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Off the Record / Re: ICE misconduct megathread ...

Last post by Tamas - Today at 03:49:29 AM

Agreed but on aggregate I'm not sure the good outweighs the bad when it comes to social media.

That's because you live in a free society.

A regime like Hungary which I know in detail has been perfectly able to brainwash a large swath of the population and just dominate and control discourse without social media as their prime weapon. Yes they use it but they didn't need it.

But there is no wide-reach independent media in Hungary, hasn't been for about a decade, outside of YouTube and social media. I expect the situation is the same in other hybrid regimes as well and so it will be in the US, too.

#2

Off the Record / Re: The EU thread

Last post by Solmyr - Today at 03:47:10 AM

Should we be worried about Germany and Italy being aligned?

#3

Off the Record / Re: US - Greenland Crisis Thre...

Last post by Razgovory - Today at 02:19:24 AM

You need to exit your facebook bubble and rejoin the real world. 77 million americans voted for Trump. You can blame your handful of bogeyman leftists all you want, the fact remains that 77 million of your countrymen voted for this.

What bubble do you think I'm in?  Really curious.

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Off the Record / Re: ICE misconduct megathread ...

Last post by Zoupa - Today at 02:05:35 AM

Agreed but on aggregate I'm not sure the good outweighs the bad when it comes to social media.

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Off the Record / Re: Facebook Follies of Friend...

Last post by Sophie Scholl - Today at 01:28:28 AM

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Off the Record / Re: ICE misconduct megathread ...

Last post by Sophie Scholl - Today at 01:08:50 AM

For what its worth, Tamas, I fully agree with you. Without modern camera phones and social media to share said video footage, the FBI/ICE/DHS would have had a monopoly on the "truth" and the legacy media would have just accepted their version and aired/published/reported on it. Probably word for word like they do with most police and government statements. Passive voice and all.

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Off the Record / Re: ICE misconduct megathread ...

Last post by Jacob - Today at 01:04:32 AM

No I don't think anyone is claiming that. I think the claim is that even as we know, social media manipulation undermines the power of that knowledge.

It could be wrong though.

#8

Off the Record / Re: US - Greenland Crisis Thre...

Last post by Threviel - Today at 12:47:53 AM

You need to exit your facebook bubble and rejoin the real world. 77 million americans voted for Trump. You can blame your handful of bogeyman leftists all you want, the fact remains that 77 million of your countrymen voted for this.

And another 85 million that did not vote and thus tacitly supported Trump or at the very least thought he was more acceptable than getting off the couch.

#9

Off the Record / Re: ICE misconduct megathread ...

Last post by Tamas - Today at 12:19:15 AM

The two killings. Are you all claiming that we as the general public would have seen evidence of what has happened, without social media? (or the easy cross-connectivity technology provides, if you will, but that is not detachable from social media as it's the same phenomenon).

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Off the Record / Re: US - Greenland Crisis Thre...

Last post by Zoupa - Today at 12:19:15 AM

You need to exit your facebook bubble and rejoin the real world. 77 million americans voted for Trump. You can blame your handful of bogeyman leftists all you want, the fact remains that 77 million of your countrymen voted for this.