The Isolated Politics Blurt Thread I: A New Beginning

elon musk should be sanctioned for his blatant and harmful spread of disinformation on X.
"Elon Musk is acting like the PR manager for the far right and can reasonably be put in the same class as Andrew Tate and Tommy Robinson"

The owner of social media giant X reshared an image posted by Britain First co-leader Ashlea Simon; a screenshot which purported to show a headline from the Daily Telegraph website, claiming the Government was considering creating temporary detainment camps on the Falkland Islands for those arrested during the recent riots.

However, the Telegraph quickly debunked the image, posting to its official account on the platform: “The Telegraph is aware of an image circulating on X which purports to be a Telegraph article about ’emergency detainment camps’.

“No such article has ever been published by the Telegraph.”

The SpaceX and Tesla owner has been heavily criticised in recent days for a number of posts about the disorder in the wake of the Southport stabbings and was called “deeply irresponsible” by Justice Secretary Heidi Alexander for posting that “civil war is inevitable” in the UK.
as per usual, musk doesn't have a fucking clue about things, especially brits

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/tech...p&cvid=a3ea6ed9ab5b425db039919a98c7a8c2&ei=13
 
last night was pretty calm in the UK, with cops advising the anti-protesters to go home in several cities... because the nazis failed to turn up they were so outnumbered.

i believe there was something like 10 arrests overall, and these were ideologically unaffiliated trouble-makers just there to try and kick off conflict.
 
This press conference is a real dud. Same old list of grievances. The only thing interesting is the potential debate agreements.
 
This is a really good read. We can see the bombardment happening here.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo/racist-and-misogynistic-attacks-on-kamala-harris

The volume and intensity of the attacks – deeply suffused with misogyny and racism – represent 1,000 trial balloons. Some will pop on their own and others will get shot down immediately, but eventually a few will get through the blitz of counterattacks. Those few will offer a clue as to what “works,” and they’ll form the basis for additional rounds of attacks playing off of the same theme or underlying premise, however false it may be.
Repeated often enough, the attacks will slowly accrete into a “thing” that unsophisticated editors and reporters notice. They start asking questions about it. Their questions may seem benign and the early round of stories often tepid (I promise you that before the week is out a reporter is going to grab ahold of the attacks on Harris as a “DEI hire” and use them as a peg to write more generally about DEI), but gradually the “thing” becomes a narrative.

The narrative, with more repetition, begins to be a problem. Maybe the campaign or the candidate says something in frustration and presto you have a pissing match for reporters to cover. Or perhaps the candidate is caught off-guard and gives a casual or ill-thought-out response. There’s blood in the water. Now it’s gone from a problem to baggage that the candidate has to do something about.

What began as toxic, racist, misogynistic drivel is a now a trap that has ensnared the candidate. At each step of the way, the audience for the lie, mistruth, or innuendo has broadened. Each subsequent iteration repeats the attack again to everyone who already heard it before. What started as scattershot attacks has now become a sustained drumbeat that sneakily enters the public consciousness almost undetected.
 
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