RationalWiki:What is going on in the blogosphere?/June 2024

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June 2024[edit]

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16Since Tommy Robinson revealed in Canadian immigration papers that he is Irish after he was arrested, there has been a number of right-wingers questioning the whole schtick, accusing him of being a grifter.
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26More than 10 years later, the Senate torture report is still secret.
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-15How people are influenced by political propaganda they initially discard.
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11From April: "Do conservatives really have better mental health? Perhaps not." Basically, it seems they may simply admit to mental health struggles less. However separate from political beliefs, this does find better mental health with frequent church attendees compared to non-attendees and infrequent attendees. (Entry writer's speculation: could have to do with having a consistent third place more than religion per se.)
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25 'The disturbing online misogyny of Gamergate has returned – if it ever went away'.
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32Why Trump's tariff proposals would harm working Americans. The tariffs would reduce after-tax incomes by 3.5 percent for those in the bottom half of the income distribution and cost a typical household in the middle of the income distribution about $1,700 in increased taxes each year. If executed, these steps would increase the distortions and burdens created by the rounds of tariffs levied during the first Trump administration (and sustained during the Biden administration), while inflicting massive collateral damage on the US economy.
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10The rise and rise of Reform UK.
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18First Came ‘Spam.’ Now, With A.I., We’ve Got ‘Slop’ Slop, at least in the fast-moving world of online message boards, is a broad term that has developed some traction in reference to shoddy or unwanted A.I. content in social media, art, books and, increasingly, in search results.
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18 What happened to liberal conservatism? It has been silenced by the far right.
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28How India's opposition parties went from complete disarray to a major election upset performance that destroyed the BJP majority.