I think over five years ago, the primary source of information for Democrats came from Occupy Democrats.
They are a hard core propagandist meme shitpost site. They literally do not publish news.
To be honest, if that's true today, it makes sense why the Left lives in such an extreme bubble. Occupy Democrats and the US IC set the narrative for the media, and then the remainder of the media simply rationalizes it. The mainstream media, simply doesn't have enough engagement to be taken seriously, even as trend setters, and are in fact the patsies of both the IC and delusional Leftist activists.
This hypothesis would explain why we hear the MSM making statements that aren't even based within the reality of their own circles. I've heard Leftists claim blacks couldn't own property in America until 1964. I remember "Morning Joe" claiming that Kyle Rittenhouse fired 60 rounds. Hundreds of people on the left were stunned to realize that Kyle didn't kill any black people (they thought he killed 4). And at no point did Pfizer ever claim that their injections could prevent transmission.
I've constantly wondered how it seems like everyone on the Left seems to get all of their information, not from the material they are showing me, but the framing of the material alone, and nothing else. They're not even reading their own "professional" media. I think they are only seeing headlines, insinuations, and breathless Occupy Democrat & The Root screeching, with no reference to reality at all.
I reject that we are two different people, watching 2 different movies, on the same screen. We're watching the movie theater burn outside, while the Democrats (who set the theater on fire in the first place) are wearing a burning trash can on their head.
It sucks that it seems the only effective way to reach out to remaining Dems, Leftists, and Liberals is to try and get them to walk down a narrow path that exposes them to the obvious, while avoiding all of the pre-programmed emotional triggers that have been built into their brains. Facts, debate, evidence, and reason are utterly irrelevant to the remaining Biden loyalists and Progressive advocates.
Love it when someone links a headline to "own the cons" and the article text doesn't say anything to prove their point - and sometimes even disproves their point.
And at no point did Pfizer ever claim that their injections could prevent transmission.
This is one where direct blame can be placed on the government, all the way to the top. Biden repeatedly said if we all get vaccinated we can end this pandemic. Now if they want to get rules-lawyery I suppose they could claim he didn't specifically state it prevents transmission - like he meant the COVID19 disease would no longer be a threat because the jab keeps everyone out of the hospital or something.
On the Right we have our own bubbles and propagation of misinformation - but we don't have mainstream media echoing and confirming our biases. We're constantly challenged and have to constantly challenge ourselves.
Love it when someone links a headline to "own the cons" and the article text doesn't say anything to prove their point - and sometimes even disproves their point.
I'm seeing that as the primary method of attack for these Twitter releases besides "we don't care".
This is one where direct blame can be placed on the government, all the way to the top.
It was definitely cultivated from the top. I've said it before, but I had a co-worker once tell me that the Delta variant was "especially lethal to children" and that "the local hospital that my family member works at was expecting to be overwhelmed" and that "there would be 7,000 daily dead by the end of the week" (nearly 3 times the highest daily death counter).
The narrative was so perpetual that even hospitals were acting on information that couldn't possibly be true. The CDC tried to even re-define that herd immunity couldn't exist without vaccines at one point. The narratives that were set weren't even as bad as the narratives that were received. It was like the worst game of telephone that could ever exist.
On the Right we have our own bubbles and propagation of misinformation - but we don't have mainstream media echoing and confirming our biases. We're constantly challenged and have to constantly challenge ourselves.
Our biggest problem is that we have to ignore so much din from the MSM, that we end up forgetting that normies still occasionally watch. That's why we get surprised when normal human beings tell us the craziest Leftist shit that's ever been dreamed up. If we ignore too much of the din, we don't even have a reference point to what they are talking about.
And they talk about so much nonsense that 90% of it gets naturally memory holed. Remember that Trump was impeached for allegedly agreeing to send weapons to Ukraine? Remember that Stormy Daniels existed and was actually a replacement of a different stripper-accuser? Remember that there were six Kavanaugh accusers? Remember the BLM riots that followed after the justified police shooting of Antonio Martin that lead to several riot police being shot in the street? Remember when Merriam Webster re-defined "Sexual Preference" to be a slur because literally only Mazie Hirono said it was?
