Donald I, emperor of the world.

[briantrumpet]

Haha, I never knew that.

 

[Psamathe]

Surely even he realises it will still look like a farm building under construction by the time he leaves office?

When I saw it (photos) I thought Aircraft Hangar.

 

[First Aspect]

When I saw it (photos) I thought Aircraft Hangar.

Yes, but a beautiful one.

 

[Pross]

About how the press lost the plot in their flawed attempt not to take sides. I suppose the question we –and they – need to ask is at what point modern media, had they been based in Germany, would have stopped reporting Hitler as a normal politician and taken (effectively) a moral stance to oppose him... before or after he started invading countries and/or gassing Jews?

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I think that's being unreasonably kind to the media, much of the US media seems to have actively supported / enabled him rather than just treating him as "partisan".

 

[briantrumpet]

An enlightening read about the limits of online-ness, with reference to Trump, but Badenoch might care to take note: you can't meme yourself to victory if it bumps up against realities.

https://www.404media.co/republicans-learn-x-is-an-echo-chamber/

She stressed that so much right wing online culture is about distraction — she likened it to jingling keys to capture the attention of a baby. “If the economy is the number one issue for both Democrats and Republicans going into the midterms, no amount of Malfoid scissoring Anakin Skywalker is going to change that need for people to be in a better financial position,” Mercante said. “The tech oligarchs pushed this stuff straight into our eyes for two years straight unfettered [...] And I wake up and gas is this expensive? I don’t care if you take a Taylor Swift song and make JD Vance walk out to it.”

“[They] really thought that this would just last forever,” she added. “When you build up a meme presidency, eventually the cards just collapse underneath you, and there's just nothing to show for it.”

Though this midterm signals a move away from Gamergate-style culture war politics, both Senters and Mercante cautioned that this type of rhetoric is still dangerous, and can still be destructive. “They’re still very good at doing propaganda on the internet — they wrote the book in many cases,” Mercante said.