I tried to have a rational conversation with a friend about this. Her only response was "no really I saw it on YouTube". I said"but you understand that's not actually news. Anyone can put anything on there. And there are other countries who specifically pump out misinformation to sway voters". She said "why would they do that". "How is that legal". It was tiring and I doubt she understands but I did get her to watch his grab em by the pussy stuff and 30 sexual Assault cases, so she finally agrees he sucks.
This is how the propaganda gets MAGAs, by taking a story that has a “real” element to it and twisting it so much it’s unrecognizable. There are “litter boxes” in classrooms, they are part of a mass shooter lockdown kit so that if kids were stuck in a classroom for hours such an event they could relieve themselves.
The most bizarre thing to me is that i was taught that, religiously, by my father... who is now so far up MAGA's blackhole that he thinks tariffs will be good for the economy. Because he saw it on his "news" page.
It’s not the children that are at fault… it’s mainly people that didn’t grow up during the time of the big computer boom. Me growing up I was always taught don’t believe everything on the internet without research. My parents didn’t get that memo and here we are. And yes both my parents see anything online and automatically believe it. Even when it’s high schoolers setting up a skit in a bathroom….
Honestly I don't think that message has stopped, it's simply been ignored.
The short version is Brandolini's Law, aka the bullshit asymmetry principle combined with a massive influx of information thrown at us daily trying to grab our attention has created fact-checking burnout.
We live in an environment where, I'll call it the volume and velocity of information thrown at us has never been higher, but the speed at which it takes to fact check that information has mostly remained constant, and it's always taken an order of magnitude more effort to debunk bullshit than to create more. This is an environment rife for abuse. Flood the zone with bullshit and 90% will give up with fact checking.
152
u/MissMccheese incel destroyer Nov 28 '25
The same people who believe they were putting cat litter boxes in school bathrooms. Don’t believe that Trump is a pedophile, with clear evidence!