MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Immediate major takeaway: we give too much personal credit to Trump in knowing how and what to manipulate. He just gets his cues from like, watching Tucker Carlson, and Carlson gets it from social media where the memes are chosen and pumped up by Russian bots.
Next up, two other thoughts: 1) the amping up of anti-immigrant tension is happening in a lot of places, not just in the U.S. Is a lot of that due to Putin's bots? And if so, does he think strongly ethnic nation states are good for the world? Why? 2) I would not be surprised if a significant part of the racial animus in this country right now is due to Putin/Russia. and in particular, from seeing some of the memes used by exposed bots, it is due to making the left political correctness police look more absurd and strident than they actually are and also stoking fear of the other in both directions, i.e., call the cops if someone of a dark color is hanging around a white 'hood and hating all on all the whiteys for that happening.
by artappraiser on Sat, 08/25/2018 - 11:17am
Hmmm, my takeaway is that Trump is a master of saving up pieces of outrageable material, and then he has this whole Fox News noise machine (and yes, the Enquirer vault) to back him up, and now an additional sledge hammer of Russian bots whenever he's having a tough time of it - just create a more unhinged piece of outrage, his base doesn't mind, and the public-at-large is overwhelmed and eyes glaze over.
The day the Russian hacking announcement came, 30 minutes later Pussygate dropped, and then Wikileaks started releasing Hillary emails. https://edition.cnn.com/2017/10/07/politics/one-year-access-hollywood-ru...
It's a question whether Trump's team pushed the Access Hollywood release, but certainly his Russian buddies brought in the Hillary emails to enhance the chaos & get the evil witch to share prime time.
And yes, you're right - the bots aren't just coming out at night - they keep the chaos and distrust percolating all the time, but crescendo with important events. As many have said, the Russians aren't trying to push a particular viewpoint - they're trying to foment chaos and fear and distrust among all sides, even though a number of these pots push identical talking points - much like Fox & Drudge faxes of old back with boring old-tech. What does seem peculiar is that there's no stopping it apparently, despite Twitter & Facebook supposedly shutting down some accounts.
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 08/25/2018 - 12:04pm
Afterhought: in many ways it is just this simple to do: most of us are instinctively afraid of people who we think hate us. So just make us think one group hates our type and we're off to the neverending fear-and-hate-fest, Hatfields and McCoy's.
Internet rules about trolling really do have more import now because social media is partly taking the place of physical society. Where once social etiquette was important in making society work, now netiquette becomes just as important. Stereotyping combined with name calling is dangerous stuff and needs to be looked down upon just as much as it would be if you physically walked up to someone and started calling him/her names.
Takes me to the John McCain thing: eye contact, treating the other as a human being. Glenn Thrush is not one and the same as evil media, he is Glenn Thrush, human being. I am reminded of that campaign event where McCain was confronted by that crazy woman saying she didn't like Obama he's an Arab, and rather than yelling at her and calling her a name like "you're stupid" he gently and respectfully said "no that's not right, he's a good man" We have freedom of hate speech in this country so that society can play the role of disrespecting the hate speech and then it doesn't go further.
by artappraiser on Sat, 08/25/2018 - 12:18pm