This War Shows Just How Broken Social Media Has Become
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The global town square is in ruins.

This war shows just how broken social media has become — The global town square is in ruins::The global town square is in ruins.

  • PoliticalAgitator@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Andrew Tate is a role model for millions of boys and young men.

    Okay, maybe they don’t have the context needed to understand that he’s just a rapist who is desperately trying to pretend his father’s abuse was love in disguise.

    But the man claimed he was the world’s first trillionaire. That’s the kind of lie a literal toddler would tell, yet grown men believed it.

    Are they the majority? No, probably not.

    But I can’t remember another group of people so deliberately, unapologetically stupid as modern reactionaries, nor a time where they’ve wielded so much power.

      • PoliticalAgitator@lemm.eeEnglish
        12·
        1 year ago

        No, hard stop. Not even fucking close.

        Articulate the group of people you’re talking about then so we can actually discuss them, rather than you just insisting they’re everything you pinkie promise they were.

        Because you’re awful confident about who they are, what their numbers are, what they believed and how much power they weilded without actually articulating who “they” are in any meaningful way.

          • PoliticalAgitator@lemm.eeEnglish
            12·
            1 year ago

            Okay, so you don’t actually know who you’re talking about, but you’re certain you’re correct.

            I was giving you the benefit of the doubt in case it was a miscommunication and we were talking about entirely different groups of people.

            But nope, you’re just saying any old bullshit with absolute conviction because you want to look like the smartest person in the room.

            Reading back, it’s actually pretty obvious that you didn’t experience Reagan nor the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s. You’re just extrapolating your 5 years of adulthood backwards 50 years and assuming you’ve nailed it.

              • PoliticalAgitator@lemm.eeEnglish
                12·
                1 year ago

                Do you not remember the Christian groups of the… 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s? They always have, you just weren’t informed via the internet about it.

                Oh yeah, you’re clearly talking about Andrew Tate followers and have been this whole time. Good lie you fucking clown. The internet has clearly made you smarter.

                  • PoliticalAgitator@lemm.eeEnglish
                    12·
                    1 year ago

                    Whatever helps you self soothe kid.

                    But the funniest part of all of this, is that I wasn’t even talking about Andrew Tate supporters. They were an example of the embarrassingly stupid shit that people believe, despite your claims that the internet has made everybody better informed than pre-internet relics.

                    And I could pull out 100 more examples. They supported a president that suggested injecting bleach or “finding a way to get sunlight inside the body” as potential COVID cures both before and after. They’ve literally killed people based on the cold-reading of a shit-tier, 4chan Nostradamus. There are people who genuinely believe the earth is flat. There is a sitting politician that talks about “Jewish space lasers” and “peach tree dishes” and people donate money to help her keep her job.

                    But you can’t, because you don’t actually know shit about the world before the internet, the people who lived in it or if the claims about them you pulled from your ass will hold up to even the slightest scrutiny.