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Brad Parscale hospitalized after suicide threats

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If you flip this just a little bit, and if cable companies know exactly which households have blacks living there, and they provided that info to political campaigns. Then the campaigns were able to individually target that exact house with tailored ads that popped up before shows/during breaks/ect, people would flip their shit.

Social media is still sort of seen as an "entertainment" space. But it's not any more. It's a place where people absorb and reinforce their world view and it's being manipulated without them really knowing it.

We're heading into Orwell territory.
 
vi edit said:
If you flip this just a little bit, and if cable companies know exactly which households have blacks living there, and they provided that info to political campaigns. Then the campaigns were able to individually target that exact house with tailored ads that popped up before shows/during breaks/ect, people would flip their shit.

Social media is still sort of seen as an "entertainment" space. But it's not any more. It's a place where people absorb and reinforce their world view and it's being manipulated without them really knowing it.

We're heading into Orwell territory.
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People don't want to believe that we're very easy to manipulate. The dumbest part is that people know this, but believe they're the exception and therefore everyone else has been manipulated. Its why conspiracy idiocy has taken over as people think they're being smart but they're being manipulated worse than just about anyone that isn't in an MLM or a religion.
 
darkswordsman17 said:
People don't want to believe that we're very easy to manipulate. The dumbest part is that people know this, but believe they're the exception and therefore everyone else has been manipulated. Its why conspiracy idiocy has taken over as people think they're being smart but they're being manipulated worse than just about anyone that isn't in an MLM or a religion.
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Many years ago, I thought the most dangerous man is this country was Dr. Frank Luntz. His whole shtick has been weaponized with this kind of targeted data.
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Frank Luntz - Wikipedia

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HomerJS said:
They sure didn't give him much time to comply. Still treated better then most black men.

BP - 2 seconds and tackle
Tamir Rice - 2 seconds and shoot dead
John Crawford - 2 seconds and shoot dead
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Imagine if he was black and eating ice cream on his couch in his apartment.
 
vi edit said:
I don't think it is. But I have no idea. We are entering uncharted waters where it's not *that* hard to start cross checking voter registration to actual social medial accounts and doing the targeted attacks (if you have a better word, I'm open to hear it) against individuals. The amount of data and ability to weaponize it is a whole new world we haven't really begun to digest and understand. Let alone legislate well.
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Just like the 2nd Amendment wasn't written knowing about laser guided cluster bombs, nuclear weapons, drones, chemical nerve agents, or even 6 shooters, our laws concerning campaigns really were not prepared for what technology would enable as far as campaigns. Hell, even finance laws couldn't have foreseen modern payment systems.
 
That video was rough. I thought all these male Trumpers are true alpha men? Parscale was a like a turtle on its back in the sun with his hands in the air. 'I didn't do anything! I didn't do anything!'
 
I'm interested to know how one "steals" 40 million from a campaign. It speaks to shitty laws regarding accounting, as well as the overall dumpster fire that is Trump campaign management.

And yet, Trump still has a punchers chance of winning this thing again.
 
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I'm interested to know how one "steals" 40 million from a campaign. It speaks to shitty laws regarding accounting, as well as the overall dumpster fire that is Trump campaign management.

And yet, Trump still has a punchers chance of winning this thing again.
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when all is said and done, i bet there was a lot more than just $40 Million stolen from the campaign. so many grifters with so much money can only have one result.
 
KMFJD said:
www.dailymail.co.uk

Brad Parscale 'is under investigation for stealing $40M from campaign'

Brad Parscale was involuntarily committed to a hospital by Fort Lauderdale police on Sunday afternoon following a concerning episode at his $2.4M Florida home.
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If Brad had ANY sense, he would have collected kompromat while he as still on the set.
Looking at him, listening to him, he probably didnt. High IQ technician, low IQ grifter. Such are the cards dealt some times.
 
Maybe I'm just weird, but I don't often struggle in a professional context with having empathy toward people with the most toxic personalities. I hope Brad gets the help he needs, and that doesn't have anything to do with my opinion about his political activities and possible crimes.
 
vi edit said:
I'm interested to know how one "steals" 40 million from a campaign. It speaks to shitty laws regarding accounting, as well as the overall dumpster fire that is Trump campaign management.

And yet, Trump still has a punchers chance of winning this thing again.
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Tempting when bags of cash are lying around.
 
interchange said:
Maybe I'm just weird, but I don't often struggle in a professional context with having empathy toward people with the most toxic personalities. I hope Brad gets the help he needs, and that doesn't have anything to do with my opinion about his political activities and possible crimes.
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Given the evidence of spousal abuse here, my biggest concern is after he gets out of the psych hold, what is he going to do to his wife for calling the cops on him.
 
MomentsofSanity said:
I can NOT wait to hear how the Democrats made him do it.

Cause, you know, this whole thing at his home was due to secret deep state drugging etc... that made him snap. According to a few right wing sites.
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I'm not putting any faith in "well placed sources" for The Daily Mail. Parscale got his head in a real bind, that's for sure. Quite how is impossible to say.
 
hal2kilo said:
Who? He only worked on the campaign a couple of weeks.
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