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  • wild_dog [they/them]
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    1 year ago

    What sorcery did they unleash on them to make them turn around like this?

    The internet. This is what the internet does to your brain if you don't log off. It's such a hyper-alienated form of media since it's all tailored to you so there a very really danger that if you don't have a healthy relationship with the internet/social media, you can fall into a scenario where ideology just rattles around in your brain until you get so caught up in bullshit that you can't see objective material realities like "it would be bad if a nuclear war happened." I mean why does this person care about Ukraine to begin with? The internet/news told them to care. This person isn't like this about Palestine, you know?

    • Fishroot [none/use name]
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      1 year ago

      "What sorcery did they unleash on them to make them turn around like this?''

      I read an article about how an institution during cold war asked a group who studied STEMS and the humanities and ask what you've do if you have the nuclear arsenal. Most of the STEMSlords managed to annihilate the world multiple times because it is just logical to nuke the enemy in a first strike to destroy the second strike capabilities (this line of thinking made it into reagan era btw). The humanities department manage to prevent MAD

      Reddit is full of Rational (tm) and pseud-stemslord. go figure

      • wild_dog [they/them]
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        1 year ago

        yeah, not to go all Marshal McLuhan here but the medium is the message. we can't underscore how fucking weird that website is, especially if you're talking about politics on there. Reddit can be great if you wanna talk to people who know way more than you'll ever need to know about a piece of music equipment or find out cool facts about sports but you can also see some sicko shit from people who also post in tech related subs. i work in tech so it's not like i think everyone is like this but the most I'M STEM AND BETTER THAN YOU BC I LOGIC coworkers are basically pro genocide if it furthers American interests.

        • Fishroot [none/use name]
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          1 year ago

          it's almost like get politics out of ''''''''non political''''''' issues managed to create a bunch of psychopaths that see people as datas on a spread.

          It's funny how at my work, the non political people can talk about certain issues with horrid consequences and the response you get is ''oh it's 10% affected''

    • Quizzes [none/use name]
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      1 year ago

      We had the internet before 2022, and it didn't make anyone go pro-nuclear war.

      • ssjmarx [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        I'll never forget a certain "man on the street" interview that was done during the War on Terror, where they found a surprisingly high number of people who said we should just indiscriminately nuke the Middle East. I think American nuclear bloodthirst is as old as American nukes, and the only thing that's prevented us from nuking anyone since 1945 has been realpolitik.

      • wild_dog [they/them]
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        1 year ago

        I literally saw people saying we should nuke Russia in 2016 but that doesn't negate my point. For one, this isn't normal. Even the most normie Ukraine lib thinks a nuclear war with Russia is bad.

      • barrbaric [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        True, but we also weren't in a proxy war with a nuclear power.