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Israel firing sniper rounds and launching drone strikes into Gaza City isn't terrorism, it's Smart Data Driven Policing
zifnab25
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It’s not that people wrongly perceive that institutions have eroded, they rightly do
The hysteria over masks and vaccines are entirely fabricated. And they are the result of increased faith in institutions - particularly, popular faith in right wing media outlets - which have also been peddling hoax remedies for health and safety in tandem with their fearmongering aimed at proven preventative measures.
Grifters are getting away with grifting under eroded institutions,
Con-men must necessarily build up confidence in their own brands before they can execute their scams. And the consolidated, coordinated media markets make confidence-building exercises easier than ever before. One of the more nefarious aspects of the right-wing media gambit is in how each individual institution will denounce the others, while they all repeat the same underlying message. "COVID came from China" was a message you could hear directly from the Trump WH, from FOX News, from pre-Elon Twitter, from the NYT, from Alex Jones, and from Joe Rogan, all while these various individual outlets claimed they were the only ones you could trust. Similarly, Fauci's CDC was telling people that masks were unnecessary long before OAN or the Televangelicals got in on the game. Liberal pundits questioned the efficacy of vaccines while Trump promised "Operation Warp Speed" would deliver a panacea, then started naysaying the necessity of quarantines and masks as soon as Joe Biden was in the White House. Meanwhile, conservative and liberal media alike used the pandemic to justify immigration bans and school privatization bans, while complaining that their rivals weren't going far enough.
Polarization decreased the overall faith in institutions, but it cultivates fanatical devotion to individual shards. When these institutions are all being fed the same slop by a handful of coordinated news power brokers, the end result is people believing the same silly bullshit while convincing themselves their Sinophobia / Racist Hysteria / Vaccine Skepticism is different from all the crazy people who listen to different media vendors.
The 90s Are Alive Again
Hi mom!
Tonight we're gonna party like it's 1999
Teenage me also feeling extremely attacked
Would that 2020 Beto O'Rourke have enjoyed the political savvy of 2024 Ted Cruz and simply not run for President
It came from wave after wave of disinformation, first via institutions that have been hijacked by the private sector and then by mercenaries looking to shill phony panaceas to a desperate and gullible audience.
This isn't simply people growing more skeptical. I wish it was a legitimate increase in national skepticism. It is, instead, a group of media institutions that have made a game of calling each other "Liar!" to accumulate additional media market share, and then monetizing that market share by selling quack remedies. It is, if anything, an increased frequency of gullibility fostered by media consolidation and coordination.
Part of the problem is that we never properly eradicated it. We just let the disease fester in the poorest and most downtrodden communities, because we could save a few bucks that way.
Now that we're embracing the Far Left Communist Policies of Degrowth, by way of degraded housing, consumerist health care, and defunded public utilities, we're reintroducing contagious diseases to the parts of the population that can no longer afford to guard against them.
These are the wages of Socialized Health Care. The only solution is to become more fiscally conservative and to teach people the value of clean living, hard work, and an immune system fortified with herbal supplements.
If Tianamen Square happened today in DC, the guy standing in front of the tank would be labeled a Tankie
It isn't, though.
I'm an incredibly small bean, policing data at this scale is borderline impossible, and we already demonstrated (via RIAA/MPAA wack-a-mole enforcement efforts) that this isn't profitable in any meaningful sense.
The only people who really benefit from this kind of legislation are Mega-Corps who want to compel one another at some macro level.
The real end goal here is to force OpenAI to purge it's model of images captured from Marvel or Disney or some WB property. Nobody is coming for your home rolled desktop image generator.