I was born at an early age
The user never said that though.
The user posted a picture of Ted because Ted was anti-technology and now the user feels anti-technology sentiments because they were tracked despite taking precautions.
Nowhere do they express a desire for violence or other illegal activity.
Can’t track you if you never use their service
It’s easy to forget but paramount to remember that nobody is immune to propaganda.
No. As a rule basically anything you see here that the right is “panicking” about is a nothing burger to them.
It’s the same with their news feed, they get articles about how the left is “panicking” over shit nobody actually cares about.
More and more were hating fictionalized versions of each other and the ensuing culture war gives the 1% room to pave over our rights.
We’re to the point now where the “wft I love/hate X now” meme isn’t a joke. The culture war is fully driving people’s values, not ideology.
This is the main reason why people vote for trump, they want to win the culture war and don’t give a fuck about ideology.
Next time you see a headline or article ask yourself if you actually give a shit or if you’re being told to give a shit. You’ll be surprised how often it’s the latter.
95% of the memes here (like this one) here are just strawmen for culture war fodder.
I feel much the same, I want to completely unplug more and more with each passing day.
It may just be low blood sugar fueled pessimism but I don’t see anything actually replacing these massive sites.
It’s like trying to get into old multiplayer games where the few players left have a massive experience advantage that makes the barrier to entry impossibly high.
I think the best response is to just not participate anymore.
I’m far from that goal, hopefully enshittification will force my hand and push me offline for good.
Also comparing the millions of dead from a single country to the millions dead in a global system is a bit disingenuous
I feel like the belief that intelligence somehow grants immunity to propaganda has utterly devastated media literacy and subsequently our political landscape.
When people started taking memes and blogs as legitimate sources of information we were cooked.