It's About Liberty: A Conservative Forum
Topics => Media Bias/Media War => Topic started by: Pandora on February 18, 2013, 02:53:54 PM
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Riffing off Libertas' thread http://itsaboutliberty.com/index.php/topic,7755.msg91001.html#new (http://itsaboutliberty.com/index.php/topic,7755.msg91001.html#new) about the speculative decline in human intelligence, I am considering the connection to the low information voter as applies to these two pieces:
From Liberty's Torch (http://bastionofliberty.blogspot.com/), I followed his link to Ace's piece (http://ace.mu.nu/archives/337630.php) on "Low-Information Snarking Hipsters", and his link (http://legalinsurrection.com/2013/02/upworthy-or-how-we-are-losing-the-internet-to-lowest-of-low-information-young-liberals/) to Legal Insurrection's piece on "how BuzzFeed Politics has combined “the culture” and savvy crafting into a highly effective tool for undermining Republicans with subtle and not-so-subtle mockery", featuring a new Lefty website called "Upworthy", wherein ...
... I learned what millions of very low-information young liberals already knew — there is this website called Upworthy which is one giant liberal activist social media machine which creates viral social media memes in the cause of liberal political activism.
... The Elizabeth Warren post at Upworthy is a prime example of how low information is combined with a political agenda to create a meme which is based on a lack of understanding, but very, very catchy.
As mentioned above, HuffPo ran the post with the same title as the original Upworthy post, Elizabeth Warren Asks The Most Obvious Question Ever And Stumps A Bunch Of Bank Regulators.
Levinson's post on Warren's simply brilliant, "most obvious", stumping question can be found http://legalinsurrection.com/2013/02/elizabeth-warrens-heroic-senate-demagoguery/ (http://legalinsurrection.com/2013/02/elizabeth-warrens-heroic-senate-demagoguery/)
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It's revolting isn't it? In order to win one must
win the competition for the low information voter.
Jon Stewart, David Letterman as conservatives;
perish the thought.
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It's revolting isn't it? In order to win one must
win the competition for the low information voter.
Jon Stewart, David Letterman as conservatives;
perish the thought.
No we just need to start a fad that is likely to kill 80% of the participants - but in a way that is "very, very catchy" so it doesn't stop them to paus and think about it.
Something like this:
Robot Chicken: Skater McGee (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXmzHKH5oGQ#)
or this
http://www.myspace.com/video/goochkicksass/numb-chucking/4142667 (http://www.myspace.com/video/goochkicksass/numb-chucking/4142667)
Any other ideas?
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Weisshaupt has a good idea, lets encourage natural selection, make it hip and trendy to do something monumentally idiotic and let nature take its course!
::clapping::
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I always thought the Jackass movies would have done more.
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I always thought the Jackass movies would have done more.
Plucked that right out of my head.
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It's revolting isn't it? In order to win one must
win the competition for the low information voter.
Jon Stewart, David Letterman as conservatives;
perish the thought.
I think we're pretty much past this point, which is probably for the best since it's not possible to out-demagogue or out-pander the Left. To even attempt it is to accept their rules. Witness the current state of the Republican Party as an example of why that technique can never work.
Instead they will be eaten by the monster of their own creation. Total collapse is coming, and Nature will remind the world that she is a harsh mistress. The ones who aren't attrited will be put down.
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I was just edjamacated on why the is no White History Month. Now I see why we need to spend more on welfare.
Welfare Queen celebrating Obama's election... What Have We Done? FUNNY (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6x5wCxxUX7M#)