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[–] [email protected] 62 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

Would he? I'm not convinced that this is anything less than a manifestation of the total rot of our society.

Our civic institutions are not designed to deal with the level of dis and misinformation flooding us.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

I’ve been assured that AI will fix it.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

This. People have been given an alternate reality to live in, so complex and all-encompassing that—unless they've grown up to have an appreciation for critical thinking—all the thinking's been done for them.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 hours ago

Hard to make people care for more than the immediate here and now, Trump’s WWE wrestling persona does that

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago

