"Forget fake news — alt-right memes could do more damage to democracy"

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Which of these two memes you find more believable?


A)
http://bolainez.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/tem114_anticristo5.jpg





B)
http://communitarian.ru/upload/medialibrary/a56/a5690819ca1a89a41ec9b82844fe2638.jpg








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Forget fake news — alt-right memes could do more damage to democracy
Just like talk radio before it, growth of alt-right social media is the real crisis behind Trump's CNN tweet VIDEO

This week saw President Trump cross yet another line in his use of his Twitter account. Trump tweeted (https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/881503147168071680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=about%3Asrcdoc) a meme of himself symbolically beating up CNN. While to some it might have appeared to be a funny way to epitomize Trump’s feud with CNN, to many the meme was aggressive, immature and inflammatory. CNN took the attacks seriously and released a statement (http://money.cnn.com/2017/07/02/media/cnn-trump-wwe-tweet/index.html) stating, “It is a sad day when the President of the United States encourages violence against reporters.”
There are lots of questions to be asked about the tweet, not the least of which is what it tells us about the judgment of the president and those who work with him. But the real story here is not about Trump; it’s about the increasing power and presence of alt-right communication on various social media platforms, from Twitter to YouTube to Reddit to Facebook.

http://www.salon.com/2017/07/08/forget-fake-news-alt-right-memes-could-do-more-damage-to-democracy/

[DamianTV]

For those not in the know, just read between the lines and the message is clear: REPEAL THE FIRST AMENDMENT (or just ignore it like they usually do).

[enhanced_deficit]

Excellent point.

Also, NYT leftwing neocons' alt-WMD Iraq fakenews did more damage to humanity than all the memes by individuals on social media combined ever could. Seems media is more concerned about losing their monopoly in pushing narratives.

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http://www.ronpaulforums.com/images/icons/icon14.png Trump Ends Covert Obama-era CIA Program Which Sent Arms To Jihadists (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?513085-Trump-Ends-Covert-Obama-era-CIA-Program-Which-Sent-Arms-To-Jihadists&)

[Jamesiv1]

Not a fair and balanced poll. The interwebs has had 8-9 years to make fun of Obama, only a few months for Trump.

But hey, polls are always good. Can't have too many.

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Some memes are suggesting that Obama would go down as the worst Prez in US history.

How CIA and Allies Trapped Obama in the Syrian Arms Debacle

And why it ultimately benefitted terrorists like Al Qaeda.

By Gareth Porter • July 27, 2017

Last week a Trump administration official decided to inform the news media that the CIA program to arm and train anti-Assad Syrian forces had been terminated. It was welcome news amid a deepening U.S. military commitment reflecting the intention to remain in the country for years to come. As my recent article (http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/how-america-armed-terrorists-in-syria/) in TAC documented, the net result of the program since late 2011 has been to provide arms to al Qaeda terrorists and their jihadist and other extremist allies, which had rapidly come to dominate the military effort against the Assad regime.
The Trump administration’s decision to acknowledge explicitly its decision to end the program invites a more systematic analysis of why and how such a program, which was so clearly undermining fundamental a U.S. national-security interest, could have gotten started and continue for so long. The preliminary version of the program that began in late 2011 is easier to explain than its more direct form two years later, which had continued (at least formally) until now.

One of the keys to understanding its origins is that the program was launched not because of a threat to U.S. security, but because of a perceived opportunity. That is always a danger sign, prompting powerful national-security bureaucrats to begin thinking about a “win” for the United States. (Think Vietnam and Iraq.)
The opportunity in this case was the rise of opposition protests against the Assad regime in spring 2011 and the belief among national security officials that Assad could not survive. The national-security team saw a shortcut to the goal. Former Obama administration official Derek Chollet recalled in his book The Long Game that Obama’s advisers were all talking about a “managed transition” and urging Obama to publicly demand that Assad step down, according to Chollet. What that meant to Obama’s advisers was bringing pressure from outside, including providing arms to the opposition.

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/how-cia-and-allies-trapped-obama-in-syrian-arms-debacle/



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Here we go again:


What Happened? I happened: President Trump retweets meme mocking Hillary Clinton's new memoir (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4847806/Trump-retweets-meme-mocking-Hillary-Clinton-s-new-memoir.html)

2 September 2017
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/09/03/04/43DACF7D00000578-0-image-a-6_1504410848092.jpg (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4847806/Trump-retweets-meme-mocking-Hillary-Clinton-s-new-memoir.html) President Donald Trump just can't resist getting in another shot at his political nemesis Hillary Clinton (right) on Twitter. Just hours after returning to Washington, DC from flood-ravaged regions of Texas and Louisiana, the president retweeted a meme (left) poking fun at Clinton. The meme, which was first posted by a pro-Trump Twitter account known as Trumpism 4.0, shows the cover of Clinton's new memoir, What Happened. Next to the book is a copy of a book with the same design, only this time with the words 'I happened' over a picture of a smiling Trump.
1.1k comments (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4847806/Trump-retweets-meme-mocking-Hillary-Clinton-s-new-memoir.html#comments)

[Swordsmyth]

Here we go again:


What Happened? I happened: President Trump retweets meme mocking Hillary Clinton's new memoir (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4847806/Trump-retweets-meme-mocking-Hillary-Clinton-s-new-memoir.html)

2 September 2017
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/09/03/04/43DACF7D00000578-0-image-a-6_1504410848092.jpg (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4847806/Trump-retweets-meme-mocking-Hillary-Clinton-s-new-memoir.html) President Donald Trump just can't resist getting in another shot at his political nemesis Hillary Clinton (right) on Twitter. Just hours after returning to Washington, DC from flood-ravaged regions of Texas and Louisiana, the president retweeted a meme (left) poking fun at Clinton. The meme, which was first posted by a pro-Trump Twitter account known as Trumpism 4.0, shows the cover of Clinton's new memoir, What Happened. Next to the book is a copy of a book with the same design, only this time with the words 'I happened' over a picture of a smiling Trump.
1.1k comments (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4847806/Trump-retweets-meme-mocking-Hillary-Clinton-s-new-memoir.html#comments)

Now he needs to actually write and publish that book.

[Raginfridus]

CNN took the attacks seriously and released a statement (http://money.cnn.com/2017/07/02/media/cnn-trump-wwe-tweet/index.html) stating, “It is a sad day when the President of the United States encourages violence against reporters.”Its sad days, when Mockingbirds in our media conglomerates deceive the nation into supporting imperialist wars, extortionate taxes, Acts of plunder, toxic pharmaceuticals, a police-surveillance state, and persecute internet trolls (ffs).

Remember when CNN found Bin Laden in Pakistan for an interview, but our own CIA magically lost him for over a decade? Its as if - dare I say it - they both knew all along where the supposed mastermind was living... hmm