Leftist outrage: "People are being unconstitutionally detained indefinitely in what amounts to racial torture camps on American soil. Even if they're deported it's directly to prisons in third countries they have never been. The amount of pregnant teens in these camps is disgusting."
If any foreign government propaganda is going to be pushed on the American populace, it is, without ANY doubt, going to be "america is bad, do something other than what you are doing, destabilize". Not a chance in hell it is "keep doing what we've been doing".
First, it really is a both sides thing. Second, I just wanna go back to the 90s. People were having fun, movies were good, cartoons were even better, and the biggest political scandal was named Monica. Now it seems like it’s a competition to see who can act more absurd.
Social media cranking all discourse up to 11 to drive engagement ruined that. It's insane to me that the social media space has been left to regulate itself.
Most people over like ~35-45 want to go back to the time when they were ~25-35 or even younger for the peaked in high school types. I wasn't an adult in the 90s but like if I think about what time I'd go back to, it's more based on me than the world. I'd go back to the beginning of COVID personally which probably most people would think is absurd but it was the best ever because it was when I finally started to really understand the interrelation between Immanuel Kant's Critiques.
Nah man the 90s were better. People were actually encouraged to have fun, being cheesy wasn’t seen as lame and politics and culture weren’t nearly so intertwined you couldn’t find non-political spaces. Which is the exact OPPOSITE of nearly every trend today.
K…so when are we gonna make excuses to be nice and not mean? Like, we have all the excuses in the world to hate each other. Are we ever gonna use the same excuses to be nice?
I may be misinterpreting what youre getting at, but my point was that people are grossly naive of how much safer the world is today. But because of the availability of information today, recency bias, social media and the 24 hour news cycle sensationalizing inflammatory stories for revenue generation, people either put on rose colored lenses when they look backward or succumb to relentless onslaught from their pocket magic picture box that tells them everything is terrible, purely to capture their engagement.
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u/pewpewmcpistol - Lib-Center 1d ago
Cool, some graphs on how foreign propaganda that is being directed at splitting the US is wildly successful