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Dog King posted:This is old now, but Tucker did a great segment on Musk's acquisition of Twitter: 'free speech' on social media platforms should be examined in terms of regulation vs deregulation. In a deregulated environment the already powerful absolutely do enjoy dominance. We've seen this happen many times before with unregulated spaces quickly becoming infested with the far right and quickly becoming transphobic. This pattern has repeated many times because there is power pushing these viewpoints. Power that the common individual does not have. The 'free speech' allows them to shout into the void all day long but they will achieve the same amount of reach as the rich and powerful who can employ bot nets, marketing organisations, AstroTurfing, targeted ads and a whole range of other expensive tricks to promote their agenda. For Musk, the benefit is obvious. He already has a massive following. Anything he says reaches millions of people without any cost or effort. He, one man, can promote his ideas to most of the world, and in return most of the world can disagree, but their voices will not be heard. 'Free speech' does not level the playing field. It just turns it into the wild west where the billionaires already run the biggest meanest bandit gangs.
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https://twitter.com/RpsAgainstTrump/status/1606106199757307905 The only answer is DEFINITELY NOT!!!
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# ? Dec 23, 2022 11:45 |
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Tuckedy Crumblums hatred for Zelenskiy is weird. I know he's tended to kiss Putin's arse but support for Ukraine is pretty high even amongst the mushbrains who religiously watch Fox News.
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# ? Dec 23, 2022 12:55 |
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Tesseraction posted:Tuckedy Crumblums hatred for Zelenskiy is weird. I know he's tended to kiss Putin's arse but support for Ukraine is pretty high even amongst the mushbrains who religiously watch Fox News. Zelensky is Jewish; that's reason enough for Tucker, Son of Carl.
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# ? Dec 23, 2022 14:34 |
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ZZT the Fifth posted:Zelensky is Jewish; that's reason enough for Tucker, Son of Carl. True enough. Incidentally Greg Sargent has an interesting piece about how Carlson's mostly had a pretty bad year in terms of his narrative eating poo poo (the Italian election being the obvious counterexample) https://twitter.com/ThePlumLineGS/status/1606280936575975426
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# ? Dec 23, 2022 16:00 |
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Regarde Aduck posted:'free speech' on social media platforms should be examined in terms of regulation vs deregulation. In a deregulated environment the already powerful absolutely do enjoy dominance. We've seen this happen many times before with unregulated spaces quickly becoming infested with the far right and quickly becoming transphobic. This pattern has repeated many times because there is power pushing these viewpoints. Power that the common individual does not have. The 'free speech' allows them to shout into the void all day long but they will achieve the same amount of reach as the rich and powerful who can employ bot nets, marketing organisations, AstroTurfing, targeted ads and a whole range of other expensive tricks to promote their agenda. What power does the far-right have in unregulated spaces that everyone else lacks? Too much spare time? Private companies can approach the definition of "censorship" when they conspire to monopolize an entire medium or an entire industry, like the old Hollywood studios did back when they were blacklisting suspected gays or communists. Or when the Comics Code Authority got stores to stop stocking independent artists that violated their moral standards. But less than 5% of Americans admit to even checking twitter once a month, so meh
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# ? Dec 24, 2022 07:59 |
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je1 healthcare posted:What power does the far-right have in unregulated spaces that everyone else lacks? Too much spare time? Honestly, freedom of speech doesn't really exist as a coherent concept, if it's going to become 'norms' and 'public squares' rather than its very specific definition, because at that point it could never be free speech unless everyone had equal and unlimited access to every communications platform, which is impossible. It's not even possible if you said 'everyone has equal access' because there's only so much attention to be had by the potential listeners. Keeping it strictly in terms of government censorship at least has some basic coherent tenets, though it's still got a lot of grey area.
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# ? Dec 24, 2022 12:52 |
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OWNED! https://twitter.com/MattGertz/status/1621625016570757120
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# ? Feb 4, 2023 17:33 |
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https://mobile.twitter.com/TheOnion/status/1618307839755182094
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# ? Feb 5, 2023 00:45 |
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Does anyone think the Dominion texts and emails will harm this chucklenut's power over old men at all?
