Tag Archives: Alt-Reich

Pepe the Frog is rescued from the alt-Reich

I don’t know if you’re as up on the Pepe the Frog thing as I am. Well, until today’s Publisher’s Marketplace, I had no idea where Pepe the Frog came from, but I had a Twitter-educated idea of what it … Continue reading

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The Facts of Life and “The Ecosystem of Fake News”

MediaMatters does fine, fine work. Today, an analysis of fake news and the “Alt-Right”, a/k/a the Alt Reich: An anti-intellectual alliance of misogynists and white nationalists is using cult tactics to harass and abuse Americans. They systematically attempt to discredit … Continue reading

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The Facts of Life: how to reach people who know nothing

This, from FiveThirtyEight’s Significant Digits, brings up the biggest problem this country seems to have: people who have been brainwashed know nothing about their brainwashers, and presumably don’t know they’ve been brainwashed. 54 percent Percentage of Americans who have heard … Continue reading

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