• PugJesus@lemmy.world
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    14 days ago

    Would he? I’m not convinced that this is anything less than a manifestation of the total rot of our society.

    Our civic institutions are not designed to deal with the level of dis and misinformation flooding us.

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      This. People have been given an alternate reality to live in, so complex and all-encompassing that—unless they’ve grown up to have an appreciation for critical thinking—all the thinking’s been done for them.

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        Hard to make people care for more than the immediate here and now, Trump’s WWE wrestling persona does that

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      Until we fix the disinformation, nothing sane is going to work. Things are only getting worse.