[quote]H factor wrote:
[quote]Aragorn wrote:
[quote]H factor wrote:
The VAST majority of my facebook is populated by good old boy small town redneck types which is where I’m from and where I’ve been around more of my life. Some fantastic people, but stupid as shit when it comes to political arguments. If I take a look at the politics on my actual feed 95% of it is “can you believe Obama is doing THIS” stuff that is literally debunked with one google search. No one on either side even attempts to determine if something is true. They just say it because the headline says it.
The few friends I have from the left side of the aisle I went to college with will do the exact same thing with the other side. I don’t even touch facebook politics because I would lose my mind. [/quote]
Yeah, I agree. I’ve lost my mind more times than I can count on there, every time swearing by all that is holy and just that I won’t go back. But just like an alcoholic, something happens after a long layoff to drag me back in. Sad. Don’t fall in the trap!
And you are really hitting the bullseye eith your comment about educated people doing the same shit on the opposite side of the other people. Before we used to really try as a group to support our positions from a stance of rational, logical argument and intuition. Now it seems I’m one of the only people that cares to do that anymore. On either side of the aisle. And if you don’t parrot the popular line, you’re now a bigoted racist traitor capitalist. Why? Just because, thats why.
Social media really hustled the train down the hill in a hurry.[/quote]
Spot on my friend. When people won’t even BOTHER to dig around to see if something is true it boggles my mind. If something sounds crazy my first instinct is to see if it’s true. Check up on it. People don’t have time for that shit anymore. I’ve got people on my facebook who if an article said Barack Obama ate a baby at the White House today for breakfast they would post that, say he’s disgusting and we need to impeach him.
It wouldn’t even cross their mind to see if someone was fucking around.[/quote]
Holy shit yeah. That is my EXACT first instinct as well. People can’t even hold conversations over dinner without bending over their fucking “smartphone” but somehow don’t have the time to perform a basic 3 minute fact check on the newest blurb they heard.
It’s sickening. That used to be the exclusive purview of the uneducated, but now the educated are every bit as awful at it. Sometimes worse, because they know they can get away with it.
Btw, I always love debating with you. And DB as well, because you guys are always sharp as a tack and still civil. We actually agree on quite a few things but of course, disagreement is more colorful haha.