Nobody does. Nobody can keep track of just how much shit is being flung, which is why we resort to ignoring, failing to realize that most normies ignore the majority of it and only selectively remember the parts they wanted to.
And at no point did Pfizer ever claim that their injections could prevent transmission.
Don't even play their game. The point of a vaccine is to stop infection, transmission, and illness. If it doesn't stop infection and transmission, then it's not a vaccine, it's a prophylactic. And those don't get all of the cute benefits and PR that vaccines do.
The CDC specifically changed the definition of herd immunity to sell more jabs.
The more shit pfizer spews, the more I want justice to be served in the least humane possible way.
On the Right we have our own bubbles and propagation of misinformation
We are also constantly locked in purity spirals and tribal warfare against one another, to a point where it leaves us completely unable to mount anywhere near the same offenses as the Dems can on a whim.
Because some people would rather preserve their reputation by not being associated with White Supremacists and screaming to get them out at every turn, than preserve both of your existences by standing against literal replacement and soft genocide that is being waged by the Left. For just one example.
The worst (best?) part of it all is that the leftists accuse us of all of these same things and more. They say "The right is in a cult, ignores facts and logic, brainwashed, etc. etc."
Normies don't stand a chance and I don't know what to do other than ask questions to try to pierce the programming.
The most valuable thing I've been able to do is be a social value to my friends and family. Fundamentally, they trust my analysis. Specifically, because I'm honest with them and transparent with them about how I come to my decisions. Since I'm principles, I also abide by my analysis and work to implement my solution onto myself. I also try to steelman my own positions by giving them a failsafe: "If I'm wrong, how will I know". Falsifiable claims are useful because they can test your claims on their own time. As a result, they will tend to come to me with questions, and I will try to honestly walk them through what I can.
The normies aren't looking to follow a super-detailed analysis, but they are looking for general equations that say: If I see X, be wary of Y, and take action Z. I'll fill in the gaps, but I'll emphasize the general equation of what to look for to make a decision. Those do tend to exist, and normally it involves understanding how rhetorical warfare works from the Left, and focusing on who is benefiting from what actions.
This hypothesis would explain why we hear the MSM making statements that aren't even based within the reality of their own circles. I've heard Leftists claim blacks couldn't own property in America until 1964. I remember "Morning Joe" claiming that Kyle Rittenhouse fired 60 rounds. Hundreds of people on the left were stunned to realize that Kyle didn't kill any black people (they thought he killed 4). And at no point did Pfizer ever claim that their injections could prevent transmission.
And these are just examples of what literate white progressives genuinely believe. The kinds of things black folx believe are even wilder.
I think over five years ago, the primary source of information for Democrats came from Occupy Democrats.
They are a hard core propagandist meme shitpost site. They literally do not publish news.
To be honest, if that's true today, it makes sense why the Left lives in such an extreme bubble. Occupy Democrats and the US IC set the narrative for the media, and then the remainder of the media simply rationalizes it. The mainstream media, simply doesn't have enough engagement to be taken seriously, even as trend setters, and are in fact the patsies of both the IC and delusional Leftist activists.
This hypothesis would explain why we hear the MSM making statements that aren't even based within the reality of their own circles. I've heard Leftists claim blacks couldn't own property in America until 1964. I remember "Morning Joe" claiming that Kyle Rittenhouse fired 60 rounds. Hundreds of people on the left were stunned to realize that Kyle didn't kill any black people (they thought he killed 4). And at no point did Pfizer ever claim that their injections could prevent transmission.
I've constantly wondered how it seems like everyone on the Left seems to get all of their information, not from the material they are showing me, but the framing of the material alone, and nothing else. They're not even reading their own "professional" media. I think they are only seeing headlines, insinuations, and breathless Occupy Democrat & The Root screeching, with no reference to reality at all.
I reject that we are two different people, watching 2 different movies, on the same screen. We're watching the movie theater burn outside, while the Democrats (who set the theater on fire in the first place) are wearing a burning trash can on their head.
It sucks that it seems the only effective way to reach out to remaining Dems, Leftists, and Liberals is to try and get them to walk down a narrow path that exposes them to the obvious, while avoiding all of the pre-programmed emotional triggers that have been built into their brains. Facts, debate, evidence, and reason are utterly irrelevant to the remaining Biden loyalists and Progressive advocates.
