Seriously if we just hardcore PSA’d even basic media literacy skills into our culture, MAYBE people would stop thinking that random internet anecdotes (which are likely largely bot-driven these days) constitute “scientific evidence.”

LOL I wish it were like that. The “kids and their superior grasp of technology.” That’s how it’s supposed to be. They’re supposed to be smarter than us.

Indeed, with desktops and internet forums it really did seem to be going that way…and then with smartphones becoming specialized as content consumption and attention-capture devices, the kids started going backwards.

Yeah, they can swipe their lil’ fingers and use instagram now, but so can a chimp. It’s designed that way.

Using files and folders or printing their homework? Relegated back to the esoteric and arcane arts. It’s tragic.

But this kids who do make a point to learn and teach themselves are doing incredible things.

So I guess, the average has dropped, and now we’re seeing more dramatic extremes on either end of the spectrum. 🤔

…/TED_talk lol

And somebody’s gotta spray that RoundUp… hasn’t there been numerous class actions about the effects of that stuff on people who had to use it? 😬

There’s your “Loading screen game tip” for today lol.

This reminds me of an excerpt in David Graeber’s “Bullshit Jobs”, where he quotes a sailor from like, the East India Company or something.

Something along the lines of “Many suspect the monkeys of the island can speak, but wisely choose not to, knowing they would be taught English and put to work.”

Haha yeah I always thought it was like the Japanese or Portuguese “Ne?” , or British “In’nit?”

It’s like a statement followed by a “You agree too, right?” Lol

So much. It feels like an offshoot cousin of clickbait, basically.

Weak ideas with writing that tries to sound strong.

I move to make this the new definition of “Marketing”.

The problem is not the federal force which is why it might seem like we aren’t doing as much. The problem is the 50% of the country that still buys into the indoctrination and would vote the same people in again. A lot of focus in the general population has shifted to trying to educate and win over those people.

Bingo. Spectators like to see everything in an easy, convenient Good vs. Evil standoff.

There’s a lot of decent people who are, for lack of a better word…stupid, but as a product of their environment. They grow up in right-wing areas, repeat the right-wing talking points from their right-wing parents watching fascist propagandist television.

The smaller number of Really Bad People’s whole goal is to influence a lot of decent but maleable people to champion irrational and horrible things, usually out of fear.

It’s a hard battle but we’re making some progress in cutting through the noise. Like leaving a cult, people are highly resistant to admitting they’ve been getting screwed the whole time, for generations, sometimes even.

But it would be sad if we lose USA entirely to this Russian bullshit

From the bottom of my heart: Thank you.

So many people are viewing this crisis from afar as some sort of sardonic entertainment, even cheering for the whole country to go down along with everyone in it, because of what one incredibly loud and rich minority is doing to the country and her neighbors.

They don’t understand what that would do to a lot of damn good and decent people, and that attitude isn’t helping anything. They don’t understand threats just like this one are testing the fences in their very own backyard, looking for a single weakness to throw all their fundamental institutions into disarray.

We are still trying to stop this as reasonably as we can. We’re still trying to pressure our remaining sane lawmakers to do the right thing. We’re still pushing back while struggling to pay our friggin bills because, as it turns out, “full-time revolutionary” is a very limited-opportunity career path.

We’re trying to do this cleverly and safely, because if the excuse to enact “martial law” hits, we’re all in very real danger of state violence where nobody will be able to speak up ever again.

A lot needs to change, and it needs to change drastically, but just because we aren’t sandbagging at the Capitol doesn’t mean we aren’t fighting.

Thank you for at least understanding and feeling the loss of what this is doing to very real, very good people. I appreciate you dearly.

Time to invest in some monkey bars like it’s 2002, baybeeeee! 😎

“Tewwowism is wen I dun lyk it :(”

–The Department of Justice Knowingly Doing Obviously Illegal Crap

It’s like leaving cookies and milk out for Adam Jensen or J.C Denton ❤️ lol

Honestly that’s the problem: Good friggin luck finding one in any desirable place to live. People without HOA’s seem to be rather distant from opportunity, or in crappy rundown parts of town.

Love all those articles that are like “By 30 you should be saving and have this much for retirement by now…”

Like lol the car made a funny noise, $100 doesn’t even hope to fill a grocery cart, and we’re enjoying yet another “unprecedented” planned financial crisis in our lifetimes, what do you want from me here.

I mean, “workaround” isn’t as headline worthy hahaha.

…giving it awareness is still pushing the ball forward.

100%.

I felt physically sick the last (very rare) time I checked my Nextdoor, and a person reporting ICE activity was getting brigaded with “BuT tHeY’rE ArReStiNg CriMiNaLs AnD pRoTeCtiNg Us” type comments. Like I was seriously HOPING this was bot farm activity. Like it’s heartbreakingly painful to see people that are sincerely that stupid.

The more irrefutable proof of these crimes, the more the “I’ll believe anything I hear” normies will accept the truth as “common knowledge”, and the hardline fascists get further discredited and ridiculed in public discourse.

There’s an old stereotype that blonde women are often ditzy and unintelligent…

…Outdated and ridiculous a notion as it is, this outlandish belief would explain why Fox hires blondes exclusively and obsessively.

I feel so, so bad for those poor children. It breaks my heart.

They’re both into lazyboys.