"I mean, the leopard didn't eat *my* face. It ate my sister's face! That's a whole different face! So I haven't learned any lessons. I'm still going to back the leopard. I want to see how this whole thing plays out. *pours entire bottle of BBQ sauce on top of own head* "
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Woozle Hypertwin
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I think externalized racism, plus the inability to admit that they got played.
Eg, there's a reason that we don't see the Haitian immigrant community backing Trump.
NKT
in reply to mekka okereke • • •"We thought he meant other foreign people, not us."
Dan Sugalski
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Nope.
If that were true, then more than 10% of Black folk would have voted for Trump.
I can target you with racist messaging. But it only works on you if you're racist.
The solution for this is not "don't let people target messages."
The solution for this is "reduce racism."
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mekka okereke
in reply to mekka okereke • • •Fox News TV is not targeted at all. Everyone sees the same stuff.
And yet...
The percent of white folks that vote for the GOP candidate has not changed significantly from the newspaper era, to the TV era, through Cambridge Analytica, through this most recent election with Elon shenanigans.
The percent of Black people that vote for the GOP candidate has not changed significantly through that period either.
It's not Cambridge Analytica. It's not social media. It's not targeting.
Targeted advertising works only if the audience is receptive to the content. I can show basketball playoff advertisements to basketball fans, and get them to watch the game. This is very effective! But I can't show basketball playoff ads to people that hate the sport of basketball and get millions of them to watch the game. It doesn't work like that.
Urban Hermit
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"on the whole world"
A bunch of old farts on the supreme court have a lot of experience arguing ways into existence that justify giving the powerful old guard even more power, but don't seem to understand that saying a president can do anything illegal means that a convicted felon WILL. Even if that means selling off national assets, arresting protestors, threatening to invade peaceful neighbors, and canceling treaties designed to save us all.
Lawless and crazy.