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Cindy Cohn touched on the toxicity of the social media space in a wide-ranging interview with "The Daily Show" host Jon Stewart Monday night.
  • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.worldEnglish
    59·
    16 hours ago

    There’s no propaganda.

    Of course there is no war in bah sing seh! How could I forget.

    Individual choices are practically immaterial and have almost no impact on the outcomes societies endure. For all practical purposes, individual choice is meaningless. You doing or not doing something doesn’t mean shit, because you aren’t in a position of power over systems.

    • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
      91·
      16 hours ago

      Yes…you are. Claiming you’re not is exactly the kind of attitude that perpetuates these monoliths and they thank you kindly for your service.

      • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.worldEnglish
        29·
        16 hours ago

        Ah yes. The pee-wee herman defense. How astute.

        As long as you put the responsibility for outcomes on individuals and not systems and those with power over systems, you are doing their work for them.

        • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
          91·
          16 hours ago

          I already told you that’s not what I’m doing. You need to read more carefully. I put the responsibility on the people responsible. All of them.

          • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.worldEnglish
            15·
            15 hours ago

            I already told you that’s not what I’m doing.

            They said, as they repeatedly did the thing they were being accused of…

            • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
              51·
              15 hours ago

              Except they didn’t, and everyone can see that they didn’t so I don’t know who you’re trying to gaslight here.

              • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.worldEnglish
                26·
                15 hours ago

                Sure. You’re entirely immune to propaganda campaigns that existed even before your grandparents were born.

                EVERYONE is victim to propaganda but you. You alone are able to identify the issue, that those in the positions of least power are the ones we should be asking to change global systems, an approach that has quite literally never worked to affect change.