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Despite what Twitter might be saying, America is doing just fine. Seems like the image of America crumbling over toilet paper is the real propaganda.
by enchiridion 5y ago
Despite what Twitter might be saying, America is doing just fine.
Seems like the image of America crumbling over toilet paper is the real propaganda.
- munk-a 5y agoTwitter has the ability to create sudden panics - we saw that a year ago with the toilet paper issue being referenced. I agree that a lot of what happens on Twitter never escapes the bubble of Twitter - but that toilet paper panic was swept up by mainstream news and echoed across the nation. Being able to incite a panic can be extremely tactically valuable if you can, for instance, leverage that panic to move a whole bunch of product at a mark up or weaken a critical system at a critical time.
- tolbish 5y agoMy first reaction was to agree with you. Then I considered the possibility that the reassuring notion of "America is doing just fine" may actually be the propaganda. https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2020/01/09/trends-in-income-and-wealth-inequality/screen-shot-2020-01-08-at-5-06-47-pm/ https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2020/01/09/trends-... At least I thought it was worth considering.