Man, every time someone goes “I want to keep my news separate from my social media feed” you folks jump at the chance to be self righteous.
If Lemmy (or any social media) is your main source of news, or the sole way you keep up with politics, that’s a problem.
If you think that constant exposure to an inconsistent firehose of news even more effected by personal biases than normal is some sort of virtue, then you don’t have much media literacy, or any awareness of the many studies that show just how much this shit has negative effects on worldview and emotional state. Before you start in on “but the world is shit”, more than one of these studies specifically tracked differences between what people thought crime rates were vs what they actually were, based off news exposure. The result was that all the people in the study exposed to news media thought things were a significant order of magnitude worse than the real statistics.
It’s not a sin to curate your own exposure to the news media apparatus, or to control your exposure so it happens on your own terms. It is literally all designed to provoke strong emotional reactions in order to increase page views and therefore ad impressions.
Avoiding news entirely is a problem too, but this constant attacking of anyone who dares to publicly talk about curating their news media diet, and especially trying to lay the blame for current mess in the USA on them, is some bullshit of the highest fucking degree.
This isn’t voter apathy. It’s actually overwhelming how much of c/all is this shit. The same 15 posts of the day repeated multiple times in different communities. It’s mostly sensationalized editorials too and some of the more important news stories are completely missed. Even with these filters there’s a ton of memes referencing these things, so you’ll still have a sense of what’s going on anyway.
Knowing what goes on in the rest of the world isn’t bound to the requirement that you can change it there though, it just sometimes helps you deal with it at a local level better
Sorry I thought it was common knowledge that the US is the only country to drop nukes on actual human people. My mistake for giving people the benefit of the doubt on how much they know about significant world events. It was foolish of me to make that assumption in the current reality.
The funny thing* is that people ostensibly “on the right side of history” in the US are still chauvinist. The brainwashing runs deep and from a young age. I’m sorry, but Nobody Cares About You All.
When the pants shitting monkeys running America start nuking the fuck out of the rest of the planet indiscriminately, you might wish you had cared more about what was going on with those stupid fucks.
The voter apathy is how we got where we are.
And before you start talking about no progressives, the voter apathy is responsible for this too.
People just trust others do decisions for them so we got morons voting.
Man, every time someone goes “I want to keep my news separate from my social media feed” you folks jump at the chance to be self righteous.
If Lemmy (or any social media) is your main source of news, or the sole way you keep up with politics, that’s a problem.
If you think that constant exposure to an inconsistent firehose of news even more effected by personal biases than normal is some sort of virtue, then you don’t have much media literacy, or any awareness of the many studies that show just how much this shit has negative effects on worldview and emotional state. Before you start in on “but the world is shit”, more than one of these studies specifically tracked differences between what people thought crime rates were vs what they actually were, based off news exposure. The result was that all the people in the study exposed to news media thought things were a significant order of magnitude worse than the real statistics.
It’s not a sin to curate your own exposure to the news media apparatus, or to control your exposure so it happens on your own terms. It is literally all designed to provoke strong emotional reactions in order to increase page views and therefore ad impressions.
Avoiding news entirely is a problem too, but this constant attacking of anyone who dares to publicly talk about curating their news media diet, and especially trying to lay the blame for current mess in the USA on them, is some bullshit of the highest fucking degree.
Not wanting a firehose of shit being thrown at you every time you go online = voter apathy?
Like, fuck dude. The world sucks. When I’m not busy voting 99.999999999% of the year I just want to look at funny pictures of cats.
This isn’t voter apathy. It’s actually overwhelming how much of c/all is this shit. The same 15 posts of the day repeated multiple times in different communities. It’s mostly sensationalized editorials too and some of the more important news stories are completely missed. Even with these filters there’s a ton of memes referencing these things, so you’ll still have a sense of what’s going on anyway.
Contrary to popular opinion not everyone is from the States.
THANK YOU!
You think only the United States cares what Russia’s doing?
Knowing what goes on in the rest of the world isn’t bound to the requirement that you can change it there though, it just sometimes helps you deal with it at a local level better
Which country has actually used nukes again? Yeah ignore what’s happening in America.
Even with OP’s filters it impossible to avoid being exposed to the nonsense coming from the US, don’t worry
Nonsense is like life, it finds a way.
According to wikipedia, the United States, Russia, the United Kingdom, France, China, Israel, India, Pakistan, and North Korea
Are you keeping up with the news of each of these countries to calculate the chance of a nuclear war, you being unable to interfere in that?
Sorry I thought it was common knowledge that the US is the only country to drop nukes on actual human people. My mistake for giving people the benefit of the doubt on how much they know about significant world events. It was foolish of me to make that assumption in the current reality.
Typical USian chauvinism.
You think this is a pride thing? I’m not saying we’re superior; I’m saying we’re dangerous. Intelligence is dead.
The funny thing* is that people ostensibly “on the right side of history” in the US are still chauvinist. The brainwashing runs deep and from a young age. I’m sorry, but Nobody Cares About You All.
Ok.
When the pants shitting monkeys running America start nuking the fuck out of the rest of the planet indiscriminately, you might wish you had cared more about what was going on with those stupid fucks.
Dude, I have no voting rights there, what’s the use?
I sure hope their democracy is immune to foreign interference /s
Awesome so let’s just do that then?