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2024 US Election

Meatwad

Now you wanna run around and talk about guns like me and Tim ain't got none. What you think we sold 'em all.

"concepts of a plan"

MistaT

Gazza M — what I meant by “coherent” was more so complete thoughts and properly structured sentences. He’s been struggling with those in recent weeks.

Fully agree he spat out some absurd shit, but his base is about it and plenty of them are reading those same stories on the far right fringes of the internet.

Burnwinter

Gazza M Yeah I'm not sure each event matters so much, or at least when the race swings a bit as when Harris supplanted Biden or Walz joined her campaign, it seems the pundits and people are soon looking ahead for the next moment of drama.

I read the polls are very close, within the margin of error. I'm not sure if I'm just imagining it or if this is some kind of Mandela effect, but it seems polling data is far less to be relied upon today than twenty years ago.

Mirth

Burnwinter I'm not sure if I'm just imagining it or if this is some kind of Mandela effect, but it seems polling data is far less to be relied upon today than twenty years ago.

I assume it’s because of the breakneck speed of events. Historically an assassination attempt would be mainstream news for an entire campaign but it’s already been relegated to a footnote. It’s wild.

Meatwad

Claudius

Mirth it’s good. Only issue is people are more fixed in their views. So the group of people who can be impacted by a single event like a debate is smaller than ever.

Burnwinter

Mirth Yeah. Suspect also that the era of people all watching telly in their suburban homes waiting for the pollsters to ring and then giving up an accurate picture of their views is long gone.

Gazza M

another observation i had which i havent seen mentioned, is just how audience captured many figures on the right are. trump literally was fed the insane pet-eating story 24 hours before the debate, and just blurted it out on the national debate stage. the same thing is happening with elon musk and a number of other public figures on the right eg. the russell brands and jordan peterson types. there's this bi-directional flow of misinformation that so baked into the right wing eco system in the US, it's hard to know where the lies actually begin and end. I don't even think they know anymore either, nor does it matter. when you're governed by lies, your sense of judgement and grip on reality becomes tenuous at best. it's crazy to watch the phenomenon unfold in real time like it did yesterday

Claudius

Gazza M but they like that. They like this idea of free speech which is actually just the ability to spread misinformation that fits this narrative. When told by the press that the cat story was fake, JD Vance acknowledged this but still encouraged his followers to share cat memes. Elon earlier this week reminded X users to not spread misinformation, and then promptly distributed cat stories. It’s malicious, very nazi like, understanding the power of media. Hence the desire to discredit the mainstream, burn books, curtail education, etc.

Big Willie

Claudius but they like that. They like this idea of free speech which is actually just the ability to spread misinformation that fits this narrative.

Wasn't it Edi Amin who said something along the lines of I can guarantee freedom of speech, but I cannot guarantee freedom after speech?

Asterix

I tuned in for about 2 minutes when they were talking about abortion. I heard Trump essentially assert that many Democrats are in favour of abortion "even after birth". I turned off again.

And yet this statement didn't even make it into the list of weird shit he is saying. What a stuffed up state of affairs US politics is in.

Claudius

Asterix also known as homicide. I don’t know if people just lost a basic capacity to think over time

Asterix

I was just reading that apparently the moderators did pick him up on this. So he complained the debate was 3 vs 1.

flobaba

Yep. That's the conservative media's excuse. Apparently it was wrong of the moderators to fact check him in real time. The claim is Harris was not fact checked as aggressively, and the moderators were in cahoots with her all along

Meatwad

i saw some summary where he made 33 factually inaccurate statements that didn't get checked and she made one. they should be happy that they couldn't possibly fact check all his lies.

Meatwad

yeah the moderators were totally unfair to agent orange.

mdgoonah41

hes an absolutely classless piece of shit who is putting people in unnecessary danger every single day

Gazza M

mdgoonah41 theyre tripling down on this as well.

if it interests anyone, here's some decent journalism around the actual challenges Springfield faces on this issue, sans the racist caterwauling

Claudius

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