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p.s. Did you know Steve Bannon looked at tech workers as people he could bamboozle to be his political footsoldiers? That's why the Mercers completely fund Bre

by mhneu 9y ago

p.s. Did you know Steve Bannon looked at tech workers as people he could bamboozle to be his political footsoldiers? That's why the Mercers completely fund Breitbart - to propagandize young, mostly tech, men and boys. From Josh Greene's book: "Yiannopoulos devoted much of Bretibart's tech coverage to cultural issues, particularly Gamergate, a long-running online argument over gaming culture that peaked in 2014. And that helped fuel an online alt-right movement sparked by Breitbart News. "I realized Milo could connect with these kids right away," Bannon told Green. "You can activate that army. They come in through Gamergate or whatever and then get turned onto politics and Trump."" Mercer spends around $10M per year funding Breitbart to spread that propaganda.

mistermann 9y ago
PS: And the democrats weaponize starry eyed, well-intentioned young progressive millennial and gen-xers. Why do you think the Russia-did-everything story sells so well when they were a bit player at most? Sorry to burst your bubble, but everyone is in on it.
- watwut 9y ago
  Democrats are moving to the center (e.g. right) while conservatives move further right. Meanwhile, young progressive millennial and gen-xers are trying to move democrats to the left and are in large power struggle. Not the same.
  - mistermann 9y ago
    Spoken like a true believer.
  - ataturk 9y ago
    I fail to see how gun prohibition and the destruction of the rest of our civil rights in the process (e.g. end of due process?) is anything but full-on hard-left playbook. Moving to the center? Only if you are left of Stalin himself. I think what we are seeing is the age old game--trick the naive into giving up everything in hopes of utopia and then when they are starving and in dire need of security (@see: Venezuela) then shove them all into mass graves. That's your communist history in a nutshell.
  - artificial 9y ago
    Conservatives haven’t really moved anywhere since 2010. Most of the political movement is on the Left with many Democrats being targeted for things like intersectional politics, gender. This season of America is not one to miss.

by mhneu 9y ago

mistermann 9y ago

PS: And the democrats weaponize starry eyed, well-intentioned young progressive millennial and gen-xers. Why do you think the Russia-did-everything story sells so well when they were a bit player at most? Sorry to burst your bubble, but everyone is in on it.

watwut 9y ago
Democrats are moving to the center (e.g. right) while conservatives move further right. Meanwhile, young progressive millennial and gen-xers are trying to move democrats to the left and are in large power struggle. Not the same.
- mistermann 9y ago
  Spoken like a true believer.
- ataturk 9y ago
  I fail to see how gun prohibition and the destruction of the rest of our civil rights in the process (e.g. end of due process?) is anything but full-on hard-left playbook. Moving to the center? Only if you are left of Stalin himself. I think what we are seeing is the age old game--trick the naive into giving up everything in hopes of utopia and then when they are starving and in dire need of security (@see: Venezuela) then shove them all into mass graves. That's your communist history in a nutshell.
- artificial 9y ago
  Conservatives haven’t really moved anywhere since 2010. Most of the political movement is on the Left with many Democrats being targeted for things like intersectional politics, gender. This season of America is not one to miss.