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Dr Pink<p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/LGBTQ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQ</span></a> related <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Wikipedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wikipedia</span></a> article created 10 hours ago</p><p>Harper Watters</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harper_Watters" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harper_W</span><span class="invisible">atters</span></a><br>Harper Watters is an American ballet dancer who is a first soloist with the Houston Ballet and the first black queer soloist in the company's history. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/American" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>American</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/LGBTQ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQ</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Walnut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Walnut</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Watters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Watters</span></a></p>
Luca da Firenze<p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Ingraham" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ingraham</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Hannity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hannity</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Watters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Watters</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/MTG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MTG</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Boubert" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Boubert</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Gaetz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gaetz</span></a> and many MANY others<br>...<br>they support <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> only because<br>Trump represents their 'income'<br>these people make money off Trump<br>without Trump... <br>they should ALL get a REAL job<br>and a real job... is tiring<br>(and it rarely pays as well as lickin' the ass of a 'Wanna be Dictator')<br>Who EVER would hire <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Ingraham" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ingraham</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Hannity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hannity</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Watters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Watters</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/MTG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MTG</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Boubert" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Boubert</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Gaetz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gaetz</span></a> etc.. <br>without a Trump?</p>
Luca da Firenze<p>JESSE <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/WATTERS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WATTERS</span></a><br>his only luck is that he has a mother who loves him<br>despite everything<br>apart from Her<br>when trump is no longer aproblem for the Nation...<br>Watters and others like him will disappear like snow in the sun.</p>
Nonilex<p>Ummm, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/WTAF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WTAF</span></a>? </p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FauxNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FauxNews</span></a> host <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/JesseWatters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JesseWatters</span></a> told his male viewers that if they vote for a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/woman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>woman</span></a>, they have "mommy issues."</p><p>then even more ludicrously <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Watters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Watters</span></a> said:</p><p>“I heard the scientists say the other day that when a man votes for a woman, he actually transitions into a woman."</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Weird" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Weird</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MaleSupremacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MaleSupremacy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/misogyny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>misogyny</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Hate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hate</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/LGBTQ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQ</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/discrimination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>discrimination</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RightWing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RightWing</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/extremism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>extremism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ConspiracyTheories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ConspiracyTheories</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/WeAreNotGoingBack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WeAreNotGoingBack</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Freedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Freedom</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/VoteBlue" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VoteBlue</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HarrisForPresident" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HarrisForPresident</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Harris2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Harris2024</span></a></p>
Luca da Firenze<p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Jesse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jesse</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Watters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Watters</span></a>.. it's... funny</p><p>wonderful to hear him describe <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a><br>(without realizing it)<br>as<br>a grumpy old man who pisses and shits himself<br>and suffers from not being able to wander around to maintain his joints<br>sometimes I wonder...<br>what will become of all these 'ass-lickers'<br>in post-Trump?<br>let's save <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Watters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Watters</span></a>... <br>he's an idiot but... <br>funny.<br>and despite being retarded he has a mother who loves him.</p>
Chuck Darwin<p>How everything became a ‘psyop’ for conservative media </p><p>Lately, it’s become popular in conservative media circles to brand certain things as a psychological operation, or “<a href="https://c.im/tags/psyop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>psyop</span></a>.”</p><p>
Climate change, for example. Or covid. Or the media coverage of Donald Trump. Or even the prosecution of Hunter Biden.
</p><p>Technically, “psyop” is a U.S. military term, referring to various kinds of campaigns to get inside the heads of adversaries. <br>In a classic psychological operation during the Vietnam War, the U.S. government blasted messages over loudspeakers that were meant to urge Viet Cong soldiers to defect. </p><p>Ahead of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, it was millions of leaflets dropped on cities to undermine support for then-President Saddam Hussein. </p><p>“Who needs you more? Your family or the regime?” one flier asked.
</p><p>But conservative media personalities have begun using the term in vaguer and wilder ways, seemingly to allege government conspiracies targeted at American citizens — something that would be illegal, even if any of these theories were remotely plausible.
<br>Actual experts in real-life psyops are unconvinced by this latest wave of claims.
