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Everyone has a price, and everyone can be led down the wrong path. I mean, the supposed "good guys" in all of this were laughing and cheering at a man being murdered in front of his wife and kids just last week. I wonder how many of them, even just 5 years ago, would have done that? But they see the assholes on the "bad side do it" and all of sudden its ok.
Social media has fucked all of our brains. whether its tiktok, facebook reddit, instagram, lemmy, whatever. Its made us weird about information, and the opinions that we have. The downvotes give us little dopamine hits. So we start to want the uparrows. Then we get weird about the uparrows, moaning that people are misunderstanding what we are saying. Then we cant risk the uparrows, so we just say whatever everyone else is saying. Whatever gets us our fix.
And anyone reading this disagrees, I would ask you how often you look at your profile to make sure your comments are all getting upvotes... Social media has been programming us for years. And this is now what it looks like. Radicalisation of the left and right, to the point we raging over people using bathrooms, finding joy in other peoples misery, and worst of all we are ignoring the real world for it. We all need a big reset to rehinge our damaged brain function.
Fuck yeah I'm happy Kirk is dead. He was a mass murderer, he just did it with a camera instead of a knife. I take glee in knowing his reign of terror is at an end, and I think it's funny that he was stopped halfway through making an asinine point about transgender gun violence.
We need to label MAGA a terrorist organization, then go after them as if they are ISIS, then go global: AfD, the oil industry, etc.
All should be labeled terrorists.
Pretty sure you already are, mate.
Yeah, thats just ghoulish behaviour. And youve made up some nonsense to justify it. And funny thing is, you look exactly like those MAGA fuck wits. You just have a differing point of view. The moment you forget theres a human being on the other end, is the same moment you become the very thing you hate.
But you do, brobeans. Whatever gets you those worthless internet points, am I right?
Did my great grandpa shoot Nazis at D-day because it was popular? Was he just chasing trends?
BTW the fact that Hitler shot himself is hilarious
A man who ordered the deaths of millions of people is something to celebrate. The murder of a man who just didnt agree with you isnt. I'd say I was shocked, but the internet is full of internet tough guys.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turning_Point_USA#United_States_election_activities
Kirk ordered harassment and violence against academics who teach students that queer people exist
Kirk supported Trump's attempted coup of the government
Kirk is a racist boss
Kirk helped conservative politicians get elected through collusion
Kirk is a spreader of plague
Kirk is in trouble with the government for tax evasion in connection with funding fascist politicians
No he didnt. Because that would be illegal, and he'd be easily arrested and/or sued for it.
Yes he did.
Crystal Clanton was racist, and when she found out, she was fired. Others were the usual old tweets being used as weapons. Pretty much everything that you could say might or is racist, wasnt Kirk. So I accept that the company had issues with racism, but theres nothing 100% that makes it clear it was a systemic problem.
Thats the wrong word. The word you are looking for is coordination. And everyone does it. Why would you hold Kirk and Trump to a higher standard than anyone else? If youre implying that he broke laws, then why is there no charges?
Yes he was.
No he wasnt. There were calls for investigations, but since they were back in 2020/21, we can assume nothing came of those investigations, if they did happen. And we wont know if they happened or not because of privacy issues.
Well, I think people who support fascists trying to coup the government deserve to be shot, and people who encourage millions not to get vaccinated against deadly plagues also deserve to be shot.
You do realise that makes YOU the fascist, right? Fascists advocate for the forcible suppression of opposition, thats what you just said, right? Fascism also commonly involves the demonization of "Others,". You know, like political opponents/ And seeks national rebirth through the purge of these others. Starting to see it yet? Youve become the very thing you hate.
Congrats. In an effort to look hard in an online space, youve played yourself.
It’s so funny how Charlie Kirk’s “legacy” is being absolutely whitewashed. He was not a man who you simply disagreed with. He was a vile, hateful man, who spread his white supremacist rhetoric to college students around the nation. He along with his supporters would frequently harass transgender and students of color before speaking at universities. Hell, I doubt he’s even read the Bible, but supposedly he would’ve been a disciple of Jesus Christ if you listen to this shit.
No he didnt. He did some pretty horrible shit, but he wasnt a white supremist. He didnt tell anyone to harass trans people or people of colour. No one is whitewashing anything, youre just finding out that most of the shit said about him wasnt true, or at best exaggerated.
Was he your friend? No. Was he a good guy that championed free speech? Again, no. But he wasnt most of what the clickbait headlines you all consumed said he was either. It took me seconds to just google the guy, and find out the truth. Thats how easy it was. I didnt know anything about Kirk before last week. I just told take everything social media people say as truth. Maybe you should do the same. Make your own opinions, instead of getting angry because of someone elses...
https://sopuli.xyz/post/34056539
Mob violence has been a thing for all of human history. Before humans, even: chimpanzee groups, if they get large, will split into two groups. After a few months apart, if the groups encounter each other, the stronger group will murder every individual in the weaker one.
I think we had settled on a regulated and normalized system in pre-internet media that moderated the mob violence tendencies. Our current polarization is not really that social media created this new thing in society, it's that it removed the guardrails in traditional media that were suppressing natural human tendencies. I hope we can figure out and implement some new guardrails sooner rather than later.
Nah, I dont by that. Thats the same kind of logic that rapists use. "She was wearing a short skirt, and I just couldnt help myself". The fact is, social media in its current form is basically using gambling mechanics to get everyone to do weird shit. Comments on reddit, or facebook, or twitter are basically one armed bandits. Each tuck/comment is hoping for a win to get a little dopamine hit. Thats the long and the short of it. This has been going on for so long now, that people are radicalised by it.