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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
This comment about Trump's meeting with Russia made me laugh.
Mark Zuckerberg response
to the Cambridge Analytica Scandal, but in GIFs
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edited 21st Mar '18 4:59:00 PM by megaeliz
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In Trump's eyes he's the height of strength and masculinity, he's an authoritarian right-wing defacto autocrat. All the things that Trump loves and wants to be, while the Republicans are just cuckservatives who exist to be used by him.
edited 21st Mar '18 4:59:52 PM by Fourthspartan56
"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded." -Chairman Sheng-Ji YangBringing up this thread
again, because it explains everything so nicely.
- Avoid shame
- Collect adoration and esteem.
That's it. There is no other priority or concern
Trump will do anything humanly possible to try to avoid being publicly shamed/diminished in others' eyes.It's an impulse he can't control
Take Russia/Putin. If Trump were to acknowledge Russia interfered, he'd be admitting he was less worthy of the presidency.
Donald Trump would literally sell out his entire family and the country as well to avoid acknowledging that he didn't deserve the office. He is pathologically incapable of doing anything which admits to the world his worst internal fear: he's unworthy of being seen as special.
Now, he has no choice on how he has to play this. He HAS to actually make Putin look worthy of partnership. He has to make the shameful thing, look unshameful somehow. He has to make shameful hacking and potential collusion somehow seem smart or purposeful or dignified.
It cannot be done. It makes no logical sense. It will fall apart and as it does, Trump's behavior and lying will get more outlandish.
But make no mistake, Donald Trump is clinically incapable of doing anything other than what he is doing: trying to avoid the shame of being discovered to be illegitimate and unworthy of public respect.
He has an uncontrollable compulsion to avoid that awful truth.
This actually explains a lot.
edited 21st Mar '18 5:49:27 PM by megaeliz
Rick Saccone finally concedes Penn. Special Election to Conor Lamb
.
So now I can say 'We sacked one to Saccone'.
Special Counsel studies Trump campaign ties to Cambridge Analytica, sources say
Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team for the last several weeks has had a growing interest to better understand the relationship between the campaign, the Republican National Committee, and Cambridge Analytica, sources tell ABC News.
The company is also under investigation by British officials for its use of Facebook users’ data.
Sources tell ABC News several digital experts who worked in support of Trump’s bid in 2016 have met with Mueller's team for closed-door interviews. The staffers, most of whom were employed by the RNC, served as key members of the 2016 operation working closely with the campaign and the data firm, the sources said. The company worked closely with the Republican candidate’s political team.
The Trump campaign declined to comment and the Republican National Committee has not responded to ABC News' request for comment.
Cambridge Analytica was brought on by then-Trump campaign digital advisor Brad Parscale in early June 2016, after the data science firm pitched him on its services, sources told ABC News. Three Cambridge Analytica employees, including two data scientists, immediately moved to San Antonio to embed with Parscale's firm and by August, the number of fulltime staffers in Texas ballooned to 13.
The team led by Matt Oczkowski, who served as the data firm's chief product officer, was divided into three groups focusing on data science, research and polling and marketing.
Parscale would eventually leave Texas to move into Trump Tower in September, and the data firm sent a mid-level employee with him to interpret daily polling reports, according to sources.
Cambridge Analytica was one entity involved in creating the voter information and fundraising database now known as Project Alamo, built jointly by staffers from the RNC, the Trump campaign and Parscale's firm with data supplied by the RNC and the campaign, sources said.
A spokesperson for the Trump campaign told ABC News in a statement that they “used the RNC for its voter data and not Cambridge Analytica. Using the RNC data was one of the best choices the campaign made. Any claims that voter data were used from another source to support the victory in 2016 are false.”
A source with direct knowledge who has met with the special counsel's team tells ABC News investigators have asked former senior level campaign staff about the digital operations, specifically how data was collected and used and how assets were targeted specifically in the battleground states. Mueller's team has asked witnesses about the process of "micro targeting" which is the process of using data to identify specific groups of individuals and thereby influence their thoughts and potentially their actions.
From the start, Trump and his top advisors have touted the campaign’s mastery of spinning pithy social media messages into votes.
"I understand social media. I understand Twitter, I understand the power of Twitter I understand the power of Facebook. Maybe better than almost anybody, based on my results," Trump said at a 2015 town hall in South Carolina.
Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law, and Parscale are among those who credited the use of targeted Facebook advertising – a strategy developed by Cambridge Analytica.
“We found that Facebook and digital targeting were the most effective ways to reach the audiences. After the primary, we started ramping up because we knew that doing a national campaign is different than doing a primary campaign," Kushner told Forbes Magazine just after the election. "That was when we formalized the system because we had to ramp up for digital fundraising. We brought in Cambridge Analytica.”
The Trump campaign paid the data firm more than $5.8 million for “data management” during the 2016 election cycle, according to Federal Election Commission records.
Overseeing that effort was Parscale, the Trump family confidante who has been tapped to run Trump’s 2020 reelection bid. Parscale coordinated work with Cambridge Analytica executives to identify voters who were undecided and use social media to motivate them to support Trump over Hillary Clinton.
"I think Donald Trump won, but I think Facebook was the method–it was the highway in which his car drove on," Parscale told 60 Minutes last year.......
edited 21st Mar '18 6:29:50 PM by megaeliz
Sadly, he'll be running in one of the districts created by the new map, so we may be seeing the idiot in Congress after November.
| Wandering, but not lost. | If people bring so much courage to this world...◊ |I don't know how it is even a scandle or something people expect facebook to apologize over.....
The data wasn't leaked, that is LITERALY facebook's entire business model.
Asking them to apologize is like asking an executioner to apologize for executing people, it does absolutely nothing, worse then ntohing really because if it upsets you you should go after the position itself. :/
And it really should be gone after.
I do have a Facebook account, but I only really use it for the occasional brief communication with loved ones or in one case, pictures of nice weather.
Otherwise I never post or reblog anything, and the account sits there collecting dust. Which is good.
edited 21st Mar '18 7:07:40 PM by TheWildWestPyro
Yeah, next time my sister or The Old Bitch call me paranoid/antisocial for not using Twitbook, I'll just point at the Cambridge Analytica situation.
EDIT: Yay, awkward pagetoppers!
edited 21st Mar '18 7:12:29 PM by Reflextion
Someone did tell me life was going to be this way.![]()
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Still completely accurate, I never made a Facebook account simply because I didn't care for it as a service but it's nice to be vindicated in a completely unrelated way.
edited 21st Mar '18 7:14:35 PM by Fourthspartan56
"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded." -Chairman Sheng-Ji Yang

Let's not forget that Putin trained at a KGB school notorious for its spycraft, served as a intelligence officer in East Germany during the height of the Cold War, and ran the FSB for a while. He knows how to play people, and foreign intelligence in particular was a specialty of his. It shouldn't be surprising that he's been able to manipulate Trump to this degree.
edited 21st Mar '18 4:54:02 PM by archonspeaks
They should have sent a poet.