• jobbies@lemmy.zip
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    7 months ago

    I would make a joke if this wasn’t deeply, deeply worrying.

    This is how the Nazis solidify support in genZ and genAlpha.

    America is fucked.

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      7 months ago

      A lot more than America becomes fucked when tiktok becomes owned by these guys. It’ll become their global platform to radicalize youth Nazis from one corner of the globe to another. Time to hope the youth outside America are smart enough to see thorough this, but if our recent Canadian election was any indication then they are not.

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        7 months ago

        A lot more than America

        I agree, but this is just tiktok in America. Everywhere else, users remain on the global version.

        ‘America is fucked’ because this comes alongside everything else - control of the media, control of all branches of government, building the paramilitary Gestapo (ICE) etc. The whole western world is at risk but America is further down the road.

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        7 months ago

        knowing trump is pissed off at many media, i’m not so sure about this

        Anyways, any obviously biased media is close to useless to me

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          7 months ago

          There are always biases though? I’m having trouble understanding why you find obviously biased media less useful. The more obvious the bias, the easier to boil it down to facts, no?

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            6 months ago

            I prefer making my own opinion of things. Consuming biased media will make me think a specific view is the truth, but there can be more to it

            Biased media makes you think an opinion is the truth, and that’s dangerous for your critical thinking abilities

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              6 months ago

              I disagree. Critical thinking abilities are the antidote to thinking an opinion is the truth.

              Illiterate medieval serf with no critical thinking abilities: “it is written, therefore it must be true”

              Vs.

              Modern, educated person subjected to gigabytes of information at their fingertips: “I’ll need to see a primary source for the info in this video because it looks like this YouTuber might have an axe to grind”