Donald Trump:
Spokesman for birthers,
truthers, and Internet trolls
Anne Applebaum
Washington Post
August 22, 2015
“It’s probably the same person, writing 16 different comments under 15 different names.”
That’s how a friend’s son recently shrugged off a social media spat he’d been involved in at his university. There had been some nasty name-calling and a few violent threats, but he wasn’t bothered: He reckoned the anger, racism and vitriol he had encountered on Twitter and Facebook weren’t “real.” They didn’t affect real politics, or real life. He isn’t alone in this assumption. Most people — the vast majority — would never imagine that Twitter is reality. Even those who do stay abreast of current events via some form of social media generally assume that whatever nastiness they encounter online doesn’t affect anything important. If there is a political impact, it’s on niche movements or Islamic extremists. Jon Ronson’s recent book, “So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed,” explored the madness of the Twitter mobs that destroy the lives of people who tell unfortunate jokes, but until now, we’ve still believed that mainstream politics were safe. Watching Donald Trump bluster and bluff his way through a presidential campaign, I wonder if we underestimate the ways in which Internet vitriol has broadened the parameters of political debate. We are “shocked, shocked” by Trump’s language, but all of it is exactly the sort of thing anyone can encounter in the normal course of reading about politics online. John McCain isn’t a war hero? I’ll bet he finds worse insults than that on his Facebook page, and so does everybody who writes about him. All Mexicans are rapists? I open my Twitter account every morning to find similar and worse (my personal favorite, translated from Polish: “Reading what that @anneapplebaum writes I understand anti-semitism. Jews have an incredible gift for pissing you off”). The language of online political discourse is now so extreme, and often so far divorced from reality, that Trump’s words fit right in, especially when they make no sense.
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This article was posted: Saturday, August 22, 2015 at 6:10 am
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I’ve just got back from the Twilight Zone thru a portal the European-Nazi ‘CERN’ has opened up ~ In the Twilight Zone there’s a similar looking dude (Same weird hair too) to the guy you call Donald Trump, only in that reverse-reality alternative dimension his name is “Tonald Drump” and basically he’s a really nice guy, firm, but fair 😉
One of his companies in the Twilight Zone went bust but “THE TONALD” as they call him over there actually reimbursed all of the 401k investors who’d otherwise have faced their old age as paupers ~ He’s running for president in the Twilight Zone too funnily enough, only over there he’s running on a platform of totally scrapping their insane treasonous Patriot Act and their ‘NDAA’ and restoring the constitution, as well as pumping the economy by preparing for Pole Shift, then restoring truth in politics via a 100% congressional amnesty for all acts of treason going back a little over 55+ years before one of their previous president’s ‘Kohn F Jennedy’ was whacked by their Insane Clown Posse ~ I’ve tried to get ‘TONALD DRUMP’ to consider jumping over to our dimension and running for president here but he just pointed a rather large gun at me and politely asked me to fcuk off back to crazy town or he’d shoot me 😉
So-Umm, you think I’m ‘CRAZY‘ do you? 😉
Bullshit, I-just live in ‘CRAZY–TOWN‘ 😦
Don’t like my humour Huh? 😉
Sue-me, fcuk-heads 😉
But as far as my complaints of having been tortured 3 times by age 13 in a ‘CIA’ run pedo snuff movie political-blackmail brothel America ran in the town I’d grown up in, your official denials about the rape and torture of myself along with being prostituted for my entire childhood are absurd, and as for official denials of me having seen nine babies and five older children being ‘TORTURED TO DEATH’ in front of me by being slowly cut up with knives along with six others just murdered outright, four were shot, two killed with knives but relatively quickly by those same US Taxpayer funded employees who later went on to the highest offices in American politics, your denials are about as disingenuous as desperately clinging to the Muslim Cessna pilot story as the cause of those 3 skyscrapers in New York crashing down 😦
And as far as my politics goes? 😦
Go to hell America, I’ve never broken your law 😉
thediplomaticwhore 