RationalWiki:What is going on in the blogosphere?/October 2022
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October 2022[edit]
   | 16 | The UK terror survivors tracked down by ‘disaster trolls’ - a British perspective on the phenomenon |
| 21 | The Verge on Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter: "Welcome to hell, Elon." |
| 15 | We Finally Know Who Funded Trump's Truth Social. Former President Donald Trump's struggling platform, unsurprisingly, has friends in high places. What? You thought he funded it himself? Jaysus. |
| 12 | Swedish politician freezes for 26 seconds after question over pay increase |
| 20 | 'A Generation of Bad Decisions'; how the UK became one of the poorest nations in Western Europe. |
| 20 | Meet James Mac, Patriotic Alternative’s Nazi “Reverend” calling for “Racial Holy War" Yep, you read that right, a Racial holy war. What a halfwit. |
| 10 | Why economic sanctions (usually) don't work. |
| 11 | Graham Norton Exits Twitter Soon After On-Stage Discussion About Trans Rights |
| 15 | How Xi Jinping became the most powerful Chinese leader in decades. |
| 19 | Since the Economist labelled Liz Truss the lettuce PM, due to the likelihood she would have the shelf life of a lettuce, Low-brow tabloid The Daily Star has launched a YouTube livestream of a picture of Truss and lettuce, to see which one would last longer. |
| 24 | The Onion were asked to submit evidence to the US government, defending satire, and they did a good job. Honestly, this could be the thing that they're remembered for in the long run. Swiftian. |
| 18 | A new Gilded Age of media barons? Elon Musk and the oligarchs of the ‘Second Gilded Age’ can not only sway the public – they can exploit their data, too. Musk pushing Putin propaganda is not historically new: British aristos did the same in WWII with Hitler 'peace offers'. What's new is that an oligarch can switch off critical internet infrastructure at a whim, and undermine crucial military operations against a genocidal regime. |
| 25 | We make enough food to feed a growing population several times over, but we continue to let politics and greed get in the way of feeding people. |
| 12 | Sleepwalking into fascism. That reactionary politics today lack a mass character is what makes them so dangerous. |