Joy Ann Reid has a "Major brands were advertising on InfoWars' channel?!" take which is bad and I'm tired of people acting like companies are putting out hand-crafted ad placements as if the complete garbage fire that is online advertising isn't evidence otherwise
Someone who understands false flags help me my mass of crisis actors is dying
It's just all so, so dumb. And I know people believe dumb things and that's not new but when you're dumb for a long time and what you say obviously isn't true by virtue of never happening like...it feels like more people should clue in idk
WHEN THE UNION'S INSPIRATION THROUGH THE WORKERS' BLOOD SHALL RUN THERE CAN BE NO POWER GREATER ANYWHERE BENEATH THE SUN BUT WHAT FORCE ON EARTH IS WEAKER THAN THE FEEBLE STRENGTH OF ONE BUT THE UNION MAKES US STRONG!
Roy Moore is having a hard time making ends meet. So I've sent his legal fund a check (below), and you can, too! #RoyMoore Address:
Roy Moore Legal Fund
One Dexter Ave. #3
Montgomery, AL 36104.
Early 2000's me was listening to like...country, Christian contemporary, and the odd pop thing (whatever people my age were currently OMG in love with)
The world at large may not yet understand how alarming this information is, but as a paid social media buyer, I read this report and just stared blankly at a wall for 3 minutes solid. You know who’s in a “custom audience”? Everyone who uses Facebook & Instagram. Everyone. https://twitter.com/d1gi/status/970072595331723264
Unsophisticated, potentially serious exploit found in Facebook Custom Audiences—allows unauthorized collection of users' phone numbers, email addresses & other personally identifying info. Presented at FTC PrivacyCon by team of cybersecurity researchers. https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/documents/public_events/1223263/p155407privacyconmislove_0.pdf
Why did the Obama Administration start an investigation into the Trump Campaign (with zero proof of wrongdoing) long before the Election in November? Wanted to discredit so Crooked H would win. Unprecedented. Bigger than Watergate! Plus, Obama did NOTHING about Russian meddling.
@TimStone Just because I've tried to move away from everything Oracle and have one more obstacle, does any free VM software compete with (not exist, have performance parity with) VirtualBox?
@quartata @GodEmperorDune me too
@Yuuki You almost certainly know more than me about country music, but are we sure stereotyped is the right word here?
@TimStone Exactly what @GodEmperorDune said, love too win trade wars
@KevinvanderVelden grins and tucks tail between legs
@Yuuki For the country I have listened to, the views expressed are highly correlated with conservative viewpoints. For example, frequent mentions of God.
@Yuuki My concern is pretty much that I have an unrepresentative sample.
"George Soros has bought the library industry" might be a frontrunner for the best take this year. https://twitter.com/SafeLibraries/status/970681149440909312
@puzzlepiece87 To people outside the administration, sure, but it doesn't seem like there's even supposed material benefit in doing it to the staffers
The kleptocracy never ends. Trump’s Organization has ordered tee markers for his golf courses featuring the presidential seal. Deeply unethical abuse of public office for private gain—and it is likely illegal. https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-inc-podcast-extra-the-trump-organization-ordered-golf-course-markers-with-the-presidential-seal-that-may-be-illegal?utm_campaign=sprout&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_content=1520249935
@Yuuki I mean, I thought the main problem was when people go from "rap songs frequently associate with criminal activity" to "black people frequently associate with criminal activity because they're black"
There's an interesting parallel between country and rap. Both have strong stereotypes, much of which is racial in origin. Rap has Eminem and country has Darius Rucker.
I am probably behind but I don't see much problem with "a genre of music whose current most popular artists frequently discuss X in their work is probably more associated with X than artists in other genres"
And that's not to say rap is inextricably linked with crime or something
or that country is inextricably linked with conservative viewpoints
Florida teacher Dayanna Volitich has been removed from her classroom at Crystal River Middle School for reportedly hosting a white supremacist podcast.
But so far, historically, it seems like the artists do show those proclivities at higher rates than other population groups. And that could change in the future. All it takes is more people with liberal viewpoints becoming popular country artists or people whose work doesn't touch on crime becoming rap artists.
But also, I would be completely open to refutation along the lines of "I don't even have any stats for you right now, and you may be right, but since a bunch of racists typically take that argument and run with it deep into racist land, let's not give them the baton here."
Technically correct doesn't need to be the best kind of correct here and I am not sure I'm technically correct either.
Actually, I think I'll just go with dropping it because you are exactly right.
