Yep. And it's more than just passive entertainment. They see themselves as active players in the espionage game. That's why they herald themselves as "#TheResistance." So it makes them feel like warriors in a Great Cause, against an existential threat. People need that purpose.
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They'd be better off joining an Evangelical Church, which is probably less dogmatic.
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And, just incidentally, turning US politics into a Tom Clancy espionage film helps a great deal with ratings, clicks, social media followings, and other nice media benefits/incentives.pic.twitter.com/6eCu2osfbB
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Will the networks like MSNBC be attacking the appointment of known torturer Gina Haspel to head the CIA with the same fever as they do for the slightest new Russigate information. No debating the facts here, it's proven fact. Obama refuses to prosecute torturers, this is result.
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"Here we are now, entertain us..." Kurt Kobain
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I feel stupid...and contagious
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So are you a psychologist or a journalist?
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You're also describing the vast majority of mainstream TV 'journalists'
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My friend... reality is anything but banal
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Red Sparrow in theaters now
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TV "news" especially, as an image-based entity, is structured for this focus on pop-cultural, analysis-lite dreck. But all media is guilty. Twitter recently pumped a story about the Stormy Daniels/Trump nonsense...under the heading "Politics". Lol, right.
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The way Hannitty and Maddow mirror each other is chilling.
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I say a little prayer to Frank Zappa (politics is the entertainment branch of the Militarized Industrial Complex) before I check
@SethAbramson...and this of Nixon on paranoia#TheSixtiesRBackThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Tangentially to
@ggreenwald's point: given the insanity of contemporary politics (Trump, etc.) a good conspiracy theory brings comfort. It isn't *us* that caused this, it's *them*. The problem isn't systemic or multifaceted - it's just one very bad man (foreign to us)...Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Yes and social media allows people like Tribe to mimic the "Church Of The SubGenius", and create exciting fictional drama stories.pic.twitter.com/kfne47ok9m
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remember when you got powerbombed by Maxine Waters
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Or, life in these times is terrifying, and people channel that fear into these kinds of behaviors.
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