Veterans for Trump

[Peter1469]

To all my fellow Vets, have a great day, week, month year etc etc etc.... james

My family is full of vets. Now that everyone wears hats or T-shirts, it is funny, talking about our various experiences. One Air force Nam vet in WaWa recently talked my head off. lol

Back on topic:

'Veteran Scorns Donald Trump Jr. for comparing his family's suffering to dying in battle: 'Sacrifice Is Only A Word To The Trumps''

https://www.newsweek.com/veterans-cr...ng-war-1470582

Worthless hack

[midcan5]

I often wonder how humans allow themselves to be fooled and played in this play called life. Interesting reads below on topic.


"There’s little in this world that has the emotional manipulative power of a good tribalized — us versus them — narrative. It’s a contagion, and thanks to social media, or “participatory propaganda,” highly viral."

"Believing in conspiracy theories is a psychological construct for people to take back some semblance of control in their lives. It inflates their sense of importance. It makes them feel they have access to “special knowledge” that the rest of the world is “too blind,” “too dumb” or “too corrupt” to understand."

"I can explain the art and purpose behind throwing a Purple Heart veteran under the Fox News bus. First, we must talk about narratives. In my time at Fox News, narratives were weapons of mass emotional manipulation, what the Nobel laureate Robert J. Shiller defines in “Narrative Economics” as “contagious stories” — as he put it in a paper of the same name, “a simple story or easily expressed explanation of events that many people want to bring up in conversation or on news or social media because it can be used to stimulate the concerns or emotions of others, and/or because it appears to advance self-interest.” One recent report said that we find information or misinformation “22 times more memorable in narrative form.”"

'Why Fox News Slimed a Purple Heart Recipient - As a former talk-show guest host on the channel, I can explain the art and purpose behind attacking Colonel Vindman.'

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/22/o...fox-news-.html

Articles linked in OP:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03084-4

and this:

"The human brain has always been highly tuned towards narratives, whether factual or not, to justify ongoing actions, even such basic actions as spending and investing. Stories motivate and connect activities to deeply felt values and needs. Narratives “go viral” and spread far, even worldwide, with economic impact. The 1920-21 Depression, the Great Depression of the 1930s, the so-called “Great Recession” of 2007-9 and the contentious political economic situation of today, are considered as the results of the popular narratives of their respective times. Though these narratives are deeply human phenomena that are difficult to study in a scientific manner, quantitative analysis may help us gain a better understanding of these epidemics in the future."

Robert J. Shiller Sterling Professor of Economics and Professor of Finance


https://cowles.yale.edu/sites/defaul.../d20/d2069.pdf

[Agent Zero]

lol, you are $#@!ting us right?

The unremarkable Kenyan is a millionaire after being President.

Who's a Kenyan?

[Peter1469]

Who's a Kenyan?

Who do you think? The now wealthy Obama. The Kenyan.

[Agent Zero]

Who do you think? The now wealthy Obama. The Kenyan.

He’s no more Kenyan than you are Russian.

oh wait.

sorry, comrade

[Peter1469]

He’s no more Kenyan than you are Russian.

oh wait.

sorry, comrade