In a core element of this strategy, the internal document and interviews show, Amazon partnered with an arm of China’s propaganda apparatus to create a selling portal on the company’s U.S. site, Amazon.com – a project that came to be known as China Books. The venture – which eventually offered more than 90,000 publications for sale – hasn’t generated significant revenue. But the document shows that it was seen by Amazon as crucial to winning support in China as the company grew its Kindle electronic-book device, cloud-computing and e-commerce businesses. https://www.reuters.com/world/china/amazon-partnered-with-china-propaganda-arm-win-beijings-favor-document-shows-2021-12-17/
That’s a lot of money going to targeted voting precincts.
Newly released filings for the Center for Technology and Civic Life (CTCL) reveal how the infamous Chicago-based nonprofit funneled hundreds of millions of dollars to local elections offices in an effort to privatize the 2020 election and put Joe Biden in the White House.
For over a year, CRC has been on the cutting edge of reporting on this “dark money” behemoth, which used the COVID-19 pandemic to support an unprecedented flood of mail-in ballots with unaccountable drop-boxes in critical Democratic cities.
I mean let’s be real, we see the same sort of sky-is-falling, world-is-broken rhetoric from conservatives as well, perpetually afraid of immigrants, abortions, socialists, stolen elections, cancel culture, and cities being burned to the ground by filthy barbarians.
We are all being actively incentivized to be fearful of each other.
There are plenty of real problems that we all need to be paying attention to, the world is well and truly fucked in certain critical ways (climate change, radical wealth inequality and loss of economic mobility due to 40 years of neoliberalism, oligarchic capture of our political and media institutions, etc. The problem is, people are so lost in the culture wars to notice them.
Hopefully we can all get past the Fear Uncertainty and Doubt many experience to see the pathways to continued good, truth, beauty .
Good news is all those listed fears will not manifest in reality.
The class that chronicles America’s divisions continuously underestimates how much of what polarizes us is also about them. Last year, a study found that those who read more news and post more about it online were more likely to disparage the other side than less engaged Americans. Unlike Republicans, the more education Democrats attained the less likely they were to correctly gauge the views of the other side. Democrats with a postgraduate degree were three times less accurate in describing Republican stances than Democrats who did not graduate high school. Democrats were also more likely to have like-minded friends. Half of liberal Democrats, compared to a third of conservative Republicans, also [oppose] a family member marrying someone of the other political tribe.
Truly psychotic who the Left anoint as their Martyrs. Meanwhile the Waukesha Dancing Grannies are seemingly just a speedbump in the SJ reformation.
Another psychotic drunk on power pronouncing Injustice in the face of reality? Wokeism at all costs? Guess he wants to join Workin Class Joe in the liable/slander lawsuits…
Here is an example of when the Republican lies and dangerous propaganda spins beyond their ability to control it and turns an achievement into a Scarlet Letter.
We see this tendency again and again: trying to stand on both sides of an issue.
Thomas Sowell on Equality of Outcome written 20 years ago…
“In politics, the great non-sequitur of our time is that 1) things are not right and that 2) the government should make them right. Where right all too often means cosmic justice, trying to set things right means writing a blank check for a never-ending expansion of government power.”
Religion Has Nothing to Do With the Abortion Case Before the Supreme Court
Seemingly “Believe the Science” is only used when it fits the Theory, the Narrative, The Cause. Classic case of time-traveling to cherry-pick facts/science from the Past or a fantastical Future that which helps support the Cause.
First, her (Justice Sotomayor) implied factual premise that the Mississippi law is based only on religious beliefs ignores basic scientific knowledge. The Supreme Court has before it in this case [current scientific research] showing that fetal development is far more advanced than what was understood when the Court handed down Roe v. Wade almost 50 years ago. An overwhelming majority of scientists – regardless of their religious beliefs or opinions on abortion – acknowledge the biological reality that a [fetus is undeniably human life]). So the Mississippi law is not simply an enactment of some religious belief with no basis in science.
A quarter billion here and there and pretty soon we are talking about a lot of money completely wasted.
Gross incompetence, outright lies, fraud and a scam of the American taxpayer - and Republicans continue to redirect, deflect, spin.
On the abortion issue - Again, again, again - I will take Republicans seriously when they value the lives of born infants, babies, children, adolescents, teenagers, adults and the elderly and cease to dehumanize them by calling them collateral damage in whatever war or border crisis they create due to gross incompetence, negligence or outright racism - or concoct Q-anon style.
Biden/Harris’ open borders policy has been a resounding success with 2M illegal aliens crossing into the US this year alone, from ~150 countries.
Cartels are charging between $4K to $40K for Coyote service to cross into US. That’s somewhere north of $8B in coyote fees alone to the Cartels. Meanwhile the Cartels coordinate the flood of illegals to incapacitate CBP/DEA from their Fentanyl smuggling operations which has never been this high. ~25% of Mexico is controlled by the Cartels and getting stronger.
@raybennett I know don’t live anywhere that has much illegal immigration issue and your family is in Europe so you might not be concerned. For the Citizen’s impacted either through reduced wages, increased services requirements, theft, violence, murder, drugs and voter fraud hopefully you can see how some might be concerned.
Oh Ray. There are already 300-400M guns in private hands in the US already. What’s a another 17M or so? If you’re that afraid, go ahead and get that sniper rifle for you bug-out cabin. Or a shotgun if eyesight is an issue.
It’s likely about as many Right Wingnuts that fall into this camp as your Antifa/BLM domestic terrorists. It wasn’t much of a concern when they are Left Wingnuts. Why would it be a concern when they are Right Wingnuts?
P.S. You’re embarrassing yourself just as when you said Sleepy Joe would rank in the Top 30% of US Presidents of all time. Hint - Trump isn’t running in 2024 so you might want to go ahead and start poking pins into a little Desantis strawdoll.
That’s the thing - you have a madman in charge and nobody can do anything without waiting for your Dear Leader to say something - then you have to completely change your story every few months depending on whether he changes his mind or not.
Fact - it’s Trump’s party. He owns your soul lock, stock and barrel. No way you can say any different unless you are just delusional.
