XD omg that last line lmao. That is my new go-to catch-all.
"Hey fort_burp, where's the ketchup?"
"If you want ketchup it’s better to strive for joining an international communist organization, sure your pay is going to be shit and you’ll survive on eating acorns, but you can rest peacefully."
"Hey fort_burp, wanna go swimming?
"If you wanna go swimming it’s better to strive for joining an international communist organization, sure your pay is going to be shit and you’ll survive on eating acorns, but you can rest peacefully."
Right? I feel like half the magic is that they don't know they're propagandists. It plays straight to the vindication and validation heart strings so why would they ask any questions?
Recent high-profile acquisitions include Jeff Bezos purchasing the Washington Post, Elon Musk buying Twitter (now X), and Patrick Soon-Shiong acquiring the Los Angeles Times. A billionaire consortium also bought significant stakes in The Economist.
In France, far-right billionaire Vincent Bolloré has transformed CNews into what critics call the French equivalent of Fox News. In the United Kingdom, three-quarters of newspaper circulation is controlled by just four wealthy families.
This is amazing. News and communication in the internet age was supposed to be democratised publication and agency to the voice of the average person, and it is to a small extent, but for the most part society was just like
Yea, and they will each pre-emptively go the extra mile to prove they are well within the boundaries of the in-group, which leads to extreme views and horrific actions. It's a combination of low self-esteem, low IQ, and insecurity. This makes the in-group smaller and "purer" but also pulls centrists / non-principled people toward the ideology of the in-group. That's why Harris was the Democratic candidate in 2024, whereas 30 years ago Harris' platform could have been a Republican one (and conversely why Sarah Palin seems tame by today's standards, but not the standards of 30 years ago).
Wait are you serious?