More like indoctrination

Let's just hope this turns out to be one of the nails in FB's coffin.

don't even know who this guy is

Yeah

I heard he had some connection with the CIA

not sure to what extent

..what?

are we talking about Anderson Cooper?

yeah

The CNN anchor?

yes

Uhmm... I would assume any rumor that Anderson Cooper has connections to the CIA to be conspiracy and folk myth.

well yeah

that's why I was thinking... they can't be thinking of the same person as me

I wouldn't doubt that CNN has had communications with the intelligence agencies and perhaps Anderson Cooper has had involvement but saying he has "connections" sounds like right wing trite.

looks like Luke Rudkowski of WeAreChange tried confronting him about it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUfESBd8R-Q

very unproductively

i think the official story is that he was an intern or something

apparently there was something about him interacting with the CIA back in college, according to Luke

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If he was something, they wouldn't tell either

yeah

Luke goes off the rails too often, he sounds like a lunatic.

Yeah and he he takes two small bits of information - Cooper had some minor interaction with the CIA + Operation Mockingbird was a thing - to then extrapolate way too much.

Now, to be fair, being a good journalist does require a bit of presumption of guilt to actually dig up stories rather than assume there's nothing going on, but this is obviously far past that line.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zc8LPLAqY-4 Once again, as I said, Trump opens a meeting with a list of thanks.

fuck it, chucking this here since it's kinda-sorta been politicised

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0LhPz4f1QM

🤦

nah, it's good.

especially for something less than six minutes on something so complicated

I used to buy 'organic' under the default assumption that was 'better'

But then you start to think "we are always modifying everything to make it better"

"we already modify ourselves to make ourselves better"

"hell, I used to live on a kiwifruit orchard where you would splice fruit in the hopes of growing better kiwifruit the next year"

crossbreeding horses that win races in order to breed a better horse

so on and on so on

the gmo problem is more 'big companies enslaving farmers by giving them seeds whose plants don't produce more seeds' than 'holy shit we're all gonna die'

Many people still seem to think we're going to mutate into the crippled version of the fuckin' X Men if we eat GMO foods

kek

vAcCinES cAUsE aUTiSm

lol, the fuckin' Corbyn icon at the end

why is the recommended video after that one loolookids children's songs

oh my god

I'm getting the same thing

it's a conspiracy

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also

note the greyed out links

wtf's up widdat

wow, I can't even click on them

usually for me that just means they haven't loaded yet

could be that the algorythm to determine them timed out

mm

nothing changed, even at the end of the video

https://twitter.com/TulsiGabbard/status/1004788699845091330

bae

Tulsi is #OurGal

IF IF IF

I have to fight for a woman

for a Democrat

but for now

I'm in this corner

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Broo wants 6 more years of Trump

then maybe Tulsi Vs Cruz

AND I have no idea

which corner I'd be in

She a thot

no u

Don’t be a thot apologist

tulsi is not perfect

but she's the 'goodest' democrat we have right now

No one is

Yep

At least she doesn’t want to abolish capitalism or some other stupid communist shit

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/221171 Petition to the UK gov #savetheinternet on link tax, censorship filters and data mining ban (petition.parliament.uk)
Issue statement on the draft Directive on copyright in the Digital Single Market

https://twitter.com/Blumiere_/status/1004792331961282560?s=19

Woke'

not a faggot

Isn't that photo from 2015?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAGmnOgX7CM

Anyone around who gives a fuck bout the Ontario provincial election

Ontario is a shithole @King Canuck

@King Canuck My eyes are literally bloodshot red from crying for the last hour, and I just threw up from the stress. I can't believe we lost again. The premier sells hash to people, the PC Candidate in Brampton East steals people's data, and this bitch in Kanata-Carleton wants to genocide all Muslims. And the worst part is people still vote for them! It's happening. We are in 1930s Nazi Germany. We must resist.

Look to be honest

I hear Doug is a bit of an idiot

But we got this

I had an interesting thought
Populism could be Realpolitik in ideological form
What are your opinions on this ?

Posting this here too

by definition yes

Not really. Populism is basically just another form of feels-over-reals in ideological form. It's just a feels-over-reals that doesn't adhere to any structured philosophical thought, and instead simply appeals to what is popular rather than what is actually correct.

There's often a non-zero overlap between popular thought and actual truth, but it's certainly not always the same thing. Mindless populism is as destructive to a country's long-term goals as mindless adherence to any other form of ideological thought.

Feels over reals? You mean the people effected most by, let's say, illegal immigration have less valid concerns over its effects than the upper class elite who advocate for it from a completely detached moral and ideological perspective?

That isn't populism in and of itself.

Populism has always been an a-ideological appeal to the lowest common denominator.

The fact that the complaints of very significant portion of the population directed towards illegal/mass migration are entirely valid is irrelevant to it's usage by populists. Even if it actually indeed wasn't a problem, purely theoretically, but a significant portion of the population would see it as such anyway, populists would still use it as a platform.

A good example of that is climate change. It's a demonstrable fact that the climate is in fact, changing, and there is more than sufficient evidence to believe that anthropogenic pollution is, at least in part, powering that change. Never the less, populists throughout many countries have openly denied the existence of climate change (not questioned, which is just fine in my book, simply openly stated it is not occurring or that anthropogenic pollution is not a part of it), purely to gain votes from the parts of the population that also denies climate change, despite the poorer parts of the population, the people appealed to by populists, being the ones mostly affected by aforementioned climate change.

Populists care about one thing and one thing only: Political power gain. They do not care if the complaints of the voting population they want to use to get into power are actually valid complaints or not.