• Lemminary@lemmy.world
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    Does he ever talk about anything relevant at these events? I would be extremely bored at one of these.

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      He tries to, then almost immediately gets sidetracked. He also talked yesterday about how he was far more attractive than Kamala Harris.

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      3 months ago

      Boomers these days go to political events all hopped up on Zim zams and popplers to listen to the politician they love talk about how all politicians are gross and politics is dumb.

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        Not to disagree with you, but I also see a lot of younger folks and many people who are surely sober. So I’m always wondering, are they going in expecting to hear all this bullshit? Because if I were them I would never want to attend again.

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          I was being a bit factitious; I suspect the majority are sober and haven’t had an education in rhetoric & propaganda techniques, epistemology, critically analysing mass media, etc and are socially bubbled to prevent exploring opposing views and perspectives.

          They aren’t going to learn something new or openly debate some concepts, they go to hear what they already believe. It’s why fascist politicians sound so similar to some religious preachers, they act as an authority to subjectively define the ethics of the in/out groups and questioning their authority puts you in the out group.

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      3 months ago

      I would be extremely bored at one of these.

      I mean, look at the faces behind him.

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      Yes, he really did. Because you could replay TV on it. You now, like a VHS tape. I’m just amazed he didn’t go that far back.

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    Reach out to [email protected] for more information, or join the chatroom by going to ‘truth social’ only here on AOL.

    (Til, you can still get AOL dialup and way too many Americans still use it, lol)

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      Yeah, my last job involved working with lots of small business owners- people who sold things through Etsy for example- so many of them sent me artwork via an AOL account. It was so bizarre.

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      My favorite part is that he was saying that it’s so amazing because you can play back video more than once as if that wasn’t possible throughout the entire 1980s with a VCR.

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      It’s quite possible that he was paid to plug TiVo……it really wouldn’t surprise me.

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    I was around long before TiVo and I’m not sure what it says about me that the only thing of substance I know about it is that the GPL3 (GNU Public License v3) was largely referred to as the “anti-tivoization” license because it addressed loopholes being exploited in GPL2 by TiVo hardware manufacturers to use copy left software opaquely.