"Hay AOC! Say the word!"
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I imagine her boyfriend feeling similar to Will Smith, panicked into doing something stupid to pretend to be a manly defender of his boss who he is terrified of. Lots of interesting dynamics there, including the first male protester with the voice more feminine than AOC’s
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There’s no genocide of Palestinians taking place. Why should she say genocide when it is not?
The only ones promoting anything resembling genocide is the leadership of Hamas and presumably, their followers.
Elbows up!
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There’s no genocide of Palestinians taking place. Why should she say genocide when it is not?
The only ones promoting anything resembling genocide is the leadership of Hamas and presumably, their followers.
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There’s no genocide of Palestinians taking place. Why should she say genocide when it is not?
The only ones promoting anything resembling genocide is the leadership of Hamas and presumably, their followers.
@Renauda said in "Hay AOC! Say the word!":
There’s no genocide of Palestinians taking place. Why should she say genocide when it is not?
Jesus, haven't you been paying attention? Every right-thinking person knows that "Palestinians" are being herded up, hauled off and summarily executed. To deny genocide makes you a Zionist fascist. Get with the program, please.
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Not going to lie, she looks kinda hot when she's angry. I'm surprised there isn't any security around her besides her wet noodle partner.
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I really wish this generation was better at critical thinking. Instead, they just take a look at surface details and don’t dig any deeper. It’s allowing them to be led and manipulated in dangerous ways.
The Brad
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I really wish this generation was better at critical thinking. Instead, they just take a look at surface details and don’t dig any deeper. It’s allowing them to be led and manipulated in dangerous ways.
@LuFins-Dad said in "Hay AOC! Say the word!":
I really wish this generation was better at critical thinking. Instead, they just take a look at surface details and don’t dig any deeper. It’s allowing them to be led and manipulated in dangerous ways.
AI will do us no favors there.
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@LuFins-Dad said in "Hay AOC! Say the word!":
I really wish this generation was better at critical thinking. Instead, they just take a look at surface details and don’t dig any deeper. It’s allowing them to be led and manipulated in dangerous ways.
AI will do us no favors there.
@Aqua-Letifer said in "Hay AOC! Say the word!":
@LuFins-Dad said in "Hay AOC! Say the word!":
I really wish this generation was better at critical thinking. Instead, they just take a look at surface details and don’t dig any deeper. It’s allowing them to be led and manipulated in dangerous ways.
AI will do us no favors there.
Oh man. One of my Twitter follows is this guy from BBC Verify. The amount of crap out there is absurd, on both sides. It doesn’t even have to be AI generated. Present videos from Syria and claim it’s Jews attacking Gaza…That kind of crap.
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I really wish this generation was better at critical thinking. Instead, they just take a look at surface details and don’t dig any deeper. It’s allowing them to be led and manipulated in dangerous ways.
@LuFins-Dad said in "Hay AOC! Say the word!":
I really wish this generation was better at critical thinking. Instead, they just take a look at surface details and don’t dig any deeper. It’s allowing them to be led and manipulated in dangerous ways.
tl;dr
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I really wish this generation was better at critical thinking. Instead, they just take a look at surface details and don’t dig any deeper. It’s allowing them to be led and manipulated in dangerous ways.
@LuFins-Dad said in "Hay AOC! Say the word!":
I really wish this generation was better at critical thinking. Instead, they just take a look at surface details and don’t dig any deeper. It’s allowing them to be led and manipulated in dangerous ways.
It's hard to know, but I wonder how different it used to be in the good old days. There were plenty of people unwilling to accept how awful Hitler, Stalin etc. were in the 30's, and lefties in particular were more than willing to overlook the purges going on in the Soviet Union. Another example, British Communists went overnight from protesting against the war against Germany (during the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact) to 'SECOND FRONT NOW' immediately after the USSR were invaded, and prior to WW2 many on the right tacitly supported Hitler as being an enemy of communism.
Also, the British press at least were frequently happy to toe the establishment line and not make the unwashed masses aware of what was actually going on.
The idea that the great mass of people used to have wonderful critical-thinking skills is nice, but I'm not sure it stands up to scrutiny.
I was only joking
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@LuFins-Dad said in "Hay AOC! Say the word!":
I really wish this generation was better at critical thinking. Instead, they just take a look at surface details and don’t dig any deeper. It’s allowing them to be led and manipulated in dangerous ways.
tl;dr
@89th said in "Hay AOC! Say the word!":
@LuFins-Dad said in "Hay AOC! Say the word!":
I really wish this generation was better at critical thinking. Instead, they just take a look at surface details and don’t dig any deeper. It’s allowing them to be led and manipulated in dangerous ways.
tl;dr
Lol
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@LuFins-Dad said in "Hay AOC! Say the word!":
I really wish this generation was better at critical thinking. Instead, they just take a look at surface details and don’t dig any deeper. It’s allowing them to be led and manipulated in dangerous ways.
It's hard to know, but I wonder how different it used to be in the good old days. There were plenty of people unwilling to accept how awful Hitler, Stalin etc. were in the 30's, and lefties in particular were more than willing to overlook the purges going on in the Soviet Union. Another example, British Communists went overnight from protesting against the war against Germany (during the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact) to 'SECOND FRONT NOW' immediately after the USSR were invaded, and prior to WW2 many on the right tacitly supported Hitler as being an enemy of communism.
Also, the British press at least were frequently happy to toe the establishment line and not make the unwashed masses aware of what was actually going on.
The idea that the great mass of people used to have wonderful critical-thinking skills is nice, but I'm not sure it stands up to scrutiny.
I don’t believe either that the critical thinking skills of the vast majority of the population were any better in past than now. Common folk in past - and by past I mean the last 200 hundred years - may have had a more practical savy with everyday manual tasks or skilled trades, but for more abstract endeavours such as political discourse, I don’t think they saw the world or understood it much differently than people today. As for the intelligentsia, it too grappled with pretty much the same opposing ‘isms and multitude of ideas as people now. My own grandparents’ generation produced defenders of democratic institutions and liberalism like Churchill and Attlee as well as FDR, Truman and Eisenhower. That generation also produced the extremist populism of Marxism-Leninism and fascism that spawned the unthinkable brutality of totalitarian governance and global war.
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The thing that generally gets overlooked when people talk about the book 1984 is that the proles really don't give a shit. Orwell must have based that idea on something
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The thing that generally gets overlooked when people talk about the book 1984 is that the proles really don't give a shit. Orwell must have based that idea on something
Likely. I would add that left alone, the outlook of the vast majority of people can be described as laissez-faire libertarian; that is, at least until such time that they are not either laissez-faire or libertarian.
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@Renauda @Doctor-Phibes I would use your arguments as support for mine. The very fact that we have these examples in the past and so many fail to pay heed suggests to me that the problem is worse.
The Brad
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@Renauda @Doctor-Phibes I would use your arguments as support for mine. The very fact that we have these examples in the past and so many fail to pay heed suggests to me that the problem is worse.
I would agree that it is on a larger scale than in past partly because populations have grown. I would also maintain that the speed, scope and accessibility of mass communications has shrunk the world and facilitated more people to become engaged be it productively or, unfortunately, destructively.
