Just because some highly mockable edgelord type says something mockably antithetical to the norms of a free society, or looks like an idiot, or -- as is so often the case -- both, this does not oblige you to make a big deal of mocking it, with a link back to their original brain-dropping.
If it's something that has to be seen to be believed -- and snickered at for awfulness -- then do a quick screen capture, share it, laugh and move on. Don't feed 'em links. Don't feed their quiveringly-needy egos. Not even if they send you a nice statue for your city park.
P.S.: "Psyop?" If you haven't read Sefton Delmer's accounts of his WW II propaganda-war efforts (accounts sadly limited by the Official Secrets Act), then don't try to tell me what is and isn't a "psyop." But here's a hint: all those TV and online news/opinion hosts don't know, either.
These HMEs feed on and need the attention. Watching these news/opinion pieces that are so devoted to refuting or “taking down” HMEs giving them the attention needed to stay relevant is frustrating.
ReplyDeleteI don't know what all the Rage Clickbait and Look At This Idiot! stories are doing to our culture & public discourse, but it can't be good.
ReplyDeleteThe quest to find real news and real commentary that isn't partisan copeium & hopeium is a difficult one.
Joe -
ReplyDeleteI think the rage clickbait is driving the negative view of Those Other Guys, as seen here:
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2022/08/09/as-partisan-hostility-grows-signs-of-frustration-with-the-two-party-system/
Those trend lines scare me. Those are our fellow citizens.
I remember when who you voted for only mattered on election day. It didn't define your whole personality, or worldview, or life.