Will Scorched Earth Hasbara round 2 even work, I wonder? The cat's out of the bag for the American populace like it never has before. Shouldn't Israel's reputation be beyond repairing?
I'm sure this post will be gone in another few minutes.
I do think, in general, people are increasingly feeling a mismatch between what they're being told people feel on social media and what people in irl feel. However, there is still a lot of control being exerted online and it still seems to have some effect at maintaining the illusion of what views are and are not actually mainstream.
> I'm sure this post will be gone in another few minutes.
Aaand it's flagged, of course. Seriously, flagging should force you to leave a reason, or at least choose from a list of guidelines for others to see which the flagger thought was unmet.
It comes down to whether everyone who lives in Palestine can be killed or removed before the direct financial support reverses into sanctions or something beyond the heavily suppressed critical online comments they're facing right now. Once they are all gone, the pressure to save them will be as well. I think they are at peace with "reputation" (among who, western intellectuals? progressives in Europe?) in exchange for achieving a goal that has defined rightwing Israeli politics for generations.
Besides, what do they have to be afraid of? They know the accusations of antisemitism are false, and will not become true any time soon. The idea of a widespread vendetta against both the violent and peaceful elements of Israel has always been a fiction, used to justify the extraordinary measures employed to "defend" against it. All they have to do is kill or expel two million people, and then the crime will become history (probably not in US textbooks).
Yeah, depressingly, I think you're right. They've gotten away with it for so long now, without any real repercussions, so perhaps they can just accelerate now that they're on the home stretch, reputation be damned. The EU states were extremely quick to cancel their sanctions discussions, but still haven't resumed them as the killings continue. They've been very quiet. Ultimately, they too, are too craven to do what's right.
Genuinely hate this. Thanks to the so-called "vibe shift" all of the ostracism mechanisms pioneered by the left are now being turned against them. I think the lesson here is that when building tools of social change, consider what happens when they're turned against you. I agree with Keira Knightley[1] - people need to learn to live with those that disagree with them (again).
Can you identify for us which merger approvals or broadcast licenses were threatened by the incumbent left-wing government for private parties engaging in protected speech?
I'll bite, despite your goal-post shift. Both sides do this, by the way, but you asked specifically for Democratic abuse of state institutions to suppress speech:
The Biden administration engaged in communications with social media companies urging moderation of content labelled "misinformation," especially around COVID-19 and the 2020 election. A district court found that the government had likely violated the First Amendment by "urging, encouraging, pressuring or inducing" platforms to suppress protected speech.
In 2022 the DHS announced creation of the Disinformation Governance Board, whose stated role was to advise on "mis-, dis- and malinformation." The board was paused and then disbanded that same year following backlash, but the initiative itself is an example of Democratic-led state power being proposed for controlling speech.
There are many more, but those are 2 recent examples.
For most of the past 10 years we've seen the liberal left celebrating this kind of McCarthyism. They normalised it, raised the stakes, and now it's being leveraged by the traditional actors who've always wanted to. Liberal elites should have been a bulwark against this, but they were not.
“ penned by Americana poet-laureate Taylor Sheridan. ”
Ok, but they’re going to need more than one writer for a MAGA friendly station. Honestly curious if they can actually overcome the move away from legacy media / movies.
I'm an antipodean world away and have still noticed Sheridan's name as an actor or director or writer or producer on seemingly damn near every major US TV and movie production in the past five to ten years.
I'm thinking Taylor Sheridan is a virtual Nicolas Bourbaki of clones laser focused on saccharin Americana mythology.
> noticed Sheridan's name as an actor or director or writer or producer on seemingly damn near every major US TV and movie production in the past five to ten years.
He's credited on 9 movies total with a tenth to be released, and none of them particularly high profile. As far as TV, he is pretty prolific recently but the only way you could possibly think he's involved in "damn near every" TV production in recent years is if you exclusively watch westerns.
(Credit where credit's due: I just learned he wrote Sicario, which was an excellent movie imo.)
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I do think, in general, people are increasingly feeling a mismatch between what they're being told people feel on social media and what people in irl feel. However, there is still a lot of control being exerted online and it still seems to have some effect at maintaining the illusion of what views are and are not actually mainstream.
Aaand it's flagged, of course. Seriously, flagging should force you to leave a reason, or at least choose from a list of guidelines for others to see which the flagger thought was unmet.
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Besides, what do they have to be afraid of? They know the accusations of antisemitism are false, and will not become true any time soon. The idea of a widespread vendetta against both the violent and peaceful elements of Israel has always been a fiction, used to justify the extraordinary measures employed to "defend" against it. All they have to do is kill or expel two million people, and then the crime will become history (probably not in US textbooks).
[1] https://www.youtube.com/shorts/v4zSxefgKQM
The Biden administration engaged in communications with social media companies urging moderation of content labelled "misinformation," especially around COVID-19 and the 2020 election. A district court found that the government had likely violated the First Amendment by "urging, encouraging, pressuring or inducing" platforms to suppress protected speech.
In 2022 the DHS announced creation of the Disinformation Governance Board, whose stated role was to advise on "mis-, dis- and malinformation." The board was paused and then disbanded that same year following backlash, but the initiative itself is an example of Democratic-led state power being proposed for controlling speech.
There are many more, but those are 2 recent examples.
The ghost of Joseph R. McCarthy is questioning your hot take on ostracism mechanisms.
For most of the past 10 years we've seen the liberal left celebrating this kind of McCarthyism. They normalised it, raised the stakes, and now it's being leveraged by the traditional actors who've always wanted to. Liberal elites should have been a bulwark against this, but they were not.
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Ok, but they’re going to need more than one writer for a MAGA friendly station. Honestly curious if they can actually overcome the move away from legacy media / movies.
I'm thinking Taylor Sheridan is a virtual Nicolas Bourbaki of clones laser focused on saccharin Americana mythology.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_Sheridan
He's credited on 9 movies total with a tenth to be released, and none of them particularly high profile. As far as TV, he is pretty prolific recently but the only way you could possibly think he's involved in "damn near every" TV production in recent years is if you exclusively watch westerns.
(Credit where credit's due: I just learned he wrote Sicario, which was an excellent movie imo.)
Edit - Citation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_Sheridan#Filmography
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