Everyone mocks video essays for being verbose (“Part 1: Early Cinema”) but it’s nothing compared to 17th century political theory. TREATISE CONCERNING GOVERNMENT, BOOK 1: MAN’S FACULTYES OF SENSE PERCEPTION
Nate, can you point us to all of your very direct criticisms of the 'important' things going on in the Trump admin? You know, because everyone else is being hysterical and focusing on the 'stupid' stuff'
I feel like this whole Platner situation could’ve been avoided if a bunch of upper middle class leftists hadn’t seen the most obvious red flags imaginable and thought, “that’s just what rough, salty, Ohio Waffle House type working class people are like”
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@GaslightSonata @rBillSimmonsPod Because Bill and the people in his league are rich. I hate the price talk because it's so unrelatable. I wonder what percentage of leagues are even auction these days
NEW: THREAD: Just noticed that the Attorneys General and Secretaries of State of Arizona and Michigan have had their blue check marks removed. What’s going on? 1/
@SollenbergerRC So why characterize it that way in your OG tweet? Irresponsible or naivete to suggest it would "shut down". Do better, that was amateurish.
Trump: Cornel West, he's one of my favorite candidates. Cornel West and I like her also, Jill Stein, I like her very much. You know why? She takes 100% from them. He takes 100%
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Please make sure everyone you know sees this segment with Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts — the organization behind Project 2025.
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QUESTION: Is your organization going to accept the results of the 2024 presidential election, regardless of the election results.
ANSWER: Yes, if there isn’t massive fraud like there was in 2020.
QUESTION: There wasn’t massive fraud. Where was it?
ANSWER: no answer
QUESTION: What is the plan for the deportation of undocumented immigrants in the interior, not at the border.
ANSWER: We need to have the biggest mass deportation system in America.
QUESTION: What are these people (undocumented immigrants) doing?
ANSWER: A lot of them are committing crimes like murdering the 12-year-old girl in Houston.
FACT: That’s one out of 11 million. In Texas, undocumented immigrants were 37.1 % less likely to be convicted of a crime.
QUESTION: Should a woman be able to get an abortion if her doctor says she needs one?
ANSWER: Abortion is not healthcare . We will change the name of the Department of Health and Human Services to the Department of Life, because we are all in support of life.
Let’s talk influence campaigns.
You should read this no matter what side of the aisle you’re on.
I think people are still misunderstanding the concept of influence campaigns, particularly when it comes to Russia.
Let’s look at an example from ten years ago that I think didn’t get near enough attention.
In September of 2014, Russian trolls from the Internet Research Agency (IRA), started a Facebook group called “The Heart of Texas”
This group promulgated all kinds of bullshit, including secession/TEXIT, Dems are coming for your guns, etc.
They also created “The United Muslims of America”
This group also promoted of crazy rhetoric, including sharia law in America (which has always been a weird political hot-button issue for the right even though it’s literally not a thing).
In 2016–after growing in popularity, partially due to a massive Russian botnet—these groups orchestrated competing rallies and counter-rallies across the street from one another in Houston.
They were trying to stoke the flames of cultural violence, and it almost worked.
These groups accumulated millions of likes, hundreds of thousands of comments, and influenced thousands of people from a building in Moscow.
None of this was organic, and it almost completely devolved into violence anyway.
This is only one example. This same story has played out over multiple states, and multiple flashpoints.
These efforts have accelerated since 2016, and Russia (and to be fair, China, Iran, etc.) has only gotten better at obfuscation.
If you see something online that feels like it’s meant to piss you off, that’s probably because it’s meant to piss you off.
While they may have a political preference, the overarching goal of most foreign intelligence agencies is to sow division in the United States.
If Russia can make us doubt the process, question the facts, or lose faith in our system(s), it doesn’t matter *who* wins, because they’ve stacked the deck so *they* (Russia) won’t lose.
It would be great if Americans could stop helping them with these goals, wittingly or unwittingly.
You know what just happened the week before Memorial Day 2024?
Republican Governor Youngkin repealed a law that allows for kids of 100% disabled military veterans (& those killed in action) to attend Virginia colleges free.
Heartless. Brainless. Shameless.