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re: What has Elon Musk done to Twitter employees for them to hate him?
Posted on 4/28/22 at 2:56 pm to efrad
Posted on 4/28/22 at 2:56 pm to efrad
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When one makes a stretch of the truth, the rest somehow all make the same crazy claim within 24hrs
This. And the same made up stuff gets spread around social media as having been “verified by NYT/CNN/Etc” By the time the truth comes out, everyone has already seen it, gotten outraged, and moved on to the next made up story so they never see the retractions or the evidence against.
Then in 6 months something a D actually does is similar and the narrative is, “well remember when xxx did that 6 months ago?” Which means to argue you have to dig up all the crap from a hole back and by the time you do….already moved on the next thing. It’s an insideous loop
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Posted on 4/28/22 at 2:57 pm to NOLAVOL16
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But some of this is starting to backfire. Morgan Wallen for instance. Decent music but became so popular because he was unfairly attacked by obvious hacks.
Morgan Wallen was popular way before he was attacked fwiw. His album was #1 from the time it was released until he got banned from the radio and then im pretty sure it stayed number 1. Just because some people jumped on the bandwagon because he got canceled doesn't make them the reason for his success.
Posted on 4/28/22 at 2:59 pm to Mr. Hangover
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Everyone knows you’re right.
It amazing how these frickers have lived on this earth so long and managed to never leave their tiny bubble. THe poster in question is a true believer and if Joe Biden said to eat cow shite to save the planet, he would.
Posted on 4/28/22 at 3:02 pm to sgallo3
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Morgan Wallen was popular way before he was attacked fwiw. His album was #1 from the time it was released
You are incorrect. His album was just another release until after he got attacked. Then his sales and streams surged even though he was pulled from the radio and playlists. People actively searched him out to support him. Even Billboard confirms this with a nice timeline linked below.
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This post was edited on 4/28/22 at 3:04 pm
Posted on 4/28/22 at 3:08 pm to NOLAVOL16
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You are incorrect. His album was just another release until after he got attacked
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Dangerous: The Double Album debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 and US Top Country Albums charts, earning 265,000 album-equivalent units (including 74,000 copies as pure album sales) in its first week, according to MRC Data. This became Wallen's first US number one debut and his second on the latter.
Also "More Than My Hometown" the debut single on the album was #1 on country airplay in June 2020, over half a year before he got canceled.
Whiskey Glasses and Chasin You from the 2018 album were both on the charts for 52 weeks and both reached #1. Up down was another #1 off that album. So 3 of 14 songs went number 1.
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This post was edited on 4/28/22 at 3:16 pm
Posted on 4/28/22 at 3:12 pm to RogerTheShrubber
Jen Psaki:
Also Jen Psaki:
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"It sounds like the objective of the board is to prevent disinformation and misinformation from traveling around the country in a range of communities. I'm not sure who opposes that effort."
Also Jen Psaki:
Posted on 4/28/22 at 3:15 pm to sgallo3
My apologies. Didn’t know when it hit #1. Looks like he hit big upon release, then dropped sales as all albums do, then skyrocketed to the top and stayed there after the controversy.
Billboard estimated that the Dangerous artist’s catalog garnered $8.005 million in revenue from U.S. sales and streams in 2021, with a quarter of that number — $2,028 million — being generated during the nine full days after the video of Wallen yelling the N-word surfaced online
According to MRC Data, Wallen’s total sales — across all of his albums and songs — vaulted from 5,100 on Feb. 2 to 35,200 on Feb. 4.
Billboard estimated that the Dangerous artist’s catalog garnered $8.005 million in revenue from U.S. sales and streams in 2021, with a quarter of that number — $2,028 million — being generated during the nine full days after the video of Wallen yelling the N-word surfaced online
According to MRC Data, Wallen’s total sales — across all of his albums and songs — vaulted from 5,100 on Feb. 2 to 35,200 on Feb. 4.
Posted on 4/28/22 at 3:17 pm to NOLAVOL16
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According to MRC Data, Wallen’s total sales — across all of his albums and songs — vaulted from 5,100 on Feb. 2 to 35,200 on Feb. 4.
Yeah he got a huge sales boost from people that heard the controversy and jumped on the bandwagon and bought his album. The reason the story was so big is because he was the biggest star in country music when it happened
Posted on 4/28/22 at 3:19 pm to Fun Bunch
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It sounds like the objective of the board is to prevent disinformation and misinformation from traveling around the country in a range of communities. I'm not sure who opposes that effort
Were the Pentagon Papers disinformation? How about the Snowden leaks? How about Wikileaks? The leftists on this site who claim to be fighting the man are doing the dirty work for the people they claim to loathe. Disinformation and misinformation are essentially euphemisms for speech that makes the American political establishment look bad.
Posted on 4/28/22 at 3:20 pm to Centinel
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Are you maintaining academia is not overwhelmingly leftist in political ideology?
I'm told that all the time, and the academic loudmouths seem to be more liberal.
But then I know a lot of people who have gone through Basic Sciences and Engineering that I would say are not liberal at all. I will also concede that I am not familiar with enough academic fields at enough academic institutions to make such sweeping generalizations.
Academia is MUCH more than just Literature and other cultural studies, although you tend to hear more from them.
