I chuckled at this, but fuck I’m exhausted this is reality..
The people who wanted you to believe that the “internet was a fad” as an excuse to not get a computer are now completely controlled by it.
And they can control the weather!
Oh, but not climate change.
In 2007, we didn’t have a significant portion of elected officials from a particular party lending their dubious legitimacy to deliberate misinformation or social media to the extent we have it now.
At the top of that heap is Trump.
You’d probably not be surprised at the number of people who actually trust Trump when he says stupid shit about windmills, armed immigrant gangs taking over neighborhoods in Colorado, masks don’t work, powerful dark forces (deep state) running everything, after birth abortion, children having trans surgery at school, etc.
From there, social media just reinforces it and leads them down the rabbit hole into believing just about anything.
Politics has always had a lot of spin and empty promises, but there was once a time when an elected official said “this is so” you could be confident they were speaking the truth. Trump has changed that forever.
This shit has been around since the 90s, except back then it was just forwards from grandma and now it’s blasted across social media in a matter of seconds. The stupid just spreads faster now.
Idk where it started but I loved seeing this take:
“Social media did to our parents generation what they thought violent video games would do to ours”
My dad “doesn’t know how to use a cellphone”, but he’s a whiz at using a remote control to get to certain stations, and during the commercials, he dials up their even more hateful website on their computer. Rinse and repeat all day…
It’s so bad out there that dad turned into Kahn Souphanousinphone.
Reminds me of arguing with someone yesterday who wanted me to believe what they were saying but refused to provide any data to back up their claims. “Don’t believe everything you see on the internet” has been usurped by “Trust me, bro”.
To be fair… that was a presidential debate, not the Internet. I just don’t understand the hold he has on them to get them to believe everything he says, and not believe anyone else
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I chuckled at this, but fuck I’m exhausted this is reality..
The people who wanted you to believe that the “internet was a fad” as an excuse to not get a computer are now completely controlled by it.
And they can control the weather!
Oh, but not climate change.
In 2007, we didn’t have a significant portion of elected officials from a particular party lending their dubious legitimacy to deliberate misinformation or social media to the extent we have it now.
At the top of that heap is Trump.
You’d probably not be surprised at the number of people who actually trust Trump when he says stupid shit about windmills, armed immigrant gangs taking over neighborhoods in Colorado, masks don’t work, powerful dark forces (deep state) running everything, after birth abortion, children having trans surgery at school, etc.
From there, social media just reinforces it and leads them down the rabbit hole into believing just about anything.
Politics has always had a lot of spin and empty promises, but there was once a time when an elected official said “this is so” you could be confident they were speaking the truth. Trump has changed that forever.
This shit has been around since the 90s, except back then it was just forwards from grandma and now it’s blasted across social media in a matter of seconds. The stupid just spreads faster now.
Idk where it started but I loved seeing this take:
“Social media did to our parents generation what they thought violent video games would do to ours”
My dad “doesn’t know how to use a cellphone”, but he’s a whiz at using a remote control to get to certain stations, and during the commercials, he dials up their even more hateful website on their computer. Rinse and repeat all day…
It’s so bad out there that dad turned into Kahn Souphanousinphone.
Reminds me of arguing with someone yesterday who wanted me to believe what they were saying but refused to provide any data to back up their claims. “Don’t believe everything you see on the internet” has been usurped by “Trust me, bro”.
To be fair… that was a presidential debate, not the Internet. I just don’t understand the hold he has on them to get them to believe everything he says, and not believe anyone else