You spoke of the racial associations with those two types of music and people often randomly say they love/hate country or rap just to racial signal.
So even without getting into actual conservative viewpoint/crime rates, I think it's too much baton passing. You are right.
@puzzlepiece87 For me, it is logically flawed to say artists are more conservative because they perform country music. Or that they are criminals because they perform rap.
@puzzlepiece87 stereotypes are never going to be 100% true or 100% false, they come from generalizing something about a subgroup to a larger group, so there should always be examples of both fitting and not fitting among the larger group
@Yuuki I guess I wasn't connecting the dots or something? I didn't see any kind of causal statement like that. I thought it was simply seems to me that country music artists are, on the whole, more conservative than average, and therefore might be interested in having a well-known conservative on their board.
Mike Huckabee is an extremely poor choice, and I don't know what a politician in general would accomplish on a music board, but to say that a stereotype exists and they don't share general interests seems to be taking it too far.
@GodEmperorDune Right, but that's why you use averages.
@Yuuki I mean, rural white conservatives like country music more. Whoever says "you (the particular person) must be a rural white conservative" doesn't understand statistics.
Just like some people were furious at 538 because they had Clinton at 66% chance to win and she didn't.
I just don't see how an interest group being, on average, more of a thing implies that every member must be the thing or that the interest causes the thing or the thing causes the interest or anything like that.
@puzzlepiece87 You seem to be understanding what a stereotype is, but it seems that you're having trouble processing "I don't believe in this stereotype" in conjunction with "this is a common stereotype that exists".
Just like how I would have zero concerns about anyone listening to rap music even every single song was like crime was awesome do crime all the time because I'm skeptical that that would really do much to anyone listening. If someone committed a crime after listening to a song like that I would assume that person was basically looking for any excuse at all to commit a crime.
@Yuuki When you first spoke, I didn't realize you meant that the stereotype was that country music caused people to be conservative, or whatever other patently false thing you are saying the stereotype is. I thought you were saying the stereotype is that more conservative people listen to/create country music.
I was only contesting that the latter is a stereotype (I'm pretty sure it's true), but if you are saying the former, I'm not contesting. That seems like a really weird belief to me and I'm not sure it's as common as you say, but I'm not in a position to know how common it is really.
NEW: the owner of @realDonaldTrump's hotel seems to have won a victory as a result of this police/judge visit this morning. He just played a piano concert in the lobby. Still figuring out exactly what happened.
@bitoche @thehill Then, shalt thou count to three. No more. No less. Three shalt be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three
United Airlines swaps out employee bonuses with lottery, employees reportedly unhappy to get chance at cash or prizes instead of quarterly performance-based reward http://cbsn.ws/2FoREyJ
Spez just posted to Reddit that Reddit is co-operating with Congressional inquiries re: Russian interference in Us elections
which is big, b/c
as far as anyone knows, Reddit has never been subpoenaed yet
never set to testify
In other words: T_D was an FBI honeypot
@Unionhawk I just read "Richard Spencer charged after pointing gun" and was like awesome, then I read the full sentence and felt somewhat disappointed.
and i think there was some story after houston got flooded where emergency personnel were using slack or some other app because the radios lacked range
Wearing Nazi armbands, Richard Spencer's rent a mob arrives to provide security. #StopSpencer #stopspencerMSU https://twitter.com/don_chump/status/970768052831899648
The Utah legislature is considering designating a highway as the "Donald J. Trump Utah National Parks Highway” https://le.utah.gov/~2018/bills/static/HB0481.html
Trump name chiseled off the Trump International Hotel in Panama after weeks of tensions over control of the property. http://abcn.ws/2FWAPZY https://t.co/Ph6xlHgwBr
Video of NPI's dapper nazi Greg Conte's takedown. Looks like he charged the riot line. https://twitter.com/nickkingphoto/status/970770624317665280?s=19
Uhh Sam Nunberg is rambling about things which are Interesting if True but also seemingly insane, Acosta getting pissed off with Sarah Sanders, Bibi comparing Trump to Cyrus the Great
Just asked Devin Nunes if he or his staff leaked the Warner texts. His answer: "You guys never give up do you? They just come out here and they give it to you, and then you run with it. You guys are geniuses. You are great, great reporters."
@Ash I think they tried to make generic answers they could weight to feed into some sort of system at the end but they overstepped on what sort of content they should ask about >_>
@chrislhayes @philipaklein I am Danny’s opponent in the primary. From serving in military, running a nonprofit, a small business, and office, I have taken a stand against anyone who holds or accepts racist ideologies.