A lot of people are expressing sympathy for the people in the Kirk crowd, but honestly I think it might be a good thing for them — to see first hand what Kirk and the Republican rhetoric is actually advocating for. Maybe it’ll snap them out of the fantasies they have of culling “undesirables”.
I hate when they delete stuff, like… do you want conspiracy theories to spread? Because that’s how conspiracy theories spread.
It’s all about controlling how people see the world.
If we’re only exposed to “disney, safe for china” media, then that’s all people will think the world consists of.
They (people richer than us) don’t want us seeing the reality of guns, only their carefully curated fantasies.
I agree with this viscerally.
A lot of people are expressing sympathy for the people in the Kirk crowd, but honestly I think it might be a good thing for them — to see first hand what Kirk and the Republican rhetoric is actually advocating for. Maybe it’ll snap them out of the fantasies they have of culling “undesirables”.
If they are mentally capable of making the connection between the things he advocated for, and those things happening directly to him.
the problem is that due to the algorithmic nature of social media it ends up getting pushed to people who don’t want to see it.