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19.12.2024 17:12 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

🧵2/2 It's The PERCEPTION of the Economy Stupid

So the actual economy (just like the actual science of vaccines) no longer matters in the Trump era. All that matters now is the perception of the economy (or of vaccines) & the lies & false promises spewed to create the perception.

18.12.2024 20:13 — 👍 40    🔁 12    💬 2    📌 0

The immediate rebranding of country music from the music of the poor and angry into nationalistic pandering is one of the most tragic and horrifying psyops in American history and I'm only half joking

19.12.2024 13:48 — 👍 34    🔁 5    💬 3    📌 0

Yorkshire pudding.

26.11.2024 18:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

If you think the reason the Republicans won is because of Fox and other MSM you’re truly missing the entire information ecosystem that exists. Most people aren’t even watching MSM anymore. It’s a massive diverse information world. Remember mocking Trump for going on WWE and comedy podcasts?

Yeah.

21.11.2024 14:16 — 👍 2393    🔁 276    💬 187    📌 32

Context collapse, 2002-2012...

2002: Friendster
2003: MySpace, LinkedIn
2004: Facebook
2005: YouTube founded, February 14, San Mateo, CA.
2006: Twitter
2010: Instagram
2012: TikTok

19.11.2024 21:39 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Here’s your friendly reminder to plow through the labyrinth of menus in Microsoft Word to turn off all “connected experiences”. That’s their euphemism for scraping every letter you write to train their AI.

Here’s how you do it. 🧵

18.11.2024 16:47 — 👍 456    🔁 262    💬 60    📌 26