These are the people that I would think it might be worth sending a email with the same viruses they already have allover all of their communication devices to know which sites they frequent/account names so that you can then make a bunch of sock puppet accounts and start reprogramming them to all the bullshit that they have been brainwashed on by the Republican/Trump con.
I really don't even think it would be that hard, it would just take consistency.
You would have to cut them off from church. Without that there is no hope.
And my office Karen plays podcasts, as do I, so it is easy to know what she is influenced by. Most of them are watching Fucker Carlson regularly, she is playing Diamond and Silk (literally the most obvious grift ever).
I started it. I listen to what they call propaganda because every day I listen to "The Daily" by the NYT and the BBC's world news. I even forgo the former if it is discussing one of their sacred cow issues and just wait until the ride home. Think back 20 years. Can you imagine having news on in the workplace being considered a provacation? It is now.
They believe they are listening to the same sort of thing. It never occurs to them that both the podcasts that I listen to do a very good job of exploring "both sides" of an issue even if they take an opinion. Literally
none of their podcasts do this. The closest they come is to burn an occasional straw man. But they honestly believe that what they are listening to is fair and balanced. Rush used to say so, and so did FOX. So it must be true.
Shit, I listened to Limbaugh in the early nineties. I remember how he would tell his listeners "you don't have to read books and papers, I will read them for you and tell you what to think." To me is was just braggadocios - the hustle of an entertainer. I am guessing that Rush was a little surprised that these fucking fools believed him. He laid the road that led to Trump, who most of these assholes found "hilarious" but also considered him to be credible. Right
@GodAlwaysWins? That was
your word in the quote marks.
I read a disheartening article a few years ago about a study that found that more than half of Americans are not able to distinguish opinion from fact. From what I recall, the study went along the lines of giving high school students a bunch of info about something like milk. They would float them info like "milk is rich in calcium" and "calcium is necessary for bones to grow properly" with the relevant scientific sources - and included in the mix would be something like "the American Dairy Association says that drinking milk daily is important to your health." Afterward they would quiz them about what they read and which elements are fact and which are opinion. They found that about 75% of them believed that drinking milk daily was important to their health was a fact. A truly disheartening number believed that milk is rich in calcium and calcium is an important component of bones was opinion.
It was just a matter of time before the malevolent hoisted us on this petard. Its unthinkable that we wouldn't be put to this test.
Well played, motherfuckers, well played. But it would be premature to claim victory just yet.