Some dork with 200,000 followers saying the CCP is bad probably has 1/1,000,000,000th the influence on your average Americans opinion than one Fox News or CNN host has.

And on the flip side them stanning the CCP would have a similarly meaningless affect.

So idk why we spend so much time getting pissy at them for their hot takes when all when all of them disappearing tomorrow wouldn’t change anything.

  • friedchurros [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Gotta start somewhere, here's my horrible take: bad as it is social media and the likes on the internet are the newspapers of our time (cuz even less read those dead tree to flesh these days than watch your random Youtuber). We can't have access to other common media in this horrible place, no radio, no tv, no movies etc, this is the first modern medium the everyday person has even fleeting abilities over. If you can at least somewhat awaken 1 person its progress, not make them even principled, just get them a little more situational awareness than the average. Gotta have a foundation of sorts first. I think this whole "truth-seeking" reaction by the conspiracy community is partially driven by just an outward drive to fill that mental need for stimulation and awareness, but it fills it with dyed shit with pretty broken glass pieces instead.