The mainstream propaganda has done its job.
This reminds me of "libertarian" Peter Thiel, who backs Trump, whose Palantir profited mightily off of the military industrial contracts for surveillance. Can't people make a billion, thank their lucky stars, and chill out instead of becoming assholes?
Criticism, or a media wide "witch hunt" about his weight etc.? Oh, those memes and jokes don't count ? So far I've checked, he's still a legitimate presidential candidate. What the mainstream media doesn't obsess about is the Clinton business, not to mention censoring the whole health issue as a "conspiracy theory".
> Why does anything associated with Trump often lead to some relation to something Putin is doing, however, indirect?
I have no clue, because only one obsessing with Putin are the regressive left Americans. The boogeyman mantra apparently still stands and can be used effectively.
*Disclaimer: I'm a EU citizen and don't even believe in "left" or "right", because those are idiotic terms to frame political belief. The world isn't "left" or "right", or "white" or "black", or "blue" and "red". This is a very simplistic view of the world and I'm afraid very typical for US. I also believe a very simple life rule, the answers to "cui bono" (who benefits) and "who pays the check" ? Because those answers are at the end the only ones who have some weight, everything else is based on emotions.
I want less involvement of USA in the world affairs and the boosting of the empire, so I agree with Trumps words of minding your own business and cleaning crap at home first. Not to mention that Clinton is pro-war with Russia, Trump is not and that's fine with me.
It's the rhetoric that's been put forth in this election to pander to the lowest common denominator, whether we like it or not.
It's dumbing down discourse even more to stupid memes and caricatures and shitposts.
Thought crimes will not be tolerated. Extrapolating 'likes' to mean sympathy with racists (which is what Motherboard's article infers) is disgusting, surely.
This culture of witch-hunting people for what they liked on Twitter (which could mean anything from 'I like this' to 'interesting insight' - not that it matters) or who they choose to support is shameful.
Believe it or not, people are allowed to have views that differ from your own.
And by calling out, you mean public shaming him for his beliefs. I see it on my FB feed everyday - "look at this idiot Trump supporter". Or from the other side - "these libt_rds actually believe this stuff".
Remember when Viralnova made big bucks making cute cat pics go viral? We don't see them anymore because media outlets have figured that outrage gets more clicks, and the results are so unhealthy for our discourse.
On Twitter right now, a million person witch-hunt is in full swing, calling for the virtual expulsion of a person for beliefs it has been inferred he holds.
No point in letting Luckey explain himself, of course. That would take too long and we're outraged now!
