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Creating a narrative & promoting it for a political agenda, Part II

By artappraiser on Tue, 03/08/2022 - 9:57pm |

Part I is here, starting with Omar Wasow's excellent quote from a NYTimes article 

“Focus on conflict. Feed the algorithm. Make sure whatever you produce reinforces a narrative. Don’t worry if it is true.”

with many excellent examples through Nov. 2021. This is for new ones!

What's going on in Russia? (ongoing thread)

By artappraiser on Mon, 02/28/2022 - 8:59am |

Putin is chairing his emergency economic meeting to respond to US, UK, and EU sanctions. He calls the west “the empire of lies” pic.twitter.com/CdNW8qipAj

— max seddon (@maxseddon) February 28, 2022

continued after the jump

Spot on. Reality check. Every single word.

By artappraiser on Mon, 01/31/2022 - 3:32pm |

And I don't always agree with him. But this is masterpiece analysis, built of decades' experience. Unfortunately, not enough young lefties will learn until it's too late:

"Gun control"? Things have changed

By artappraiser on Fri, 01/28/2022 - 12:16am |

Meat Loaf's Star Spangled Banner

By artappraiser on Fri, 01/21/2022 - 6:25pm |

Unexpected; surprising. Slowly rising spine-tingling, like Francis Scott Key dejas vus allover again

Thread: EXTREMISTS are everywhere and come in infinite varieties

By artappraiser on Sat, 01/08/2022 - 1:20am |

Comes to mind that one of the questions immigrants were asked at Ellis Island in the early 20th century was: Are you an anarchist?

Reichsbürger (“citizens of the Reich”) – members of Germany’s anti-establishment, sovereign citizen conspiracy movement

‘Nazi Druid’ Accused of Hoarding Weapons to Prepare for Society’s Collapse https://t.co/0NGvG9yAPk via @viceworldnews

— Dr. Christine Sarteschi, PhD, LCSW (@DrSarteschi) January 7, 2022

OH NO

By artappraiser on Sat, 01/01/2022 - 12:23am |

A great number of people active Twitter are mourning as they will no longer be able to have Betty White trending as a joke that she is not dead. crying

Dem big-city mayors: switching from BLM "bullshit" woke to the Eric Adams pro-policing model, or not?

By artappraiser on Sat, 12/18/2021 - 12:15pm |

Big news: San Francisco Mayor @LondonBreed has just announced a major crackdown on crime, including open air drug dealing, car break-ins, & retail theft

The plan contains much of what I & my colleagues @calif_peace have been advocating

This is a big step in the right direction https://t.co/4KXKAjJwdr

— Michael Shellenberger (@ShellenbergerMD) December 14, 2021

"Privilege"

By artappraiser on Fri, 12/17/2021 - 2:07pm |

Another example of White Privilege. Oops. Another example of how things can turn out if you can afford expensive lawyers.

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