Technology

Goddamn this is dark. Just when can i expect people to ever start actually fighting back in any sort of tangibly productive manner? We are so fucked.

I think we actually get to understand now how Hitler came to power. I remember in school, I was mystified how such an hateful man could become a leader of a country. Now I understand.

History will most likely repeat itself and humanity needs a big war to once again remember what hate leads to.

It just sucks for the ones who already learned that lesson from basic history.

Well the media is owned by them so...

and the media just repeats it as if nothing of any note is going on.

Mainstream media at least. Thankfully, Arstechnica and The Verge have been shouting from the rooftops at how unconstitutional and fascist the trump regime is being.

It's gone full circle. Grandparents are the only reason I even have a Facebook account anymore.

What would he care if it kills a lot of use. Some will stay, even if it becomes just an echo chamber, there will be users who don't leave and slowly get fed more and more content that changes their bias.

A propaganda machine does have to reach 100% of the population, it just needs to pluck small percentages that were on the outskirts and hold the current believers in a situation where they believe this is better than whatever bologna scenario they make up would happen if they weren't doing this. America is MUCH safer place to live today than it was when I was born back in 89'.

Yet a large portion of the population does not believe that, because they throw murders in people's faces through every facet of our lives to make people feel afraid and use security as an excuse to gain further control over people's rights.

Anyone who thinks "I could leave my doors unlocked back in the 1990s and I can't today" has been fooled.

Anyone who thinks subways, trains, or public transit isn't multiple times safer than getting into a car and driving to work, has been fooled.

And social media as well as news stations want us to be angry and scared, because it gets people engaged. Engagement makes them money. Happy people who feel safe go outside and go to the beach, play sports, go hiking, go to movies, join a book club, have a hobby of some sort. None of those things make news outlets money. Social media could, because they could sell ad slots to people who sell products for those hobbies.. but I guess it doesn't make as much.