• Null User Object@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    And I’m saying she’s just being alarmist and inflammatory to keep herself in the news cycle. People need to stop giving her the publicity she doesn’t deserve.

    That’s partly how we got Trump in the first place. News outlets falling over themselves to report the insane shit he was saying and doing, at the expense of reporting on sane candidates saying sane things.

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      5 days ago

      I don’t disagree that news reporting helped spread Trump’s message, but far more consequential was the intentional Democratic national strategy of uplifitng Donald Trump because they thought he would be easy to beat. The Pied Piper strategy is well documented now with Democratic leadership working with the Hillary Clinton campaign to uplift Trump and tear down Bernie Sanders. Trump would not have become the Republican nominee if he was not being artificially inflated by the DNC.

      I don’t think ignoring people like MTG or Trump really works because the people they advertise to aren’t gonna join the majority. Systemic action needs to be taken against them. Nick Fuentes, for example, waned in popularity after action was taken against him and he was banned from the internet. He is rising in popularity again because those actions have been reversed. These people know their ideas and policies are unpopular and rely upon regular folks not really knowing how disgusting they are. I think shining a light on them and directly calling them disgusting is an important step in actively banning them from public spaces.

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          6 days ago

          Yes…

          And then the rest of it is rational people discussing what would happen if trump used nukes…

          I’m sorry buddy, it literally doesn’t matter to me if you understand this, and I’m not going to fight you just to help you.

          Feel free to be wrong about this and anything else, I won’t see it anymore

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            6 days ago

            And then the rest of it is rational people discussing what would happen if trump used nukes…

            That’s exactly the problem! She says crazy shit to keep herself in the news. People take Jewish Space Laser Lady seriously and discuss what she said as if she should be taken seriously. News reports on it as if it should be taken seriously. Voters take Jewish Space Laser Lady seriously. Mission Accomplished.

            I’m sorry buddy, it literally doesn’t matter to me if you understand this, and I’m not going to fight you just to help you.

            Feel free to be wrong about this and anything else, I won’t see it anymore

            Enjoy your self imposed information silo.

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          6 days ago

          It’s not sane washing…

          And she’s not the only one who’s said trump wants to launch nukes…