Posted on 09/19/2020 4:58:47 AM PDT by Chickensoup
Bingo - that red “New posts to you” at the top of the page can delight dopamine receptors. FR needs to be classified as a Class C drug (if this was the U.K.).
bttt
People tend to harbor in echo chambers where all their extreme views are seen as normal and sensible. When they get out into public, they are insulted that people don’t agree with them. It is similar to when Southerners left the South during Jim Crow days. They were shocked and insulted that blacks were equal to them in those areas.
You hate.
You dont disagree?
Don't equate the arsonist with the person who hates and is intolerant of arson.
You are right fr has the citizens aspect when we pick apart and add to the posted stories.
Q,thedonald, andy ngu and many other boots on the ground work. BUT ONLY IF THEY CONTROL THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE INFORMATION.
So they are not manipulationed by the algorithms.
This is the best argument for immediately making all national platforms into utilities. Fb Instagram amazon Google YouTube and many others.
Pay to use.
self defense is not primarily about hate.
The provincialism of the elite is breathtaking.
We suffer it too.
“People tend to harbor in echo chambers where all their extreme views are seen as normal and sensible.”
You just described NPR perfectly.
I know there are many other examples of such echo chambers, but NPR is the only one that I am forced at gunpoint to fund.
Our side has every right to hate those trying to destroy our way of life. Or do we love them and let them carry on?
No. But they are buning down cities because they have been manipulated into extreme positions to provoke understandable extreme responses.
All designed by elites for their purposes.
I watched it too.
I wonder if that show is targeting “us” to think differently?
The whole thing is the matrix.
After watching it, and then seeing the RBG news you will see those algorithms in action.
As the elite hide behind their high walls and armed security
I think all are manipulated. The elites want what they want.
On that point, the point that was made is it wasn’t “hacked.” The Russians came off the street with a checkbook and used the service the way it was designed.
So, it was exactly the opposite of your assumed point. Honestly, the documentary is worth an hour of your time is social engineering has any interest.
My son and I watched it last week and found it went a long way toward answering the question “What the HELL has happened to the country”? It’s a frightening documentary and leaves me less optimistic than those interviewed.
I wish everyone would watch it.
"THEIR opinions are being manipulated and massaged into hate and intolerance of US," would have been more apt.
Colleges tend to be that way. Even the nuttiest of ideas can be seen as normal and the most normal of ideas can seen extreme. When they leave that safe cocoon of crazy, they are shocked to find their ideas don’t make sense to people or they look hypocritical. Like when you are fighting against the Patriarchy but the Patriarchy is paying for school.
It’s interesting. The point of the “divide” on social media is not brainwashing. It’s screen time. The system simply learns what you like...and it feeds it to you. Over and over.
It’s simply a big echo chamber.
It’s about keeping your eyes on the screen, not “changing” your mind. It IS simple: It’s about money.
Later
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