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Mind War Are We Headed For Election Violence

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"Cambridge Analytica was living in Facebook and social media — the data company predominantly used to put the president into office in 2016." Boone on the power of data-driven influence campaigns and whether the same techniques are being used to push toward election violence. The mind is the battlefield, and data is the weapon.

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Let's look at the power of this, for example. Cambridge Analytica, if you guys don't know that name, it's a data company that was used in the 2016 elections. It was the data company that was predominantly used to put the president at that time into office. And they were living in Facebook and social media by driving certain behaviors to put and serve certain information up in front of people. That is voter coercion. That is a problem within our country. Now, it happened on one side of, it doesn't matter what political paradigm you're on, left, right, or center, it just happened to happen on the right. And then it happened on the left. And now we're stuck in this balance between of garbage, and we're having to sift through this with no media that can give us any type of clear and concise reporting, because everything is being reported through anonymous, whistleblower, this, that, and the other. There's no clear conversation any longer. It's all obfuscating this bigger conversation of it's a war for your mind and now we have to cut the middle, cut it in half as Boone was saying by tribalizing everybody and the next thing we're going to do is we're going to dehumanize it all, right? Because now we're sitting here all thinking about what does the 2024 elections look like for this country? And we're polarizing ourselves into these little tribes and when that thing explodes, what do we have then? But we'll have the killing, as we've seen it in countries all around the world, in history, as long as we can look back in human time. And this is not new. But the tools in which is being put forward, that's what's new. And we don't understand it yet, but there are people that do. And those people are manipulating it in ways that are very dangerous for the population of this country. Absolutely, and we look at, so the headlines in the news, turning against ourselves, what's in our hearts, flag burning, stomping on it. When did we have such disrespect for our country? Not even knowing why we're doing it. Following, right, the following mentality instead of leading. You mentioned polarization to tribalization, dehumanization, killing. The biggest thing that I think is the most dangerous of this is the utter lack of respect that we have for each other because of being led whatever side you fall on or in the middle, it's that leading mentality, right Boone? It is the leading mentality. It's been going on a lot longer. It's been rising for a long time, a lot longer than my good friend was talking about here. The first time we started seeing these types of techniques being used in elections was 2008. And then they've gotten better. you know like with any fighting skill you get better over time and and it again it doesn't matter what side we're talking about there's no right or left anymore it's the unit party and it's the rest of us who want it one America to be free so it's that it's not even that thing but if we don't you know take that time and and really really figure this out because like you're saying you know we're not that far from the killing phase we're just not that far you may think you are but you're not looking at the spontaneous riots that are happening

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