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snipelfritz wrote:

Mudfuzz wrote:

snipelfritz wrote:Obama third term? What are you people talking about? Did you hit your head?

hbombgraphics wrote:The Two party system has failed and our Country is too divided to realize it.

I feel like this is intentional, that both party has made it impossible for anyone supporting them to find middle ground.

I also think that these two candidates are a reflection of the people, which is just fucking sad.

So it's all the parties' design that these candidates are so unpopular and they are both struggling to keep their respective bases together?

I'm sick of stupid conspiracy theories, ideas of design, the word "truth" and basically anything else that tries to create some grand illusion of control. Nothing is controlled. Nothing is to blame. No one has any idea or care what they're doing to the big picture. Every politician, every member of "the media", every activist, every voter is just some shlup who wakes up and reacts to today's new stimuli in the name of self preservation.

Yes but then we have to accept that we are all lemmings and find that cliff and swim off into the sea.

No, we have to accept there is no cliff.

snipelfritz wrote:Can we acknowledge the fact that CNN has spent all day covering almost a dozen women coming out saying that Donny has groped them and his response has been "well just look at them." And shooting down other superficial details with "well I'm so great, I wouldn't be in that situation."

Inconuucl wrote:The Internet as a whole has, really. It's the spread of mass echo chambers brought by the rapid increase of Internet usage. The same thing happened on Obama's first term where he used the internet in a move very reminiscent of the early part of the 1960's elections, where Nixon was outmaneuvered by Kennedy's use of television.

jrfox92 wrote:

Inconuucl wrote:The Internet as a whole has, really. It's the spread of mass echo chambers brought by the rapid increase of Internet usage. The same thing happened on Obama's first term where he used the internet in a move very reminiscent of the early part of the 1960's elections, where Nixon was outmaneuvered by Kennedy's use of television.

So what your saying is... Trump is white Obama.

It’s those last few points that are most interesting to me—in fact, they point to a fundamental reality of the internet. Not only does research show that anger is the most viral and provocative emotion—meaning that angry Trump supporters are going to be far more active than a resigned Clinton voter—but silence is often misinterpreted. Going back to what one programmer defined as Warnock’s Dilemma, it’s very hard to know what to make of a lack of response. The media’s typical reaction is to cater to active audiences. If something is being shared, they cover it more. There is no positive sign of people simply nodding their head and moving on—a common reaction to common sense, middle of the road content—so there is no way to skate to that puck. By definition, normal, reasonable people are not an audience you can pander to.

In the same way that no amount of media fawning makes HBO’s Girls more popular than The Big Bang Theory, no amount of Trump media coverage changes his fundamental demographic issues. It has been the inability of his now alt-right driven campaign to realize this that doomed him from truly capitalizing on voter’s real desire for change. It’s what makes his most recent debate performance irrelevant. He landed plenty of punches on Hillary...but it pleased the crowd and not the referee-like undecided voters he needed so desperately to add to his base.

Yes, it seems like there are huge amounts of Trump supporters out there. They are by definition louder and more motivated. They are naturally more compelling to cover. They are also engaged—or complicit—in forms of manipulation designed to create the sense of a movement which can’t be stopped. Clinton hides from media coverage and doesn’t make herself available even to be interviewed. Both approaches create feedback loops in which support for the former appears greater than support for the latter, because one is vocal and loud while the other is implicit and begins and ends at the ballot box.

D.o.S. wrote:

jrfox92 wrote:

Inconuucl wrote:The Internet as a whole has, really. It's the spread of mass echo chambers brought by the rapid increase of Internet usage. The same thing happened on Obama's first term where he used the internet in a move very reminiscent of the early part of the 1960's elections, where Nixon was outmaneuvered by Kennedy's use of television.

So what your saying is... Trump is white Obama.

D.o.S. wrote:It's a brutal feeling, isn't it?

jrfox92 wrote:

Inconuucl wrote:The Internet as a whole has, really. It's the spread of mass echo chambers brought by the rapid increase of Internet usage. The same thing happened on Obama's first term where he used the internet in a move very reminiscent of the early part of the 1960's elections, where Nixon was outmaneuvered by Kennedy's use of television.

So what you're saying is... Trump is white Obama.

edit:shut the fuck up, D.o.S.

Inconuucl wrote:Like, thanks to the internet smaller (and more radical) groups that would have not had as much reach are getting national attention because the internet makes them so much louder.

D.o.S. wrote:I know people glaze over my real posts but there's at least some compelling evidence that that isn't the case.

D.o.S. wrote:That that guy.