I feel like they need a “Chinese Trump” to open some eyes, kinda like it has for the US (and those that worshiped the US). Like, some head of state to succeed Xi that’s really sloppy and loud.

For all that has happened in US, the past decade has changed some very conservative family of mine… not all of them, but some.

I mean, we’re definitely converging towards that. To even get the web usable, we’ll need ublock-style (human curated) slop trackers as a first layer, then some kind of local agent double checking for obvious spam.

Could it perhaps be, I don’t know, the entire rest of the world calling out China’s own genocides?

And no, the US has no leg to stand on when it comes to stamping out ethnic groups, especially Muslims. So?

Behold, an outcast so slimey he got thrown out of office and shunned.

…And he’s trending on Twitter. He’s getting clicks and into people’s feeds.

This is why whe don’t use Twitter. Don’t feed the trolls.

Pasty faced millennial here.

Also EE dropout (working on that).

I hope I am as enlightened and put together as you when I’m 50. Cheers.

But I do have one answer for you:

I lost hope for this nation when Trump was elected this last time. I couldn’t understand how people could not see the obvious.

Facebook.

My ‘moment of clarity’ was when I saw a local news station running clips of college girls’ enthusiasm for Trump, just after the election. The sentiment was along the lines of “He’s so strong!” or “I really feel like he gets us, you know?” and almost directly quoting some meme’s I’d seen.

And seeing die hard libertarians I know swallow Trump’s accumulation of executive power, via their perception of events, drove it home.

…Walk the street, and look around. I’m using ‘Facebook’ as a catch-all here: algorithmic feeds and influencers are warping reality for smart folks, both ways. Every generation is caught up in it, but I feel the age extremes (Boomers and Z) are most vulnerable here.

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One unique thing I’ve observed is that big firms, especially the US ones, seem to miss all the cool innovations coming from LLM research papers… unless its in house, of course.

So it’s also insular corporate ‘don’t innovate, scale up’ culture kind of poisoning them too. They don’t have to be so expensive and big to be useful tools.

Why clog up .world’s front page with tabloids like rawstory and dailybeast? They just repost stuff with an angry headline and Twitter links. Why not link the original source?

Here it is, for reference:

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/poll-frustration-trump-gives-democrats-opening-year-midterms-rcna240551

But I’ve brought this up many times. Mods and posters don’t seem to care.

…Eh. I’m blocking this community.

I like most posts, but I’m sick of seeing tabloid outrage on the front page every day, like Reddit.

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(I watched the whole ad)

Yeah…

I mean, I’m a local ML tinkerer. I’m practically an AI-loving extremist on Lemmy, and this is just… weird? Even if I was a New York Republican or whatever, it feels like a clickbait supplement ad your boomer uncle’d send you from Facebook, complete with emojiis.

I think this is why many like Trump. For all his antics and trolling, it’s often authentic, where this feels like an alien trying to figure out what a young adult would tweet.

I’d say Cuomo needs to be authentic, too, but that’d probably be even worse, heh.

And just to add to this, it’s something interesting about the right vs left I’ve noticed, at least in the US:

• The “left” seems to expect ideological purity within their sect, but not political loyalty. They aren’t loyal to idols (with a few exceptions), but claws come out with the adjacent.

• The “right” is the opposite; an agnostic great replacement theory fanatic will rub shoulders with evangelicals and immigrant tech bro, with no conflict. But absolute loyalty is expected, like the idea of being part of a “tribe” is explicit.

It’s hyperbole, but the sentiment isn’t wrong.

Oh my god. They have do a show with a changeling crewmate or two. Please.

This is horrifying. Like, mind-bogglingly bad.

It’s also a blatant lie. Other countries are not testing nuclear weapons, they’re running simulations. We didn’t do that in the 60s because it wasn’t possible, but the US (and presumably China/Russia) literally have giant supercomputers for this purpose now.

…And we would know if they were doing real testing because it would show up on seismographs.

But who cares about truth? Or sanity? No, all my relatives (even scientifically minded ones) won’t even bat an eye, lest some Democrat steal their retirement, ugh.

Given the dead-hand policy, that’s easily the most dangerous mindset I’ve read on Lemmy.

It should make you more worried, lest faulty equipment leads to another incident like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Soviet_nuclear_false_alarm_incident

And we don’t have someone like Stanislav Petrov literally risking his neck to save civilization.

Just watch.

In 1 year (midterms), and in 3, US voters who starved from this will forget all about it and vote based on whatever outrage pops up on cable news or their social feed. And, more specifically, not vote in primaries where both party’s problems can really be addressed.

The whale, especially its ‘lip,’ is so perfect.

Bad headline.

…As he could have done this anyway? Like, what does the shutdown have to do with it other than optics and literal vengance?

LOT of The Guardian (click bait yeah, misinformation no), AP, Reuters, Al Jazeera and mocking the NY Times for sanewashing

I guess everyone has their different leanings, but I’m talking more about dailybeast, rawstory, literal tabloids that constantly hit the front page when sensationalist or sometimes flat out wrong headlines. There’s a reason Wikipedia avoids these.

Folks also spread twitter screenshots or memes that are easy to interpret as factual but are, in fact, completely fabricated. This is an example I’m thinking of: https://lemmy.world/post/36736401

And of course mods don’t care as long as it fits political orthodoxy, no matter how much its pointed out. I’ve even had Lemmy users express they ‘don’t care’ about the source quality, just that it matches their ideology. If the above was, say, a more tankie leaning meme, you can bet the mods would have zapped it instantly.

Lemmy has a lot of Anarchists and very true Left leaning people in general, which means knowing how to doubt everything corporate media puts out into the world.

Again, I’m skeptical of this, as it sure seems like tabloids are upvoted en masse as long as the title is juicy.

In other words, no one really seems to care about information hygiene unless its outside their bubble. Thats a recipe for spreading misinformation.

Lemmy is a bubble too, unfortunately. The top posts here are frequently clickbait websites or misinformation.

And it’s easy to look back on the nastiness of the old internet with rose tinted glasses, but… I think folks were aware of the absurdity, yeah. It was like being in a zoo. So I suppose I largely agree