1/3 of the country don’t really pay attention to anything if it doesn’t affect them directly.
The biggest drama in my family is how my uncle failed to pay child support and now has to go to court. They only recently learned about ICE like a week ago, even though they’ve been in the news in my city for the past year.
At my night classes, someone brought up Epstein and a student my age said that she thought it was released a few years ago.
I won’t be surprised if the Superbowl will be the first time a large percentage of Americans even learn about ICE.
A lot of people don’t know about ICE because of personal distractions, but also the hyper-personalisation of mass media cooped all of us into our own bubble, which gives us information blindspot. We don’t really watch TV anymore, so we no longer share the same sources of information. Most people these days use social media for news, but the algorithm of social media curates our desires, which then forces us into a tunnel vision. Hence, we each live in different sets of reality, seeing only what the social media shows us.
But on the one hand, and I don’t know what to make of it, people genuinely switch off from the news because it makes them depress. I understand where they are coming from, but being completely cut off from news is just silly. A friend of mine did not even know about Trump threatening to take over Greenland.
At my night classes, someone brought up Epstein and a student my age said that she thought it was released a few years ago. I don’t think she’s stupid. She has like 5 kids and was attending night school for more job experience.
Yep, so much of people yelling about “stupid” voters is victim blaming people experiencing poverty and the US’s lack of social safety nets
I know through studies of the economic anxiety that the poor have, which led them to elect the populist right, but I didn’t personally feel it until I lived close to an underprivileged area. They do not get support from the government, and any social housing is blocked by the property-owning middle and wealthy class, because it brings down the property values. As a result, the poor are made to compete for limited resources with migrants, who themselves are victims of imperial capitalism through foreign interventions and environmental exploitation, leading to climate change and its resulting economic decline of the land prompt people to move. The competition for resources makes both locals and migrants go at each others throats, while the rich are laughing their way to the banks with the wealth pickpocketed from the rest of us.
1/3 of the country is regular sensible people
1/3 of the country is literal fascists who worship Hitler second to Trump
1/3 of the country is too stupid to know the difference
1/3 of the country don’t really pay attention to anything if it doesn’t affect them directly.
The biggest drama in my family is how my uncle failed to pay child support and now has to go to court. They only recently learned about ICE like a week ago, even though they’ve been in the news in my city for the past year.
At my night classes, someone brought up Epstein and a student my age said that she thought it was released a few years ago.
I won’t be surprised if the Superbowl will be the first time a large percentage of Americans even learn about ICE.
A lot of people don’t know about ICE because of personal distractions, but also the hyper-personalisation of mass media cooped all of us into our own bubble, which gives us information blindspot. We don’t really watch TV anymore, so we no longer share the same sources of information. Most people these days use social media for news, but the algorithm of social media curates our desires, which then forces us into a tunnel vision. Hence, we each live in different sets of reality, seeing only what the social media shows us.
But on the one hand, and I don’t know what to make of it, people genuinely switch off from the news because it makes them depress. I understand where they are coming from, but being completely cut off from news is just silly. A friend of mine did not even know about Trump threatening to take over Greenland.
Yep, so much of people yelling about “stupid” voters is victim blaming people experiencing poverty and the US’s lack of social safety nets
I know through studies of the economic anxiety that the poor have, which led them to elect the populist right, but I didn’t personally feel it until I lived close to an underprivileged area. They do not get support from the government, and any social housing is blocked by the property-owning middle and wealthy class, because it brings down the property values. As a result, the poor are made to compete for limited resources with migrants, who themselves are victims of imperial capitalism through foreign interventions and environmental exploitation, leading to climate change and its resulting economic decline of the land prompt people to move. The competition for resources makes both locals and migrants go at each others throats, while the rich are laughing their way to the banks with the wealth pickpocketed from the rest of us.
The American education system failed us by design