“If last night showed anything, it [Trump being elected] can happen again,” says Cooper.
Yeah but it’s events like last night’s, on CNN, that will help make sure that it does! 🤦🏽♂️
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Anderson Cooper missed the point. The point is not that people think if they stay in their silos their enemies will go away. It’s that CNN decided to help an enemy of democracy spread things they know to be lies.
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I'll repeat this part--organizationally and individually, CNN leadership must immediately and proactively say this was a horrible mistake, corrosive to democracy, that CNN could have avoided had they not presumed that they know best and could contain and contextualize Trump.
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Dear CNN: You know all the shame and depression you're feeling now--even though you're trying to talk past it by touting your (trivial) successes in the course of this debacle? *You could have avoided all this.* The best thing now is for everyone who said yes to this to resign.
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Now, I don't think those who approved CNN's pro-Trump pep rally need to be punished. I think the shame of it is (potentially) punishment enough. *I want you to have successful careers teaching about your mistake here so that the lesson can serve everyone who comes after you.*
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You must listen while a man mocks the woman he sexually assaulted in front of a laughing, cheering crowd OR ELSE YOU LIVE IN AN IDEOLOGICAL SILO!
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And it’s a bad idea to help spread the lies of someone who has shown many times he’d completely destroy American democracy if he could. And it doesn’t matter how many people would cheer as he did it.
This isn’t fucking hard, Anderson.
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It’s a bad idea to spread medical misinformation that could get people killed. It doesn’t matter how many people believe them.
It’s a bad idea to help spread the attacks on a woman who a jury believed was raped. It doesn’t matter how many people like the rapist.
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It’s *because* we are all familiar with the things that he says and how dangerous they are and how untrue they are - all things that CNN and Anderson Cooper himself knows are dangerous lies - that we don’t think it’s a good thing for a media organization to help him spread them.
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I don’t think a single person who protested about CNN putting him on TV like that is unfamiliar with his “views” (I put that in quote marks because he lies so easily it’s hard to know what he actually think about anything). We all know.
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Anderson Cooper missed the point. The point is not that people think if they stay in their silos their enemies will go away. It’s that CNN decided to help an enemy of democracy spread things they know to be lies.
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If trump keeps defaming, E Jean Carrol then E Jean Carrol should keep suing Trump for defamation.
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If you currently work at twitter, give even the slightest shit about social justice and aren’t leaking like a sieve to anyone in the press near you, then I don’t know what you’re doing.
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Elon Musk says he’ll step down as Twitter CEO. But he’s not going anywhere. vox.com/technology/202
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This is a classic glass cliff situation, in which a failing company hires a woman to clean up messes made by arrogant men. Then she becomes the scapegoat because it's impossible to clean up.
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Sir Robbie Gibb, a BBC board member, ordered a news chief not to interrogate Vote Leave’s £350 million Brexit bus campaign after the referendum
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I watched another four episodes and Jesus Christ, how do these people have all these feelings and still have time for like eating, showering and having a pee?!
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Also all the theme tunes are like, “HEY WHAT IF YOU FEEL LIKE YOUR LIFE SUCKS AND WHAT WOULD CURE IT IS LIKE FACING YOUR PAAAAAAAAAAAAIN, BUT MAYBE IT’S TOO LATE”
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I know it’s like… good… and stuff, but when did TV have so many people talking about their issues and feelings and stuff. Why can’t they all just repress it all and get all tense and weird like a normal person
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AOC on CNN's Trump town hall: "I know you said earlier that you will not comment on the platforming of such atrocious disinformation, but I would. I think it was a profoundly irresponsible decision ... it was shameful."
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There is simply no way CNN can feign ignorance about the fact that they set up a sexual assault victim to be targeted and attacked on national television a day after the verdict.
People were sounding the alarm about this exact scenario. They let it happen anyway without a plan.
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They have learned nothing. In seven years, they have learned nothing.
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Within minutes, Trump spews election denialism. Kaitlan Collins offers pushback. Trump completely ignores her and barrels right back into election denialism. Congrats to CNN on giving this guy a platform to promote his lies on national TV.
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Immediate reaction from a CNN on-air personality to me just now on this Trump town hall: "It is so bad. I was cautiously optimistic despite the criticism. It is awful. It's a Trump infomercial. We're going to get crushed."
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Lotta black people in the military. Might be nice if elected officials stood up for them, too.
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Weird news about Dooce. Having early blogger emotional check-in needs.
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You know what kinds of stories I actually want to watch about gay people? I want stories like straight people get. Stories about being a superhero. And stories about solving murders. And going into space. You know, stories that make you feel *good*.
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There are really *two* stories people do about gay people:
• Coming out
• Being attacked or dying tragically
Both are about how hard it is to be gay, and that means that you either do it honestly, which makes it traumatic or you lighten things and then it's fake.
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I made it through. It was nice and clever. Still minimized how difficult stuff can be. And how relentless it can be. And how tedious it can be. And the dreary pointless irritation of the 5% extra work you have to do every damn day of your life to make other people comfortable.
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I apparently remain entirely incapable of watching TV episodes and movies about being gay without like *all sorts of fucking feelings* surfacing, including thirty plus years of absolute fury. Which is probably why I'm getting a therapist. #TedLasso
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Twitter, which is struggling to reassure advertisers it's safe, will host Tucker Carlson's show, renowned for getting dropped by all blue-chip advertisers because it promotes white supremacy. 🤔🤔🤔
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Twitter: we're bleeding advertisers!!!
Advertisers: We're leaving because white supremacy is brand unsafe.
*Tucker Carlson bursts in*
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No wonder anti-trans, culture war platforms have proven a losing strategy in Australia, Scotland, and now around the English local elections.
They don't resonate with people's priorities.
They don't resonate with people's values.
They don't resonate with people's experiences.
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