cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/35684522
Despite his support for Trump, Ragland has become increasingly vocal about the need for immediate trade resolution. “We desperately need to get something rectified quickly with China, our biggest export customer,” he told CNN. “We wanna encourage the administration to get a proactive trade deal done.”
Web activism does nothing and if people here aren’t laughing at them the algorithms will still find the one guy who is and present that person to right wingers.
Whatever you think you’re accomplishing by advocating self censorship, you are naively assuming the right wing media won’t fabricate these narratives whole cloth.
The “school kitty litter” stuff peddled by Rogan is a perfect example of “however nice you are to the right, they will be shown whatever upsets them the most (even if its completely fake) and you will be blamed for it.”