Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy. (Politics General)

With billionares I think humanizing them is actually the most effective way to deprogram people. Cause billionares are build up to be more than human, just like chivalry was there to build up feudal lords as being more than human. Seeing them as human makes their power feel arbitary rather than deserved.

@Background Pony #3BA6
Youtube is also getting worse. Quietly deleting tons of stuff without warning or notice.

@The Smiling Pony
The majority of Texans don’t live in that area.

@marinus18
Can’t deprogram people when the underlying issue at play is a crisis of trust.

Allen Lichtman, the man who has correctly called 9 out of the last 10 elections (Bush V. Gore being the only loss, but we all know why) has made his official prediction for 2024.

And it’s Harris. Who he says commands 8 of the “keys” to the White House. The keys being a series of fundamental aspects of a campaign and presidency represented by true/false statements, going well beyond polling.

Putin claims to endorse Harris, expect this talking point for the next month: https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/09/5/7473557/

@Background Pony #10F6
Trump is gonna be very upset that his senpai isn’t returning his feelings

@Background Pony #1F81
Putin’s a big fat liar, so grain of salt and all that.

But, uh, “she won’t sanction Russia because she feels happy”? How is it their own propaganda makes the man look like a blithering idiot?

@Background Human
Maybe they associate being happy with being an idiot to justify their misery, like an annoying pessimistic.

@Background Pony #10F6
Odds 2 to 1 there’s going to be some voters stupid enough to fall for it.

@Background Pony #D717
This is just fuel for the bots after it was revealed that several people were bribed by RT to spread their disinformation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yzaeeynpo1s

In other words, fuel for plausible deniability and retweets.

@Background Pony #10F6
He says that but for his interests Trump is ideal. Trump worships him and will do anything for his approval.

@Meanlucario
I think it’s clear that they associate being happy with weakness. Their treatment of Walz has already made that obvious.

@Background Pony #10F6
A part of me wishes the Harris campaign would release a statement telling Putin to get bent, while another part tells me it’s just going to add fuel to the fire.

Silver really fell hard from grace.

Polls are useful data points, but they lack true predictive power on their own. Snapshots of a snapshot.

After being found out that Beanie boy was a Russian agent yesterday. Today Beanie Boy tweeted that Ukraine is our ally.

It fun to make fun of Beanie Boy.

Anyways now Elon Musk tweeted 82 times to hide that Russian agent news. It did not work.

@igotnopicks
How did we think Musk was political neutral for so long?

@Meanlucario
As far as I’m aware, it wasn’t really obvious until after he bought Twitter. Maybe it gave him the idea of “Ultimate free speech for me! No consequences!” and let it quickly go to his head.

So now that we know about Tim Walz’s Brother, Jeff Walz, says that Tim Walz gets carsick as a kid.

So they are making Tim Walz even more relatable :D Thanks for that Jeff.

@Background Pony #3BA6
So like Putin deciding to put his “manly Russian army” to the test after his PR team told him not to.

@igotnopicks
Again, Tim is the Chad Everyman.

As part of the latest blatant example of how media manipulates us without ever explicitly stating a falsehood, take a look at the below screenshot. It covers the latest school shooter, who is white, but uses as a thumbnail a photo of one of his victims, who was black. The tweet was subsequently deleted, but they have not addressed the “error” at all since.

@BlitztheDragon
And “Colt Gray” gets a “posts aren’t loading” screen when typed in search

@Vivace
lmao, can confirm.

(searching for “Media”, however, works)

(searching for “colt gray” in quotes also works)

On a different topic in France Macron one of the last neo-liberals is really trying to cling on to power, trying to stop the democraticaly elected parties from forming a government. He thinks they are too left wing which usually means some far right group will take over.