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Kevin Young Propagandist

@jfloyd314.bsky.social

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Huge BYU fan who just returned home from London. BYU grad (Political Science BA '21). QMUL (History MA '25). Latter-day Saint. Utah Jazz, RSL, Utah Mammoth. I love politics (centrist), history, sports, aviation.

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Kevin Young Propagandist @jfloyd314.bsky.social · Jun 26

I don't post enough about sports on here, but if anyone wants to read a little about the BYU quarterback room, I've got you covered!
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BYU Football Analysis - Ryder Lyons and the State of the BYU Quarterback Room

There has been a lot of news out of Provo on the quarterback front recently, and I figured now was a good opportunity to distill all of my thoughts on it into one place. I'll start with the most excit...

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 2d

Portland protestor frog costume: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge pepper balls?

Morpheus from Matrix movie: No, Frog. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

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Keith Edwards @kedwards.bsky.social · 16h

They look like mall cops chaperoning a high school Halloween dance. It’s beautiful.

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mbbendt @bendts2cents.bsky.social · 9h

Pretty sure that when you have giant frogs everywhere, God is very disappointed in how you are treating immigrants.

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Kevin Young Propagandist @jfloyd314.bsky.social · 10h

Pro-CCP Christian nationalism is really something

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 10h

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Kevin Young Propagandist @jfloyd314.bsky.social · 10h

This phenomenon also surfaces at the university level--while right-wing institutions have no compunctions about going after anyone who challenges their views, everyone else is expected to cater to right-wingers at all times and is accused of censorship if they don't.

Kevin Young Propagandist @jfloyd314.bsky.social · 10h

There is no left-wing Charlie Kirk because the demand for that kind of content broadly does not exist on the left. There aren't leftist content creators debating students at Liberty because a left-wing audience is not going to be as easily entertained by that kind of dollar store sophistry.

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Kevin Young Propagandist @jfloyd314.bsky.social · 10h

The left and right are playing by two different sets of rules. The left is constantly trying to win supporters by catering to its perception of what they want. The right just spams them with ragebait until it's sandblasted away their civic trust and made them vulnerable to MAGA-style populism.

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Kevin Young Propagandist @jfloyd314.bsky.social · 10h

And that hints at the real core of the problem, which is that while left-of-center outlets and personalities tend to be at least somewhat conscientious and (more importantly) hypersensitive to bias accusations, right-wingers couldn't care less about appearing biased or even flat-out lying.

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Kevin Young Propagandist @jfloyd314.bsky.social · 10h

Also, the pool of left-of-center media talent is incredibly shallow. A lot of prominent media voices elevated by the left end up constantly tacking to the center to avoid allegations of bias, and in the process, find themselves both-sidesing increasingly bad right-wing behavior.

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Kevin Young Propagandist @jfloyd314.bsky.social · 10h

And even in the independent media sphere (i.e. content creation on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram), people who hold right-wing worldviews are a lot more likely to constantly consume reinforcing content than those on the left. There isn't really a useful left-wing social media ecosystem.

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Kevin Young Propagandist @jfloyd314.bsky.social · 11h

Part of the problem is that billionaires--even ones with nominally left-leaning political views--tend to elevate voices that they like, and the Venn diagram of "voices that the average billionaire likes" and "voices that contribute a productive left-of-center perspective" is two separate circles.

Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 13h

It's basically impossible to earn a living as an independent commentator on the left.

By contrast, Fox and its imitators *constantly* elevate new voices and encourage people to get involved.

They pool their resources. They recycle their dollars and keep them in-network. They crowdfund like crazy.

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Kevin Young Propagandist @jfloyd314.bsky.social · 12h

Deus vult!

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 17h

Chanting, "we are the body of Christ! The body of Christ will be free!"

This crowd has swelled considerably. Few hundred here now.

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Eric Panzer @ericpanzer.bsky.social · 13h

Democrats spend millions measuring public sentiment; Republicans spend millions shaping it.

