A reminder that anger is addictive, and social media fuels it.
Engagement driven algorithms that are let to run wild inherently pick up on this, and start feeding you anger inducing content. Even non engagement driven algorithms often end up doing this by accident.
And when we’re angry, we think less clearly and empathetically, and we lash out and say more than we mean and make hurtful comments and generalizations.
That sparks anger in the person we’re conversing with, which tends to create a feedback loop, also known as a fight.
If you actually want to have fun, engaging, conversations with people different then you, and learn something from them, it’s a constant exercise in calmness, deescalation, and nuance, not things the internet trains us well for.
tl;dr: humans like to think we’re highly evolved beings, but at the end of the day we’re all basically these cats:
The russian model, very effective
It’s the bog-standard “how to dismantle a liberal society” approach, outlined by, Carl Schmitt. It was already used once in Germany, I imagine the AFD wouldn’t need to go to Russia to learn about it.
It’s only effective because those who could do something didn’t do shit for one reason or the other.
Agreed. This strategy works best in a two party system. Much easier to divide and conquer only 2 choices. Not so much with ranked choice voting and multiple parties. The US was a time bomb of corruption wating to be purchased from either political party. Putin just paid the most for GOP access and got it.
Not quite, I’m mexican, not from the USA and it’s the same thing, we are being stripped from our rights, censored and constantly bombarded by propaganda because those who could have done something (example: punish those in power who were breaking the law) didn’t do anything.
Civilians were protesting but they were ignored so… Here we are, having a shitload of political parties is pointless since the voters gave practically absolute power to one.
This preview pic creeps me out. It looks like it’s on a bridge in the middle of the void.
Any group that’s asocial and improperly socialized enough to disregard the sanctity of life and how I, just like anyone else, am just a grain of sand in the desert of society will eventually become an enemy to their fellow man, I think.
