Sunday Thoughts

The show is late today because I had a social engagement over the weekend. Often, I will record the show Saturday night and then edit it up Sunday Morning. If not then I record early Sunday, but I did not get back until late last night, so it was a bit of a late start today. It is funny how talking with people in a social environment about current events changes how you look at the news. Normally, I avoid speaking about politics in the meat space, so the news lacks that context.

One of the things I bumped into was a few people using the word “weird” to describe J.D. Vance, which they obviously picked up from television. They are Trump people, but they are not enthusiastic about Vance and the main reason is the media gaslighting. That and Vance is pretty much Ned Flanders and in the political space this is quite odd. We have been conditioned to expect our politicians to have the profile of a carny, because most of them are carnies.

There were other things like this which was a good reminder that most people get their opinions from the media, in the sense that they look to media sources for their opinions. The people consuming Candace Owens content tend to accept the framing and conclusions. They sought her out, however, because people they know online or in the meat space followed her. People migrate into their preferred silos, but there is interaction between the silos.

This is why the regime is ruthless regarding dissent. It is not that they fear an honest debate as conventional conservatives have always claimed. It is that they worry about the stuff that could leak over from dissident silos. The relative weirdness of Vance is meaningless in the Trump silo or even the dissident silo, but the relative normality of Vance leaking into the regime silo presents problems they fear because they have no way to police such bad thoughts inside their own silo.

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