Re:What the Hell Is Going On? Effects of Information Abundance
by base698 on Monday March 18, 2019 @12:48AM
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It's funny how all the Occupy Wall Street protesters on the news were homeless, all Obama supporters were welfare supported, and all Trump supporters are ignorant rednecks. Socialists are all unemployed and look lazy.
So weird how they all find their way onto the news. It's almost as if they were selected by image to fit a story.
Re:What the Hell Is Going On? Effects of Information Abundance
by mistermann on Monday March 18, 2019 @10:21AM
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What's even funnier is how easily even intelligent people on intellectual websites like HN can fall for such bush league propaganda techniques. I don't know how we can ever fix this problem if even smart people aren't able to see it.
Here, watch this BBC video [1] where they interview Trump voters about their views on the "mainstream media" (by which you quickly realize they mean anything that doesn't deal in pure pro-Trump anti-librul propaganda). Here's an article [2] on a study showing that pro-Trump people specifically like to consume fake news shared via Facebook.
But personally I didn't really need a study to tell me any of that -- how do I know? I live and breathe and observe the world and people around me...
And yes, this is a generalization and not true of every single Trump voter. Obviously. All I really claimed was that Trump supporters will definitely be a minority of readers of a blog like this.
[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-38191313/no-tr...
[2] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/feb/06/sharing-f...