Quote (Landmine @ Aug 24 2023 09:41pm)

It shows how many times it’s viewed on X. I’m guessing you’re handicapped.

Quote (TiStuff @ Aug 24 2023 11:31pm)

The Republican Debate Clown Show!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUn7Nw0q-dE

Quote (ofthevoid @ Aug 24 2023 08:58pm)

Didn't see it but did seen a few snips here and there. Seems like Vivek looked decent.

I like him and think he has some good ideas and is quick on his feet and obviously a very smart guy. One drawback that's a real turn off is how rehearsed he sounds and just some one liners whether its guns or constitution or whatever just have my eyes rolling because they feel so unauthentic.

I listened to him being interviewed for a longer sit down on the All In podcast and generally had a positive view. Would probably support him over any other single candidate in the field today simply because of his anti-war stance.

I also think having a very young president would be refreshing. We need someone that's vibrant and can hold a conversation to be the face of this country not some fossil who's obviously just the face of some handlers.




I don't think this is true simply because so many on the dem side showed up last time not because of how great Biden is but because they hated Trump. Vivek may have most overlaps with Trump but he has none of the baggage. No lawsuits, not a sleaze, in contrast very well polished.

I guess there are a lot of Trump fanatics that would only show up for Trump though. Vivek being brown would probably result in at least some republicans who have some racist tendencies to reject him. I think if he actually made it out of the primaries to general he'd do well, but that's just my thoughts.

Also Trump returning to Twitter in pretty based fashion :rofl:

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1694886846050771321

Quote (thesnipa @ Aug 25 2023 08:20am)

it will be interesting. a trump successor has a fine line to walk, you need to invoke the same feelings trump did and sounds enough like him that the base flocks over, but you also need to not sounds like a cheap knockoff or it wont read as sincere, which is Trump's main draw as a populist candidate. Vivek did well, we will see if he can keep it up, or if it even matters.

Quote (duffman316 @ Aug 25 2023 08:35am)

Did you even read the article or are you just avoiding the truth if it isn't what you want it to be?

Quote (Landmine @ Aug 25 2023 11:16am)

It shows views on X. I don’t need to read Mashable which is a super left leaning site.

Quote (gnarjay @ Aug 25 2023 12:27pm)

the number youre looking at shows how many times the TWEET has been viewed, the actual VIDEO view count is a different count entirely. and you call me handicapped ! LOL

Quote (Landmine @ Aug 25 2023 11:33am)

You are handicapped as the algorithm for video views has been removed. So just like your left leaning site go a head and try to make up a fake number or talk In hypothesis on a subject you have no actual way to measure. So view counts it is and it doesn’t change the fact of a MAY of been scrolled over. Handicapped you’re and you shall forever stay.

Quote (gnarjay @ Aug 25 2023 12:40pm)

a left-wing site owned and operated by a right-wing oligarch who's recently unbanned dozens of neo-nazis? man,you actually are handicapped

Quote (Landmine @ Aug 25 2023 11:43am)

https://mashable.com/article/anti-conservative-bias-facebook


Handicapped you must stay.

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Then last year, the Trump campaign solicited complaints of social media “censorship,” but that was basically just a way to get voter emails and donations. A Columbia research fellow did his own analysis on high-profile figures banned by Twitter, and found they were mostly Trump supporters. Many of them — David Duke and Richard Spencer, just to name two — also happened to be white supremacists spreading hate speech.

That's related to another issue: people on the right may in fact experience more content moderation than people on the left because right-leaning ideologies and content overlap with behavior that’s not allowed on social networks. For example, Twitter started expanding and enforcing its policies against hate speech, and, surprise, surprise, they applied to Trump's dog-whistle politics. Since Russian trolls successfully manipulated the 2016 election with inflammatory rhetoric and fake news alike, Facebook has been working to de-emphasize conspiracy theories and incendiary content from disreputable sources, which most often comes from right-wing sites like Gateway Pundit.

Claims of bias are a longstanding Republican tactic

The term “liberal media” did not arise organically. Since the 1960s, conservative politicians have sought to discredit criticism from the press by calling them unfair or biased. In the 1970s, Richard Nixon accused the press of conducting a “witch hunt” (sound familiar?) as reporters pursued Watergate. Once Rush Limbaugh hit the airwaves in the 1980s, he argued that the press was not the actual arbiter of the truth — he was. Fox News shifted its tone at the time to echo Limbaugh, and the rest is history.