DandomRude

@DandomRude@piefed.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ariana Grande: The Last Racebender⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you very much for the explanation :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ariana Grande: The Last Racebender⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Can someone explain this to me? I’m out of the loop when it comes to mainstream social media, and I suspect that’s what this is about…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t feel sorry for anyone sitting there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vance says administration is pausing some Medicaid funding to Minnesota because of fraud concerns⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I consider it a certainty that Musk, as the owner of Twitter, manipulates what people see and artificially pushes content that is to his liking. There is more than enough evidence of this.

  Regarding Shirley’s video, I can only say that none of what he claims to have uncovered is true—none of his assertions stand up to scrutiny, and it is simply wrong to believe that this real problem was not known and addressed long before his video. This has nothing to do with journalism.

  What these people are doing is stirring up fears and exaggerating half-truths in order to deliberately give them a completely disproportionate significance that fits their extremist worldview and advances their political agenda - to this end, they also deliberately spread misinformation. In doing so, they are doing society absolutely no favors; on the contrary, they are damaging discourse based on rational arguments, which is essential for any democracy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vance says administration is pausing some Medicaid funding to Minnesota because of fraud concerns⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I just think it’s likely. I can’t name a source that would prove that the Trump administration directly commissions videos like this.

  However, people like Nick Shirley, who made the “Minnesota child care center fraud video,” work in a highly dubious manner, as described in this article, which also discusses his proximity to Trump’s MAGA a bit. In addition, some MAGA influencer accounts are apparently financed from abroad or even reside outside the US. Equally suspicious is how Trump handles the press pool at the White House, replacing seasoned journalists who ask critical questions with right-wing extremist social media conspiracy theorists.

  All of this leads me to conclude that this regime is using every means at its disposal to control the media discourse. In the latest edition of The Tonight Show, John Oliver provides an informative and amusing overview of how the spread of far-right ideas and the associated misinformation works on Twitter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vance says administration is pausing some Medicaid funding to Minnesota because of fraud concerns⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s quite likely that the US regime also commissioned this video and then promoted it with Musk’s help.

  They have been doing this for a long time. Another prominent example of such lies, pushed with enormous media power, is the false claim that Trump won the election against Biden, which directly led to the attack on the Capitol by MAGA fanatics on January 6, 2021.

  I don’t believe that MAGA strategists are overly influenced by social media in their approach. Rather, I believe that many of the apparent majority opinions presented on mainstream social media platforms are artificially created to suit their tastes with the support of people like Musk, Zuckerberg, and other media moguls, as these influential billionaires are united on their side and are well capable of accomplishing this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vance says administration is pausing some Medicaid funding to Minnesota because of fraud concerns⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was referring to the ridiculous video by this right-wing “influencer” who uses flimsy methods to try to expose alleged fraud at childcare centers in Minnesota. There is hardly anything accurate about this video.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vance says administration is pausing some Medicaid funding to Minnesota because of fraud concerns⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What makes you think that this ridiculous fake news piece wasn’t deliberately planted on Twitter by the regime itself?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Without hierarchies/authority figures, the bootlickers would be totally lost. 🤠⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The German philosopher Hannah Arendt asked herself a very similar question when, during the trial of Nazi official and war criminal Adolf Eichmann, she attempted to understand how a human being could be capable of such monstrous atrocities. In this context, she coined the term “banality of evil.”

  It is very worth taking a look at her book “Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil,” because her observations in it are, unfortunately, once again highly relevant today.