Kansas Crimson

KUTradition wrote: ↑Thu May 05, 2022 3:37 pm

Mjl wrote: ↑Thu May 05, 2022 3:11 pm

KUTradition wrote: ↑Thu May 05, 2022 2:45 pm it’s amazing to me how dismissive some are about the behavior of elected representatives

‘murica

I mean, I think this is several degrees less reprehensible than him trying to convince people that the election was stolen.

sure

but to say it isn’t newsworthy or worth talking about?

...the reason that Republicans are apparently pulling out all the stops to destroy Cawthorn has nothing to do with his flirtations with Nazism, his regular run-ins with the law or his unsubtle incitement language. Nah, it's because he went on a podcast run by something called the "Warrior Poet Society" and declared that Republican congressmen in their 60s and 70s invite him to orgies and do cocaine in front of him.
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Republicans are plenty media-savvy, especially around dirt-flinging, so there's little doubt that they understand the dangers of the Streisand effect. This anti-Cawthorn campaign suggests that they are willing to make a trade-off, however: Keep the story alive in the mainstream media in order to destroy Cawthorn's reputation in right-wing media. In other words, as silly as all this is, there's actually a substantive takeaway: This story shows just how much more Republicans depend on an elaborate and often subterranean conservative media system than they do on mainstream media. They're way more worried about cocaine-and-orgies talk on a Christian podcast — one that few people in the legacy media had ever heard of until last week — than what's printed in the New York Times.

The GOP has been incredibly successful at convincing their voters to reject all forms of reality-based information in favor of a contained bubble of right-wing disinformation. Worse, that bubble isn't even primarily composed of media outlets that ordinary news consumers have at least heard of, like Fox News. Conservative media consumers are embedded in a seemingly infinite swirl of smaller and often independent outlets that fly under the radar of most people who aren't inside the bubble. Until this scandal, the "Warrior Poet Society" was totally unknown to outsiders. But outlets like that are the primary media diet of many people on the right: That show has more than a million YouTube subscribers! And on the rare occasion when right-wingers do interact with mainstream media sources, they've been inoculated in advance by being told, over and over again, that it's all "fake news."

ousdahl wrote: ↑Fri May 06, 2022 11:03 am war is peace

KUTradition wrote: ↑Fri May 06, 2022 11:09 am

ousdahl wrote: ↑Fri May 06, 2022 11:03 am war is peace

here we go again…lol

seriously though, my boss shared this with me the other day and it made me think about you and the war thread:

https://nautil.us/i-have-to-admit-i-hav ... ngs-16884/

ousdahl wrote: ↑Fri May 06, 2022 11:40 am
regarding the war thread, I still feel rotten about it. I'm bummed how divisive it became. I'd rather just get along.

BasketballJayhawk wrote: ↑Fri May 06, 2022 12:16 pm

I don't think it was divisive at all really. I think we mostly all agreed you were wrong.

ousdahl wrote: ↑Fri May 06, 2022 12:17 pm

BasketballJayhawk wrote: ↑Fri May 06, 2022 12:16 pm

I don't think it was divisive at all really. I think we mostly all agreed you were wrong.

lulz