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In a new report, Penn State political scientists suggest that radicalization on YouTube is driven by communities that form around right-wing content more than the recommendation engine
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Elizabeth Warren calls out Facebook for allowing lies in political ads by lying in a Facebook political ad
@juliacarriew: Elizabeth Warren is now running FB ads with a false statement about Mark Zuckerberg and FB endorsing Trump for president, to draw attention to FB's controversial policy allowing politicians to make false statements in ads. https://t.co/hulwrb3cc3
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How the women-only Facebook group Minbar-Shat helped overthrow the Sudanese government
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The meaning of Donald Trump’s crazily damning self-defence
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What if the US were treated like the rogue nation it is?
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How a big enough news story — like impeachment — could warp the polls
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The Danish centre-left aped the far right to win an election – there's a better way to deal with people's fears
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Was Sweden headed toward socialism in the 1970s?
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Woody Guthrie - Tear the Fascists Down (1944)
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US Republican Party boycotting Twitter ads over Mitch McConnell’s campaign Twitter lock
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Detailed maps of the donors powering the 2020 Democratic campaigns
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The empty radicalism of the climate apocalypse: What would it mean to get serious about climate change?
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The Left needs a statewide strategy
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Would Donald Trump be president if all Americans actually voted?
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Defeating the voters: Across the United States, state autocrats are spurning democratic majorities
15 votes -
Thousands rally in Northern Ireland in support of gay marriage
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Sex strikes have a long and controversial history as a tool of women's protest
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After Democrats surged in 2018, Republican-run states eye new curbs on voting
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A gallery of 80s political cartoons condeming video games
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Conspiracy theories can't be stopped
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Why we confronted Chelsea Clinton - the activists who confronted Chelsea Clinton at the vigil for victims of the Christchurch massacre explain their actions
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Obscure no-deal Brexit group is UK's biggest political spender on Facebook
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Google to ban political ads in Canada ahead of federal election, citing difficulty of complying with new transparency rules
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Paul Manafort in Ukraine
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At Yale, we conducted an experiment to turn conservatives into liberals. The results say a lot about our political divisions.
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Shareblue astroturf analysis
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'A cancer on democracy': The battle to end gerrymandering in America
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Facebook's "paid for by" disclosure for political ads is easily manipulated and rarely verified
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Facebook says it's immune from Washington State law governing election ad transparency
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Editorial cartoon: Sept. 29, 2018 - The newest piece from award-winning artist Bruce MacKinnon
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Forget Republicans v Democrats: Meet America’s new tribes
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How game design transformed Hillary for America's supporter engagement
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Bigfoot tries to get footage of an elusive congressman
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Bob Dylan - Only a Pawn in Their Game (1964)
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Kalahari Surfers - Beachbomb (1988)
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What does it take to impeach a president?
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Democrats should get real with White working-class voters
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The Victorian parliament has passed new legislation tightening rules for donations to Australian political parties
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Ocasio-Cortez floats a “sub-caucus” of progressives willing to vote together as a bloc
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Speaking on behalf of … In the tapestry of diverse social groups, the loudest and most extreme get heard. To whom should we actually listen?
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Data suggest that gentrifying neighborhoods powered Ocasio-Cortez's victory
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A political scientist argues that the Democratic Party must play "procedural hardball" too: The Republicans aren’t engaged in a policy fight. instead, they’re waging a “procedural war.”
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The identifying terms we use (and the political history behind them)
Today's political climate has all sorts of terms being thrown around with varying meanings and history behind them. There are Liberals (political ideology for FREEDUM), and Liberals (foreign...
Today's political climate has all sorts of terms being thrown around with varying meanings and history behind them. There are Liberals (political ideology for FREEDUM), and Liberals (foreign policy), and Liberals (economic policy), and Liberals ("conservatives"), and Liberals ("centrist, anti-absolute monarchists"), and Liberals ("democrats"), and Liberals (some other field that annoys the shit out of me). There are Progressives, and Conservatives, Nationalists, Socialists, Social Democrats, unreconstructed Monarchists, Reconstructed Monarchists, Anarchists, and I'm sure some other political identity that I've missed.
So, given the rather long list of ways to identify politically, and the just about as long history for those ways to identify politically, I thought we should have a discussion focused exclusively on the political history of the terms we used.
So, the questions:
1. What terms do you commonly use to describe yourself and others in your political environment? 2. What is the relevant history that informs the way you use common political terms to describe yourself and others? 3. Got any links, movies, books, etc., that delve into that history?
This has the potential to get hairy because of how broad it is, so I'm going to try to remind people of some best practices that I use when engaging in meaningful discussion:
- Understand before criticizing. - Be able to frame someone's view in a way that they can agree with themselves before critiquing their view. Questions are your friend, but make sure the questions are focused on better understanding someone's view, not on biasing reactions to a view.
- Assume good faith. - Calling people "trolls" makes me very angry. Don't do it. For any reason. To anyone. If your case is so bulletproof that you'd be willing to call someone out for it here, take it to @Deimos instead. I don't want to read it here.
- I Could Be Wrong - There is nothing wrong with having confidence in your view, but there should be some part of you that recognizes you can be wrong about whatever claim you make. Nothing is 100%. Absolutely Only Sith Deal In Absolutes, etc.
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The Honest Ads Act hits a brick wall ahead of the midterms. Bill would level playing field between online and TV political ads.
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Think American elections are bad? Indian voters get 1,000 texts a day
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Sports are political! Athletes and politics are inextricably linked - just like everything else
6 votes