Re:How Twitter Rigged the Covid Debate
by spritefs on Tuesday December 27, 2022 @12:36AM
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If people don't trust a system that raised them, there are inherent flaws with the system that it is either unable or unwilling to address
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Just because X is bad doesn’t imply Y isn’t worse
Sure, but a major flaw of the American system is that it's deliberately pushing its people into being distrustful of the system (and each other). Not trusting the government, or wanting to make it less effective, is considered a virtue in many parts of America. (And it's not just the conservatives.)
Re:How Twitter Rigged the Covid Debate
by spritefs on Tuesday December 27, 2022 @01:31AM
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> it's deliberately pushing its people into being distrustful of the system (and each other)
A little bit of skepticism isn't a bad thing. Teaching kids that politicians can be corrupt isn't bad
What is bad is teaching people that society and govt are inherently corrupt. That's a recipe for disaster
Re:How Twitter Rigged the Covid Debate
by subradios on Tuesday December 27, 2022 @02:32AM
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Yes, but those flaws are not simply among the people these criticisms are leveled at.
Technocratic autocracy created the issues, but the response is typically "so add more technocratic autocracy".
It's not just those evil billionaires (read, people in the .1 percent whereas being on HN makes you highly likely to be in the 1%) manipulating society, it's Good, Honest, Educated professionals who are making incorrect or reactionary decisions regularly and doubling down when called on it.