Love it when someone links a headline to "own the cons" and the article text doesn't say anything to prove their point - and sometimes even disproves their point.
This is one where direct blame can be placed on the government, all the way to the top. Biden repeatedly said if we all get vaccinated we can end this pandemic. Now if they want to get rules-lawyery I suppose they could claim he didn't specifically state it prevents transmission - like he meant the COVID19 disease would no longer be a threat because the jab keeps everyone out of the hospital or something.
On the Right we have our own bubbles and propagation of misinformation - but we don't have mainstream media echoing and confirming our biases. We're constantly challenged and have to constantly challenge ourselves.
I'm seeing that as the primary method of attack for these Twitter releases besides "we don't care".
It was definitely cultivated from the top. I've said it before, but I had a co-worker once tell me that the Delta variant was "especially lethal to children" and that "the local hospital that my family member works at was expecting to be overwhelmed" and that "there would be 7,000 daily dead by the end of the week" (nearly 3 times the highest daily death counter).
The narrative was so perpetual that even hospitals were acting on information that couldn't possibly be true. The CDC tried to even re-define that herd immunity couldn't exist without vaccines at one point. The narratives that were set weren't even as bad as the narratives that were received. It was like the worst game of telephone that could ever exist.
Our biggest problem is that we have to ignore so much din from the MSM, that we end up forgetting that normies still occasionally watch. That's why we get surprised when normal human beings tell us the craziest Leftist shit that's ever been dreamed up. If we ignore too much of the din, we don't even have a reference point to what they are talking about.
And they talk about so much nonsense that 90% of it gets naturally memory holed. Remember that Trump was impeached for allegedly agreeing to send weapons to Ukraine? Remember that Stormy Daniels existed and was actually a replacement of a different stripper-accuser? Remember that there were six Kavanaugh accusers? Remember the BLM riots that followed after the justified police shooting of Antonio Martin that lead to several riot police being shot in the street? Remember when Merriam Webster re-defined "Sexual Preference" to be a slur because literally only Mazie Hirono said it was?
Nobody does. Nobody can keep track of just how much shit is being flung, which is why we resort to ignoring, failing to realize that most normies ignore the majority of it and only selectively remember the parts they wanted to.
Don't even play their game. The point of a vaccine is to stop infection, transmission, and illness. If it doesn't stop infection and transmission, then it's not a vaccine, it's a prophylactic. And those don't get all of the cute benefits and PR that vaccines do.
The CDC specifically changed the definition of herd immunity to sell more jabs.
The more shit pfizer spews, the more I want justice to be served in the least humane possible way.
We are also constantly locked in purity spirals and tribal warfare against one another, to a point where it leaves us completely unable to mount anywhere near the same offenses as the Dems can on a whim.
Because some people would rather preserve their reputation by not being associated with White Supremacists and screaming to get them out at every turn, than preserve both of your existences by standing against literal replacement and soft genocide that is being waged by the Left. For just one example.
The worst (best?) part of it all is that the leftists accuse us of all of these same things and more. They say "The right is in a cult, ignores facts and logic, brainwashed, etc. etc."
Normies don't stand a chance and I don't know what to do other than ask questions to try to pierce the programming.
The most valuable thing I've been able to do is be a social value to my friends and family. Fundamentally, they trust my analysis. Specifically, because I'm honest with them and transparent with them about how I come to my decisions. Since I'm principles, I also abide by my analysis and work to implement my solution onto myself. I also try to steelman my own positions by giving them a failsafe: "If I'm wrong, how will I know". Falsifiable claims are useful because they can test your claims on their own time. As a result, they will tend to come to me with questions, and I will try to honestly walk them through what I can.
The normies aren't looking to follow a super-detailed analysis, but they are looking for general equations that say: If I see X, be wary of Y, and take action Z. I'll fill in the gaps, but I'll emphasize the general equation of what to look for to make a decision. Those do tend to exist, and normally it involves understanding how rhetorical warfare works from the Left, and focusing on who is benefiting from what actions.
And these are just examples of what literate white progressives genuinely believe. The kinds of things black folx believe are even wilder.
No, that one came from Leftist blacks.
IC = Intelligence Community, I presume?
Correct.
It's actually how Twitter referred to them, so I kept it.