Ignore any troublesome doubts about whether the same folks screaming about Cambridge Analytica would be quite so opposed to the tech if it had been used to benefit Clinton instead of Trump. Put aside for the moment the fact that the US isn’t a functioning democracy anyway (unless you define “democracy” as a system in which- to quote Thomas Piketty- “When a majority of citizens disagrees with economic elites and/or with organized interests, they generally lose”). This permits “behavioral microtargetting”: campaign messages customized not for boroughs or counties or demographic groups, but at you. The executive summary goes something like this: An evil right-wing computer genius has developed scarily-effective data scraping techniques which- based entirely on cues gleaned from social media- knows individual voters better than do their own friends, colleagues, even family. The details are arcane, but the take-home message is right there in the headlines: The Rise of the Weaponized AI Propaganda Machine Will Democracy Survive Big Data and Artificial Intelligence? Robert Mercer: the big data billionaire waging war on mainstream media. The internet’s been all a’seethe with such stories lately. I feel roughly the same way every time I read another outraged screed about Cambridge Analytica. Imagine a cross between “Borat”, “The Terminator”, and “Springtime for Hitler”, wrapped around a spot-on re-enactment of that Hitler-in-the-Bunker meme.īut that rooftop challenge: that, I think, really cuts to the heart of things: What do you want to do, Sawatzki? Ban elections?
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It’s a good movie, hilarious and scary and sociologically plausible (hell, maybe sociologically inevitable), and given that one of Hitler’s lines is “Make Germany Great Again” it’s not surprising that it’s been rediscovered in recent months. What do you want to do, Sawatzki? Ban elections?” The Germans elected me… ordinary people who chose to elect an extraordinary man, and entrust the fate of the country to him. They elected a leader who openly disclosed his plans with great clarity. “In 1933, people were not fooled by propaganda. On the roof of the television studio that fueled his resurgence (the network thought they were just exploiting an especially-tasteless Internet meme for ratings), the sad-sack freelancer who discovered “the world’s best Hitler impersonator” confronts his Frankenstein’s monster- but Hitler proves unkillable. They have the right to be concerned about these things without being demonised as Nazis or anything else.Near the end of the recent German movie “Er Ist Wieder Da” (“Look Who’s Back”), Adolph Hitler- transported through time to the year 2015- is picking up where he left off. Europeans have EVERY RIGHT to be concerned about their demographic integrity and migration from the developing world that never seems to cease.
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But take the leftist political message with a grain of salt. Oh how "Evil" of that "intolerant" man! The film is well made and funny (who'd a thought Germans had a sense of humour?) in places.
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An example of this can be seen in real time news footage of a Swede making the suggestion that asylum seekers, heaven forbid, should actually accept the cultural and societal norms of Sweden.
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The main message of the film seems to be that those Germans (or Europeans in any European nation) who believe that Germany isn't some giant refugee centre for the rest of the planet, and that Germans have a right to their own indigenous land, not the rest of humanity, are just like Der Fuhrer. Unintended by the film makers I suspect, was the way the modern left exposed themselves in the way they see those who dare to disagree with their positive views on globalisation and internationalism. This film is intended to be about the way modern German society deals with important issues facing them, and they way they can quickly come under the spell of a "strong leader" ETC.