• @UnderpantsWeevil
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    533 days ago

    Taking a side requires information and opportunity.

    Without a reliable understanding of the conflict, you end up a QAnon mark, siding with the oppressors because you’ve been propagandized into believing they’re the oppressed.

    Without meaningful opportunity, you’re just posting memes into the void to relieve your own anxiety.

    Who can you trust? Who can you aid? Who can you collaborate with effectively? If you can’t answer these questions, what do you think you’re accomplishing?

    • Greg Clarke
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      183 days ago

      This out of context quote will help Ill-informed people justify their strong opinions.

      • Doug HollandOPM
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        123 days ago

        All quotes are out of context. Else they’d be books.

        • @AeonFelis
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          23 days ago

          And they all help Ill-informed people justify their strong opinions. So it checks…

    • Dragon Rider (drag)
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      13 days ago

      A lot of people oppose information and deny opportunities because they’re “political”

      • @UnderpantsWeevil
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        12 days ago

        A lot of “political” information is deceptive and loaded with bias.

        • Dragon Rider (drag)
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          12 days ago

          Everything is political. Which is the point of this post. People who want to avoid politics are hypocrites.

          • @UnderpantsWeevil
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            12 days ago

            Which is the point of this post.

            You can’t bemoan someone’s disinterest in partisan slop if it isn’t their favorite flavor of slop.

            People who want to avoid politics are hypocrites.

            People who want to turn off the ads filling up their newspapers and televisions are perfectly rational.

            What we lack isn’t human interest in world events. It is a news media that’s serving up valuable and actionable information.

            The business-support model for news has dissolved away its educational value. All you have left is Page Six and a bunch of jerk off Op-Ed lightly sprinkled with State Department PR and guerrilla marketing.