Donald Trump and US politics

Mark Levin uses left-stream media to make case for wiretapping scandal

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Budget_player_cadet wrote:

Ha ha ha, great jokes.

That OK congressman sure is one. For no particular reason I also suspect he has small hands.

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鬼殺し wrote:

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Raycheetah wrote:

All the walls of TL;DR and the snarky, obnoxious taunts and insults on an internet game forum aren't going to change any minds about these things. All they're going to change is posters' opinions of each other, and not for the better. So go on and proclaim that President Trump will be out in six months, or that he hates (ethnic group of your choosing), or that he's in deep with the Russians, or that he kicks puppies, if it makes you feel better.

you're just circlejerking now if that's how you feel.

I thought you so much better than that.

My bad.

Kinda see Charans point here. I, for one, am trying to change minds.

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鬼殺し wrote:

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ScrotieMcB wrote:

The future of news is social media personalities.

The trouble with getting it from the horse's mouth is these horses can and will lie to get a carrot.

I didn't actually mean the horse's mouth; I meant more like Kripp, but political discussion. An era where one neckbeard with high-speed internet, a decent computer, a webcam and a microphone — and pretty much nothing else — has more editorial reach than Bill O'Reilly. Because better content, produced cheaper. A much more egalitarian press. In that sense, Trump's tweets are the press releases of the future.

You speak of crusade and of schism. This is the core conflict: television-based corporate-owned news versus the rise of the independent social media press. With the full realization of the Internet's potential to disseminate not just a narrative, but a comprehensive marketplace of narratives, corruption can no longer hide behind corporate-spawned propaganda with impunity. Oh, it can fight back, it can shill and try to compete in the marketplace of ideas... but it will lose.

Its defeat is inevitable.

You speak of healing the rift, of reconciliation. There won't be much. Television is in its death throes. Those who made themselves dependent upon its perpetual existence will adapt or perish. The Internet is the superior technology. This does not bode well for the lesser technology. To the victor go the spoils.

You might mourn this. You might miss the days when everyone just trusted Walter Cronkite and Tom Brokaw. But you do realize that such nostalgia is roughly equivalent to mourning the loss of black-and-white movies or the audio cassette, don't you?

The mainstream media and the post-9/11 military-industrial complex shadow governments they support are now on the wrong side of history.

When a meme becomes real life. Nine second video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_S97kgzfHd0

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ScrotieMcB wrote:

I, for one, am trying to change minds.

Your time, you are wasting it. =^[.]^=

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Raycheetah wrote:

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ScrotieMcB wrote:

I, for one, am trying to change minds.

Your time, you are wasting it. =^[.]^=

Of all the afterlifes possible, continuing relevance through impact on culture is the only one which has stood the test of time. You know Socrates by name two millennia later; the only way you'd know the name of the king who ruled over him would be if you looked it up.

Meanwhile, President Trump is to blame for EVERYTHING:

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Barbra Streisand Tweets That Trump Is Making Her Gain Weight

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/barbra-streisand-tweets-trump-is-making-her-gain-weight-983280

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ScrotieMcB wrote:

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Raycheetah wrote:

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ScrotieMcB wrote:

I, for one, am trying to change minds.

Your time, you are wasting it. =^[.]^=

Of all the afterlifes possible, continuing relevance through impact on culture is the only one which has stood the test of time. You know Socrates by name two millennia later; the only way you'd know the name of the king who ruled over him would be if you looked it up.

Winning arguments on a video game discussion board isn't exactly establishing a legacy for the ages. =9[.]9=

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Xavderion wrote:

When a meme becomes real life. Nine second video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_S97kgzfHd0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJeugIJFXas

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Raycheetah wrote:

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ScrotieMcB wrote:

Of all the afterlifes possible, continuing relevance through impact on culture is the only one which has stood the test of time. You know Socrates by name two millennia later; the only way you'd know the name of the king who ruled over him would be if you looked it up.

Winning arguments on a video game discussion board isn't exactly establishing a legacy for the ages. =9[.]9=

Admittedly not quite the highest-tier method for changing minds. But achievable.

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TheAnuhart wrote:

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Xavderion wrote:

When a meme becomes real life. Nine second video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_S97kgzfHd0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJeugIJFXas

Wow. Rekt