• SighBapanada@lemmy.caEnglish
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    1 year ago

    It’s always “slippery slope” that will lead to something terrible. Never something awful currently happening

    • Bizarroland@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      To be fair I can empathize with their desire. They want a good and happy America and a good and happy world to live in and they are told that the reason they can’t have that is because of all of these crazy things, because our news and media empire entirely runs on human suffering, peppered with occasional feel good stories.

      The pervasive sense of dread and misery?, anomia?, can’t think of the right word that you get when you interact with the news isn’t something that everyone can simply shrug off and go about their day like it’s nothing.

      You would have to be a robot to not be affected by it.

      Of course, this isn’t an excuse for them. The sane reaction to being constantly told bad things by a psychic vampire is to remove the psychic vampire from your life and not to act on what the psychic vampire has said.

      I mean, when your crazy Aunt Linda starts ranting at Thanksgiving dinner about how they put poison in the salad dressing, you don’t throw out the salad dressing you tell Linda that if she doesn’t like the salad dressing she doesn’t have to eat it otherwise she needs to shut up and eat her turkey.

      But you give crazy Aunt Linda 500 million a year and the ability to scream her insanity into 110 million people’s ears 24 hours a day and you get a world full of crazy people.

  • puppetx@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Hold on, gotta check with my pundits to see if I should be outraged about this or not…

  • Geek_King@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    It’s so very true, constantly creating boogeymen to whip up their base into a froth. In my area for months parents repeating things they hear about kids who identify as cats being provided litter boxes to pee in at school. Never once happened, it isn’t a thing.

    This approach has been followed over and over again, and it works so well to motivate those voters.

    • Rom@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      The funny thing about that kitty litter story is it actually did happen, in that some kids were really provided kitty litter and buckets for them to use the bathroom…except it was for use during prolonged school shooter lockdowns. Also Sharpies for “teachers to write the time they applied a tourniquet to a bleeding student, so paramedics know how long it’s been on.”

      So, you know, actual horrible shit, except conservatives pretend it’s the “woke mind virus” or “groomer teachers” or whatever who are responsible for it, and not their own inaction over children being continually slaughtered in their own classrooms.