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pinkdrunkenelephants@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

And you’re STILL not listening.

You’re still just trying to win something and offering nothing of any meaningful substance justifying content like that, and you’re doing it because you know you are wrong.

It’s irrelevant what country you’re from; Trump and his fascism have become a global phenomenon, and the only ones that really are to blame are people like you openly being anti-intellectual, thinking it’s okay and defending it. It’s not okay to not think for yourself. It’s not okay to support media that tells you doing that is okay. It’s not okay to support media that tells you intellectuals are self-important snobs you should ignore. It’s not okay to support media that is geared by focus groups with the explicit purpose of shutting off your brain and telling you what you want to hear. None of that shit is okay, ever, in a democracy. I presume you live in a democracy, anyway. If you don’t, that goes a long way toward explaining a lot of why you think the way you do.

Here in democracies, the people are the ones who are running the show, and in order to run the show, the entire populace has to be educated.

Media that, explicitly and implicitly through applied psychology, discourages people from being educated directly harms all democratic societies and they’re usually made with that purpose. We have a word for it, we call it propaganda and it’s designed to exploit suckers like you so demagogues like Trump can get themselves money and power. And they use that propaganda to convince you to vote for and support bad policies that destroy countries and destroy lives. Exhibit A: Brexit.

And your ass fell for it hook, line and sinker.

But once again, you’re never the problem. You’re just some peasant so how could your actions possibly have such far-reaching effects? How could you all giving corporate monoliths billions of your dollars collectively not negatively impact the rest of us who actually are trying to run a functional democracy?

You couldn’t possibly be the problem, no, it’s just someone else who had the nerve to get all angry and uppity about it.

When we get rid of the fucking fascists, we’re taking away your right to vote.

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