22 comments

  • Argonaut998 8 hours ago ago

    A Zionist one*

  • techblueberry 6 hours ago ago

    How much does domination of the media help vs hurt. In the one hand, it does feel like the culture moved left under liberals over the past 10 years, and part of that seems top down, the expansion of cultural studies in universities to everyone talking about privilege in 2024.

    But or course, in the end it may have created more backlash then support for the movement. It moved some people more extreme but did it broaden the tent?

    But right now the right has a pipeline of young men entering their political stream. Does that continue if all mainstream culture appears right wing?

    • thatguy0900 6 hours ago ago

      The right can also push religion as a cultural anchor, where the left really doesn't. Religion seems to be very culturally stabilizing if the right can get a Christian resurgence going in the us

      • Argonaut998 5 hours ago ago

        The religion of course being Baptist Evangelical Dispensationalist Christianity

        • thatguy0900 5 hours ago ago

          Beggers can't be choosers, he has to find one that is both Christian enough to appeal to red Blooded Americans yet will also ignore all the extremely unchristian things he himself does and says

      • techblueberry 3 hours ago ago

        Maybe? But Americans by and large don’t like being told what to do. I think part of the movement against like rural broadband and to control social media is to try and control the narrative for the people outside of citied that they think can, sort of exactly what you’re talking about.

        But again, Americans are pretty rebellious by nature. Look at the increase in anti-vax sentiment, we like to disagree with institutions, I don’t know that controlling institutions, even religion makes them appealing to disillusioned young men, like arguably the biggest strategic misstep liberals made was thinking they could control the narrative.

        The interesting (scary?) one is what Pete Hegseth is doing with the military. Giving people a shared enemy? That could work.

  • thisislife2 7 hours ago ago

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  • _menelaus 7 hours ago ago

    Not rightwing. Israeli. Larry Ellison is the biggest donor to the IDF. Tiktok was banned in the US when the youth started to turn against Israel. This has everything to do with propping up Israel's cratering reputation with the youth.

    • rchaud 7 hours ago ago

      The vote to ban Tiktok (for spurious "Chinese data theft" reasons) was pretty much the only bill to have bipartisan support in the last decade. Goes to show how deeply the lobbying influence is in US politics.

      • cwmoore 6 hours ago ago

        Have you read TikTok's ToS? The claims are not spurious. The amount of data collected for each user is extraordinary. It is enlightening that we are still even talking about it.

        • rchaud 5 hours ago ago

          The TT "ban" went into effect in January, and wasn't enforced. Their data practices don't seem all that dangerous if they've been able to continue them unemcumbered for more than a year after the bill went to a vote.

        • derelicta 4 hours ago ago

          The great western data collection business VS the ebil chinese spying machine

        • dttze 6 hours ago ago

          [dead]

      • thatguy0900 6 hours ago ago

        I mean the reality is that going forward it simply won't be permissable to let foreign governments freely influence your youth with whatever content algorithm they please. It's even open knowledge that China itself doesn't allow TikTok to influence their own children like they allow it to influence American ones. As influencing physchology and personal Ai algorithms get more advanced you simply can't let it be controlled by foreign, hostile powers. This was inevitable, lobbying aside, as long as TikTok has suge huge market share especially with children.

        • naniwaduni 5 hours ago ago

          It'll only be permissible for foreign governments to influence your media moguls to influence your youth on their behalf?

    • CommanderData 6 hours ago ago

      Meta, speaking about censoring anti-zionist content: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2209316259518773&vanity=Mi...

      https://www.facebook.com/reel/66556493302222

      Benjamin Netanyahu was a speaker at this conference too: https://youtu.be/lPueSBhoryc