BitOneZero

It's working for me now, thank you.

I think it's very deliberate, they are getting their audience to flip the meaning.

This is a video from 2018, so it’s a post-mortem of Trump’s election, and at the time was very incisive analysis, but retrospect has made it even more interesting to me and I am curious what people’s thoughts are here.

Essentially the death of euphemism should be taken as a warning sign that the far-right feels more confident that they no longer have to hold up a mask and that, rather than having to court moderate republicans by giving them plausible deniability, they are going to get to dictate the terms for the party going forward.

This 2018 video pre-dates what we now know from the October 2019 books about Cambridge Analytica and their endorsement of this kind of aggressive approach. It's worked, and I see no evidence that people have lost faith in strong hate as a motivation technique - the copycats of what Cambridge Analytica seeded on the Internet and in society-wide culture have grown and it's become standard technique. It was already in play in 2014 bottom-up on social media and few people noticed, they just started adopting it, and then 2015 Trump started echoing it from top down.

it sounds like he was listing to sell the actual game, not just 45 minutes of footage of the game...

He knew in September 2005 that certain iconic symbols in society can get away with anything: "I don't even wait. And when you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. ... Grab 'em by the pussy. You can do anything." ... January 2016 he described the same crowd phenomenon: "I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK? It's, like, incredible."

Even if people get enough of Musk and Trump, the pattern holds true that if you can get yourself into the right area of the spotlight, crowds will flock like moths and people will be overwhelmed by the media power of a person... and laws, conventions, even murder will be allowed. The rules won't apply. And humanity is playing this pattern out just as it always has. What's new is that in the past 100 years we have had the ability to organize our history from all over the world and see that these social patterns of authority and power happen time and time again... but we seem unable or unwilling to stop from forming crowds and letting it play out.

With Trump, it was all so obvious he wasn't a earnest or positive intending person. He just knew he was in the spotlight that so many people would follow. For all our psychology therapists and other media stars, nobody could stop the crowds from forming for terrible outcomes or reverse the trend of accepting anti-science anti-truth nonsense. His pattern may mostly play out, and his health can't hold up forever... we are still left with the problem of what he has demonstrated is possible.

interesting concern, because SpaceX has a lot of military secrecy and corporate espionage concerns... new refugees with ready-to-use desirable technology skills are pretty much a standard cover technique to get a spy inserted into your organization.

I feel like people don’t understand me. If I show even the slightest vulnerability, I get told I’m playing the victim

Sorry to hear. I'm well into several years of trending that direction and facing the realization that I have very little control over it.

I find that big waves of this attitude have been hitting multiple societies, we are told to "pick ourselves up by our own bootstrap" and seek "private personal therapy" - but there is no real weather report about how people are under the influence of many different information systems and outright campaigns to influence attitudes and reactions.

There’s just a deep and profound sadness inside me, and my emotions are so raw that I just curl up like an armadillo.

it's become a lifestyle for a year for me now, and the couple years before that weren't much more than a couple people with semi-neighborly contact. It's not a nice precipice to observe and realize you are folding into.

A software problem can often be fixed remotely, a physical problem requires physical access.

makes a difference in asking for help,

The general population doesn't seem to want to work with distant outside nations. Just the replies to an article you see like this on social media see people unwilling to state what Bernie Sanders is saying. It's true... like the pandemic, climate change is impact the whole word, but people want to say it is one local political party or another. The faith in humanity coming together over a common positive cause I hope has reached bottom and can improve.

starring into the abyss of contempt, chaos, and bigotry… it also makes me sad.

I started experiencing it in 2014 when Cambridge Analytica was building up their pro-Trump stuff. Reddit and Facebook really changed that year, and it's never gone back.

I really hope that people have a sense of urgency that it took a lot of time to get humanity more towards positive after world war 2, and we could do better, and it really isn't worth hating each other on this planet.

A world-wide funeral for those we lost in the pandemic would be nice, but it just doesn't seem to form. Plenty of people with social power who could spread the idea.

Despite these newly known problems, there have been exactly no improvement whatsoever to the moderation tools. It is honestly unsettling and terrifying.

It's bewildering how the development team has ignored the problems with data not federating properly and the performance of the app.

The kind of people who keep calling it an essay are the exact kind of people I don’t want around anyway.

The TLDR behavior and won't click offsite links and references and want a constant stream of tiny little ideas. There was a time when Reddit wasn't like that and it became the culture of TLDR and downvote-disagree.

Reddit could have single-handedly taken on clickbait in 2014 or earlier by people replacing news headlines with sincere earnest descriptions. But the clickbait became what people swam in.