If on the other hand you have a few spare minutes, you may want to jump into this video anywhere from -5:00 on — not to overburden you with MAGA film of its beaucoup testosterone.
First, however, with luck my written words below will head you off the tempting path of Donald Trump's BFF Charlie Kirk and his nearly three-million-followed site before indulging this tedious superficiality. You are warned, so proceed at your own risk.
None of the video's 15 minutes bear watching and listening is sheer agony. I offer them only because the prestigious journal Science has published the aptly scientific findings of two complementary studies on misinformation's dispersement. One such research found that a mere "2,107 registered U.S. voters accounted for spreading 80% of the 'fake news' ... during the 2020 election." If that surprises this won't — they were "overwhelmingly Republican."
Kirk is more than "one of the 80%"; he's among its most prolific. And that, not the featured screening, is the thrust of this post. As is the far-right's internal misinformation that few outsiders will read or watch. The videoed segment is unintended by Kirk to reach anyone but the faithful.
Its purpose is to reinforce among Trump's core base their overweening pride, women's too, in what they value above hatred of Biden, its intensity weakening in his post-presidential years. Their uppermost and sustaining pridefulness lies in superman fantasies.
The video is but a narrow sample. Its truncated title, "Charlie Kirk DESTROYS...," is completed with "feminism." Granted this piece of internal misinformation is insignificant in its singularity, yet at once a splendid example of bamboozling his fans and forever hammering MAGA's notion of its masculine, superhuman strength.
Their heroic secondary idol Kirk no more "destroys" feminism than he creates any intelligent, verifiable content. Not many of the three million will view this wretched footage, something he well knows but posts its plastered "DESTROYS" knowing also his manly acts of absent destruction further his and the far-right's grandiose delusion of all-round masculine superiority.
If you dare partake of Kirk's advertised starring brawn, you'll see he even barely registers as an active member of the panel's vacuously muddled, ill-informed discussion of feminism. I'm unclued on whence its young women hail, but landing on a motlier assortment of mostly air-headed remarks might present an impossible task.
The video's collected embarrassments to thinking women are frightening, while Charlie's self-vaunted Ǔbermenschen routine he peddles daily is also strikingly representative of Trumpism's blustering übershallowness.
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