GOP presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy did not back down Sunday when questioned about comments he made during a campaign stop in Iowa Friday, calling Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) part of the “modern KKK.”
“I stand by what I said to provoke an open and honest discussion in this country,” Ramaswamy said during an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
Why am I seeing so many posts about this guy? Why are people giving him so much attention? He seems to be pulling straight from Trump’s playbook, playing the media to get constant attention, and people are falling for it.
For one simple and depressing reason - people click on it. That’s the dopamine button for modern media outlets online; those clicks are the cash register ringing.
If you want to figure out a way to elevate the discourse you have to disrupt the payment model - at the end of the day people do what gets them paid. Doubly so when the harm it causes is anonymized by operating in corporate aggregates.
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Because the media learned nothing from trump
Or worse, they learned that a bigoted blowhard is good for ratings.
People and the media didn’t learn from trump that they should not feed the crazy
media didn’t learn
Oh they learned alright. They do this not because they didn’t learn their lesson but because they did. Actual journalism and reporting is ALWAYS second to shit articles that are wrong in order to be the first one out the door, click bait the article title, showcase the fascists for the rage bait, etc.
They exist to make money and so the lessons learned revolve solely around finance. Whey would they learn anything else? This shit is working for them
Best response is to down vote and ignore it.
This little shit is so smarmy.
This guy is fast proving he’s just a male MTG: shock jock politician trying bait reasonable people into engaging him and legitimizing him.
And of course, the news outlets will spread every provocative thing he says far and wide for clicks.
Fuck everything.
What Pressley said has nothing to do with the KKK.
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It is so weird watching national politics being conducted in terms more fitting to a playground argument. And not just in the US, we’re getting a lot of it in the UK too. And I’m assuming it is similar everywhere the fash and their fellow travellers have gained some kind of platform in national politics.
There were never “grown ups” in charge. But I miss them at least pretending to be serious. Or maybe it’s better that they’re so laughably bad, instead of cloaking equally dire arguments in more convincing rhetoric?
Why does anyone care what this clown has to say? Imbed irrelevant. Just ignore his bullshit and don’t let him get to you.
He’s just calling Pressley a poser because the OG KKK votes Republican.
If Trump hasn’t already started calling him “Ramalamadingdong” I bet he will soon.
All these people have dinner with and fuck each other behind the scenes while they entertain us with bullshit attacks toward each other.
