• Generic_Handel@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Honestly it’s probably too late for many adults who have succumbed to the psychological manipulation tactics of politicians and the media.
    If we want to save this country we need to start teaching children and young adults to recognize the signs of manipulative behavior in school.
    This will of course be strongly opposed by the media, politicians, and advertisers, all of which rely on these tactics to make a profit.

    • Elderos@lemmings.world
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      1 year ago

      and by the parents. At this point teaching signs of manipulative behavior and logic 101 like recognizing fallacies would be considered liberal endoctrination by the cultists.

    • comfortablyglum@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      Which is exactly WHY republican politicians are trying to destroy libraries, school curriculum, etc. Uneducated people are easier to manipulate.

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      Also it creates this weird sort of weird feedback loop of idiocy which is really hard to break. By that I mean, you cut funding for things like schools and libraries, and that naturally leads to a generation that’s less well educated than the one before, who will then vote for more dumb shit like cutting funding schools and libraries, which then makes the next generation even less well educated and so on.

      • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        And that in return will let the well educated rather stay in a regular job where more money can be made with a brain (STEM) than with their mouth (politics).
        And when they are hired for their “professional” opinion and recommendation and recommend the inverse of wanted or expected, they will be ignored to hell and beyond or get their words twisted beyond any resemblance to it’s original.

  • dudinax@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    Reagan was a symptom, not the cause of the disease. The press has always acted like Watergate was simultaneously a moment of pride and a moment of shame.