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Originally Posted by Ninastar
One good thing to come from this is that people are FINALLY realising that the media only shows you what they want you to think. It is so easy to be manipulated by the media these days, esp when so many social media sites are sooo clearly pandering to one side.
It’s crazy, I have not heard a single democrat say that are happy with Biden. Literally every single democrat I know is panicking… and I don’t blame them. This is all a huge disaster
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More have realized for some time now, I think, it's just the media and politics is intent to make sure we are not affirmed on whether we're thinking the same things or not
All politics like an easily manipulated populace through clickbait right now because they need someone to spread their propaganda (I don't mean that in conspiratorial terms). It's just really easy to do with the right data scientists and understandings behind user interaction. We make it very easy by sharing all our information in the form of "thoughts", in truth, we're just telling them where our buttons are and how often to press them...
Online behavior loves to follow patterns once people discover them for themselves. Turns out if you just show people a few provocative images and big bright buttons that generate addictive amounts of feedback by way of interactions and impressions, people will happily do that for free for hours for you and reshare everything they see as if it's "new" and "immediately relevant". Therefore, they give that pattern more authority and certainty, even though it's shocking to them. In return, individuals get a sense of relevance and of timing, whether that's to an issue or to a candidate/party. They're being manipulated way more than they are becoming informed.
For offline, the exception I think, is if that person still lives in an area where it's cool to talk about politics while everything burns down around them due to bad policy. Then they really can't avoid it. We could run into people in Baltimore in the streets and politics just comes up.
I'm pleased the temperature has lowered overall so that the default reaction is not outrage. I chuckle when the media has to exert effort into making problems sound more spectacular and insane than they really are. Except the circus
is what they wanted. It's all they have cared about for the past 10yrs. There were more reasonable and steady candidates, they didn't give them airtime. So if the govt and media want a circus, then I say let them inherit it. I'm not going to help validate their faux astonishment of things by screeching online about it like we didn't all know Biden was senile...