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This is it. I never got into Instagram reels, fb shorts, whatever it's all called until I had a period of unemployment this year. I got sucked in because I was

This is it. I never got into Instagram reels, fb shorts, whatever it's all called until I had a period of unemployment this year. I got sucked in because I was absolutely fascinated by how disconnected this online world is from real life. It's an onion of strawmans and hypotheticals that didn't actually happen that people are getting outraged over. People are frothing over the mere idea that someone would have a thought or carry out an action that they deem unethical. It's pure insanity and I really believe the source is Russian and Chinese cyber ops. I'm liberal as fuck, but the stereotypical blue haired anti-gendered person raving about communism isn't real, per se. It's like a few hundred people that got pushed to the top. And people lose their shit over it. It's brilliant.

Lammy 3y ago
> I was absolutely fascinated by how disconnected this online world is from real life Relevant Bill Hicks (1991) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGjuPJskNRE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGjuPJskNRE
- bongodongobob 3y ago
  I don't think that's the same thing. There is war and famine happening in the world. You don't see it Bill? Turns out other countries exist. I like some of Bill Hicks stuff, but I think that's a lazy take.
  - Lammy 3y ago
    > There is war and famine happening in the world. Turns out other countries exist. So what? It's not my responsibility to participate in that. That just sounds like “The White Man's Burden” with extra steps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Man%27s_Burden https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Man%27s_Burden
BenFranklin100 3y ago
Move to Somerville MA. You will find that stereotype walking the street. Not everyone, but a surprisingly high percentage have swallowed the Woke agenda whole.
- BenFranklin100 3y ago
  Keep downvoting me all you wish, but just as there are unreconstructed Trumpists dominating some areas of the country, there is a Left contingent dominating others.
Gualdrapo 3y ago
> I really believe the source is Russian and Chinese cyber ops Here in Colombia we got something that went to be known as bodegueros: People hired by the (then right-wing) government and their allies (and sometimes using public fundings) to mass spread misinformation to make it seem the opposite parties as the "baddies". Blatantly enough they went to the point to claim it is the opposite party who is doing such practice. Facebook and Twitter are full of fake accounts posting/sharing/retweeting whatever strawman and sensationalist "content" en masse to provoke outrage. At the point I went out of Reddit, even r/Colombia was going the same course - even at least a couple "colombian" subs went this way, like r/ColombiaReddit and r/ChomposCol, but all with that same pattern. The odd thing is that r/ChomposCol came as a Reddit extension of what is/was a group on Facebook that originated on a private university that actually did hate acts in real life, like harassing a student or menacing a teacher with physical violence.

Lammy 3y ago

> I was absolutely fascinated by how disconnected this online world is from real life Relevant Bill Hicks (1991) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGjuPJskNRE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGjuPJskNRE

bongodongobob 3y ago
I don't think that's the same thing. There is war and famine happening in the world. You don't see it Bill? Turns out other countries exist. I like some of Bill Hicks stuff, but I think that's a lazy take.
- Lammy 3y ago
  > There is war and famine happening in the world. Turns out other countries exist. So what? It's not my responsibility to participate in that. That just sounds like “The White Man's Burden” with extra steps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Man%27s_Burden https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Man%27s_Burden

BenFranklin100 3y ago

Move to Somerville MA. You will find that stereotype walking the street. Not everyone, but a surprisingly high percentage have swallowed the Woke agenda whole.

BenFranklin100 3y ago
Keep downvoting me all you wish, but just as there are unreconstructed Trumpists dominating some areas of the country, there is a Left contingent dominating others.

Gualdrapo 3y ago

> I really believe the source is Russian and Chinese cyber ops Here in Colombia we got something that went to be known as bodegueros: People hired by the (then right-wing) government and their allies (and sometimes using public fundings) to mass spread misinformation to make it seem the opposite parties as the "baddies". Blatantly enough they went to the point to claim it is the opposite party who is doing such practice. Facebook and Twitter are full of fake accounts posting/sharing/retweeting whatever strawman and sensationalist "content" en masse to provoke outrage. At the point I went out of Reddit, even r/Colombia was going the same course - even at least a couple "colombian" subs went this way, like r/ColombiaReddit and r/ChomposCol, but all with that same pattern. The odd thing is that r/ChomposCol came as a Reddit extension of what is/was a group on Facebook that originated on a private university that actually did hate acts in real life, like harassing a student or menacing a teacher with physical violence.