"The August 2020 US Politics Thread is highly thought of, but nobody likes me. It can only be my personality. That's all."

not to put too fine a point on it, who cares if Giancarlo Granda is kind of hot?

Jerry Falwell and Dan S, apparently

am going to fantasize about him for the next few days or so

Ta-Nehisi Coates:

"These moments when brutality is on display, this is not the first moment this has happened in American history, and the record for how long the white American attention span is for this sort of brutality is not a positive point.

When strangers kick in somebody's door under the color of law and shoot them down, when agents of the state suffocate a man on the street in broad daylight, when agents of the state pull up to a 12 year old kid and shoot him down because he's playing with a plastic gun, when that happens there is an actual human being who people love, who people invested in, who people attributed all of their hopes and dreams to who was killed, who was suffocated, shot down for no other reason except being born into a system that prizes some people's lives above others"

almost posted this in the worst tech company thread, but:

Didn't have time to list it, but I pulled some data for this segment:

August FB interactions
CNN: 21 million
NYT: 8M
Ben Shapiro: 55M

August FB video views
CNN: 73M
NYT: 12M
The Hodgetwins: 84M

August FB shares:
CNN: 2.2M
NYT: 800K
Dan Bongino: 5.6M https://t.co/Ij6hkuTdte

— Kevin Roose (@kevinroose) August 30, 2020

it amazes me that out there is a massively influential guy named Dan Bongino. i have never even heard of him

His first name used to be Oingo

He is a serious piece of human trash. Don't familiarize yourself with him

That tweet otm

FB is trash

TBF wont a lot of the Shapiro shares be for lulz because of wet ass P-gate?

Pretty sure that those numbers for at least Ben are juked.

Yes and no.

Some background here

—@CaseyNewton reports that @kevinroose's tweets showing the top content on Facebook — most often from right-wing pages — have "been driving people at Facebook absolutely crazy." https://t.co/FLc92TLKMV

— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) July 22, 2020

Nick Saban is leading the march for social justice from the Alabama football complex to Foster Auditorium. pic.twitter.com/ssNCRbNxDr

— Michael Casagrande (@ByCasagrande) August 31, 2020

Perhaps too raw, but...

Trump on Portland and the Trump caravan: "I understand they (had) large numbers of people that were supporters, but it was a peaceful protest and paint is a defensive mechanism. Paint is not bullets."

— Christopher Cadelago (@ccadelago) August 31, 2020

"Paint is a defense mechanism" for September title.

I mean, what the actual fuck.

"Defensive"

The President claims people in the dark shadows who control the streets are really controlling Biden. He goes on to talk about a plane full of people wearing black uniforms but then says he can’t reveal anymore because it’s under investigation pic.twitter.com/AAk5GX0eWu

— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) September 1, 2020

"We had somebody get on a plane from a certain city this weekend, and in the plane it was almost completely loaded with thugs, wearing these dark uniforms, black uniforms, with gear and this and that. They're on a plane."

Trump says this is "under investigation right now." pic.twitter.com/UjBBvsBaU3

— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) September 1, 2020

Trump: You know a choker they choke. Shooting a guy in the back many times couldn’t you have done something different... in the meantime he might have been going for a weapon... but they choke just like in a golf tournament they miss a 3 foot putt.... pic.twitter.com/HkzEX9ghZj

— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) September 1, 2020

really trying to chip away at that 14% African American approval

She tried saved him there even

he's been doing this shit nonstop since the central park five

Joining together ilx’s two favorite topics, it sounds like Trump saw Dark Knight Rises and thought it was a documentary

the real documentary, was the movie Idiocracy, which a lot of people think was a comedy,

https://meduza.io/en/feature/2020/09/01/russian-hackers-leak-personal-data-of-nearly-every-voter-in-michigan-plus-a-million-more-voters-in-four-other-states

cool

People that you've never heard of, people that are in the dark shadows -- US Politics September 2020