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And then we ingested a bunch of lead through our lungs

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If anything, this should tell us the trolls won.

Or at least have been more successful then they ever should have been.

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5G hadn’t been invented yet. They had nothing to worry about back then.

/s

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“We’re not gonna make it, are we? Humans I mean” -John Connor- Terminator 2

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I could feel my dread go as I heard that lines over the years, as a young teen? Of course we will we always have, we endure. As a middle aged adult? I’m not so sure we aren’t going to shove ourselves back to the cave man era and not enough people will listen to anyone with survival knowledge for the species to survive.

Then I think about how many species that must have and will happen to in this vast universe, so we’ll probably be an average result heh in the grand scheme of things that is.

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we always have, we endure. As a middle aged adult? I’m not so sure we aren’t going to shove ourselves back to the cave man era

If we do, we’re stuck there. We don’t have enough fossil fuel left to re-industrialize

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Okay, so we’re roughly in the middle…Are we on the left or the right of Fermi’s bell curve?

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“It’s in your nature to destroy yourselves”

-the terminator

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I think social media algorithms have fried people’s brains. Imagine we’d ban them, go back to content being kinda diverse and random, without adversaries able to game the system and push massive swaths of propaganda to people. The fact alone that most youths get their news from freaking TicTok of all places…

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Why would anybody bad them, >50% in the US just voted to expand them massively and apply them ~everything. Oh and that money for the masses sucks versus money for grifters only, so I for one welcome Freedom Coin 2025 which rugpulls about 2 weeks after introduction.

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If it’s propaganda to make people believe the truth, is it bad?

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Interesting hypothetical, but not what’s happening.

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It’s a question. You know what a question is, right?

You people are so used to these weird games that every question must be an insinuation.

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Depends who’s the arbiter of truth. Still propaganda

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You know your local news network has a TikTok right? There’s nothing wrong with news from social media. The problem is that media is unregulated and people are allowed to lie and pass off that information factual.

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You know your local news network has a TikTok right?

That’s not what people watch though. People get their news from “influencers”, often time those with far right alignments, or straight from fascist parties who are the ones with the most reach on TicTok.

The problem is that media is unregulated and people are allowed to lie and pass off that information factual.

That’s literally what the free press is, and a fundamental pillar of a free and democratic society. Regulated media is censored media, and exactly what fascists want. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_the_press

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Being “press” does not give you blanket protection from lies. Alex Jones just lost his company because he lied about Sandy Hook victims.

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