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Week 3. What will this week bring? Trump thread

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amispartacus · 06/02/2017 11:53

Continued

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/2846025-Trump-thread-continued-Who-rules-the-USA-Vote-now

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amispartacus · 07/02/2017 22:24

New thread. I mean come on, it's only been a day since I started this one. Fact.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/2849038-The-most-unreported-thread-ever-Trump-thread-9

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illegitimateMortificadospawn · 07/02/2017 22:25

Good title, ami - underreported, but worthy. Wink

GingerIvy · 07/02/2017 22:30

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PausingFlatly · 07/02/2017 22:32

This article about how the campaign used targeted marketing and social media was posted previously, but is worth repeating (and the link has changed).

It was called "Trump Knows You" but is now titled "The Data That Turned the World Upside Down": motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/big-data-cambridge-analytica-brexit-trump

It's all worth reading, but here's an excerpt relevant to the discussion about getting the vote out, and also about African-American voters.

"In the Miami district of Little Haiti, for instance, Trump's campaign provided inhabitants with news about the failure of the Clinton Foundation following the earthquake in Haiti, in order to keep them from voting for Hillary Clinton. This was one of the goals: to keep potential Clinton voters (which include wavering left-wingers, African-Americans, and young women) away from the ballot box, to "suppress" their vote, as one senior campaign official told Bloomberg in the weeks before the election. These "dark posts"—sponsored news-feed-style ads in Facebook timelines that can only be seen by users with specific profiles—included videos aimed at African-Americans in which Hillary Clinton refers to black men as predators, for example."

mimishimmi · 07/02/2017 22:33

The British invention of concentration camps, the Irish famine, the Highland clearances, the anti semitic pogrom in York in the 1200s is not taught or learnt about in England

I'm mostly Irish and a bit Scots. Our feeling is we've had war waged on us and with us for such a long time...and when they get uncomfortable, they slaughter us in yet another one. Meanwhile we're hated for being white by others even though we know what is being done to them is exactly what was done to us Sad Arrogant pricks.

originalbiglymavis · 07/02/2017 22:43

Do you think we could get twitler on here for a q&a session?

amispartacus · 07/02/2017 22:58

There's a new, quiet, unreported thread over here now.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/2849038-The-most-unreported-thread-ever-Trump-thread-9

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amispartacus · 07/02/2017 23:03

Wow - it's just like TV Grin

[gavel]

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Lweji · 07/02/2017 23:18

The thread is not even 990 yet!

Anyway, Putin orders Russian air force to prepare for 'time of war'

if I start seeing Migs around here (I live near an air base), Trump will be top of my black list. Even my spreadshit.

klassy · 08/02/2017 06:34
Week 3. What will this week bring? Trump thread
originalbiglymavis · 08/02/2017 07:20

When I see those tweets, my fingers itch to hit reply "oh do shut up, you absolute wanker".

originalbiglymavis · 08/02/2017 17:04

Has it all gone quiet or is my phone buggered?

originalbiglymavis · 08/02/2017 17:04

Has it all gone quiet or is my phone buggered?

originalbiglymavis · 08/02/2017 17:41

Jesus that went fast didn't it. I can't keep up when I'm at work!

BerylStreep · 09/02/2017 20:56

Oh FFS, I have missed this entire thread and the last one!

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