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Bozo_Casanova

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  1. 5D chess. He's brilliant at the use and control of media. I've never said anything else and people who do are really dumb.
  2. You're trying to compare one guy's account with the breadth of the network? Wouldn't it be better to compare the breadth and influence of Twitter and CNN? I don't think anybody would argue CNN is more influential.
  3. Oh gosh, look like somebody agrees with me. @Incredulity, this one is for you:
  4. The person/people calling themself "Gunther Eagleman" have 30% more followers on Twitter than Brian Stelter of CNN, and nearly four times as many followers as the Times top columnist, David Brooks. He also has about 35% more followers than Kristen Welker, host of Meet The Press. Try again?
  5. It's a technique of control through disorientation, to force the media into a state of constant reaction and seeking comment. Here's one example. Nope, I understood what you meant, although it's extremely odd that you selected those three and not Newspapers, Local news, Fox, and CNN, but I'm fine with "legacy media." Republicans financially, editorially and narratively control legacy media, which is what you actually mean when you say "mainstream." Oh, and the rest of us are supposed to also say "mainstream" when we mean "legacy", otherwise we are the ones being disingenuous.
  6. Sure, they just have the biggest, most devoted audiences and dominate both the cultural narrative and the outcome of elections. That doesn't sound "mainstream" at all.
  7. I don't. You're asking me to adopt your point of view without sharing it. Their motivation? What does that even mean? And in the context of Trump, pushing their own negative stories is a stated part of their campaign strategy, so even if they were "trying to harm" him, they are working in service of Republican objectives. Come on, man. These are for-profit companies and with the exception of NPR, news is a business. That's why the #1 source for news and political coverage is FOX news, and why political and politics adjacent podcasts have a larger audience than any news broadcasts. He was saying "mainstream" media, not "legacy" media. They are not interchangable words. He's still wrong, though.
  8. That's a funny way to define mainstream media, in that you skipped financial control and those three are the fourth, fifth and ninth most cited source for political coverage, for a total of 11% of respondents to Pew. But it's not even arguable that all three gave Trump more coverage than Biden in 2020 or Biden/Harris in 2024. So it's not even an arguable point that events surrounding the campaign were covered from POV with Trump and Republicans at the center. That's the definition of narrative control - GOP events, GOP people, GOP actions, GOP language - what they are saying, doing and so on.
  9. No, I meant it the way he meant it, except with Republicans. They control the mainstream media.
  10. No. I'm saying based on the most straightforward definitions, what you meant when you said it. Republicans control the mainstream media. They dominate it financially, editorially, and narratively. They also control the major alternatives, such as podcasts and talk radio. In what way do they not control it?
  11. Um, in what we don't they? I'm just making a statement of fact.
  12. No. Republicans and MAGA control the mainstream media.
  13. Such a good recommendation, thank you
  14. Welp. I almost made it.
  15. Craig 18 is so great.
  16. For sleep, I use ZMA + L-Theanine, and sometimes put benadryl on top.
  17. This will be worth a listen:
  18. Well OK, but what are we talking about here? If a person in New Jersey takes his lever gun in a locked case into a motel in Massachusetts it seems highly unlikely to cause a problem. Particularly since non-residents hunt in Massachusetts and NY for Deer and Bear regularly and legally. again, not arguing just trying to understand what is the reality of enforcement.
  19. Sure but what’s meaningful? I’m not trying to be combative, I’m just trying to ground the legal risk in scenarios where local law enforcement would reasonably get involved.
  20. I’m not in a position to give advice, but It’s hard to imagine a realistic scenario in any state in the continental US where passing though with a properly secured 6+1 lever action rifle causes a legal problem.
  21. Sometimes We The People need to get what We vote for. This is one of those times, and as Mencken would say, We are going to get it good and hard.
  22. That’s not new. Have you ever seen political ads from the late 50’s-early 60’s?
  23. Guy a row ahead of me flying with a teenage boy, presumably his son or perhaps towel boy: “Only drink single malt Scotch or single barrel bourbon. That’s the good stuff.” I am so thankful these people exist and that the liquor industry produces products to separate them from their money, so that bottlers and distillers can afford to produce an abundance of excellent and widely available products for the rest of us.
  24. I’ll save my thoughts on that for another thread, but the bottom line is that I don’t think the result of the election Tuesday says much of anything about Christians and their understanding of Christ. It says a lot about cognitive dissonance, low calorie media diets, and the primacy of personal experience over information.
  25. I don’t think they are dominant. I think they are simply loud and freely mix the belongings of God with those of Caesar. I don’t think the rest presume to know the will of God or have leave to be so bold. @Kyrie Eleison what do you think.
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