“Take Bannon. While most of us who oppose his political project choose not to see him, he is watching us closely. The issues we are abandoning, the debates we aren’t having, the people we are insulting and discarding.” And this focus on popular issues could be his ticket to the next wave of electoral victories, Klein warns.”

#USElections24 #Fascism

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/oct/18/steve-bannon-is-watching-us-closely-naomi-klein-on-populists-conspiracists-and-real-world-activism

Interesting thread:

10.7mn users on MicroblogFedi.
US elections coming up.
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The two main news instances now owned by one shady individual.
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Bluesky still being billed as new twitter.

Right wing control of social media via money in place once again.

#Mastodon #Bluesky #USPol #Journalists #TwitterMigration #SocialMedia #USElections24

https://mastodon.nu/@Loukas/111209336534113272
@Loukas - Twitter is collapsing as a platform, but people are turning away from Mastodon... https://botsin.space/@mastodon_daily_active_users/111207778647398325

Enabling #Trump to use their news platform to spew his devisive untruths in his constant, meglomaniac election campaign has shown #CNN to be going down the ugly slippery slope of becoming a mere propaganda tool.
#Politics #USelections #uselections24 #Elections

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/11/donald-trump-cnn-town-hall-guardian-panel