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Make America Onine Great Again

I think you misspelt “onanism”.

greyspoke
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I don’t pay much attention to Rogan. But I hadn’t realised what a complete republican shill he is. Putting forward ridiculous ideas and then saying he doesn’t know if they are true, when a minute’s googling would get the answer. He knows exactly what he is doing.

This is pretty insidious too, because back in the day this was more or less his schtick- get interesting, informed guests on and play dumb to encourage them to be smart. Used to be very entertaining sometimes but at some point he had a huge audience that lapped up the “dumb and wrong” part and werent’t very into the “interesting, informed” part.

But he still has a chunk of fans and a little respectibility from the old version

Of all the things I’ve read this week, this is the most

The Case for Robert F. KENNEDY Jr.
A candidate who has many interesting things to say about lots of stuff
By Gary Shteyngart

I’m not sure if it’s genius or too painful to be funny

I’m not sure if I like living in a world where you have to be this clear early on in your parodies that you are doing a parody.

I suffer from Anal Fissures up by my Rectum and the doctor in my town clinic is called Hussein (like Barack Hussein Obama), and he has not been able to fix my problems like an American doctor would. If this “Dr.” Hussein had been stopped in Mexico, I would not have Anal Fissures.

I mean, it is a parody, right?

He knows exactly what he is doing.

JAQing off.

Who knows what’s real anymore

Who knows what’s real anymore

Yes, AI fakes can be pretty darn hard to spot.

https://x.com/TrumpDailyPosts/status/1823578049545429280

Pretty scary commentary here from Carol Cadwalladr on the brazenness of social media (compared to 2020) in peddling and amplifying lies and misinformation. Suggestion being that the recent involvement by that weapons grade Twitter bell-end stirring up shit in the UK was just a dry run for November.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/18/inciting-rioters-in-britain-was-a-test-run-for-elon-musk-just-see-what-he-plans-for-america

I don’t know if anyone else has noticed this. I try and keep my youtube feed free from politics, especially US politics, since Harris has entered the race, the stuff I am “cleaning” from my feed seems to be positive stuff about Harris and Waltz, before I had been cleaning out the usual maga alt right bullshit for what feels like the last decade.

Just read an article in the Guardian with post VP debate opinions from swing states, there were quite a few considered opinions, but this was a gem;

I almost kicked over the TV when the moderators started factchecking Vance. I thought that wasn’t allowed in this debate.

I mean let’s not let the actual facts get in the way!

Not much movement anywhere in the race at the moment, except election betting odds where in the last few days there has been a big swing from Harris to Trump (well, from 52% Harris likelihood to 52% Trump likelihood which given the fact things have barely moved for weeks is a big swing).

I suspect it has something to do with Musk bigging up polymarket during his Trump shilling session causing a bunch of tech/crypto bros to start betting on Trump (because they understand probability less than they understand tech).

It’s particularly visible on the state betting.

Nate Silver actually posted about this recently which is interesting as he is an advisor for polymarket but unfortunately the juicy bits are behind a paywall.

https://www.natesilver.net/p/whats-behind-trumps-surge-in-prediction

Don’t suppose anyone who happens to give Silver £15 a month fancies giving us the gist?