(1) How people build their own bubbles on Facebook and Twitter:
When you first join either RB or Tw, you have no following list. As a result, you have nothing in your feed.
Twitter offers you some vanilla ideas, and then you tend to follow some of your friends.
When you first join either RB or Tw, you have no following list. As a result, you have nothing in your feed.
Twitter offers you some vanilla ideas, and then you tend to follow some of your friends.
(2) As you add friends or your favorite celebrities and news personalities, you will start receiving tweets and retweets.
This will immediately bias your feed to the tastes of your most active friends and celebrities.
When you read a retweet, you can follow its author.
This will immediately bias your feed to the tastes of your most active friends and celebrities.
When you read a retweet, you can follow its author.
(3) Pretty soon, you're encased in a bubble that is designed to be aligned with your biases.
As you follow, unfollow, mute and block accounts, you shape the bubble to your liking, but it is difficult to communicate between bubbles.
As you follow, unfollow, mute and block accounts, you shape the bubble to your liking, but it is difficult to communicate between bubbles.
(4) Media sources in both bubbles spend inordinate amounts of time discrediting sources in the other bubble.
This allows them to discredit opponents and hide their side's deficiencies.
Your state's on fire, and all the news shows is an argument about President Trump!
This allows them to discredit opponents and hide their side's deficiencies.
Your state's on fire, and all the news shows is an argument about President Trump!
(5) As infused erroneous beliefs and overemphasized facts become part of your belief system, you further isolate yourself from the alternative party and the facts they present.
As they become the others, it's easier to justify propaganda aimed at them.
As they become the others, it's easier to justify propaganda aimed at them.
(6) Now, amidst an ongoing feud between partisans, real threats arise:
(a) like Russian election interference,
(b) criminal & neurotic Presidents with their criminal cadres,
(c) devastating pandemics and
(d) a trillion dollars worth of damage due to extreme weather.
(a) like Russian election interference,
(b) criminal & neurotic Presidents with their criminal cadres,
(c) devastating pandemics and
(d) a trillion dollars worth of damage due to extreme weather.
(7) And even though Twitter and Facebook are great platforms for building bubbles, and sharing information within them, they are terrible platforms for resolving conflict.
How many times have you posted a detailed response, only to see the other side pivot to "Whataboutism"?
How many times have you posted a detailed response, only to see the other side pivot to "Whataboutism"?
(8) Russia was freed from the CCCP and had a chance to become a land of freedom & opportunity.
Instead, a group of ex-KGB officers enticed, compromised & coerced wealthy Russians into forming a covert, ruthless ruling party where vast wealth is siphoned from the Russia people.
Instead, a group of ex-KGB officers enticed, compromised & coerced wealthy Russians into forming a covert, ruthless ruling party where vast wealth is siphoned from the Russia people.
(9) When "oil export dependent" Russian economy was crippled, Putin set his sights on former Soviet states, getting puppet presidents elected and siphoning their peoples' wealth.
(10) Putin's playbook involves sowing division and inserting an enticed, compromised, and if necessary, coerced candidate.
Once in place, the reins of power are migrated from a system of checks and balances to a dictatorship with a democratic facade.
Once in place, the reins of power are migrated from a system of checks and balances to a dictatorship with a democratic facade.
(11) Once, you play ball, if you defect from Putin, the consequences are grim.
Paul Manafort chose Federal Prison over defection.
Paul Manafort chose Federal Prison over defection.
(12) Roger Ailes vision to create GOP TV has metastasized. After 50yrs, its combined w/Rove's continuous propaganda wars & Citizen United's unlimited dark money to produce a hyperpolarized, fact-free America.
That America has been under attack from a Putin-led coup for 5yrs.
That America has been under attack from a Putin-led coup for 5yrs.
(13) How many current Republican Cabinet & Congress members are compromised? How many simply drink their own Kool Aid?
How did the NRA debacle get swept under the rug?
Why did hyper-partisan Republicans vote not guilty when Trump clearly violated crucial Constitutional Law?
How did the NRA debacle get swept under the rug?
Why did hyper-partisan Republicans vote not guilty when Trump clearly violated crucial Constitutional Law?
(14) The coup is now. Our democracy is in jeopardy. Surprises are planned for October.
Twitter & Facebook won't work; neither will the Mainstream Media, it only preaches to its choir.
We need to awaken the grassroots of the right & break them out of their bubble, but how?
Twitter & Facebook won't work; neither will the Mainstream Media, it only preaches to its choir.
We need to awaken the grassroots of the right & break them out of their bubble, but how?
(15) Related Thread on Trump's Ministry of Propaganda:
https://twitter.com/39Magilla/status/1306031986927120384
(16) Related Thread on the Trump Family's German Roots:
Paternal Grandfather, Kallstadt, Bavaria, Germany
Paternal Grandmother, Kallstadt, Bavaria, Germany
Father Fred, 1st General Immigrant w/German Parents, Raised Speaking German, Said we're Swedish
Paternal Grandfather, Kallstadt, Bavaria, Germany
Paternal Grandmother, Kallstadt, Bavaria, Germany
Father Fred, 1st General Immigrant w/German Parents, Raised Speaking German, Said we're Swedish
https://twitter.com/39Magilla/status/1305465770571423744
(17) Learn about the success of "The Fake News" and "The Deep State" propaganda memes, here:
https://twitter.com/39Magilla/status/1307323696189779969
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