do it for the other people reading.
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If I hated my mother, I’d do it.
Perhaps other Facebook friends will jump in. Either that or she’ll come to her senses and delete the comments.
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Just go with a non-trolling, truthful response. The truth is on your side here. If she wants to break the agreement, I don’t think a non-trolling truth bomb is that severe punishment.
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Facebook friends have been taking care of that.
She’s very Trumpian in her approach. Posts bullshit but never defend it when called out. Just moves on to post more bullshit.
To me being “human” is respecting my parents as people enough to care to correct them. It may be different if your parents are super close to death or frail or whatever but I challenge my parents’ stupidity and prejudice specifically because I give a fuck about them. I don’t correct the average Trumpkin or admonish a crazy person on the subway.
If they’re engaging in political debate on a digital public square like your facebook page they’re opening themselves up for respectful but honest criticism.
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These 2 posts are completely unrated. The first one i replied to. The 2nd one is my BIL. His post is just a normal Facebook post.
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I used to do that. Did it regularly prior to the 2016 election.
She neither responded to acknowledge the correction nor defend what she said. She never changed her mind and continued voting Republican, something she has done throughout her entire life.
Some people are far too gone. The last time I pushed her was when child separation became a thing. Thought that’d change her mind but nope. My sisters figured it out earlier than I did.
That’s why I keep it respectful and hope some of the audience reading it is getting the benefit. I was raised to “keep it all in the family” and am slowly starting to recognize how unhealthy that is.
Got some great news tonight. Apparently my dad has moved from FNC to Newsmax which I can only assume is one step away from 4th Reich News. Oh joy.
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I had never heard of Newsmax until today when youtube recommended me a bunch of their videos. Looked like a bunch of right wing propaganda and fake news that right wingers will think is real. It was recommended right along side traditional main stream news like ABCnews, CBSnews and Foxnews.
Democracy is doomed and social media is to blame.
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JFC youtube sucks so fucking bad. I have them as much more damaging than twitter and FB.
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Agreed. I mean you can literally go from some innocuous shit to Nazi propaganda in like 4 - 5 recommended videos.
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Yeah it’s facebook then youtube then twitter for me. This is not because I think youtube is better than you do… I just hate Zuck that much.
it might be easier to accelerate towards rock bottom than trying to slow it down. like at this point my deplorable is consuming gru misinformation before it filters to newsmax or even infowars.
yeah, blocking recommendations and only watching subscriptions is the bare minimum for consuming utubz nowadays.
YT is pretty bad. I like watching homesteading videos but often end up on hard-core right wing militia prepping channels if I just let them scroll through.
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Watching anything atheist or even philosophical on youtube would Autoplay you straight to the alt-right a couple years ago. Or to a video of a still image explaining why trans people are spooky.
There is still some of this. A lot of benign looking “Stoicism” videos are alt right adjacent in the sense that they’re targeted at men that are struggling so YouTube immediately sends you to Joe Rogan and Jordan Peterson videos.
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My pop is watching it as well. Apparently that’s where Mark fking Halperin landed. He is the guy who used to always appear on MSNBC before he got got by MeToo, ldo Newsmax doesn’t care about sexual harassment.
You would think this could be easily demonstrated during Congressional hearings. Maybe they will try it.