US Presidential Election, Nov 5th 2024

[TinFoilHat]

Shitgibbon will declare himself the winner shortly.

 

[Don Karleone]

You don’t think the worlds richest man owning the biggest social media platform played a part ?

The shifting of blame begins

 

[halfcenturyup]

Please do

Are you cute?

 

[I'm With Stupid]

I lost faith in the human race a long time ago. This just confirms it. What is wrong with people?

Simplistic people like simplistic solutions to problems. It's much easier to say shit like Get Brexit Done or Stop the Boats than outline a multi-faceted, complex solution to an issue, especially with the way media is nowadays. Short sound bites for social media and 24 hours news, and the long form content is almost entirely done by some non-journalist, non-expert that isn't actually going to challenge any of your positions. If you were a charlatan, would you rather sit down for 10 minutes with Jeremy Paxman, or 3 hours with Joe Rogan?

But let's not pretend this is a new thing. Elon Musk is no different to Rupert Murdoch, who has been doing everything he can to influence elections for decades (and succeeding).

 

[west didsblue]

Fascinating results so far. Going to be an equally fascinating year if the Republicans sweep the board.

Fascinating isn’t the word I’d use.

 

[yankblue]

Are you cute?

i'll scream daddy if you pull my hair. What more do you want?

 

[halfcenturyup]

You don’t think the worlds richest man owning the biggest social media platform played a part ?

The fact that he is the world's richest man, no. The fact he owns the biggest social media platform, maybe yes to an extent. But the issues go far deeper and will just continue to fester unless they are addressed.

 

[halfcenturyup]

i'll scream daddy if you pull my hair. What more do you want?

That'll do.

 

[Blue Maverick]

So this will probably be the last election in the USA at least those pollsters will be out of a job

 

[TinFoilHat]

Simplistic people like simplistic solutions to problems. It's much easier to say shit like Get Brexit Done or Stop the Boats than outline a multi-faceted, complex solution to an issue, especially with the way media is nowadays. Short sound bites for social media and 24 hours news, and the long form content is almost entirely done by some non-journalist, non-expert that isn't actually going to challenge any of your positions. If you were a charlatan, would you rather sit down for 10 minutes with Jeremy Paxman, or 3 hours with Joe Rogan?

But let's not pretend this is a new thing. Elon Musk is no different to Rupert Murdoch, who has been doing everything he can to influence elections for decades (and succeeding).

The UK and Europe are about to wake up to this and will be thinking WTF!?

Europe has been planning for a Trump re election. The UK hasn't.

Begging for a Sergio moment but I'm accepting it's not coming.