maybe it's because I have always thought for myself, but when I hear influencer I think in my head "online attention w. hor. e. whose 15 minutes ended 15 hours ago".
if kids are not paying attention to narcissistic craving it and thinking for themselves as a side benefit it can only be a good thing.
stupid republicans. they were convinced that by putting the squeeze on pornhub they could dictate how that site operates when
this isn't the web 1.0 anymore. websites have been able to geoblock content for at least 20 years now
vpns exist. it's not going to stop people in texas from still visiting the site, nor is it the only free streaming porn site and
unless a credit card or drivers license is required, age verification is easy to get around. "this content is restricted to adults 18 and over (21 in utah). by clicking yes you acknowledge that you are of legal age by penalty of perjury. are you 18? (yes) (no)". I was on adult sites at 16.
this law proves these people have no goddamned clue how the internet works.
this only really matters if they choose to resign before this term of congress ends otherwise these people are only going to be replaced by more maga cultist know nothings.
I honestly believe that is because rural areas are almost always represented by republicans, voted in by majority republican voters. both groups of which are extremely disinclined of making the entirety of human knowledge easily and quickly accessible, because then people might see how much things are better in other countries and start asking questions to their federal representatives.
yes, way to not only suffocate your electoral bench by sending every ha-penny to trump but now you're intentionally reducing your potential voting pool and expecting to win bigly.
it would be goddamned hi-larious except for the fact that I know there will be a bunch of local democratic parties that will absolutely fuck this opportunity up.
it's as though the domestic terrorists that are federalist society and it's groomed judges are big mad that their sole reason of being of inflicting a regressionist billionaire and christian nationalist agenda on an unwilling nation got severely stifled. pity.
it's been that way since fox news went on air. every media outlet was terrified that the fear of missing out on a story because if one major outlet is reporting a story the others aren't and it blows up, those other places lose credibility.
right wing media thrives on OUTRAGE and that outrage brings the revenue. the only reason why other media doesn't do it is that either the market won't tolerate that kind of thing and would turn it off or there are still a few (a very few) people still in the works who have the journalistic ethics to not cover news in that fashion.
isn't it odd that tiktok (which is used by the youngs) is this MAJOR SECURITY ISSUE but facebook (which was credibly implicated being used by the russians to interfere in the election but not used by the youngs) and twitter (which is actively promoting disinfo and white supremacy including from the site's owner and also not really used by the youngs) are skating off scott free.
seems to me that the issue is that established media and political influencers don't know how or can't get any kinds of traction on tiktok that they could via twitter or fb so they're trying to get rid of it. with the existence of facebook and twitter and their known privacy issues, getting all out of sorts about tiktok because they're controlled by the chinese when in reality any government could get their hands on that kind of data is very much misplaced outrage bordering on hysterical. especially since the chinese could get your data by means other than tiktok.
rule 1 is don't put your private self out on public social media.
the problem isn't the critical treatment of biden really. it's the total double standard when it's compared with trump then, trump now, and republicans in general. the political press is obviously treating the entire gop to a lower level of scrutiny than they are democrats. it's been that way since the advent of fox news. I don't think this is a coincidence.
I don't think they're trying to help trump per se. I absolutely believe they're trying to foster outrage politics. and they are willfully ignorant of what they are reporting just so they can gain/maintain access. and they are so scared shitless of being labeled "liberal" that they are bending over so far backwards they're facing front again that they normalize or equate everything a republican does to a democrat when it's clear one is not the same level of scandal.
these are the same people who tell us that the people who frequent "this ohio/illinois/indiana/iowa diner" are more real americans than people who live in cities are.
doing all of that benefits trump. but I think that's a side effect of the real problem. when you are catering to a homogenous audience and trying to pass it off as something that is the pulse of the country you're going to get this type of unbalanced coverage.
the one quick fix to this is to change the last day to run for office to the day after the general assembly session ends. I never was surprised when the really noxious evil bills showed up in committee when it was no longer possible for those people to lose their seats.
also I bet they're running unopposed. I really hate the kentucky democratic party. the wa6 they operate it's as though they think the republicans are doing a great job it would be a great inconvenience if they challenged them. it's been that way since I've been voting.
that's because when political parties primary presidential incumbents, that party loses the white house. you want to put trump and his christian nationalist wet dream project 2025 in power?
besides there's the other fact that no other democrat was inclined to run for president, nor are any of them able to now. signature requirements to run in the super tuesday states were due last thursday iirc. so the only way biden will not be the candidate is if he has to step away from the presidency between now and the convention.
biden is the candidate. if you have a problem with that you should have done something about that in 2016.
don't blame me, I've never voted for this carpetbagging asshole who is using our seat to grandstand for an office he is never going to win.