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Paul Krugman:

"A large part of the answer is that many Americans believe that crime is running rampant — just not where they happen to live. Fox News tells suburban and small-town Americans that New York and L.A. are crime-ridden hellscapes, and they believe it.

We saw something quite similar in assessments of the economy during the Biden years, when American had a much more positive assessment of their local economies than they did of the economy as a whole"

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trump-plays-the-carnage-card
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Graph of assessment by the public of the economy - local and national.
Source: Federal Reserve

JW
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It's a global problem of certain media organisations talking up crime when its reducing. They sell fear.

Nicole Parsons
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Needs to be more investigation into the funding behind malign influence campaigns & partisan disinformation.

The onslaught of lies is astroturfed propaganda.

After reporting came out about Russian funding for Tenet Media, why weren't others found?

These people weren't duped. They knew their funding was suspect.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/well-known-right-wing-influencers-duped-to-work-for-covert-russian-operation-u-s-prosecutors-say

https://www.npr.org/2024/09/05/nx-s1-5100829/russia-election-influencers-youtube

https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2024/09/05/tenet-media-russia-rt-tim-pool/

https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/04/politics/doj-alleges-russia-funded-company-linked-social-media-stars

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Tenet_Media_investigation

https://arxiv.org/html/2503.19802v1

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Alex
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@Npars01@mstdn.social @jwi@aus.social @AkaSci@fosstodon.org what is even funnier is they do it to each other as well. They are just losers and scammers.

Nicole Parsons
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A lot of the right wing hype about Epstein is intended to get Vance to replace Trump.

That's what is really upsetting Trump, being ousted for a younger, better fascist.

David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)
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Do you think that would work? The Republicans in Congress do what Trump says because they believe he can deliver their seats in the next election. Does anyone believe the same of Vance?