MSM is like a strange drug that keeps us more upset than we need to be about some things, but not as upset as we should be about other things. It curates the news in such a way to keep people always on edge about what’s happening but never empowered enough to do anything about it

Dec 19, 2020 · 1:17 PM UTC

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Replying to @marwilliamson @LiveFromHK
Sure, ok
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I don’t know what MSM means but going to look it up now.
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Maybe you could use hobby so you weren't watching so much tv..
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Almost there, Marianne. There’s a word for this. Go ahead...say it.
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Replying to @marwilliamson @Petinavero
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” H.L. Mencken
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Replying to @marwilliamson
The problem is that people simply don’t have the time, energy, or interest required for effective civic involvement. This is why people gravitate towards cultism, even the left.
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This is why we need to teach critical thinking throughout all levels of education starting in kindergarten.
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It's carefully engineered to be thus with thousands employed to make sure the "trains run on time."
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It treats us like dogs, who understand tone but not content. After a while, we only respond to the tone. Starved of content, we exist politically from meaningless outrage to meaningless outrage.
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Can we just have a media outlet that ACTUALLY cares about working class people without being racist? That would be so nice.
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