Elections; 2024
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. . . most people assume humans have historically been predators, the metaphorical big cats of the jungle. In fact, Gray says, we’ve historically been prey, the victims of predators:
“This picture of fearfulness is consistent with our understanding of human psychology. We’re hard-wired to detect threats quickly and to stay fixated on places where threats once appeared, even after they have vanished. We fear that ‘child predators’ will abduct our kids even when they are safer than ever.
“Modern humans, ensconced in towns and cities, are now mostly safe from animal predators, but we are still easily frightened. Whether we’re scrolling social media or voting for a presidential candidate, we all still carry the legacy of our ancestors, who worried about big cats lurking in the darkness.”
Thus, if you could invent a drug that would cause people to be fearful — and thus stimulate the rage that comes from fear — you could have incredible control over a population if you could simply tell them where and against whom to direct that fear-induced rage.
. . . the algorithms deployed in secret by social media purify and concentrate hate and fear spread across the broader social media site, distilling the most potent memes and messages to the top and shoving them into people’s brains.
But that’s just the beginning of the damage these top-secret algorithms are doing to our societies and politics. By increasing our individual levels of fear and rage, they create a broader social sense of fear and rage, making these emotions far more easy to exploit.
Enter stage right “populist” politicians and media sites who push people’s now-sensitized fear and rage buttons for political gain. (Not to mention the billions earned by social media billionaires pushing this psychological heroin while absolutely refusing to publish their algorithms.)
Numerous studies show that when people believe crime is a serious problem in their own communities and lives, they measurably shift toward the political right of the spectrum. Law-and-order campaigns and promises of severe punishment acquire a sudden appeal, as Joe Biden and Bill Clinton discovered in the early 1990s and politicians everywhere since the pandemic have seen.
Fear of crime — and fear more generally (of your kids being victims of trans people or renegade surgeons in public schools, for example, or of immigrants raping your wife or taking your job) — push people toward an embrace of conservative and then authoritarian politics and governance.
When media promote narratives about crime being out of control — whether true or not — they measurably drive acceptance of more reactionary crime control legislation along with rejection of efforts at rehabilitation and reform.
There may be an even wider impact of social media’s promotion of fear and rage. . . .
If a certain threshold of people being intentionally peaceful for a year or two can lower crime rates, what happens when a certain threshold of people are daily enraged by the injection of fear and hate into their psychological bloodstreams?
Could it be that social media is directly (or indirectly) responsible for much of the swing we’re seeing around the world toward bigotry, hate, and violence? That rightwing movements are emerging as a result of the impact of social media, rather than social media merely and passively reflecting the trend as the social media companies argue?
More at https://www.alternet.org/alternet-exclusives/algorithms-mind-control/
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Originally posted by second:Quote:With retards, all articles are bullshit.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
You posted a bullshit article.
Just acknowledge that, keep that in mind the next time you read an article at the dailykos, and move on. No need to get shitty about it.
Explain to me why it's not a bullshit article or shut the fuck up then.
Do not address me directly with your idiocy.
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The Wall Street Journal
The Staggering Cost Needed for Trump’s Mass Deportation Plan
$315 billion or $162 billion or $88 billion per year for 11 years. Take your pick.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-staggering-cost-needed-for
-trump-s-mass-deportation-plan/vi-AA1wGkcf
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Donald Trump Issues Great Depression Warning
Dec 30, 2024 at 9:05 AM EST
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-issues-great-depression-warning-
2007318
Trump says blame the Democrats, not me for what happens when I’m President:
"In fact, they would prefer 'Depression' as long as it hurt the Republican Party. The Democrats must be forced to take a vote on this treacherous issue NOW, during the Biden Administration, and not in June. They should be blamed for this potential disaster, not the Republicans!"
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Donald Trump loses appeal against E Jean Carroll sexual abuse verdict
Federal appeals court upholds $5m sexual assault and defamation verdict in setback for president-elect
Mon 30 Dec 2024 11.06 EST
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/30/donald-trump-loses-app
eal-e-jean-carroll
The verdict included $2.02m for sexual assault and $2.98m for defaming Carroll in an October 2022 social media post where he called her allegations a “hoax”.
Trump’s White House is filling with alleged sexual abusers ... led by him
The appeals court said testimony from two other women who accused Trump of sexual misconduct – the businesswoman Jessica Leeds as well as the former People magazine writer Natasha Stoynoff – helped establish “a repeated, idiosyncratic pattern of conduct” that aligned with Carroll’s allegations.
“Mr Trump’s statements in the [Access Hollywood] tape, together with the testimony of Ms Leeds and Ms Stoynoff, establish a repeated, idiosyncratic pattern of conduct consistent with what Ms Carroll alleged,” the opinion stated.
The ruling follows a separate $83.3m defamation verdict that Carroll won against Trump in January over his 2019 denials of her allegations. Trump is appealing that verdict.
The case is expected to continue even after Trump takes office for his second presidency on 20 January 2025, as the US supreme court ruled unanimously in 1997 that sitting presidents have no immunity from civil litigation over actions predating their official duties.
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Donald Trump loses appeal against E Jean Carroll sexual abuse verdict
It was an appeals court in Manhattan so there is no surprise in this verdict.
This bogus appeal will be appealed and thrown out.
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Trump’s Top 10 Best Moves of 2024
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/12/30/trumps_top_10_be
st_moves_2024_152141.html
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Quote:6ix, am I right that you believe Trump was never within ten feet of Carroll? "Trump has consistently denied all allegations, claiming he never met Carroll . . . "
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Donald Trump loses appeal against E Jean Carroll sexual abuse verdict
It was an appeals court in Manhattan so there is no surprise in this verdict.
This bogus appeal will be appealed and thrown out.
The court looked at the evidence and concluded that Trump did get within ten feet of Carroll. The court repeated on 77 pages of its decision that Trump is a liar and sex criminal:
Mr. Trump grabbed women without first obtaining their consent. Mr. Trump contends that
these and other asserted errors entitle him to a new trial. On review for abuse of discretion, we conclude that Mr. Trump has not demonstrated that the district court erred in any of the challenged rulings. Further, he has not carried his burden to show that any claimed error or combination of claimed errors affected his substantial rights as required to warrant a new trial. Accordingly, and for the reasons set forth more fully below, we AFFIRM the judgment of the district court.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ca2.60504/gov.usc
ourts.ca2.60504.176.1.pdf
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Originally posted by second:Quote:6ix, am I right that you believe Trump was never within ten feet of Carroll?
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Donald Trump loses appeal against E Jean Carroll sexual abuse verdict
It was an appeals court in Manhattan so there is no surprise in this verdict.
This bogus appeal will be appealed and thrown out.
I don't fuckin' know dude.
Do you know how many people have been within 10 feet of Trump who knew who he was that he had no clue who they were?
Carroll was just some mid-tier piece of ass in a sea of millions. Was she in a room with Trump once in the last 50 years. Maybe?
The one thing I do know is that we have a LOT of evidence of women lying in court about abuse. Even the girl who ruined the lives of those lacrosse players at Duke came out 18 years later and said she made all that shit up. Not even a slap on her fucking wrist after 18 years of ruined lives for three men. Oh.. but she apologized though, so everything is fine.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/21/us/duke-lacrosse-rape-case-victims/inde
x.html
The other thing I know is that your current President and his administration as well as the insane Democrats in lower levels with the aid of the media have persecuted Trump for the better part of a decade and even shot at him twice and he's still here.
Fuck Carroll. She's a liar. She's not getting a dime and she's probably going to be dead soon anyhow.
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