Posted on 4/28/22 at 3:22 pm to sgallo3
So he went from a normal #1 to now holding the all time Billboard 200 record for country album with most weeks in the top 10.(60 and climbing)
Lots of bandwagon from lots of people sticking it to the left for the attack. And probably a lot of “never heard of this guy, but now I like his music after the controversy led me to look him up.”
Lots of bandwagon from lots of people sticking it to the left for the attack. And probably a lot of “never heard of this guy, but now I like his music after the controversy led me to look him up.”
Posted on 4/28/22 at 3:25 pm to sgallo3
I discovered him when I heard “Had me by halftime” thanks to the Vols reference.
Posted on 4/28/22 at 3:29 pm to NOLAVOL16
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So he went from a normal #1 to now holding the all time Billboard 200 record for country album with most weeks in the top 10.(60 and climbing)
It wasnt a normal #1 though honestly. Was the first country album since Shania twain in 2003 to debut at #1 and hold it for 4 weeks before tmz released the video, so it had already accomplished something that hadn't been done in almost 20 years
Had me by halftime was one of my favorites
This post was edited on 4/28/22 at 3:32 pm
Posted on 4/28/22 at 3:30 pm to WildTchoupitoulas
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Basic Sciences and Engineering that I would say are not liberal at all
Some of the professors you are correct. Business departments too. But they also keep their mouths shut for the most part and very few of them make it the Dean level of influence without converting to lefty ideology, simply because adherence to and worship of things like DEI are mandatory for advancement.
Posted on 4/28/22 at 3:38 pm to sgallo3
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already accomplished something that hadn't been done in almost 20 years
Fair enough. I still listen to both his main albums. He’s good at making ear worms to sing along to in the car and all the Tennessee references hit home with me. Although I will say Dangerous could have been cut down to 15 songs without losing much. Some of those are filler.
This post was edited on 4/28/22 at 3:40 pm
Posted on 4/28/22 at 3:51 pm to NOLAVOL16
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very few of them make it the Dean level of influence without converting to lefty ideology
I can count the number of deans I've known on one hand. To extrapolate the ideologies of a majority of deans from that sample would be ridiculous. I know what I've been told, but then the very nature of this thread is trying to suss out fact from just what we've been told. I don't have enough data to draw a valid conclusion. I would bet the vast majority of people making claims one way or another also lack the data to draw valid conclusions.
Posted on 4/28/22 at 3:56 pm to NOLAVOL16
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It means that more liberal people chose journalism and education as professions while conservatives went elsewhere, probably for more money.
This has always been the conclusion I've drawn. If that is the case, it's hard to listen to people crying about how one-sided a field of study is when they avoided it simply out of a desire for money.
You can't force educators to be more conservative, you just have to have more conservatives in Education. Just like you can't force journalists to be more conservative, you just have to have more conservatives in Journalism. If conservatives don't want to go into those fields, they need to keep their mouths shut.
JUST LIKE when liberals complain about all the conservative businessmen. If you don't like it, start a business and try to run it in a liberal fashion and see how far you get.
Posted on 4/28/22 at 3:58 pm to WildTchoupitoulas
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I don't have enough data to draw a valid conclusion
If you’re unwilling to even admit something so obvious exists, not sure what we’re even discussing. Just look at the priorities and policies of every major university. Look how many 6 figure making diversity officers they have on the payroll. University of Michigan had over 100 as of a few years ago and probably more now. Look who is invited to speak and who is allowed to be shouted down. Check out all the buildings where straight white people are “discouraged” from even entering. Look at admissions policies. The evidence is everywhere and overwhelming. If you can’t see it then you’re part of the problem.
Posted on 4/28/22 at 5:07 pm to NOLAVOL16
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If you’re unwilling to even admit something so obvious exists, not sure what we’re even discussing. Just look at the priorities and policies of every major university. Look how many 6 figure making diversity officers they have on the payroll. University of Michigan had over 100 as of a few years ago and probably more now. Look who is invited to speak and who is allowed to be shouted down. Check out all the buildings where straight white people are “discouraged” from even entering. Look at admissions policies. The evidence is everywhere and overwhelming. If you can’t see it then you’re part of the problem.
There are literally thousands of universities. Your description above is hardly a statistical analysis. I submit to you that you are a part of the problem by trying to convince someone without a valid, statistical analysis.
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Just look at the priorities and policies of every major university.
The burden of proof is on you. Show me the "priorities and policies of every major university"
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Look who is invited to speak and who is allowed to be shouted down.
Do you know how many thousands of people speak at universities every year with no one being shouted down or even making a peep? Me either. But the burden of proof is again on you, I doubt you'd come up with more numbers that have been shouted down than not.
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Check out all the buildings where straight white people are “discouraged” from even entering.
How many tens of thousands of university buildings exist? How many of those, exactly, are straight white people "discouraged" from entering? More than half? I doubt it. 10%? 1% Do you even know?
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Look at admissions policies.
For every university? Why don't you and tell me what you find. It's your claim.
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The evidence is everywhere and overwhelming.
If so, it shouldn't be hard to quantify it. But no one has, to my knowledge. Yet we're told it is so. I reject that analysis.
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If you can’t see it then you’re part of the problem.
The problem we were actually discussing was the one where people say shite and just expect other people to believe them. I would say, in that case, you are a part of the problem.
Posted on 4/28/22 at 5:32 pm to sgallo3
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The reason the story was so big is because he was the biggest star in country music when it happened
No he wasn’t
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