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Kevin Young Propagandist @jfloyd314.bsky.social · 15h

The trouble NIMBYs have is that they are almost invariably the least sympathetic people you can possibly imagine. The cleverest YIMBY activist in the world could not invent a less likeable antagonist than the median NIMBY.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 15h

it's funny how the vast majority of these articles find the absolute worst opponents

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 15h

won't anyone think of the uhhhh sales executives who will be harmed by transit-oriented development in California

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Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · 16h

If you were online on October 7, 2023, this is no surprise.

Overshadowed by the fact that Israel retaliated with a genocidal war is the reality that amid the attack seemingly professional/moral people spent days praising every report they found of Israelis, including children, being murdered.

Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 1d

This is a person who is still taken seriously and published in left-wing spaces.

To be clear: No, most Israeli Jews are not descended from Polish Jews. And even for the minority who are, it would obviously not be safe for them all to go there now, given the Polish government.

Tweet from Axel Folio, PhD: "To Poland where they are from"

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Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 18h

Meanwhile in #Portland

Kermit faces off with Hopper in The Muppet Movie

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Kevin Young Propagandist @jfloyd314.bsky.social · 16h

One could absolutely make the case for awarding the Peace Prize to Obama in 2009 as a pioneer of civil rights progress, but they didn't do that. Instead, they gave such transparently ludicrous reasoning that they immediately opened themselves to accusations that it was a purely political selection.

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Kevin Young Propagandist @jfloyd314.bsky.social · 16h

I think the Nobel committee would have had a lot more credibility if they had explicitly made the prize about advancing racial equality in America or something, rather than trying to paint him as some kind of peacemaking genius when he'd barely figured out where the White House bathroom was.

Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 16h

One of the only things Trump has ever been right about: Obama had no business winning the Nobel Peace Prize for what amounted to the accomplishment of being a US president who was not George W Bush. (Remember, he had been in office for eight months at the time.)

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Kevin Young Propagandist @jfloyd314.bsky.social · 16h

When you build a coalition out of the worst people imaginable, it will find all sorts of clever ways to fracture.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 16h

Marge Greene yesterday, Loomer today.

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missingjigsaw.bsky.social @missingjigsaw.bsky.social · 1d

In a way, nobody is as perfect a representative of their district as Ro Khanna (extremely pejorative).

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Nekrởtzar @nekrotzar.bsky.social · 1d

ICE wasn’t prepared to face amphibious units.

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Kevin Young Propagandist @jfloyd314.bsky.social · 1d

So many stories like this are going to come out of this administration. This and worse things are happening daily, guaranteed. Setting aside every other crime that has been committed by federal officials in the last nine months, it would still take years to unravel all of the sexual misconduct.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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Kevin Young Propagandist @jfloyd314.bsky.social · 1d

The frightening thing is that he may be right. If things keep going like this, people are going to become numb to the cold-blooded murder of random people in boats and just accept that they're probably "narco-terrorists", a designation that does not legally exist.

emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 1d

Stephen Miller is murdering Venezuelans and Colombians in cold blood bc he believes it helps his propaganda campaign to paint Latinos as dangerous.

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Stephen Miller views the air strikes as an opportunity to paint immigrants as a dangerous menace, according to one of the White House officials.

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Kevin Young Propagandist @jfloyd314.bsky.social · 1d

and a lot of younger voters had never seen a president capable of navigating the legislative process to even understand why Biden having a knack for it was such a big deal. Biden never got the credit he deserved for some of the legislation he was able to get passed in a polarized Congress.

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Kevin Young Propagandist @jfloyd314.bsky.social · 1d

Honestly, there was a pretty significant generational divide over understanding Biden in general. I don't think much of Biden as a person or a leader, but he was an incredibly effective political operator (and therefore president) when he wanted to be,

Tom Phillips @tom-phillips.com · 1d

Probably a weak example but I think a lot about when Kissinger died and Biden's statement was "This guy existed, I met him, hope his family's okay, ok cool bye" and there did seem to be a big generational divide between "why is Biden praising him" and "this is the most savage thing I've ever read".

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