Linking stuff from Twitter is now very broken but my favourite edit for this so far has been having the MvC 2 character select on it. If they could make that happen for Evo it would truly take me for a ride.
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‘Twitter killer’ Threads app hits 100m sign-ups in less than five days | Threads | The Guardian
Closing in on 50% of Twitters total in about a week
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Originally posted by fuse View PostLinking stuff from Twitter is now very broken but my favourite edit for this so far has been having the MvC 2 character select on it. If they could make that happen for Evo it would truly take me for a ride.Lie with passion and be forever damned...
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Originally posted by Neon Ignition View Post‘Twitter killer’ Threads app hits 100m sign-ups in less than five days | Threads | The Guardian
Closing in on 50% of Twitters total in about a week
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Trump asks for classified documents trial to take place after 2024 election | Donald Trump | The Guardian
Praying they tell him where to shove his request
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Tesla boss claims ‘pro-humanity’ xAI offers realistic alternative to pausing development of superintelligence
Musk, the very person calling for a halt to AI research, starts an AI company, proving as anticipated, that not only is he a massive hypocrite, but wanted a pause so his own company could catch up.
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Thailand’s winning candidate for PM blocked from power | Thailand | The Guardian
Another day, another corrupt politics story
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That the President of the United States whipped his supporters up into such a frenzy after loosing the election that they attacked a goverment building to try and stop the political process is defiantly something he should be charged for. His supporters have done prison time, he's lost the case against rigged voting machines and has produced zero evidence of voter fraud. He brought the whole political process in a democratic country into disrepute, where even now massive amounts of Americans think they where cheated out another term of Trump.
I really don't get how so many people where taken in by Trump and willing to march on goverment buildings, that Q anon shaman guy leading the charge too whats that about, how did we get to a point where a large group of trump supporters believe that Trump is secretly fighting a satanic pedophile cult of elite cannibal sex traffickers???.Last edited by Lebowski; 18-07-2023, 16:31.
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It's a good question and I don't think there is any one answer to it.
The US has suffered a decline in quality of life far exceeding most other developed countries that has accelerated over the course of the 2010s. You could write a book on contributing factors (and people have) but one factor that is significant in terms of conspiratorial thinking and belief in disinformation is a severe decline in the quality of compulsory schooling.
It's notable that when you look at the map of red versus blue states, it's the red states that have suffered most in terms of a decline in quality of life and education.
In parallel, social media has been invented and grown until for many people it's one of their primary mechanisms for accessing information. Unfortunately, it's the best way humans have yet come up with disseminating mis- and disinformation and creating echo chambers where people who believe incorrect information can find each other, reinforce each other's views and recruit new believers.
So the result is that you have a lot of people who are very unsatisfied because they (often correctly) believe things are getting worse, who are increasingly poorly educated, and who are accessing information that is filtered through a mechanism which, because it prioritises user engagement over source credibility, amplifies untrue but emotive content and de-amplifies less exciting but factual information.
That would be my take, in a nutshell, on how we've ended up here.
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You just need to see how many dumb arses there are on TikTok to understand what a f'ed country the US is.
I watch a channel called Joy. B toonz which highlights all these "zeros" as he calls them. I mean, these people have no shame or concideration for others.
He shows lowlifes twirking in front of people on their deathbed, a mother doing some stupid ass dance in front of her baby in intensive care and some bitch modeling in front of her grandfather's casket. WTF is wrong with these people. But then again this is only the tip of the iceberg.
Sure, it's not only Americans but they do make up the greatest amount of these idiots.
If you ever want to depress yourself at how bad society is, watch his channel. To me, it's as if I'm living on a different planet as I don't see any of this crap in daily life.
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Originally posted by Yakumo View PostYou just need to see how many dumb arses there are on TikTok to understand what a f'ed country the US is.
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Originally posted by Lebowski View PostI really don't get how so many people where taken in by Trump and willing to march on goverment buildings, that Q anon shaman guy leading the charge too whats that about, how did we get to a point where a large group of trump supporters believe that Trump is secretly fighting a satanic pedophile cult of elite cannibal sex traffickers???.
But then, Epstein and his murder showed that there was a shady cabal of celebs who visited a private island to have sex with trafficked children.
From what I understand about Q, the whole thing is like this. They take loads of unrelated, unusual, but in many cases real things. Then they just take 2-3 steps beyond into the realms of fantasy, but as you link the events up, they start to look more reasonable.
It's like David Icke, first talking about an international conspiracy of bankers who are trying to bring about some sort of revolution where the concept of ownership no longer exists. Then in the next paragraph he says that the US government are all lizard aliens and suddenly the banking conspiracy doesn't seem as ridiculous.
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