[IAmGraydon]

Yeah I agree with this. The mass media combined with social media is going to make it even harder over the next 4 years to know what's real and what isn't. We really need to train ourselves to look empirically at the evidence and form our beliefs based only on facts. I think this is not so much "onlookers" freaking out, but rather a massive propaganda machine freaking out.

[ruraljuror]

Keep in mind, though, that Steve Bannon has developed strategies like "flooding the zone" to defocus attention and nip opposition in the bud. We can only look so many places, so for example if everyone is outraged about the flurry of ridiculous executive orders we may not pay attention to the tax cut bill.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/opinion/ezra-klein-podcas...