Uploading another Matt Zeller segment to YouTube (which takes f$&king forever) … he is spot on … speaking truth to power … and to the gaslit tribal demagoguery corrupting my Twitter timeline.

I remain unconvinced that civil disobedience can build up the requisite pressure necessary to move the needle within a bifurcated information ecosystem that has segregated the two party bases into dual reality bubbles. Yet another thing I hope that I'm wrong about.

I still can't square all the "nobody could've seen it coming" spin against the fact that with the first report of Afghan soldiers abandoning their posts (late April/May?) this situation is all I saw coming … which is why I wanted our allies evacuated … like right f$&king then.

Well … at least I know I am not feeding Facebook's algorithm enough data to be manipulated.

Am I the only one taking the word of Afghan veterans over administration PR? 'Cause that is what it has felt like.

Looks like I lost all my videos in the server update, or somewhere else along the line.

Kind of annoying that only new posts are having their Twitter card images fetched.

For anyone confused by whether propaganda is inherently good or bad, it is both. It is a neutral science no different ethically speaking than genetic engineering. Is your aim to eugenically cleanse a population or to protect a population amidst a global pandemic?

Demonstrably false

The filter we lost when social media supplanted print media within the information ecosystem.

The plan presented to the administration in February lives here

The aforementioned point Matt Zeller nailed for me.

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Matt Zeller be nailin' my point.

The most unexpected challenge I've encountered this month? The necessity of pointing out to someone who has read Bernays' Propaganda that the world has changed in the 92 years since it was first published, let alone that some of his assumptions were wrong when he made them.

Real deja vu is such a wild experience. Wish I remembered the neurological cause.

Impossible to over exaggerate just how many typos there are in this book. How have they not fixed this sh$t in sixteen years? After finding every appearance of aesthetic misspelled I checked to see if it existed as an old or alternate spelling. I found no evidence.

The good ole days, am I right ladies?

I mean…

Translation: "These women knew nothing of politics, were it not for their use of new propaganda…"

Actually, they drew attention to a sound argument for equality.