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It is quite strange with these US movements where you are a 'vaxxer' or 'pro choice' or whatever in the same way you are 'rocker' or 'punker'. Like some identit
by rightbyte 2y ago
It is quite strange with these US movements where you are a 'vaxxer' or 'pro choice' or whatever in the same way you are 'rocker' or 'punker'. Like some identity.
"In Idaho, for example, vaccination rates for the four key vaccines hover around just 80 percent and the exemption rate in the state is a staggering 14.3 percent."
The punker movement seems strong there.
- netsharc 2y agoIt seems like the search for "community" has lead a lot of Americans (maybe other nations' peoples too?) into communities of "political leaning". And so if someone respected in that political leaning says "X is good" the community members parrot "X is good", sometimes twisting and contorting and lying to themselves that X is also good for them. I just realized the -ism for this behavior: tribalism.
- latentcall 2y agoPeople in America have been losing trust in institutions for many decades now. Don’t believe the government, the scientists, the doctors, the corporations, etc. People bond over these things. Add the internet and this amplifies x100.
- CamperBob2 2y agoIndeed. A phenomenon indistinguishable from an attack.
- rightbyte 2y agoBlaming 'foreign adversaries' for it is also a phenomenon indistinguishable from an attack to destabilize and bring on paranoia.
- rightbyte 2y ago> Add the internet and this amplifies x100. Ye. But I don't think it is the internet in itself, but the algorithmic feeds. I don't know what 'crack pot' is the new hot thing nowadays, but Alex Jones did not pop up in my feed by him self. Nowadays it seems so much more... dunno. Surreal?