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Just watched THE SOCIAL DILEMMA and now realize why many of the good people that I know have such diametrically opposing perspectives
The Social Dilemma reviewed ^ | 09.19.2020 | chickensoup

Posted on 09/19/2020 4:58:47 AM PDT by Chickensoup

Just watched THE SOCIAL DILEMMA and now realize why many of the good people that I know have such diametrically opposing perspectives and such anger disrespect and hate for other opinions. The SOCIAL DILEMMA manipulations occur in social media platforms but also are present on every other large scale website like CBSNBCCNNPBSFOXABC NETFLIX AMAZON. Our opinions are being manipulated and massaged into hate and intolerance of each other. For what end? What is to be gained for the elite by formenting this level of hatred and rage except to devestate the country and gain unprecedented power and control? The only solution is to disbelieve all "news and information " and talk to ones neighbors and friends with open minds. Remember they do not have any sort of ready access to your information and you are kept away from theirs. And both of you are fed highly manipulated information to elicit charged emotional responses. Citizen driven websites and news gathering is a way around the monolith. Remember nothing is real here on the web. What is real are your neighbors friends and communities. Please share.


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KEYWORDS: government; manipulation
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To: Junk Silver

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.).


21 posted on 09/19/2020 5:44:44 AM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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To: Chickensoup

bttt


22 posted on 09/19/2020 5:46:44 AM PDT by VRW Conspirator (NuRulz)
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To: Chickensoup

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.


23 posted on 09/19/2020 5:48:38 AM PDT by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?)
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To: deadrock

You hate.

You dont disagree?


24 posted on 09/19/2020 5:49:56 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: Chickensoup
A natural self defense mechanism.

Don't equate the arsonist with the person who hates and is intolerant of arson.

25 posted on 09/19/2020 5:56:38 AM PDT by deadrock (<img src="WIDTH420WIDTH420.jpeg" width="420">)
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To: The Truth Will Make You Free

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.


26 posted on 09/19/2020 5:58:10 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: deadrock

self defense is not primarily about hate.


27 posted on 09/19/2020 5:59:49 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: AppyPappy

The provincialism of the elite is breathtaking.

We suffer it too.


28 posted on 09/19/2020 6:01:31 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: AppyPappy

“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.


29 posted on 09/19/2020 6:02:06 AM PDT by Junk Silver (Calling an Antifa protest "Mostly peaceful" is like saying your girlfriend is "Mostly not pregnant".)
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To: Chickensoup
Well I don't love those burning down cities. Do you?

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?

30 posted on 09/19/2020 6:04:48 AM PDT by deadrock (<img src="WIDTH420WIDTH420.jpeg" width="420">)
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To: deadrock

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.


31 posted on 09/19/2020 6:07:56 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: Chickensoup

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.


32 posted on 09/19/2020 6:09:27 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: Chickensoup

As the elite hide behind their high walls and armed security


33 posted on 09/19/2020 6:10:55 AM PDT by North Coast Conservative (MAGA Amy Coney Barrett to change the Supreme Court for generations.)
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To: Vermont Lt

I think all are manipulated. The elites want what they want.


34 posted on 09/19/2020 6:11:28 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: MAGAthon

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.


35 posted on 09/19/2020 6:12:24 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: Chickensoup

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.


36 posted on 09/19/2020 6:15:57 AM PDT by SE Mom (Screaming Eagle mom)
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To: Chickensoup
That is my point. It is their side being manipulated.

"THEIR opinions are being manipulated and massaged into hate and intolerance of US," would have been more apt.

37 posted on 09/19/2020 6:17:17 AM PDT by deadrock (<img src="WIDTH420WIDTH420.jpeg" width="420">)
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To: Junk Silver

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.


38 posted on 09/19/2020 6:17:52 AM PDT by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?)
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To: cgbg

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.


39 posted on 09/19/2020 6:23:09 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: Chickensoup

Later


40 posted on 09/19/2020 6:30:20 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Thanks To Biden Voters Oregon Is Now A Battleground State!)
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