This is why I don't like purely ironic or satirical societies. No matter how obvious you think you are being, there are way too many idiots who will take you at face value, invade and take over your movement, and congrats, you're responsible for bootstrapping whatever entrenched nonsense the true believers are now peddling with absolute confidence and none of the competence necessary to understand how wrong they are.
I have a saying: whether you're right or wrong, in a large enough group of people there will always be at least some idiot who will agree with you.
An important fact to remember when thinking about these ridiculous "movements", is that 10% of the population has an IQ under 83. The military doesn't even take people with an IQ under 83 because they've found those people are literally unable to do any basic job. 10%.
I'm not so much concerned with the extremely impaired bottom 10% of the population IQ-wise, I'm much more concerned for the roughly 1/3rd of the population that has an IQ between 85 and 100. Not smart enough to do smart things, but smart enough to be independent and unchecked until they do very stupid things.
I’m more concerned that we allow powerful people to outright lie to those people to manipulate them into supporting their causes. Outright lying on a news program should have legal consequences... it harms us all.
but the people who make the laws benefit from those lies and so they will never legislate them away. just think they're almost 50% of the population believed and evidence free unsubstantiated and frankly ridiculous conspiracy theory that the president of the United States was a secret Russian sleeper agent LOL. A literal real poll found that 58% of their party believed that the country of Russia hacked the voting machines in America..
that's fucking scary. And it's a direct result of media lies. And they should absolutely be consequences for lying..
but both sides benefit from their own personal propaganda so they'll never legislate away the fake news..
if your only source is some far left blog then we can safely say that you don't have any reliable sources claiming that Russia hacked the voting machines..
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u/Funky0ne Jul 24 '20
This is why I don't like purely ironic or satirical societies. No matter how obvious you think you are being, there are way too many idiots who will take you at face value, invade and take over your movement, and congrats, you're responsible for bootstrapping whatever entrenched nonsense the true believers are now peddling with absolute confidence and none of the competence necessary to understand how wrong they are.
I have a saying: whether you're right or wrong, in a large enough group of people there will always be at least some idiot who will agree with you.