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Current Affairs Donald Trump POS: Judgement cometh and that right soon
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magicjuan
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He almost certainly has voted Democrat and allied himself with Democrat movers right up until he stood in the primaries as a Republican. It's probably the biggest lie he's told.
We see it here - Theresa May on the Remain pitch, Johnson on the Leave. You look at someone like Burnham and it's almost impossible to see what they actually believe, if anything, and this chameleon canvassing has people like Blair at its zenith (or nadir, arguably) .
abelard
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anyone who thinks they cannot be advertised to is flattering themselves. people buy iphones because they think it makes them special, and different. and people who refuse to buy iphones for the same reason are no different.
"anti-advertising" sells just as much as advertising, and this has been clear since the sixties. so does anti-pop culture.
these days advertising is as much about selling people to corporations as it is selling products to people. your claim here only marks you as a different brand of the same product, appealing (though less lucrative, it's true) to a different kind of producer.
if we think about responding to advertising, or not, as some sort of moral test, we're missing the point completely.
Let's play Calvinball instead...
"Sooner or later, all our games turn into Calvinball"
http://calvinandhobbes.wikia.com/wiki/Calvinball
Fair point. I'm a junk kind of guy. I delight in pulling treasures out of the trash.
deipnosophist
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lolHe may have mealtime talk, but no manners, ketchup on everything
btw, something you once said came to me this week when I was watching Coro: Liz MacDonald really is an old boot
abelard
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the only way at this point for advertising not to affect us is to literally buy nothing. or, maybe, to live all alone on top of a mountain, since it's not just meant to condition what we buy, but how we see ourselves in relation to others.
they know all about you. or they know enough, in any case.
http://www.strategy-business.com/article/00023?gko=bb11c
they know all about you. or they know enough, in any case.
http://www.strategy-business.com/article/00023?gko=bb11c
abelard
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abelard
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It's a brilliant system. Founding fathers got it so right.
the founding fathers were so worried the masses would choose someone like Trump that they only allowed 10% of the population to vote
If half the public doesn’t see Trump as a dangerous monster, perhaps he isn’t. But that would conflict with a person’s self-image as being smart and well-informed in the first place. When you violate a person’s self-image, it triggers cognitive dissonance to explain-away the discrepancy.
So how do you explain-away Trump’s election if you think you are smart and you think you are well-informed and you think Trump is OBVIOUSLY a monster?
You solve for that incongruity by hallucinating – literally – that Trump supporters KNOW Trump is a monster and they PREFER the monster. In this hallucination, the KKK is not a nutty fringe group but rather a symbol of how all Trump supporters must feel. (They don’t. Not even close.)
In a rational world it would be obvious that Trump supporters include lots of brilliant and well-informed people. That fact – as obvious as it would seem – is invisible to the folks who can’t even imagine a world in which their powers of perception could be so wrong. To reconcile their world, they have to imagine all Trump supporters as defective in some moral or cognitive way, or both.
As I often tell you, we all live in our own movies inside our heads. Humans did not evolve with the capability to understand their reality because it was not important to survival. Any illusion that keeps us alive long enough to procreate is good enough.
That’s why the protesters live in a movie in which they are fighting against a monster called Trump and you live in a movie where you got the president you wanted for the changes you prefer. Same planet, different realities.
http://blog.dilbert.com/post/153080448451/the-cognitive-dissonance-cluster-bomb
So how do you explain-away Trump’s election if you think you are smart and you think you are well-informed and you think Trump is OBVIOUSLY a monster?
You solve for that incongruity by hallucinating – literally – that Trump supporters KNOW Trump is a monster and they PREFER the monster. In this hallucination, the KKK is not a nutty fringe group but rather a symbol of how all Trump supporters must feel. (They don’t. Not even close.)
In a rational world it would be obvious that Trump supporters include lots of brilliant and well-informed people. That fact – as obvious as it would seem – is invisible to the folks who can’t even imagine a world in which their powers of perception could be so wrong. To reconcile their world, they have to imagine all Trump supporters as defective in some moral or cognitive way, or both.
As I often tell you, we all live in our own movies inside our heads. Humans did not evolve with the capability to understand their reality because it was not important to survival. Any illusion that keeps us alive long enough to procreate is good enough.
That’s why the protesters live in a movie in which they are fighting against a monster called Trump and you live in a movie where you got the president you wanted for the changes you prefer. Same planet, different realities.
http://blog.dilbert.com/post/153080448451/the-cognitive-dissonance-cluster-bomb
rascal
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No lad, because he's an oddball.
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