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We are exposed to the same material as the people who choose to believe them. We aren't anymore special or smart than anyone else when it comes to material we have available or see when people smarter than us like doctors can choose to believe it.

You say take money out of politics and I agree, but money is currently in politics and these type of talks of education while true are not effective enough in a system that has money in politics. And social media is currently run by oligarchs. These type of changes will take decades to undo. Education alone is not enough to combat the problem right now.

And as you said dumb people were dumb before, but what has drastically changed is what dumb people in masses choose to believe leading to an increase uptick in harm to society. First it was flat earth people laughed about. Then antivax and now support of dictators.

People keep underestimating the power of disinformation and how quickly it takes root, but how even harder it is to deprogram.

You'd fit right in working for Facebook.

Yeah like imagine if Twitter had been banned in the US and how their election might have turned out. Things might have turned out worse like getting a dictator who is wanting to reignite land grabs of neighboring countries.

Not banning Twitter and attempts to educate from the liberals really worked out.

Education hasn't worked seeing how fascism has successfully taken hold through american social media, and no transparency over algorithms. And the people in charge pushing for fascism owning the sites and tuning the algorithm to their liking to promote and suppress information they want the masses to hook on to.

And it's not like only dumb uneducated people who have been lured into it. Those with educated backgrounds are just as easily influenced. That there are antivax nurses tells you everything there is to know about how effective education is.

Can you imagine people on /r/fednews, expressing what is going on if their true identities were known under the government that is in place right now? Trusted authorities can become the enemy in an instant as the US has shown to the world. All of a sudden what was considered safe expressions become thought crimes.

Hell imagine if that was how Twitter operated before the Musk purchase, and then all of a sudden him having access to that information as the trusted authority. Your concept of trusted authority relies on the trusted authority actually remaining something you believe can't be bought out or compromised.

Not to mention how often data breeches happen so trusted authority becomes everyone's information.

Is he another Russian asset getting ready to sell out his country?

I think point is to put on record for the history books who the turncoats are that supported this fascist takeover.

What...I thought we were team Hannibal.

We are reddit though just on a different site... lot of people mainly moved because of the api change.

Even someone believing they are "not like other redditors" is one of the most reddit stereotypes. Haha.

Those just come off as regular left to me.

When I think of radical left I think tanky types who are full on nationalists and pro authoritarian governments that suppress free think that they are indistinguishable from the far right other than just differences when it comes to stuff like government assisted programs.

If you have to use Twitter I recommend using squawker if you have android. Unfollow everyone from Twitter just use squawker to subscribe to accounts which provides a subscription feed that is local without adding the account followers.

Not a good idea to use the official Twitter app anyways with all the data collecting it can do and adding to follower counts adds added pressure to keep a presence there. Just turn into a ghost when it comes to Twitter usage.

That nice in theory but hasn't worked in practice.