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user-inactivated  ·  2866 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: This is what came today in an email from Imzy

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.