Disinformation Warfare isn’t the tool it is because it’s so-so. It’s effective. Extremely effective. One informed, educated, and invested voter is drowned out by the hundreds of ignorant, manipulated, rabid zealots who vote to stab themselves in the back without batting an eye. Cut and undermine education at every…

Ryerson may suck at boxing out and rebounding, but they sure as heckfire remember you!

It’s the loaded label fallacy writ large; most people won’t take the time to look past what something is called to find out what that something is, because that requires time, effort, and research that may well wind up shifting their views.

...shifting a person’s view requires admitting that the previously-held view…

American Hitler has popped out at least one twit tweet where in all his pathologically lying glory claims the Russians want the Democrats to win in November.

It is absolutely frustrating, when people are trying to sell you the notion that the reason the Republicans won was because they’re so smart and so much better at planning and campaigning etc., and the Democrats were so feckless they didn’t go to the right places— when you know that the RNC had the DNC’s goddamn…

Nothing Glennon posted was mean or unkind in any way. This story shows that a nut job can twist literally anything into any meaning they want.

Kashmir - this is a great article.

Text does not have the emotions of the author. Text has the emotions of the person interpreting it. This is the common problem with the internet age - people project. We see that ever more in our society as attributes that others are accused of having are actually the attributes that belong to the accuser. The rage,…

You are correct. Their newer machines are not connected to the internet. That machine was from a decade ago.

Trump already set the table for this with his tweet a few days ago about the Russians helping the democrats in the midterms. If Russia’s goal is to knee cap the US by dividing the country and removing all faith in our elections and institutions this would be the tactic. Sloppily hack the mid-terms for the Democrats…

PAPER BALLOTS! PAPER BACKUPS! DAMMIT!

The conspiracy theorist in me thinks that the insecurity is there to both let the republicans win the elections through fraud, but ALSO there so that if they lose the election they can roll out all these vulnerabilities that “cost them the election” and demand a do-over.

Trouble’s a bruin

No, you get labeled nazis and fascists because you do and say things that resemble nazis and fascists. It is entirely about the substance.

The only reason I ever really read Grantland was for Zach Lowe. I actually kind of enjoyed The Book Of Basketball by Simmons, but when I think of Grantland, I basically mark that site as the end of “sometimes-entertaining sportswriter and big Boston homer” and the beginning of “Boston version of Skip Bayless”.

Notice how McCain and other concern trolls in the media will focus almost entirely on the label and not the substance. When substance is brought up, they will deflect as quickly as possible to the label, and to Venezuela, and to anything other than the actual policies and ideas being proposed.

I wouldn’t say universally at all.

Yeah, that’s the trap right there: it’s not so much that the rich and well-off don’t work hard. They frequently do, especially among the Top 2-10% who form the core of our finance class, elite corporate attorneys, doctors and the like. Anyone who makes partner at an elite corporate firm has essentially sold off the…

He forgot one of the key purchases: the 55 gallon drum of lube so you can get good and greased up. Can’t arrest what you can’t grab.