No. The Source WAS THE FUCKING ARTICLE I WAS POSTING UNDER. IT WAS THE POST. 10/10 ragebait. You literally made me start trying to develop new slurs for liberals based on your people's inability to understand basic fucking context.

Like a plague of locusts.

Yeah, but it's still Lemmy.

Whilst I have good reasons to believe at least one world admin is one of them, it's my impression that the state actors mainly focus their attention in !news@lemmy.world and !world@lemmy.world

Oh. I thought it was obvious to everyone that Democrats don't actually give a fuck about leftist issues so this went right over my head. Thanks for the explanation!

There is in fact a recognized political propaganda technique called "Flood The Zone".

Looking at Top Today, for the last two days I've seen far more posts about the "pool affair" than any other subject, including way more impactful subjects such as the Iran War, and various of those highly upvoted posts are pretty infantile pisstakes.

It stinks of Flood The Zone. Even if it's not, a lot of that shit is infantile tribalist point-"scoring" with the same level of maturity as when the far-right press was complaining about Obama wearing a tan suit.

The problem is not somebody pointing it out, the problem is that what is a comparativelly miniscule fuck up by the Trump administration (you know, the kid fuckers who are crashing the US Economy and fucking everybody else because they tough that going to War with Iran was a guaranteed win) has been turned into a circus and pretty much "the only show in town" - as I said, it stinks of Flood The Zone.

If you look at the Republicans in the US, they definitelly have internal fights - Trump might have temporarilly succeeded in getting them all to push in the same direction, but that's the natural outcome of coming up with a formula for electoral success and is now breaking with all the shit that's coming out about him and he is doing in his second term.

Ditto in countries with more Democratic voting structures and hence more the just 2 parties, were the center-Right is fighting with at least the Far-Right.

And by the way, in those countries with the Overton Window very much to the Right, those on the right by definition don't have the same Overton spread since there's a lot less room Rightwards from the center of it than there is leftwards.

You know they're a center right party, right?

Even the most jaded neoliberal should be able to be honest enough with themselves to understand that the Democratic Party is a hodgepodge party of leftists and liberals.

Look up "third-way politics"

Capitalism is right wing

I bet you have to make L's with both hands to figure out Left vs Right.

Okay, but it is a job. Yes, we could solve all our plumbing problems together, but is just far more efficient to have dedicated plumbers.

The more interesting question is how to set up a system that, relatively speaking, produces politicians that aren't as massive assholes. Less shitty systems provide some hints on how to go about it.

The Press talking a lot about it doesn't at all deny the possibility that this is a purposeful distraction since any succesful purposeful distraction would require the media to make a circus of it.

Flood The Zone is a real political strategy and it absolutelly relies on the Press picking it up and talking about it instead of whatever they were talking about before, leading to people subconsciously starting treating this new subject as more important and "the thing to be talking about" leading many to amplifying it in social media which is what we've seen here in Lemmy for the past 2 days.

(This probably stands out a lot for those of us here who are not in the US because the press elsewhere doesn't at all talk about it, so the massive number of posts about a fucking pool in Washington in Lemmy just look like a sudden flood under blue skies with not a drop of rain, so with no actual reason, thus it feels made up rather than natural)

What the previous poster wrote and what you wrote about the attention that the media is giving this subject aren't at all inconsistent with each other.