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Just got finished watching The Great Hack* on Netflix. Demonizing "the other side", exactly as you've said, causes the polarisation that prevents even the cons
by BLKNSLVR 5y ago
Just got finished watching The Great Hack* on Netflix. Demonizing "the other side", exactly as you've said, causes the polarisation that prevents even the consideration of compromise, resulting in political unproductivity that in turn erodes trust and forces us simple humans back into the basic pigeon holes that remain as the only effective politics, primarily: fear.
The rational centre, however, is unprofitable, and will remain un-catered-to until its profitability increases.
* The 5-minute mini-rundown of the Trinidad and Tobago election strategy in 2010, at about 1hr and 1-minute into the doco, is a phenomenal eye-opener.
- grujicd 5y agoOMG, that Trinidad and Tobago part is so eye opening, even for middle aged cynic who thought he saw it all.
- dleslie 5y agoNow ask yourself what grass roots campaigns you supported were likely created by agencies like this.
- grujicd 5y agoYup. There was an Otpor (resistance) movement in Serbia which helped overturn Milosevic at the end of 90-ties. It was later found out it was assisted by several US agencies. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otpor https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otpor Its goal was the oposite from the Trinidad and Tobago one, to motivate as many people to take a vote. At the time noone knew they got outside help, but in retrospect, such help was very needed to overthrow a dictator.
- lotsofpulp 5y agoMy cynicism is running the other way. I have been burned too many times by “factual” documentaries that leave our context and information that run counter to what the documentary is selling. Especially all the Netflix garbage which is designed to just increase the number of hours of content they have. The audio seems to be from a sales pitch, so Cambridge Analytica has incentive to lie that they did something. The “Do So” movement seems to have started due to someone not allowing the incumbent, extremely unpopular prime minister onto their property: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Villafana https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Villafana I have not found any good evidence that Cambridge Analytica orchestrated anything. At best, I am guessing they acted as an advertising firm and used an organically growing movement against an already extremely unpopular leader. But the Netflix documentary attempts to make it seem like Cambridge Analytica started the movement and succeeded in swaying an outcome that would not have gone the way it did without Cambridge Analytica. Maybe it did, maybe it did not, but a sales rep from Cambridge Analytica trying to sell their services is certainly no proof of anything.
- harryvederci 5y agoYoutube (ugh[0]) link of the fragment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omc-5zj70M0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omc-5zj70M0 [0] Youtube is designed to suck you in and force feed you advertisements. Sorry, I couldn't find the fragment somewhere else.
- BLKNSLVR 5y agoBecause I was too lazy to find the clip myself, I'll instead contribute by linking to the less user-hostile, but questionably legal (isn't that few words just indicative of the state of society we find ourselves in) Invidious clip: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=omc-5zj70M0 https://yewtu.be/watch?v=omc-5zj70M0
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- sifar 5y ago>> The rational centre, however, is unprofitable, and will remain un-catered-to until its profitability increases. To play devils advocate, this exploitation of our irrational (as in not involving reason) behaviours is a pretty rational process.