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    2 months ago

    Generate a picture of a shockingly expensive hospital bill being shown to a sick woman wrapped in an American flag, who gets a heart attack and dies

  • ProbablyBaysean@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    The wisdom of crowds is a thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wisdom_of_Crowds?wprov=sfla1

    Normally you avoid the craziest people (far right and far left) because they have mental issues.

    Fast forward to today. The foreign actors give a loudspeaker and an army of sock puppet bots with the messages core to the far right and the far left. Voting and culture and consensus is dysfunctional as we try to recover the culture.

    Propagandists try to make the center feel isolated.

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      2 months ago

      Hey, here’s a question: what mental disorders are you talking about? Because I have a feeling that anyone claiming to talk for the center is not from the center.

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        2 months ago

        Paranoia “the immigrants are out to get me” or “the government is out to get me”. There is some evidence of each but generally this info comes from people suffering from paranoia. If consensus reaches that indeed the government is wiretapping and such then in a functioning society the voters will educate and push for the reforms… and society isnt functioning currently.

        In local areas it is water rights. Internationally it is i need to start a war to prevent war. There are so many out-there ideas that are tried on like clothes in any context.

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          2 months ago

          Consensus… Wtf? Reality isn’t consensus-based. If the government is wiretapping and no one knows… Then is that supposed to be fine or what are you talking about? What a bizarre sentiment.

          And why is society not functioning correctly? Because it feels like the far right and far left have answers for that. Is being in the center not having answers or is it combining those answers?

          Everything you are saying is so weird.

        • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          2 months ago

          There is some evidence of each

          No there isn’t. Show me evidence that “immigrants are out to get you” in the US.

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            2 months ago

            My wages are suppressed due to the union being busted/weakened due to the prevalence of illegal immigrants in my industry. The illegals are not building the community, they are building their community. I more blame the billionaires for creating conditions for this, but many of my coworkers are very racist and feel like it is justified.

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      2 months ago

      When’s the last time you read the definition of ideal? In real life they are targets, goals you’ll never achieve.