Zuckerberg shows who has the power.(Just kidding, never let an autie make executive level decisions). >half the people on this board get ALL their news from individual bloggers
MSM is trying to adapt, but half the people leaving them don't go to individual bloggers with no agenda , but go to the crackpots on Facebook.
I have a relative who spams my email with BILL GATES nanobots vaccine Facebook level shit routinely. I can't block her because family and i won't get to visit my nephews in her house anymore.
Brandon Thomas
Holy Based! Lefties make a rule that fucks lefties means of brainwashing people. Based. Based. Based.
No more fact checking niggas running round spreading propaganda. Australia will be right-wing soon.
Henry Davis
Australia has a conservative government, smoothbrain
Jason Bennett
>I have a relative who spams my email with BILL GATES nanobots vaccine Facebook level shit routinely. Exactly, but if that's what they really wanted, they didn't need Facebook to get it. Some people are just really vulnerable to the rabbit hole effect, and will seek it out, as people's inner minds are more dazzling and exciting than any story or news, and all these stories do is make their minds run in circles, seeing its song in everything, digging ever-deeper holes. That is, indeed, what they are designed to do. It's a very, very old, writer's trick - the mind, has a pattern it cannot resist: the birth of a universe.
If yer a young one, I cannot describe to you how many people who saw the X-Files in the 90's, and thought it was real. They thought Chris was revealing the "truth"... And in a sense, he was, not on a factual level, but on an emotional one. He was describing what living in his nation was like to him. He was just in a bad place at the time, and people took advantage of it for money - the same process that makes people feel as he did.
Horror fiction being marked as horror fiction, doesn't always cut it. If the story is dark and exciting and has no exit to the surface of reality within its scope, people will trap themselves in it.
At the same time, a story like the X-Files, really can help some people open their eyes, and help make the world a better place, in the right state of heart and mind - for someone in a bad place, it's poison.
One less source of undirected psychedelics in the biggest wells, however, is a good idea in my book. Next trick, is to get people to realize the stories that they choose to accept as reality, are responsible for the state of their world, as we each live in our own universe, and only get occasional glimpses of our shared reality - of which no one of us see all, only imagine.
Robert Torres
>of which no one of us sees all, only imagines. That's a lot of blank space we all constantly write on, in our heads, to the tune of the songs we surround ourselves with. If the song of your life is fucked and all the songs you listen to are those discordant songs of cancellation, you will cancel yourself, for that evil you see, is your mirror from another position. There is no limit to the good or evil any man can do, from the right or wrong position, and position is something we oft get little say in.
...and everyone in this nation, and most nations, was raised on those broken songs of good vs. evil, that rarely, if ever, sing the lyric that heroes are made by villains. Old heroes often become villains, and villains, are often young heroes... We all love our family for everything we hate them for.
Choose your music carefully, sample widely, and never swim so deep into the darkness, that you can no longer see your past's reflection, dancing on the waters above. Only then can you be prepared to deal with those near misses with allegiances of reality, and see them for what they truly are: the collective pattern of all our minds combined, constantly struggling with itself, to sort itself out, as it has been since we came down from the trees or ate that apple.
Choose you role in that mind, thoughtfully. Heaven and hell are both places on earth.
Angel Harris
nobody remembers the xfiles outside of that silly theme song
Elijah Williams
He's a troll He is lefty and blames righty instead of porky and is being sarcastic Don't feed him
Angel Robinson
I feel like if all social media were banned it would be the equivalent of landing a man on the moon in terms of accomplishing something good for all mankind
Jose Morris
Mate, idgaf, this is just Godzilla vs Mothra, who the fuck pays attention to the “”””news””””? Whether it’s MSM or crack pop bloggers, it’s all a bunch of garbage.
Julian Watson
I think social media is more like nuclear fission.
It's something mankind was not ready for when he invented it, but it is so powerful, it has the potential to take him to the stars, cementing his immortality, and bring peace on Earth... Or to end all mankind.
All via a simple principle of chain reaction.
What we've been witnessing, these past four years, are the consequences of mankind playing with global emotional management nukes.
Though the needle always settles somewhere in-between the two extremes, so don't panic when the anti-proliferation treaties start flying sloppily about, and applaud those that don't imprison you for your own protection.
And remember, especially on the Internet, we all wear reflective masks of our own design.
