Castle Magus

"Hi. You may have noticed a new crop of influencers like The Nelk Boys and Bryce Hall taking over online spaces. Today we’re looking at who these people are and how MAGA influencers garnered so much... well, influence."

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"The extremely partisan and vindictive crime president, looking to wet his thick beak as sloppily as possible, is now lording over every social media platform, which now happens to be one of the primary ways in which Americans get their information, the youth of which specifically following individual influencers, who may or may not be getting paid by political operatives working directly for that president to put out misinformation."

(My only minor quibble with that italicized quote from Cody Johnston there is that he used the world "misinformation" when he clearly should have used "disinformation.")

This is just dystopian shit. All of it.

It's frustrating and sad and horrible and disgusting that MAGA has been around long enough for there to be a "next generation" of anything related to it.

Also, I'd just like to state, yet again, that I loathe the entire concept of "influencers" in general. The only consolation for me is that I'd never heard of any of those "next generation" MAGA assholes, prior to this video. But then, there were a whole lot of mentions in this video of the current/old generation of MAGA assholes, too.

The best thing about this article is its proper use of the word "disinformation," where so many other, lesser articles would have incorrectly used "misinformation" instead. Now, granted, they could have saved several letters by just using "lies," but "disinformation" is good enough.

Aside from that, the article just talks about typical Trumpish horseshit (i.e. pretty much anything and everything that has ever come out of the anus that Donald Trump keeps between his nose and chin), and the efforts being made to curtail it. Can't wait to see which Trumpublican judge sides with Trump and shoots this one down, though.

Most "fake news" that eventually becomes "misinformation" (i.e. spread by gullible people who may not realize that it is "fake news") almost invariably begins its life as "disinformation" (i.e. manufactured by people who absolutely do know that it is deliberately "fake news," whether it is "harmless" satire or something intended for far more insidious purposes). The use of "misinformation" when one should really be using "disinformation" is one of those linguistic pet peeves of mine, especially these days, given who the current President of the United States is (Donald Trump) and, more importantly, what he is (a grievous, egregious, contemptible, brazen, incessant liar).

Poe's Law is especially dangerous these days, not because of someone creating a parody of idiotic beliefs that too many people believe is real and then get angry about it, but because of someone creating a parody of idiotic beliefs that too many people believe is real and then agree with it.

It's part of the reason that I think that we should perhaps consider putting a moratorium on satire, especially now in the Age of Trump. ¬_¬

On the flip side, concerning satire, there's also all the damaging satirical stories about Trump doing something stupid that Trump didn't actually do IRL. By that I mean that they are not damaging to Trump but are damaging in the sense that they actually aid Trump.

First of all, Trump already does way too much dangerously stupid shit all on his own such that there is absolutely zero need to manufacture stuff to makes him seem even stupider. People who are already inclined to think that Trump is a moron are not going to be swayed in any appreciable way by fake stories intended to make Trump seem even more moronic.

Second of all, all the satirical stories about Trump simply feed into Trump's otherwise asinine Lügenpresse narrative. People who are already inclined to think that Trump is God's gift to politics thus gain even more "evidence" that the "enemy" is out to "get" Trump with every satirical piece that comes out about him.