According to studies I’ve seen, quite a few people, particularly older ones (who are more consistent voters). It’s a serious problem. This is an effective way to get eyeballs on your ads, and with microtargeting to get the people who might even fall for it. 

Incompetence on the global stage is harmful though, more harmful than it is in domestic policy. 

There is literally nothing good to say about Nauert on policy. She knows nothing. No background. You could grab a freshman poli sci major from any decent college and get someone more qualified.

What’s funny is multiple people have seen and photographed the van before, and some of them have been quoted in news stories on the topic. As was the manager of the pizza place he formerly worked at, where she said they made him park the van where customers couldn’t see it.

None of them can take the radicalism they stoke seriously. This guy was a hardcore Trump supporter, racist, shared memes from the far-right media ecosystem. He committed domestic terrorism. But they’re sitting there trying to pretend it’s not really an issue. 

If the motive turns out to be what it seems, this really would be better described as domestic terrorism than a shooting. If the US had a rational legal structure on domestic terrorism, at least. Political/ideological motivation, soft target, potential ties to extremist ideology.

The police/authorities whatever say that to cover their asses. This quick after it happening I don’t blame them because they may not have all his records, have searched his home, etc. It’s reflexive bureaucratic action. 

So is most modern pop-country, so you’d think they’d be aware. Same with a bunch of the big rock acts.

An extremely expensive bit of security theater considering the “caravan” is still weeks away, currently shrinking, and consists of exhausted families intending to apply for asylum, which is completely legal. This is about the midterms so who cares about wasting money I guess? 

This is the logical conclusion of their overhaul of the courts. Roll back regulation they don’t like, including that meant to safeguard human rights. It won’t be long before we get some more “religious freedom” ones about discriminating against non-Christians or gays.

I think it’s getting worse. A lot of people are trying to just keep going, I’m always seeing scholars on Twitter or whatever debating policy like that’s a thing that we still do as a country, but I think that’s just going through the motions.

This is the inevitable result of a media ecosystem where what “side” someone is on matters more than the facts or details of a given event. Any event must be parsed to fit a pre-existing worldview, in the case of these cretins that’s “leftists are bad”.

Among who? Because this meets the definition to the T. 

Well the good news is most amateur bomb makers tend to do it quite poorly. Not a skill most people develop outside of criminal circumstances. 

This is just about getting Fox to show all the scariest things to his base of angry racist white people. It’s just blatant how they’re doing his bidding. So many bad faith actors with power right now. 

So uh, what is Politicon? Generally I’m at least passingly aware of these things but I’m lost on this one.

That’s fair, it was more a historical joke about how some prominent figures were named. 

You know, we also have NATO ally Turkey, admittedly a problematic friend, and Jordan, who the US is absolutely close to. Not to mention our solid relationship with Morocco. There’s Egypt, also problematic but they buy plenty from us too. Qatar, which hosts a major naval base. Maybe don’t opine on subjects you know…

That account follows a bunch of accounts with the same name. Must have been banned quite a few times from the looks of it. 

They’re exporting this knowledge. The big troll operation in Myanmar that inciting against Rohingya on Facebook was run by military members, a number of which had training in Russia. The English language side of that was pretty small, limited to pretty obvious troll accounts on Facebook and Twitter posting racist…