Criminal Little Man

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https://www.reddit.com/r/visualization/comments/1p2iqlu/nearly_every_day_two_users_on_rconservative/

First chart: Since October 3rd, two users (u1 and u2) have daily been responsible for 30% - 50% of all posts on Conservative.

Second chart: Breakdown of the the most active user's external links.

-via Ok-Stand-2128, on r/visualization. Go to visualization

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HAHAHA

PROPAGANDA OUTLET DOWN!!!

Russia 'meddled in all big social media' around US election

-via BBC News, link and more details below. December 17, 2018.

"Russia used every major social media platform to try to influence the 2016 US election... New research says YouTube, Tumblr, Instagram and PayPal - as well as Facebook and Twitter - were leveraged to spread propaganda. The report, released today by the US Senate, exposes the scale of Russian disinformation efforts. Its authors criticise the "belated and unco-ordinated response" by tech firms. The report was put together by University of Oxford's Computational Propaganda Project and the social network analysis firm Graphika. It is the first analysis of millions of social media posts provided by Twitter, Google and Facebook to the Senate Intelligence Committee. While Facebook and Twitter have previously disclosed Russian interference, little has been known about the use of other platforms. The report suggests YouTube, Tumblr, PayPal and Google+ were all affected, with Russia adapting techniques from digital marketing to target audiences across multiple channels. "It's a whole family of social media sites," says Philip N Howard, director of the Oxford Internet Institute. "We think the goal was to make the campaigns seem more legitimate."

The report says Russia had a particular focus on targeting conservatives with posts on immigration, race and gun rights. There were also efforts to undermine the voting power of left-leaning African-American citizens, by spreading misinformation about the electoral process. Another report, also released today [2018] by the Senate, by the research firm New Knowledge, similarly highlights Russia's efforts to target African-Americans... One IRA campaign highlighted in the Oxford and Graphika paper, Black Matters US, existed across Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Google+, Tumblr and PayPal. These various accounts would promote each other's posts and events. When Facebook suspended the group on its platform, the group's Twitter account complained about the move and accused the social network of "supporting white supremacy". "What is clear is that all of the messaging clearly sought to benefit the Republican Party - and specifically Donald Trump," the report says. "Trump is mentioned most in campaigns targeting conservatives and right-wing voters, where the messaging encouraged these groups to support his campaign. The main groups that could challenge Trump were then provided messaging that sought to confuse, distract and ultimately discourage members from voting."

-via BBC News, December 17, 2018. Emphasis mine.

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.......hey have we considered that half the reason that tumblr is constantly banning trans women is that someone (Russian or 4chan or rad/fem or whoever) made bots to just mass report posts that mention trans people or trans women specifically?

To be clear, this is in no fucking way an attempt to give Tumblr any credit. Tumblr's policies, enforcement, and CEO are absolutely, verifiably transphobic, transmisogynistic, and racist.

canon tells us and shows us that he still has a *lot* of deconstruction to do about the american military, and is still pretty substantially actively involved with them in a way that doesn't seem to trigger any moral conflict in him as far as we've seen (yes it still counts if he's only there as a doctor, yes that still counts as being complicit in military actions).

when ice agents detain jesse, he still asks what jesse did before anything else, implying that he hasn't been able to disconnect himself from his instilled belief that "agents of the law" (despite ice not fitting this category well, if at all) are acting correctly and in the pursuit of justice, as opposed to being weapons of the state imposing fascism. I'm not saying he supports ice, we know he doesn't, im saying his brain still jumps to assuming law enforcement in any form is automatically in the right before he thinks more deeply.

in season one his letter to the dead veteran (note- I'm not critical of the fact he wrote one, shared experience in that way creates very powerful connections, and it's easily understandable as to why abbot would want to write personally to his family) and the way in which he spoke about him to robby- regarding his surviving several tours just to die back home- didn't show him to be particularly critical of the work the military was actually doing on these tours and the horror they were causing for civilian people, rather just the trauma it causes for the soldiers themselves. his focus in general hasn't directed itself to the majority of victims of war.

we see al-hashimi to be initially unsure of his presence in s2 and then critical of his involvement with swat, and though they find common ground in their similar traumatic experiences quickly, abbot still brushes off her concerned question as to what he's doing with that organisation. overall he doesnt have much of an answer to his involvement, aside from "my therapist said I needed a hobby", or "I suck at golf". yes, I don't doubt that his own unresolved trauma drives him back to a familiar environment, and im not saying he's a bad person, im just saying that he has a lot of deconstruction to do.

Like yeah he's "Med" Swat-but he's still on the side of swat! If he wanted that same energy, he could just join emergency response teams on dangerous calls. He could help out the EMTS and Paramedics who go into dangerous calls. Hell, he could run simulations for response teams on how to deal with treating people in dangerous scenarios. Instead he joins another swat force, because it's the closest thing he can get to the military.

And like, I know we should take what actors say with a grain of salt if it's not appeared in canon, but I agree with Shawn's take that Abbot is likely libertarian. Has the man probably voted democrat recently? yeah! he probably can't stand the current republican party at all. He's probably pro-lgbt and clearly pro-choice, but that doesn't mean he doesn't hold some views that skew right, like military funding and presence, taxes, surveillance. He's probably a guy who thinks more money for the troops would solve the issue-just hoping it would go directly too them rather than things like weapons.

Abbot reminds me a lot of the men from my part of FL/GA. I knew a lot of guys who were vets. Most of the time, when it comes to social issues (abortions, LGBT, women's rights) they're pro because they think the government shouldn't control people's lives, not necessarily because they cared directly about those rights. (A common thing I heard was "They deserve the right to marry but I wouldn't go to their wedding.") But they also couldn't escape their military backgrounds, and believed the issue was that there wasn't enough support *while* they were in the military, and that would have helped them avoid the issues they had when they left.

Robby is coming back from vacation. But they're both so tired at the end of their shift that neither Dennis nor Robby notice anyone.💕