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Media Meltdown and also Media Bias 101


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On 11/22/2022 at 11:29 AM, romad1 said:

Isn't this the Biden who is an actual model?  

Every single White House lies frequently and that sucks.  The difference between every other President's White House and the Trump White House is that there always  seems to have been some unwritten agreement between what you can lie about and how far you can go with it.  Trump's White House had no limits.  They just made stuff up pushed conspiracy theories.

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Waiting to see what Elon does with his poll where the twits chose for him to step away from twitter. I think there are a couple of ways to read this. One is that he had become egomaniacal enough that he thought the twits would support him overwhelmingly and he could use the poll to club his opponents. But the other reading would be be that thrown in the real and terribly complex morass of content moderation, he has begun to figure out that he needs to put some people in charge in who know what they are doing and step away himself, and losing the poll gives him the perfect cover to do it in a style that works for him.

We'll see which is the case.

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Just now, gehringer_2 said:

Waiting to see what Elon does with his poll where the twits chose for him to step away from twitter. I think there are a couple of ways to read this. One is that he had become egomaniacal enough that he thought the twits would support him overwhelmingly and he could use the poll to club his opponents. But the other reading would be be that thrown in the real and terribly complex morass of content moderation, he has begun to figure out that he needs to put some people in charge in who know what they are doing and step away himself, and losing the poll gives him the perfect cover to do it in a style that works for him.

We'll see which is the case.

The thought I had was that his Saudi and Emirati backers told him whatfor yesterday at the WC Final.   It was an intervention from his friends and loved ones.   He now has to enter a treatment program for apocalyptic egomaniacs. 

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6 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

Waiting to see what Elon does with his poll where the twits chose for him to step away from twitter. I think there are a couple of ways to read this. One is that he had become egomaniacal enough that he thought the twits would support him overwhelmingly and he could use the poll to club his opponents. But the other reading would be be that thrown in the real and terribly complex morass of content moderation, he has begun to figure out that he needs to put some people in charge in who know what they are doing and step away himself, and losing the poll gives him the perfect cover to do it in a style that works for him.

We'll see which is the case.

Even if he does technically step away, I can't help but believe he will still be dictating policy, strategy and tactics from wherever afar is.

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55 minutes ago, romad1 said:

Elon was a heck of a “get” for Putin

He may have had lots of money before, but if he wanted to take his personal wealth into the stratosphere, he could always use the help of a nation-state hostile to America, and with trillions of dollars at its disposal.

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3 minutes ago, romad1 said:

Stephanie Ruhle is wearing glasses from beyond freakitude tonight.  She has transformed from mid-day news bunny to some weird post-noir villain at night.

edit:  Villain is the wrong word. 

A friend sends that she looks like she's one of the 4s from the Meowmeowbeenz episode of Community

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