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Meta is getting rid of factchecking. If you want to leave Instagram, what are your alternatives?
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this post was submitted on 08 Jan 2025
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One may as well have said the same things about cigarettes up through the 1960s. Sometimes we do things against our best interests. Sometimes it's really, really bad for us. Sometimes it's painful and deadly.
Humans aren't rational creatures.
The desire to belong is primal, and strong.
And it served us well for millennia. In a lot of ways, it made us who we are.
Bootlickers in a need of herd ruled by a strong daddy?
Civilizations, societies, communities. The Apollo program. The National Park Service. Emancipation. Everything good we're capable of as a species comes from working together.
The mass weaponization of it is, of course, a problem.
We need to be better at removing anti social parasites at the top but instead we got majority accepting these parasites as their lords and saviors.
Something ain't right
Ah, I think what you're looking at there is called "capitalism." It's what enables selfish anti-social/sociopathic behavior without triggering our societal inclination to kick them out.
You are removing agency from people by blaming capitalism sure that's the system of property ownership we have
It doesn't directly result in bootlicking population ie other countries with similar property rights ain't as much of bootlickers as we are.
They expect their ruling class to deliver some base QoL, Americans overall too lapring cultural wars their handlers told them on teevee
Nah, you've got cause and effect flipped. Know what we used to do when sociopaths did too much sociopathic stuff? We made the sociopaths leave. Now they have too much money, so we can't effectively do that anymore.
Of course, yes, they did create that system. But they created it so that they could retain the benefits of the society without contributing to it meaningfully.
And bootlickers can't be bothered to be educated about this issue they would rather LARP propaganda as if they are a "stake" holder in the system
Wait, are you calling me a "bootlicker?" When have I ever been anything but critical about the oligarchs running our society?
Yeesh. The Internet be wild, y'all.
That's a truism, but it's not justification for allowing it to happen. People being naturally irrational is not an excuse to continue being irrational.
And if it makes people feel uncomfortable to be reminded that they're choosing to be abused by billionaires for free, then good. Get uncomfortable. I hope they feel uncomfortable every time they scroll Facebook. I hope they feel a little shame every time they complain about housing prices on Instagram, because clearly, knowingly having their worst impulses monetized for the benefit of the absurdly wealthy isn't enough.
It is a justification, actually, because other people are using it against them to extract value for themselves. Users of corporate social media are no more responsible for their addictions than alcoholics are. Some people break it, sure. And some people use it without developing an addiction. But those aren't the people we're talking about here.