Quantcast
Channel: Writing by Will McLeod: A Better World is Possible
Viewing all articles
Browse latest Browse all 100

If we're going to have a conversation about 2016, can we at least base it in reality? Please?

$
0
0

We have an election coming up in three fucking months.

Three.

And yet again, there's a fact-free diary on the reclist going after Hillary Clinton. Clinton Derrangement Syndrome seems to be an affliction hitting a lot of people right now.

And the jokes on them.

Because now I'm talking about Hillary Clinton, in order to deal with reclisted diaries that are talking about Hillary Clinton.

Newsflash: By even talking about Clinton as someone who opposes her, you just got played by helping keep a spotlight on Hillary Clinton. Congratulations. You're helping her stay a trending topic.

Rather than letting her message die in a vacuum because there's more important (NOVEMBER OF THIS YEAR) stuff going on than the 2016 election, you've just created "Hillary Clinton" metadata that bounces off of web crawlers and tells the news that people want to hear more about Hillary Clinton. You've helped rebroadcast her message, even though you're usually about as honest about her message as Sean Hannity is with quoting Obama.


Viewing all articles
Browse latest Browse all 100

Trending Articles



<script src="https://jsc.adskeeper.com/r/s/rssing.com.1596347.js" async> </script>