“Money can’t buy happiness” womp womppp

Praise the sun!!!

That’s more like it

Bruh why his eyes look like that

Unrelated to OP—

This community is the fuckin sauce! Y’all really jump in to support each other and it’s really cool :)

I just set up a usb boot for mint yesterday and am prepping my pc to switch once I feel confident enough about Linux. I’m starting to gather that will be much sooner knowing the community is here to help out! I can’t wait to get all my services switched to FOSS alternatives.

Shocking that people can’t recognize their experience isn’t universal

Hadn’t heard of SRA before and this org is a massive resource for information. Thanks for link!

It’s hard to encourage others to put on their “critical thinking cap” when some of them (okay probably the vast majority) have been unknowingly influenced by this kind of media manipulation for so long. I have a hard time knowing how to bring it to people’s attention without sounding like a broken record myself. I think critical thinking has simply become unattractive to a lot of people cause it takes more time and effort than they’re accustomed to. It’s easier to blindly trust and if it hasn’t killed me so far, how could it possibly be bad?

They probably don’t even teach kids in school to read multiple news sources or how to check for reporting bias anymore.

In any case, your suggestions to help community and watch actions over words are important ones that I try to encourage in those around me as well. Enough to reiterate in caps:

LISTEN TO AND SUPPORT YOUR NEIGHBORS! They will be the first ones you hear from when your community is being threatened. Either we can all be allies against the regime together or we can let it infest our communities through distrust and let it ruin us. Fascism ain’t no joke.

Took the time to read the whole thread you referenced and it was worth the time imo. Also took me too long to realize it’s from 10 fuckin years ago… we’re undoubtedly reaping our “reward” from the apathy and ignorance at that time about how these tools could be used to influence the general populace through just social media and consumer data. Womp womp :(

At first I thought this was some kind of meta meme

Edit: OP fixed it and now there is meme lol

Came for Futurama reference, saw Nixon, upvoted immediately