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# ? Feb 19, 2023 03:48 |
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Jesus III posted:Does anyone think the Dominion texts and emails will harm this chucklenut's power over old men at all? Why on earth would they start acknowledging reality now? Anyone who has believed Carlson since Trump took office has no reason to change their behavior based on a lawsuit they won't read or care about. Because fake news.
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# ? Feb 19, 2023 05:06 |
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A month ago he was ranting about the relative fuckability of m&m mascots and got away with that. I don’t think there’s a bottom. As long as he feeds their need, they won’t stop.
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# ? Feb 19, 2023 06:06 |
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But it is a useful tool in arguments now with 'those' people, i.e. your uncles and coworkers. Every single news outlet that isnt Fox news is talking about it, yet you dont hear Fox in any way calling everyone else liars. Its on Reuters, APNews and even PBS. They are using other misdirection and falsehoods to create other things to shout about but at no point do they try to refute it. And you know thats something they would bitch about if it were in any way false. Its not going to sway all of them. But maybe a few will finally wise up. And thats really the best you can hope for. But then at the rate they churn out kids, it may still be a losing battle. e: LOL, just did a search for Dominion on Fox and all the articles are from 2020. OgNar fucked around with this message at 06:50 on Feb 19, 2023 |
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Jesus III posted:Does anyone think the Dominion texts and emails will harm this chucklenut's power over old men at all?
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# ? Feb 19, 2023 14:39 |
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Deep State, obviously.
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# ? Feb 19, 2023 21:42 |
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Jesus III posted:Does anyone think the Dominion texts and emails will harm this chucklenut's power over old men at all? I honestly don't know what it would take to overcome the chasm between left and right these days. It seems that no matter how deep the scandal, the acolytes don't budge.
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# ? Feb 24, 2023 12:50 |
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OgNar posted:But it is a useful tool in arguments now with 'those' people, i.e. your uncles and coworkers. It wouldn't matter if this were Politico, CNN, ProPublica, etc. - Fox is currently in a $1.6 billion lawsuit with Dominion. The entire network almost certainly has strict instructions from their litigators to not, under any circumstances, report on it until the trial is over. Especially don't offer any kind of opinion reporting (i.e. Tucker Carlson) as it may damage their case. When CNN got sued by that MAGA hat kid, I'm pretty sure they stopped reporting on it entirely between "CNN being sued" and "Lawsuit with MAGA hit kid over."
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# ? Feb 24, 2023 15:11 |
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Somebody fucked around with this message at 16:03 on Feb 25, 2023 |
# ? Feb 25, 2023 15:26 |
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Yep thats Tucker and his audience
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# ? Feb 25, 2023 15:36 |
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They're ever so indebted to their disciples... https://twitter.com/EricColumbus/status/1634928387142864896
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# ? Mar 13, 2023 12:26 |
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Today is a GREAT day!!!!!!!!!!!! https://www.npr.org/2023/04/24/1171641969/fox-news-fires-tucker-carlson-in-stunning-move-a-week-after-787-million-settleme
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# ? Apr 25, 2023 01:12 |
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Jesus III posted:Does anyone think the Dominion texts and emails will harm this chucklenut's power over old men at all? Two months later...
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# ? Apr 25, 2023 02:33 |
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Jesus III posted:Two months later... And on the third month, He Dove.
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# ? Apr 25, 2023 10:59 |
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# ? Apr 25, 2023 11:56 |
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They’ll just replace him with someone even worse. He’s a poo poo but only became a powerful poo poo due to the time slot.
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# ? Apr 25, 2023 12:17 |
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Yeah, Tucker's appeal wasn't his person charisma, it was being the white dude on TV who tells you what to think.
Clarste fucked around with this message at 12:24 on Apr 25, 2023 |
# ? Apr 25, 2023 12:21 |
Welp Putin might be cutting out the middle man now
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# ? Apr 25, 2023 19:16 |
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The Tucker Carlson & Steven Seagal morning show is going to track huge with boomers.
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# ? Apr 25, 2023 20:43 |
I look forward to the Ted Rall comic and column endorsing Tucker Carlson.
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# ? Apr 25, 2023 20:50 |
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# ? Jun 8, 2024 07:33 |
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I think Desi Lydic got in the best burn at the beginning of this clip here: https://www.tiktok.com/embed/7225815974828608811
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