Capitalists crave that mineral

Commitment I don’t have. Your strength is immense.

Y’all are straight up gnoshing those taters raw??

lol just looking at the account tells you everything you need to know

Oh so now you’re concerned about where your orders come from and why

Hadn’t heard of SRA before and this org is a massive resource for information. Thanks for link!

It’s hard to encourage others to put on their “critical thinking cap” when some of them (okay probably the vast majority) have been unknowingly influenced by this kind of media manipulation for so long. I have a hard time knowing how to bring it to people’s attention without sounding like a broken record myself. I think critical thinking has simply become unattractive to a lot of people cause it takes more time and effort than they’re accustomed to. It’s easier to blindly trust and if it hasn’t killed me so far, how could it possibly be bad?

They probably don’t even teach kids in school to read multiple news sources or how to check for reporting bias anymore.

In any case, your suggestions to help community and watch actions over words are important ones that I try to encourage in those around me as well. Enough to reiterate in caps:

LISTEN TO AND SUPPORT YOUR NEIGHBORS! They will be the first ones you hear from when your community is being threatened. Either we can all be allies against the regime together or we can let it infest our communities through distrust and let it ruin us. Fascism ain’t no joke.

Took the time to read the whole thread you referenced and it was worth the time imo. Also took me too long to realize it’s from 10 fuckin years ago… we’re undoubtedly reaping our “reward” from the apathy and ignorance at that time about how these tools could be used to influence the general populace through just social media and consumer data. Womp womp :(

“Failing to plan is planning to fail”

Aye, fascism doesn’t believe in law or justice. Just power.

At first I thought this was some kind of meta meme

Edit: OP fixed it and now there is meme lol

As someone from the US, if researchers, scientists etc. want to leave, I’d much rather they go to countries who will actually value the work they do so this ain’t all bad

Someone who understands lemmy better than I do ought to cross post this to nottheonion

Needed the optimism and the chuckle, so thanks lol

Oh man an edit of this bag that replaces the text with “Deez Nuts” and the brand with “Gottem” would be prime

Came for Futurama reference, saw Nixon, upvoted immediately