Your example isn’t bad. You could go further. 1,000,000 vs 1,000,000,000. Massive difference.

The problem is when we live in a world when we have millions of people with less than $1,000, and others have more than $300,000,000,000.

I’m getting a lot of miles out of Orwell these days.

This process of continuous alteration was applied not only to newspapers, but to books, periodicals, pamphlets, posters, leaflets, films, sound-tracks, cartoons, photographs – to every kind of literature or documentation which might conceivably hold any political or ideological significance. Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the Party could be shown by documentary evidence to have been correct, nor was any item of news, or any expression of opinion, which conflicted with the needs of the moment, ever allowed to remain on record. All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary.

• 1984

Just another politician doing the wrong thing and then acting like they didn’t understand it later. Because there aren’t any consequences.

“They don’t believe us? Uh oh, now what do we do?”

I’d be careful with this. The NRA blamed Walz for essentially inciting the shooting. I don’t have much hope that republicans calling for investigations would not try to spin it to blame democratic officials.

The apple is rotten to the core. Taking this sadistic MF out isn’t going to fix anything when they’ve given all the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys badges and paychecks.

You can say whatever you want on social media, they don’t control what you see! - Lemmy, complaining about censored w*rds in social media copypasta here.

Only if you’ve been asleep and ignored the bots, troll farms, social media subversives interested in clicks (paid or otherwise), international interference using the same tools, billionaires pushing the media to tell lies or hide the truth.

What a useless article. We’re already overwhelmed with lies and half-truths. The only thing that’s going to happen is that a few troll farm employees are going to be out of work when they get replaced by AI.

Greater Boston:

More feels before reals. They’ll follow a completely fake person as long as it reinforces their echo chamber.

Being a decent person means you are unwilling to do things you know are going to hurt others, even if they’re assholes. You’ll avoid conflict.

The problem is that assholes have no such restrictions, so they’re just fine with fucking other people over.

And then you have the people that drive past the car crash who just don’t want to deal with it.

So you can have relatively few assholes who can do a lot of damage. I wouldn’t say there are more stupid/evil ones, there are just a large majority unwilling to engage in the actual conflict needed to stop them.

Desk job of most any kind.

Any job with the threat of violence, to me or me to others.

So these clowns joined up because their echo chamber made them feel like they were going to be some kind of hero. But when they got out in reality, they found…reality. People hate them, they’re destroying families, holding kids hostage, and murdering people. There are definitely a number of them getting off on what they’re doing, remorselessly. For others it may just be a shit job, a lousy place to work. But for a few, I bet they finally figured out that they aren’t who they thought they’d be viewed as.

Elite? Parody of elite. Wannabe elite. Caricature of elite. Gravy Seal Elite.

Yeah, I get this sentiment. I don’t particularly like cooking, but I like cooking a lot more than what my partner prepares.

The Patriotic Republic of Democratic Free Republicanistan.

Of course it won’t be democratic, or free, and the patriotism is punitively mandatory.

What they say they saw. What they see is the same thing as everyone else. They lie.

He did have a gun. Officials have commented he legally was allowed to carry a gun.

He was not threatening with or brandishing said gun, as some outlets have stated.