Well, someone has to sacrifice brain cells for the good of society.
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(Obligatory disclosure: Since I live in a very blue state, I felt comfortable voting for Oliver, rather than Harris.)
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John Oliver, I thought he wasn’t eligible?
Chase Oliver, the Libertarian candidate who showed that the socially conservative wing wasn’t quite as in control of the Libertarian Party as it thought.
With two exceptions, I vote third party unless an election is close enough that I need to indicate which of the major party candidates I think is the lesser evil.
With two exceptions, I vote third party unless an election is close enough that I need to indicate which of the major party candidates I think is the lesser evil.
Some decades ago, the entire province of Ontario voted third party type of thing. The third party got elected with a majority lol. Everyone was stunned.
Ah well, they were incompetent but not malicious.
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And unbelievably, the media blitz is working. How many of a million different things should the media be doing a deep dive into, that should’ve been front page coverage for the last year - pick any one of them. And they’ve all been pre-empted by the war.
There’s only so much bandwidth, and it’s being consumed by the latest thing, to the exclusion of everything else.
Agreed. From the looks of things this conflict is designed to:
- Deflect away from the coverage of the Epstein files in the US as well as the affordability crisis
- Bolster Bibi’s electoral chances in Israel (he was on track to lose) and keep any investigations (regarding his corruption and role in Oct 7th security failure) on ice.
- This also gives Trump and his backers (right-wing Zionists) a chance to shape the media narrative in the US (given that they now control a big portion of the media with the WB sale via Elisson, Bezos, and Sinclair), and boost the electoral chances of pro-war AIPAC funded candidates in the coming US mid-terms.
On the more extreme end:
- There is now a potential risk that Trump might use the prolonged war as an excuse to manipulate the coming US elections.
The most serious problem in the US right now is that Israel has the political and economic halls of power in the US thoroughly penetrated. The majority of the population does not support these people, so I am expecting a lot of AI based propaganda to create a vast amount of political polarisation to muddy the issues.
And if people think this stuff doesn’t work, lemme tell you otherwise. I fight this stuff at home with my spouse routinely. I get statements of fact dispensed to me. When I question the source, there are generally two. Either they read it, or their twin sister read it. So like, they read it on facebook, where it was written by a russian bot with an agenda to get you to parrot it as fact. There’s no source, you just read what was written and accepted it as fact.
My spouse isn’t stupid. But they sure don’t get that stuff written online is not only not trustworthy, it’s probably been distributed with malicious intent. My kids get this, but my spouse and most of my familiy, they’re the target market.
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And we have Fox News to legitimize all of it.