The only cure is to rid ourselves of maga scum. I'm sorry, but none of you would be missed.
Why The Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid
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Personally feel a lot of the violent folks are coming from areas that aren't used to being on the bottom of the social economic ladder. Or at least they always had someone to look down on. Minorities always had it worse. Things have become more equitable. More hallowing out of the rural economies.
I love many of the pieces from the Atlantic and the New Yorker, but I would disagree with your conclusion. I realize you’ll probably disagree with me too.
Controlling the "commanding heights of the culture" is easy when the alternative is alternative facts and conspiracy theories.
I fail to see how dissent has been stifled in any of those institutions except for when alternative facts and conspiracy theories bully their way into the mainstream and endanger lives and American democracy.
So ****ing good, lol.
lol, that dude played an amazing character in the movie. Would go so far as to say he made the movie.
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Yeah Birx can take a hike. She’s about worthless….sat there nodding along as Cheeto in chief suggested drinking bleach to cure COVID.
She has been on this PR tour to restore her image and I’m not buying it.
Oh no doubt she is a joke and spineless but this is a key sample of why things are so bad when the criminal administration undermined Biden all the way up until they attacked our Capitol
So, sounds like you have more of a problem with that dumb m'fer torbee
, who posted the article to which you reference.
No, I have a problem with right wing bullshit. Torbee didn't write the article, Sport.So, sounds like you have more of a problem with that dumb m'fer torbee
No, he didn't write the article.
He merely introduced it in his OP as one of the best articles of 2022.
You don't seem real up to speed in this thread, quite frankly.
I think information (and disinformation) for the most part, was unimpeded. I remember most of the bickering on twitter being over "woke" moderation in the banning of individuals over the way they talked about trans people or whatnot. Some of it struck me as overboard given all the crap that is allowed otherwise. There was always constant bickering about that crap. I thought that's part of what Musk got drawn into.
I guess there were also the Biden NY Post thing and twitter's label of misinformation when it came to Covid. (I think some of their efforts their fell flat)
At any rate, there was *some* stuff I thought on twitter that could complain about, but again, I don't think that was all of big tech or anything.
This 100%.
For decades, there has been a cohort of loyal conservative/GOP partisans who believed that who they were (White) and where they lived (small towns and farms) would protect them from the forces of Change. Because cities are corrupt! Because minorities are lazy and addicted to drugs!
And instead of seeing these folks charitably (Fellow Americans who need help) or even pragmatically (canaries in the coal mine trying to warn us), they looked away and voted for leaders and policies that promised to preserve the status quo.
Except unregulated markets will always treat the middle class as an inefficiency to be quashed, so poverty came to rural white America. And with it the drugs: meth to get thru 2 minimum wage jobs, opioids to deal with the pain. And the criminality, and social decay, and violence. The same folks who sneer at Chicago and Los Angeles are afraid to go to that one notorious trailer park or the biker bar by the highway.
So yeah they’re pissed. They thought they would always be on top, but are realizing that the modern economy doesn’t have much use for them. So they push their race or religious or nativist identity and get radicalized online. It’s the same playbook used by the Taliban and ISIS, but good luck getting them to look in the mirror and see that.
Lot's of the bootstrap guys I remember in highschool. Are now on disability for rather minor things. So the sneering at minorities on the public teat has come full circle.
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Smart phones with social media and fox.One of the best articles I read all of 2022:
Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid
It’s not just a phase.www.theatlantic.com
Just like all Dems were mentally unstable and Trump just pushed them over the edge.
Whoa, you sent me reeling to the dictionary there.
Gotta say, that was pretty funny. Kudos.
Hahah, yep. All the Dems. And nearly all Independents. And like 1/3rd of Republicans.
Everybody is crazy except you.
OP posts article claiming that the social media-induced behavior tearing the country apart has been identified, offering us all an opportunity for self-inflection.
Shortly thereafter participates in said negative behavior.
Fails to see the irony.
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Calling out trolls is part of the solution, fuggin loser.OP posts article claiming that the social media-induced behavior tearing the country apart has been identified, offering us all an opportunity for self-inflection.
Shortly thereafter participates in said negative behavior.
Fails to see the irony.
So you stipulate there’s a “sliver” on the left with “too much power”...
Yet anyone who disagrees with those in the “sliver” in any shape or form is immediately an idiot far right ginormous group. Heaven forbid your preachy self righteous azz acknowledges that it’s also a “sliver” of people rather than a majority of us who form the middle.
You think Mark Zuckerberg is left wing, you're a sucker. You think any CEO or any of the other "effective altruists" of any gigantic tech company is left wing and you can point to something other than some whiney bullshit about wokeness, I'll listen.
Mark Zuckerberg is a backstabbing little pussy who blows with the wind. When $$$$ is involved he, along with 98% of humanity will do what they need to to keep that cash. I don’t know what gave you the idea that I’m a naive whiner but that’s almost funny.
I think it has something to do with the fact that Iowa hasn't been allowed to win a national championship in that time span......One of the best articles I read all of 2022:
Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid
It’s not just a phase.
Great article. I would add one big catalyst to the fire that would consume and divide also was electing a black man president in 2008.
