Hail to the chief, who in triumph...
We let them run the country.
MerryJaneDoe
joined 8 months ago
This is kind of an insane take.
Women have always been vulnerable. Women are easy targets because they are, on average, physically weaker than males.
Women get raped and sexually assaulted at rates far beyond men. 50% of women will suffer a sexual assault of some kind in their life. Just 3% of men report a sexual assault.
A person can be smart. "People" are not. Groupthink changes a person, especially when tribalism is involved. The masses are easily led by "us vs. them" narratives.
"It's not a war."
"The war will be over in a few days."
"Maybe...conscription?"
Either they have no idea what they are doing or they are just plain evil. There is no middle ground.
it would probably also disproportionately affect poor Republicans
If MAGA thought that it would be a disadvantage to their voter base, they would not be pushing for it.
I don’t think mass media is brainwashing people, because I don’t think they’re making them adopt new beliefs.
And where did those beliefs originate?
I don’t trust people to do this anymore.
What do you mean "anymore"? My whole point is that everything you are seeing is normal. The misdirection, the fake news, the corruption. It's always been there. The difference today is that information travels much, much faster than it used to.
My takeaway from this article:
The city manager makes $400k/year.
If our leaders want to live an upper-class lifestyle, they need to deliver stability to the middle-class. Dude, you don't get paid to sit on your ass. Work this shit out, water is fucking important.
Ultimately, who is responsible for the content on the platform? Who should be held accountable for shit content? How much privacy are YOU willing to give up in order to ensure that only verified biological humans are on your platform of choice? There's no good answer here, except that maybe we put too much faith in social media and minimized all the ways it touches our lives.
The snake is eating itself. Can't trust Amazon sellers, Google reviews, YouTube videos. Can't trust that there's a real person behind that social media profile. Don't know if the how-to guide was created by a trusted professional or a random ChatGPT subscriber.
Growing pains of the Information Age. Two steps forward, three steps back.
So annoying, right? Like, just SO annoying!
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Ok, fine, whatever, yeah, that's me. Sorry. But you really SHOULD add cheese to it.
It's all the same.
Listen to the wise words of Dwight D. Eisenhower, maybe the last sane president of the U.S.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gg-jvHynP9Y
This man was a general in WWII, a military man and a patriot. He warned that perpetual war would be the result of the "military industrial complex" America had built.
He was right. It never ends. We are at peace with our neighbors to the north and south, have an ocean between us and our nearest rival, yet somehow this nation is always at war.
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The narrative war has shifted, because "mass media" can now be targeted to a specific audience/person.
In days of old, the narrative needed consistency. It needed dignity. It needed to survive the scrutiny of swing voters as well as the hardcore base. But now, the narrative shifts from person to person. A conservative Republican voter might see articles about how Trump is cutting taxes for businesses, but they won't hear much about the very real concerns - corruption, pedophilia, mental health issues.
And since AI can generate article after article, there's never a lack of propaganda for people like this. They happily scroll their newsfeed, believing every lie.