Fox news:
An anti-Trump Democratic-aligned political action committee advised by retired Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal is planning to deploy an information warfare tool that reportedly received initial funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Pentagon’s secretive research arm -- transforming technology originally envisioned as a way to fight ISIS propaganda into a campaign platform to benefit Joe Biden.Dilbert (Scot Adams) discusses: note his background is business, advertising and persuasion techniques.
Summary...news is fake...not just fake but deiberate propaganda.
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update: Related essay by Scifi writer (and immigrant from Portugal who lived there under a socialist dictatorship) Sarah Hoyt:
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update: Related essay by Scifi writer (and immigrant from Portugal who lived there under a socialist dictatorship) Sarah Hoyt:
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Don't ask me...I live in the Philippines, where the elites and CIA manipulate the social media to bash Duterte, but ordinary folks know we are safer and support him.
it's sort of a big tent opposition: The CIA wants him removed because he is was sympathetic to China, the elites want him removed because he is against corruption, and the "yutes" join in on the social media because the universities and Catholic schools are taught by socialist/liberation theology types. and Catholics want him removed because to them getting rid of drug dealers is a civil rights violation (whereas a politician who sends a hit squad to kill his rival that kills a bunch of bystanders including our nephew can die in bed and get a Catholic funeral, complete with KofC bodyguard).
it's sort of a big tent opposition: The CIA wants him removed because he is was sympathetic to China, the elites want him removed because he is against corruption, and the "yutes" join in on the social media because the universities and Catholic schools are taught by socialist/liberation theology types. and Catholics want him removed because to them getting rid of drug dealers is a civil rights violation (whereas a politician who sends a hit squad to kill his rival that kills a bunch of bystanders including our nephew can die in bed and get a Catholic funeral, complete with KofC bodyguard).
Ah but is Duterte being manipulated in continuing the lockdown to lower his popularity? He just extended the Manila lockdown to the end of September.
On the other hand, Filipinos tend to ignore the law if it is stupid.
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