At this point I don’t even know what’s satire and what’s real.
It feels like being the straight man/woman in a Monty Python sketch.
i have been calling it “post irony” for years.
Realsatire
These post are bad yes, but the real problem is all the likes, comments and retweets they got. We are deep within the brainrot era now fam.
tbf we don’t know how many of those are real people, they love big fake numbers over there
Look, im with them on the plastic straws and the terminally ill children.
and yet it’s been compressed to hell and back like it’s from 2013
Jpegs have a certain crunch you can taste
Fucking hell, are we under attack by some alien plot? Is it a virus that affects the brain?
60 years of right wing propaganda edging us ever closer to outright fascism wrapped in an American flag stitched together with hate.
60 years of right wing propaganda
…hyperinflated by social media algorithms in the last decade or two.
Unfortunately they were savvy enough to recognize the possibilities early.
edit: also historically - overly emotional propaganda is a hallmark of authoritarianism - social media turned out to be extremely suitable for amplifying that
Excess wealth. Wealth rots the brain.
Leaded gasoline
Leaded paint chips are sweet
Mmm, chips…
Some of it is legit self-sustaining grassroots stuff. Some is funded by Russia (curiously I don’t think China does this stuff a lot). Some in the first category started as stuff in the second category.
This is standard geopolitics. You find dissatisfied people in the population of countries you don’t like, and then you support those people in various ways in order to destabilize your competitors.
This is standard geopolitics. You find dissatisfied people in the population of countries you don’t like, and then you support those people in various ways in order to destabilize your competitors.
no, not really, it’s only the last 20-30 years and mostly used like this by russians (also includes things like setting up conspiracy theory websites without obvious ideological tilt (at first), maybe to groom suggestible population for later use). the old way was to try to bring these people to your cause, not just to try to cause non-directed disorder
Oh, everyone does this and it’s not new. The US has done this an absolute ton, and is still doing it in, for example, Iran. Arguably the US exists because France did this to the British empire, although France was unusually direct in its support of the rebels. Recently, Pakistan did this with Afghanistan. It’s incredibly common.
Is it a virus that affects the brain?
That would only work for people with brains.
The first one surely aged fast.
Musk probably still has ketanine fuelled wanks dreaming about Trump’s loaded diapers.
Is ye just bizzaro Tracy Morgan from 30 rock
“I AM A
JEDI!NAZI! I AM AJEDI!NAZI!”
why has trump two different pfps
One is from “Truth” Social, or whatever his social media thing is called.
I legitimately thought this was satire.
I will admit to not liking Paper Straws since last I used one it just melted in my drink. Been meaning to invest in a reusable straw to avoid plastic but not use paper.
Straws really are the least of your worries. I have metal and silicone straws, and they work, but they suck to clean, and I’m not sure how many times I’ll need to use them before they’ll pay back for themselves.
The more problematic things are later single use plastics like bags, fossil fuels in cars, etc. Don’t feel bad for using a plastic straw every so often.
