Russian Times back at it again

[Not all scoop users are created equal apparently]

No, but you'd take it if it only involved refuting destists takes on muscoop.

I'd do that for $400k smackers if you're offering.

[rocky_warrior]

I'd do that for $400k smackers if you're offering.

How do you know they're not already making that to incite you?

[Not all scoop users are created equal apparently]

How do you know they're not already making that to incite you?

The conspiracy runs deep...damn...

[rocky_warrior]

The conspiracy runs deep...damn...

To be fair, I'm not offering.  I'm greedy.

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

It's amazing that 50% of America leans to the right and 95% of Scoop posters lean to the left

50% doesn't lean right. It's closer to 30% but it is a very loud and very dedicated 30%.

[Hards Alumni]

I understand.

My OP was my own observations that more mainstream right commentators seem significantly well funded compared to equivalents on the left, regardless of funding source.

Well, you're right.  I'm not sure which 'lefties' are close to being mainstream as well as well funded.

Unless we're just naming cable news anchors.  If anyone could drop some names, that'd be fine.  If I go on Twitter, YouTube, etc, who will I find with the reach of a Ben Shapiro, Matt Walsh, Steven Crowder, etc? 

We live in a very much center right nation globally speaking.

[jficke13]

Well, you're right.  I'm not sure which 'lefties' are close to being mainstream as well as well funded.

Unless we're just naming cable news anchors.  If anyone could drop some names, that'd be fine.  If I go on Twitter, YouTube, etc, who will I find with the reach of a Ben Shapiro, Matt Walsh, Steven Crowder, etc? 

We live in a very much center right nation globally speaking.

*maybe* (probably not) Maddow?

Robert Evans (who is an anarchist that is constantly critical of the Democratic party) is about 272k followers on twitter.

The Young Turks (who may have been mentioned earlier) but I'm not sure anyone actually takes them seriously. Anyone who takes Cenk seriously needs to be lobotomized.

Pod Save America?

Colbert/Stewart/Kimmel?

I guess maybe the only way this equivalence holds if you take any media or entertainment personality who is not explicitly right wing and assume that they are left wing, then you would get an output like "well obviously Beyonce/Taylor Swift/Robert Downey Jr/[all top 100 celebrities by following not named "Chris Pratt" have more combined cultural and social media reach than the combined reach of the Ben Shapiro online right."

But, specifically within the "communicate politically for overt political reasons" I would venture to say the right has exponentially more reach than the left. Maybe this is a legacy of right wing talk radio evolving into the current media environment. Maybe it's because lefties are kinda annoying to listen to talk about left wing stuff. Maybe it's because left wing media invariably coalesces into a circular firing squad rather than unifying into a mass movement (bolsheviks vs menchaviks style).

As an aside, it wasn't until I started occasionally listening to "left wing" people that I learned exactly how much "the left" hates liberals/Democrats. It's a fascinating gradation that is utterly invisible when the baseline in this country is that if you're left of Scott Walker you're a "radical leftist."

[Hards Alumni]

Yes, exactly.  I follow a lot of lefties.  Be it pocasts, or political commentators, or youtubers, etc... and I have no idea who Robert Evans is.

And none of the lefties even come close to anything on the right.  Shapiro has 7m+ youtube followers and 6.9m twitter followers. 

[Uncle Rico]

Yes, exactly.  I follow a lot of lefties.  Be it pocasts, or political commentators, or youtubers, etc... and I have no idea who Robert Evans is.

And none of the lefties even come close to anything on the right.  Shapiro has 7m+ youtube followers and 6.9m twitter followers.

And a dry wife

[tower912]

I will be curious to see if the DOJ presents other instances of Russian interference and disinformation.   It stands to reason that this is not a one-off.

[Not all scoop users are created equal apparently]

https://www.wired.com/story/project-good-old-usa-russia-2024-election/

[MU82]

I will be curious to see if the DOJ presents other instances of Russian interference and disinformation.   It stands to reason that this is not a one-off.

It will all be a witch hunt and a hoax.

[rocky_warrior]

https://www.wired.com/story/project-good-old-usa-russia-2024-election/

Fascinating.  And, mostly successful I guess

The Good Old USA plan openly admits that "none of the significant American politicians can be considered pro-Russian or pro-Putin," and so rather than focus its efforts on trying to convince people that Russia is great, the plan called for promoting the idea that the US should be focusing its resources less on Ukraine and more on domestic issues, such as rising inflation and high gas prices.

[TSmith34, Inc.]

LOL, always the victims.

"They were victims, they were targets of a fraud in which someone posing as just a regular investor had Russian money behind them." -- Marco Rubio

[Pakuni]

LOL, always the victims.

"They were victims, they were targets of a fraud in which someone posing as just a regular investor had Russian money behind them." -- Marco Rubio

And I'm sure they never once wondered why their compensation so far outpaced their video metrics.

[Skatastrophy]

LOL, always the victims.

"They were victims, they were targets of a fraud in which someone posing as just a regular investor had Russian money behind them." -- Marco Rubio

He's just covering his own ass for when his russian investors become public. "See, it can happen to anyone!"

[Hards Alumni]

And I'm sure they never once wondered why their compensation so far outpaced their video metrics.

I'm sure they'll also do the right thing and return the money or donate it to a good cause.

[tower912]

Tenet Media folded today.

[Jockey]

We're officially in the Upside Down world now.

Dick Cheney will be voting for Kamala.

[TSmith34, Inc.]

[TSmith34, Inc.]

We're officially in the Upside Down world now.

Dick Cheney will be voting for Kamala.

I guess a fascist white christian nationalist U.S. is a step too far even for war criminal Cheney.

Much as I detest Dick, I never thought that he was actively working against the United States as are the Russiapublicans.

[MU82]

Ron Johnson blames all this - and everything else he doesn't like - on the Deep State.

Evidence? Can't produce any. Why? Because the State is too Deep.