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user-inactivated  ·  2867 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: This is what came today in an email from Imzy

I thought the message was that these issues no longer matter to the White House (read: Trump) and that it's an obvious and marking change that describes the intentions of the current President.





user-inactivated  ·  2867 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    I thought the message was that these issues no longer matter to the White House

That should be the message, yes.

user-inactivated  ·  2867 days ago  ·  link  ·  

But it isn't? You and jadedog act as if Imzy's just sowing discontent and shoot at the new President, misleading the audience.

jadedog  ·  2866 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm not doing that at all. I also don't think it's a fair characterization that you're saying that I'm acting as if I am doing so.

Do you think Imzy needs to mislead the audience to sow discontent with the new President? I don't. There's plenty of real news out there for them to base that on.

They could point to the women's march today. Yesterday, they could have just left off the part about the website and sent the rest of their email. The message would be the same.

Instead, they used the non-existence of information on a website that could be timing based to infer something that may or may not be posted later. They readily admit they don't know if there will be new information about it.

That's weak information to be making a point about. My point was that making points on weak information can lead to people not paying attention when the real points are made.

user-inactivated  ·  2866 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Also, this:

    Whitehouse.gov at 11:59AM was all about the Obama Administration. At 12:00PM it became the website of the Trump Administration. The entire whitehouse.gov website was changed. Art, images, layout etc all changed. The Obama stuff was archived as prescribed by US law. The Trump people had a few months to provide the whitehouse.gov admins the data to populate the website. The results are what went live at noon.

@francopoli said here

I hope you don't think I'm just blasting you with references to avoid replying on the matter: I just said and saw everything I require to reply in other posts.

user-inactivated  ·  2866 days ago  ·  link  ·  

IMZY is a website and they are coloured by that bubble. As I explained before they are comparing the website of the Obama Administration and the Trump Administration and making the story about the contents of the website, not the policy differences between to the two men's outlooks.

I may be too far in the weeds here and I may be trying to split hay.

user-inactivated  ·  2866 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    As I explained before they are comparing the website of the Obama Administration and the Trump Administration and making the story about the contents of the website, not the policy differences between to the two men's outlooks.

I'm confused. Don't you suppose that a president's policies-related outlook would be clearly established on their website? If it would, wouldn't lack of information on certain subjects that are of importance to the contemporary population of the US (or, at least, to big parts of it) indicate that the President has nothing to say on the matter, ergo he doesn't care about it (or, worse, that he has grimmer plans about it that he doesn't want to share because of the possible outcry)? That's the connection that I've made, and I'm not sure why we're arguing this in the first place.

jadedog  ·  2866 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    IMZY is a website and they are coloured by that bubble.

Imzy is not just any website. It's advertised as the anti-Reddit, the kinder, gentler version of Reddit, founded by Reddit ex-execs.

They have a clear message. It has partnered with Lena Dunham.

user-inactivated  ·  2866 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    It has partnered with Lena Dunham.

Lena Dunham... this person. Did some more digging into IMZY and it looks like they are trying to become a left-wing Free Republic with a lot of TMZ/Entertainment Weekly and Silicon Valley Venture Capital Culture mixed in. Places like this have their function, but there is a reason I don't go there.

user-inactivated  ·  2866 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That's wonderful. I've been telling everyone lately that the reason why this election was so horrible was because it wasn't polarized and sensationalized enough. A website like that will go far to fix that issue for future discourse.

jadedog  ·  2865 days ago  ·  link  ·  

francopoli is right when he says that there are going to be a lot of parodies and sarcasm that is not detected and taken seriously.

I can't tell if this is sarcasm. Is this sarcasm?

I'm pretty sure I know groups on both sides of that opinion, with a group squarely on that opinion.

user-inactivated  ·  2865 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It's sarcasm. :)

ButterflyEffect  ·  2866 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Lena Dunham is an entirely self-serving person who does more harm than good to feminist movements.