Here’s one. If you use the word “they” in a post about how “they” are going to screw “you”, “us”, “me”, please provide a better idea of “who” “they” actually are. Maybe “they” are a known quantity for those “in the know”, but I like to have a more precise understanding of your “reality” to better understand who “they” are.
Maybe it’s always been like this and I was never aware, but media in general and social media in particular is mostly speculative and paranoid. I wonder what would happen if I used AI to review the universe of social media posts to determine the ratio of “it’s surely the demise of everything we hold dear and true” posts to posts about actual reality. I’m spitballing about 330:1.
Memory, meet hole.
Substitute“television” and “tube” with “social media” and “internet”.
Great news! The Siberian Terror Cabal briefly succeeded in breaching the northern line of our Freedom Alliance! But rest assured, our boys once again rose to the occasion and stemmed the tide! Unfortunately, the nylon supply route will suffer temporary disruption. Not to worry though ladies! Spring fashion collections will still arrive in time for Easter!
This post is olfactorily incorrect
OK, I’m a dyed in the wool liberal. You can ring a bell and my heart’ll bleed like the Nile in spring. But I have absolutely no tolerance for a stinky politician...from either political party! Democrats and republicans can honestly disagree about taxes, abortion, and drag queens ad nauseam. But a putrid pol? Get outta here, would ya!?! The nose knows what unifies this great nation!
Now that we’ve disrupted the Brosnian Terror Syndicate and destroyed their propaganda machine, there’s a new threat developing in the south. Our troops are sure to have their work cut out for them as they approach the enemy from the sea. Our smart weaponry will most certainly win the day as we continue our march to victory and freedom! Let’s pray that our austerity measures won’t outlive our collective discomfort and that our chocolate ration will soon be restored!
OMG!! 😱 The apocalypse is next week!! No...wait a minute, it’s actually going to be in three months and seven days!! (give or take a few here or there). And if you send $9.99 to PO Box 555, Pasadena, CA 91102, we’ll send an informative pamphlet and a special gift to ensure you and your family are safe and secure in this unprecedented time of peril in our country, er, for the planet!!!
It’s odd to me that we spent four flaccid years listening to Trump tell, what, like 30,000 lies? something like that? But when he says he’s “going to be a dictator on day one” all media (except Fox News et al) soils its collective pants. Trump is a fucking buffoon. Pearl clutching and swooning is exactly what he wants. Why does everyone continue to give it to him? And before you tell me to ignore it at my peril, tell me exactly how 50 states and 330 million people are going to get on board.
I gotta tell you I am impressed as all get out that Reuters did this:
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-slavery-families/
Jiu-jitsu liberal. Couldn't drink well enough to be a writer or a lawyer. Became a stoned philosopher instead. Sometimes pay the bills.