<br>“Most people realize it’s just baloney,” said Herbert A. Friedman, a retired sergeant major who worked in psychological operations for the Army.</p><p>
Fox News host Jesse <a href="https://c.im/tags/Watters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Watters</span></a> is perhaps the most influential superspreader of the term. </p><p>In January, Watters used a just-asking-questions formula to suggest that Taylor Swift is a psyop asset of the Defense Department. </p><p>How so? He didn’t exactly connect the dots for viewers, but he did note that Swift, who endorsed Joe Biden in 2020, had urged her fans to vote.</p><p>The Pentagon shot it down with a punny statement: “As for this conspiracy theory, we are going to shake it off.”<br>

Watters acknowledged that his show “obviously has no evidence” for the claim, but he tied it tangentially to a comment made at a 2019 NATO cybersecurity conference, where a speaker mentioned Swift’s social media influence. </p><p>However, the speaker never claimed that the pop star was a government asset, and the event was not held by the U.S. government.</p><p>
On other occasions, Watters has seemed to repurpose the word into a fancy way to call something a myth or a falsehood or simply a sinister PR campaign he happens to disagree with. </p><p>Last summer, he claimed that climate change is “a psyop against the American people by big business and the Democratic Party to worry you into giving you more of their money,” and separately referred to a “decades-long liberal media social psyop that marriage is a broken and dated institution.”</p><p>
In November, though, it was an even murkier argument about how “control freaks” in the FBI and liberal-leaning Twitter employees constituted an anti-Trump psyop of some kind<br> — though he not only presented no evidence, but he also failed to explain what any of that meant.
</p><p>Watters’s Fox News colleague Greg <a href="https://c.im/tags/Gutfeld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gutfeld</span></a> has also expressed concern about psyops. </p><p>In November, he asked panelists on his nightly show whether media coverage of Trump’s potential second term is a “psyop,” though he acknowledged, “I hate using that word, because it puts you in a conspiracy realm.” </p><p>Nonetheless, a month later, he declared on the panel show “The Five” that social media is a “psyop.”</p><p>The fact that none of these personalities seems particularly committed to any firm definition of the word may be the point.</p><p>
“It has connotations of malign influence, and so it’s a scary word they can use to negatively brand the things they want to negatively brand,” said Todd C. Helmus, a senior behavioral scientist at RAND.</p><p>The cynical genius of calling something a “psyop” is that such accusations “don’t really need to have any evidence, because there’s not going to be any evidence: It’s a secret operation.”<br><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2024/02/22/psyop-conspiracy-theory-conservative-media/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">washingtonpost.com/style/media</span><span class="invisible">/2024/02/22/psyop-conspiracy-theory-conservative-media/</span></a></p>
Luca da Firenze<p>Jesse <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Watters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Watters</span></a> ?<br>why <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Carlson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Carlson</span></a> and not <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Watters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Watters</span></a>?<br>Watters tells a HUGE amount of untruths every day<br>listening to him makes your teeth hurt<br>...<br>Why does Watters remain untouched ?<br>Is it because he's clearly stupid and funny ?<br>or because his Mother is a decent and kind person <br>and no one wants to sadden her?<br>(MAGA people DO NOT see the difference they do believe all the BS that Watters 'vomit')<br>why they sack <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Carlson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Carlson</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Pirro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pirro</span></a> but not <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Watters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Watters</span></a> ?</p><p>I do not understand...</p>
SherBeareth<p>Brava to an outspoken Naomi Biden! 💪🏻👠 </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/NaomiBiden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NaomiBiden</span></a>, daughter of <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/HunterBiden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HunterBiden</span></a>, had some <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/harsh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>harsh</span></a> words for <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Fox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fox</span></a> host Jesse <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Watters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Watters</span></a> after a segment in which he criticized her grandfather the <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/president" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>president</span></a>, shaming him as a bad father amongst other reckless <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/defamation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>defamation</span></a>. She let him have ALL the dignified <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/wrath" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wrath</span></a> in a scathing X salvo. </p><p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/hunter-bidens-daughter-releases-rare-statement-after-fox-news-segment" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">thedailybeast.com/hunter-biden</span><span class="invisible">s-daughter-releases-rare-statement-after-fox-news-segment</span></a></p>
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