• KillingTimeItself
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    12 days ago

    Americans value the speed and simplicity of a message over accuracy or nuance.

    idiots who do not prefer the accuracy of transmission* FTFY

    something that I would consider manipulative at best.

    i really wish more people would do literally anything to not get got by this low level bullshit lmao. It’s so silly that people care so much about problems, but so little about information sources, or accuracy, or even factual nature.

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      12 days ago

      People who are in an excited emotional state just aren’t going to do well thinking that stuff through.

      I’m not immune to it either, I just dont have tiktok or facebook at all to avoid it.

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        17 hours ago

        People who are in an excited emotional state just aren’t going to do well thinking that stuff through.

        i suppose so, but it literally only takes one “is this actually true?” to check to see if it’s true. If people are as “skeptical” as they claim to be about mainstream media, i fail to see how they don’t understand that google exists and is useful in the 21st century. Though to be fair, it’s harder to use now.

        I’m definitely not immune to it either, but i operate on a strictly factual basis, so it’s really hard for me to get caught up in propaganda.