Before 2016, it was photos of food, sports, cars. After, it was MAGA memes and videos

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New: I dug through 2+ years of Cesar Sayoc’s Facebook and Twitter feeds and found a very clear radicalization point.

Before 2016, it was photos of food, sports, cars. After, it was MAGA memes and videos like “Satan Sent Obama to Destroy America.” https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/27/technology/cesar-sayoc-facebook-twitter.html …



11:21 AM - Oct 27, 2018

Cesar Sayoc’s Path on Social Media: From Food Photos to Partisan Fury

By Kevin Roose

Oct. 27, 2018

Until 2016, Cesar Altieri Sayoc Jr.’s life on social media looked unremarkable. On his Facebook page, he posted photos of decadent meals, gym workouts, scantily clad women and sports games — the stereotypical trappings of middle-age masculinity.

But that year, Mr. Sayoc’s social media presence took on a darker and more partisan tone. He opened a new Twitter account and began posting links to sensational right-wing news stories, adding captions like “Clinton busted exposed rigging entire election.” On Facebook, his anodyne posts gave way to a feed overflowing with pro-Donald Trump images, news stories about Muslims and the Islamic State, far-fetched conspiracy theories and clips from Fox News broadcasts.

By the time he was arrested in Florida on Friday, charged with sending pipe bombs to at least a dozen of President Trump’s critics, Mr. Sayoc appeared to fit the all-too-familiar profile of a modern extremist, radicalized online and sucked into a vortex of partisan furor. In recent weeks, he had posted violent fantasies and threats against several people to whom pipe bombs were addressed, including Representative Maxine Waters, a California Democrat, and former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. His vehicle, a white van plastered with right-wing slogans, came to resemble a Facebook feed on wheels.

“He went from posting pictures of women, real estate, dining and cars to posting pictures of ISIS, guns and people in jail,” said Jonathan Albright, the research director for Columbia University’s Tow Center for Digital Journalism. “It’s a remarkable change.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/27/technology/cesar-sayoc-facebook-twitter.html

I saw someone post earlier about how people have been "radicalized" by this administration. This piece analyzes when it happened in this case.

[Cha]

1. Thank You, BRDS. Anybody

who has heard what the Fraud monster has been spewing since his stupid primary and beyond know his own big ugly mouth has made sure this was coming.

That's the opposite of the fucking Swamp.

And, here it is.

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3. The sad thing is

there are literally thousands and thousands of people just like him out there. They have gotten their "call to arms" and are now transforming their hate into violence.

[Cha]

5. Yes, if they're going to get sucked in by trump's

brainwashing call to violence.. they're stupid and violent enough to carry it out.

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The networks better stop broadcasting the Ugly Monster's rallies.

[BumRushDaShow]

6. OMG that politcal cartoon nails it!

("Beers for Brett"! )

Thank you for that Cha!!!

[Cha]

7. I know..

smh.. "beers for brett".

[JI7]

2. i read somewhere that he had not voted before Trump

i think this is true of a lot of trump supporters.

people like to think a large number of trump voters had voted obama before.

but in reality more had not voted before or hadn't for a long time. trump came along and openly campaigned as a bigot which appealed to them.

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4. I heard that too

And ever since the 2016 election, I have been posting about just that. There were a group of previous "non-voters", many of them in rural and small-town areas, who suddenly "woke up" and came out to vote for the first time. They had already been assumed to have been "likely voters" by most poll models, but IMHO in reality, they really never were.... until now.

This election literally scraped the bottom of the barrel and turned over every rock to get that extra turnout to flip states like mine - PA - by just 40,000 votes... And this happened in several other states as well.

With all the talk of "less turnout" in 2016, here in Philly, we actually had over 17,000+ MORE voters voting in 2016 than in 2012 (707,631 vs 690,327), but it was offset by that "extra" over in the western side of the state.