This is Extremely Dangerous to Our Democracy

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Strong rec mentos · 2023-02 · on “Half of Americans now believe that news organizations deliberately mislead them”

Only takes me one minute and thirty six seconds to convince anyone I meet of this point: "This is Extremely Dangerous to our Democracy" - [this video]

Recommends cryptoz · 2022-05 · on “Hottest May in History for Texas”

This is extremely dangerous to our democracy. (in case someone missed this, it's incredible: [this video] )

Recommends jiggawatts · 2022-08 · on “An odd discovery on Spotify”

Something I noticed after I watched an episode of Stoic Finance[1] about a possible "impending crash of the Chinese economy" is that YouTube started recommending about a dozen "independent" channels. I put the word independent in air quotes because they all have near-identical looking title cards with the similar fonts, some variant of the phrasing "The collapse has begun!", and the same-ish content. Different presenters, different channels, same message. Over and over. And over. Reminds me of the "This is Extremely Dangerous to Our Democracy" clip that edited together dozens of apparently independent local news channels saying the same script, verbatim.[2] You've got to wonder if there's so

Recommends alfor · 2023-02 · on “How pervasive is corporate fraud?”

Same here. I thought it was so obvious and then called out publicly and exposed. It doesn’t matter. I think that as long as the right people in the media are greased it doesn't enter the mass consciousness. If you look at the mass media, you will see that the actors on the news will show emotions around certain subjects, they will make a grind or a disgusted face while talking about a problem at a company or a political movement. That is what change people mind when repeated many times. This video (from a shadow banned account) show how the media talk with one voice. [this video]

Cites pizza · 2020-05 · on “Woman who designed Florida's Covid-19 dashboard removed from her position”

Sinclair is the same broadcasting station featured in the terror-inducing "This is Extremely Dangerous to Our Democracy" video [this video]

Cites freeflight · 2020-11 · on “The CIA's Quest for Mind Control: Torture, LSD and a 'Poisoner in Chief'”

> That's complete and utter conspiracy nonsense because control implicates intentions, but the media - and especially social media - are not directed by a uniform actor with intentions. In most places the media landscape is a oligopoly [0], even social media doesn't evade that pitfall, only a handful of companies dominate that whole space. And while on social media these companies are not always supplying the content, they are very much the gatekeepers about what kind of content is allowed in the first place and what content they aggregate to whom [1]. That is a very powerful position to be in and the results can be observed for years already with filter bubbles based on extremely warped Ove

Cites tstrimple · 2021-01 · on “The Capitol Attack Doesn’t Justify Expanding Surveillance”

Because left wing rhetoric comes from grass roots ground up sort of activism. Right wing rhetoric is much smoother because they have full marketing teams and PR backing them. One is organic. One is designed. Organic movements are messy. Carefully designed messages are nice and succinct. One example of right wing consolidation around their designed messaging: [this video]

Cites dang-guefever · 2021-10 · on “Facebook is nearing a reputational point of no return”

Pretty much. This is the next generation version of "This is extremely dangerous to our democracy"^1 level of collusion to push narratives. 1 - [this video]