Blasterbot
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I will frame it in a different way. this thread moves way faster, gets way more engagement, and has more people consistently posting in it than the climate thread. people come here and post daily updates of what Ukraine says is happening in the war or what government just approved more aid. and the response drawn out from the group is we have given a lot. where is the line we stop at? then they get called vatniks.So, the implication is that media attention is what really dictates what these people get their tactical fiscal conservatism aimed at, as opposed to the obvious issue of raw number of billions being supposedly wasted. Quite disappointing behavior coming from people who pride themselves on not being led by the nose by mainstream media.
In effect the media get their objective - they get the malcontents angry at a spending item that's relatively small and defensible, instead one that is bigger yet harder to defend.
But yes. the media is a major driver of the conversation. if they upload a patch to the NPCs that their dialog tree needs to talk about how AR-15s are bad then if conservatives do not talk in response they will just lose. if the media doesn't upload a patch to the NPCs that talks about say hunter biden receiving millions of dollars from china then if the conservatives start talking about it they are just crazy conspiracy theorists. partisan individuals making shit up to attack poor biden's son who was addicted to crack and was a good boy who needs love and support. not to be put on blast.
like it or not the conservatives have little ability to set the national conversation. Trump is off twitter. FOX got rid of Tucker. the other places are generally to small to reach people who are outside the base.