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Real talk, we have to figure out how to handle this kind of chronic fear and paranoia, because this shit ain’t normal, but it is frighteningly common.
Like yeah this is a hilariously over-the-top example, but the amount of people you and I both know who go through life genuinely thinking that they’re going to be the victim of a kidnapping or worse at any given time is astounding. And it’s not without impact either, because this is exactly the unfounded sense of fear that conservatives/fascists seize on to manipulate the population.
I don’t know the solution, but a world where everyone is afraid of their own shadow is a literal hellscape.
If I were a betting man, I’d wager this woman spends a lot of time scrolling through right-wing posts on Facebook about the “invasion” of Britain. A Brexit type, if you will.
That’s just speculation in this specific case, but the amount of fear-mongering right-wing content on social media is absolutely a contributor to this kind of worldview more broadly.
A contributor? I would call it a primary source, tbh.
There were people who went out and shot at water towers during the radio airing of War of the World’s. Floridians will routinely try to make hurricanes go away by shooting at them. Police get hundreds of calls about Venus every year.
There’s no fixing this type of stupid. All we can hope for is to keep it from spreading too far.
God damnit, stop making the case for eugenics already. Let RFK’s absurd health advice do its thing, weed them out, and we can hand out the Darwin awards in a few years.
That’s still eugenics, just as side effect
When I said no fixing I meant it. Not even genetic manipulation can fix this kind of stupid.
The solution is multi-factorial and will take a generation to implement. Expand the social safety net, expand public education to encompass critical thinking skills and researching skills, restrict private media monopolies that hold public consciousness in a deathgrip.
The way to handle it is to find the “The Architects of Fear”, getting rid of them, and making sure no new ones take their place.
I don’t think you’ll ever be able to get fully rid of religion and terrorists
Do you know what else terrorists use all over the world? Cars! How long will we allow these dangerous contraptions to be freely available?
You are now an admin on /c/fuckcars
Cars have legit gotten somewhat popular as a rampage weapon in Europe. I think knives are still number one but there’s a trend for sure.
Those poor mass murderers just couldn’t get their hands on a gun. So unfair!
Knives are still number one because some of us can’t afford a car!? Mass murder isn’t the cushy gig it once was, between enshittification, inflation, corporate greed, etc.
How deep do you need to be in the propaganda to think like that?
I literally had an old lady tell me that black lives matter was going to take over destroy the UK and take over Britain. Like the organisation. There are some people that are so deep in right-wing newspaper and Facebook shit that they will unironically spout something like that.
That is literally frightening. I honestly feel bad for her. That is not a good life. Pushing hate like that requires a lot of internal suffering.
Don’t do social media, kids.
I mean, we’re also using social media but can still recognize that she’s delusional. There’s a lot of different factors contributing to people’s delusions.
I lot of people are like this. They don’t conceive a world outside their own. When I was in grade school, so many people in my hometown thought that… we were going to be the next Columbine (not like there were any kids actively acting odd, just the feeling that we were somehow important enough to have such a tragedy). They also thought several big companies were going to open up shop (like Best Buy, Red Lobster, etc… it was the 90s). Currently, some people still live there who think they have the highest number of Somalians living there (they don’t), the largest amount of Muslims (they don’t), and they’re like the drug central for the state (they’re not). It’s a small town filled with people who don’t really travel more then a few hours any direction and so they really don’t have a concept of what’s outside their world. The town of 20,000 must represent ALL 8+ billion people. If something bad is happening somewhere, then it MUST be happening really close to them. I had someone message me about how the Chinese were basically getting ready to invade them (so many texts about that). Oh, and after 9/11, so many people legit though that small town no one knows exists, was definitely going to be targeted next by middle-eastern terrorists…
and they’re like the drug central for the state (they’re not).
To be fair you never know. There is a small town fairly near where I live that had one of the largest meth production operations in the country at one point. Turns out it’s pretty easy to make a lot of drugs and not get caught when you do it in the middle of nowhere.
Average right-wing american levels
Britain might be better off banning American TV for a bit
I don’t think they’re much better. British TV is what created the modern antivaxx people with the MMR Scare
Don’t forget that in WW2 UK civilians were taught to pay attention to other peoples’ shoes because of rumours of hairy-handed nuns in Fallschirmjäger issue boots. This kind of shit is nothing new.
There genuinely were German spies in Britain though.
Holy propaganda victim
victim of mass media brain rot
My thoughts as well.
It makes me wonder about my own fears. How many of them were put there by propaganda?
For one, there’s journalists picking the dumbest tweets and pretending it’s news. Then screenshots of the “news” article of a dumb tweet getting propagated on other fora.
It’s ragebate, conditioning us into a default distrust in and condescension of others.
for a second I thought this was a fucking onion article lol
Sorry to Americans, but at first I thought this must have been from the US.
There would have been mention of some of the paragliders shot.
Don’t forget the GoFundMe for the mental anguish of arbitrarily murdering someone…
Dont worry. The Brits are dumb as fuck too.
That picture is not Doncaster, It’s Devils Dyke in Sussex, UK. It is facing East toward Chanctonbury Ring (furtherest hill in the distance). Behind the photographer will be a pub and a carpark. Its a drive of about 230 miles between there and Doncaster. #justsaying
Well, duh. The photo isn’t of Doncaster because it’s already fallen to Hamas.
So you’re #justsaying that the chickenshit woman is also full of regular human shit?
More likely the ‘journalist’ just grabbed a stock image (it even credits Getty Images) of paragliders.
sLaMs
These are the same types of idiots that think they’re going to be targets of a terror attack in some small backwater town.
These types of propaganda methods really resonate with boomer types.
I remember someone that thought that they were going to be mailed anthrax back when they had the anthrax scare in the US.
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How much anthrax do you think terrorists have that they could afford to mail it to you, a random person in the US?
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Why do you think you’re so important that you’re going to be targeted?
You need to either be clueless or really full of yourself to think these scenarios apply to you.
The only time you’re possibly going to be caught up in something is if you’re going to an important or significant place, or you’re interacting with people much more important than you are.
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Odd woman yells at
cloudparagliders.
sauce?
Junji Ito for sure
Gyo, it’s the same guy who created Uzumaki
forgot there were sharks thought it was just the fish with the spindly legs
Well she is from Doncaster so that explains a lot of her delusional thinking.
Ah yes, because paragliders obviously are a very good invasion method. How indoctrinated do you have to be to think this???
also before i clicked the imagine i thought it was the flag of estonia of a sec
tbf,
the fact that a handful of paraglider managed to overcome one of the most advanced and well financed military on the world, through one of the most militarised and surveilled borders in the world, into one of the most militarised countries in the world, is quite impressive.
There is a trick to bypassing the Israeli defenses. Just make sure what you’re doing will be giving the unhinged leader of the genocidal regime a casus belli to launch a war of conquest that they can sell as a defensive war, and suddenly you’ll find you can do anything.
AFAIK It did happen in brittain… in ww2.
We should study her brain
Maybe, but I think there’s something much more insidious going on here than a random person with weird delusions. I think this is a symptom of the panic narrative that’s being boosted all over the world by far-right parties and candidates, social media, and incompetent - or at least misguided - news networks.
If you keep hearing about how the big evil is all around you - it’s your neighbors that looks different, your colleagues with a weird accent - and that that evil is coming to get you sooner rather than later, then when you see something that looks different than usual, what are you gonna think it is? The big evil you’ve been hearing so much about, of course.
This time, it’s some old lady thinking paragliders are Hamas, but many times it’s some other people saying “the gays” are trying to spread communism and infect the children.
This was my takeaway. Shes so spun up with fear she sees on TV she thought it possible it could show up at her door.
It would be more useful as a paper weight
