Tag: propaganda

Skewed / Biased Information is Insane!

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Shona Harding raises many interesting points about something she refers to as “social media” (but she doesn’t really clarify what is / isn’t social media) — cf. https://contextual.news.blog/2020/04/22/introduction-to-rational-media-content-vs-container

I gave up the person that was addicted

Keywords: Russell Brand , Brand Russell , BrandThe , Russell Brand video , Russell Brand news , Russell Brand revolution , Russell Brand politics , the social dilemma , social dilemma , the social dilemma review , social dilemma trailer , russell brand addiction , addiction , phone addiction , tech addiction , social media , social media addiction

… with the awareness that we are apes. [10:51 – 10:54 ; 12:43 – 12:46]

Russell Brand

You have to face people where they are, not where you think they ought to be

Keywords: rolling stone , rolling stone channel , rolling stone magazine , rolling stone youtube , usefulidiotspod , noam chomsky , politics , election , bernie sanders , socialism , joe biden , debate , covid-19

They had three reasons, basically [why the founders wanted to have guns and hold militias]: One was to kill indians (because they were expanding over the west — they were invading what they called vacant lands, indian country — it was one of the main reasons for the Revolution … so you needed to kill the indians, later you would need militias to do it); You had to control the slaves (it was a slave society — almost all of the founders were slave owners, there were slave rebellions all over the Carribean, they were very frightening, so you needed guns); the third was “The British are Coming”

Noam Chomsky, Useful Idiots podcast, 19 March 2020 [1:13:56 – 1:19:30]