Coup in the USA?

[Veritable Quandry]

Yes, I'm just trying to suggest to him, as gently and politely as I can, that he's talking utter nonsense, and sitting back to watch the results.

Or maybe... no, this couldn't be someone from the Internet Research Agency in St Petersburg bot farm has the SL forum as part of their digital portfolio, could it? Sort as a punishment detail or hazing ritual, perhaps?

That would explain a lot. Now, I wonder I should suggest the idea to a certain nameless blogger and see how things go from there?

Want me to pop over and swear at them?

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

It was on Laugh In which broadcast its last episode in 1973.

I probably saw it later than that because Australia was a year or three behind the US broadcast schedule.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

"Could Global Pandemic Radar be the Cambridge Analytica of Capitalistic hegemonic biowarfare?"

God, I'm glad I don't play Scrabble against that person!

 

[WolfEyes]

I'm sorry Cris. I didn't mean to stir the hornets' vipers' nest.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Ah yes ... that oh so lovely individual .... Not the only bit of nutso from them either.

He's no fun now, since he's just trolling (I'm only half joking about the Russian troll farms), so I've muted him. End of problem.

 

[Romana]

Roger Stone's 2016 "Stop the Steal" Effort May Have Been Coordinated with Russia - emptywheel

Steve Bannon and Roger Stone both have ongoing legal exposure that under Joe Biden might lead to prison time. That makes the stakes of Bannon's Stop the Steal effort -- and its continuity with Stone's similar effort in 2016 -- all the more important.

www.emptywheel.net

 

[Romana]

Funny, Russia pops up in this one, too:

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Free]

MSN

 

[WolfEyes]

MSN

No bullet holes in the sign from target practice yet? Color me surprised.

 

[Free]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Romana]

 

[WolfEyes]

'Brainwashed' 1/6 Suspect Says Ashli Babbitt, Brian Sicknick May Not Have Died (msn.com)

 

[Romana]

'Brainwashed' 1/6 Suspect Says Ashli Babbitt, Brian Sicknick May Not Have Died (msn.com)

If he goes all Alex Jones on this I hope Officer Sicknick's family sues his ass off. I'm sure Fred Guttenberg (Sandy Hook parent) would be happy to help.

 

[Free]

The "media" will not help us.

CNN’s valentine to a Trump insurrectionist

January 6 whitewash

pressrun.media

CNN framed the report as a Both Sides one: Supporters see Babbitt as a patriot, while liberals see her as a terrorist. CNN then proceeded to completely ignore the liberal perspective for the entire Babbitt report. Readers were repeatedly told what a kind and conscientious person she was. But they were never given the other side of that Both Sides equation.

The CNN misfire was a classic example of what happens when journalists land sought-after interviews, in this case with members of Babbitt’s family, and then spin the story in their favor. They tell the tale just as the interview subjects would want it to be told.

“She was brave. She came out that way. Always was that way,” Babbitt’s mother told CNN. “Elizabeth Babbitt grew up a tomboy in a suburb of San Diego. She kept pace with four brothers and their friends, riding bikes, jumping them over ramps, skateboarding and “playing in the dirt,”” CNN gently reported. As for the deadly insurrection, “I feel like she went to the Capitol because she felt like her voice wasn’t being heard,” Babbitt’s brother told an understanding CNN.

It’s impossible to think that if Babbitt weren’t a white woman who grew up in suburban America that CNN would ever consider publishing a feel-good piece about a possible terrorist who’s been turned into a martyr by the radical right. The report, with its soft family lens, reflects a larger media obsession over the last five years to help humanize Trump’s extremist and dangerous white voter base.

 

[Romana]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

The report, with its soft family lens, reflects a larger media obsession over the last five years to help humanize Trump’s extremist and dangerous white voter base.

Would it be better to dehumanise them, though? Probably if you're intending to kill them, but otherwise?

In politics, I'm primarily interested in what works, and I'm not sure what benefits, other than rallying the base, dehumanising your opponents actually gives you, while I can think of several disadvantages, mostly to do with the way that dehumanising people by definition distorts your perception of them, and thus your ability to predict their behaviour.

To quote Michael Corleone in Godfather III, "Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment. "

 

[Free]

Would it be better to dehumanise them, though?

What's with the binary thinking?

Perhaps it would help in, amongst the both-sides-ism reporting, to actually report how along with her family's hagiography, that smashing doors and windows and ignoring lawful demands from police officers are typically not the acts of a kind and conscientious person.

To quote Michael Corleone in Godfather III, "Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment. "

Hitler loved dogs. There, did I humanize him enough for you?