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Ok so I'm british so you will have to forgive my ignorance but how did the most stupid cunts in your country get in charge is it really that corrupt?
As a Millenial I have witnessed attacks on the quality of our education since I've been conscious.
I think the symptoms of cutting education over and over and over again are finally showing
We have another issue here there's old rasicts who pretend they remember the glory of the empire but the empire died way before they where born and they think Europe killed it so they hate Europe with a passion. It's fuckinf stupid but the papers here have alot of power over the retarded, we now have a fox news type thing but it's so shit it's just funny.
There not news remember! They're Fox Entertainment.
They admitted they are not factual, and thus are not news.
More specifically there was a case where a Fox News "reporter" was asked to do a story on something and what they saw did not match the narrative at all, they refused to play along and were fired for not telling the story the network wanted to tell. They sued, and the argument from Fox was that only the shows literally called the news were news and had any need to be truthful, everything else is opinion or entertainment and thus could lie as much as they wanted. If you look at their current schedule, I'm pretty sure "news" is down to the 11PM Fox News @ Night, the closest anything else gets is being "geared towards" news.
the attack has been ongoing for decades, im also a milleneal. this is from a blue area. its underfunded, if they have to pass failing students there is a problem(participation grades has been occurring since the early 2000s. the interesting thing is this plays right into being fodder for military recruitment too. just near my area theres at least 2-3 different service recruiment stations(usually around malls) within a couple miles radius. 1-2 extremely close another highs school. they are almost never in or near wealthy areas. go a little outside of city, in another out of the waymall is another recruitment center.
they love to glorify the few gifted/4.0 students at our schools and neglecting everyone else.
This. Education or lack thereof is why we are where we are.
Older American here, I remember the Before Times, so I can speak to how I've seen things change/crumble. Over the last twenty or so years everything has really accelerated. Social media is the biggest tool that outside and internal forces have used to destabilize democracy.
Democratic rule is terrible for business, people may make choices against your bottom line. On top of that, people like Iran, Russia, many others out there, want to crush America and never gave up their wars against us.
The KGB handbook details how to do what's been done to the US in great detail, how to amplify and boost the most confusing, chaotic rage-bait from both sides of every contentious issue until people basically tune out and just go along with whatever the government says. Makes people not get involved in electoral politics anymore. They did this in other countries that they've absorbed/annexed or have created sympathetic populations within.
If it was just Russia we probably could have countered it and defended better against it, but you combine that with the efforts of many other cells, different nations and contracted organizations doing the same thing, then add dopamine-addicting social-media algorithms and a deeply sabotaged education system, carefully tweaked interest rates and health-care obstacles, so that people are forced to work 6-days a week and are barely able to afford anything and can't spend any time learning or being curious, then a lot of very strategic messaging targeting specific portions of the population with racist, xenophobic ideas, and you have what we have now. A huge population held hostage by the smallest, dumbest, loudest segment.
And it's coming for you next.
(Also, this was all done before AI could specifically target every individual's most personal fears, desires and vulnerabilities, and could produce 100% convincing images and videos. We are all massively, thoroughly fucked.)
This can all be tied back to Fox News really.
This is what happens when you let a propaganda channel masquerade as news for 3 decades in your country with basically no pushback.
Just the fact that they haven't somehow been sued into oblivion, or curtailed by the government at all lends legitimacy to them.
The thing is, they were just sued for like a billion dollars by Dominion over the voting machine bullshit.. and it's just a drop in the bucket for their legal team.
now it largely branched out to propaganda networks, which is a favorite among millneals, genz conservative like oan and newsmax. additionally they follow the right wing grifters now.
I'm not old, but not young either, and I'd agree with your observations. It's getting very concerning.
I'm worried about my country becoming the Christian version of Iran.
A very valid worry, considering how Iran was and what it became after the fundamentalists got power. A shadow of its former self, even as one of the most modern and populated nations.
on reddit i was pointing out in the 1st term of trump how much russian back articles were being pushed on the subs, it was clear by then how they were moderating it even back then too.(this was before russia had a hold over r/conservative)
money. no US based news even reported on the racist, insane shit Trump was saying. constantly. you'd be hard pressed to hear Trumps voice before the election in the US, Fox was running 24hr news reals of "dirty Mexicans are flooding over the boarder killing and raping white women everywhere in the US" just over and over again. social media was flooded with posts of "Biden and Harris are Pro-Israel here's Israel killing children in gaza again" over and over. we had relatively low voter turn out, lot of very sudden voting changes right before the election, and Bezos, and Musk openly moving heaven and hell to support Trump. This is what capital wanted. a horrid, corrupt government that can be wielded with little effort.
yup, because all the MSMs are actually owned by conservatives hence the sudden change+ they had republican celebrities come out the woodwork to drum up more support, one thing cons love is celebrities, and gossip, its also to obfuscate republican, right winger roles in the epstein files/diddy.
Same way they got in charge of the UK.
There's an entire media ecosystem dedicated to protecting the ego of the stupid from the reality of their choices.
Et tu, Brexit?
Same way as in yours. Lot of cross pollination of the back end guys, actually.
No, no. This is just the tip of the iceberg.
We let the rich, who aren't necessarily the smartest people, get too rich, so they gained too much power. Worldwide problem though, as their influence doesn't stop at borders.
A combination of propaganda and fear.
Idiots continually voting against their own best interest in order to persecute immigrants, queer ppl, and other scapegoats. Also see: crony capitalism, corporate lobbying, and first past the post voting.
So yes it's fucked but ih all down start again hang the bastards
propaganda, fear/mysogyny/racism, and election machine rigging via musk satellite.
Yes, and you should understand the corruption quite well seeing it firsthand over there, right? (Sad to say.)
Yes