Not Back Trump Grapple With America' side by side in the piece?
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In such a close election (only a 1.5% margin) we should hear at LEAST as much from the opposition, if not more.
It looks like Dems and Reps were screened for their Trump support.
This is like "You have to listen to those with whom you vehemently disagree & can't talk back!"
It's like listening to a leaf blower with an unlubricated engine, only whiny.
as
“trump is an erudite thinker” is to “Hegseth is a sober leader”
Double-doublespeak with a dash of vocabulary &, poof, there is no mapping the path to truth nor proof of lies. The willing public get lost in the word-crumbs trailing to nowhere.
An alternative believability.
Nicely captures the confidently asserted, vaguely plausible, superficially convincing, presumably authoritative nature of Ben’s shtick.
The first philosophers settled the question by kicking a rock.
There’s fundamental, empirical, immutable fact that will kill you if you try to deny its validity in any degree.
TV as Reality.
It’s The Apprentice as the chosen alternative to the best and most qualified and experienced real person in the White House.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ben-shapiro-barbie_n_64bd596ae4b0ad7b75f94794
The word "trust" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in this. More like "confirmation bias."
What did Ben Shapiro do before he became an opinion guy? Ten months at a law firm.
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The trust/truth apocalypse is upon us
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