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.
Underrated comment. Can’t upvote more.
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
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.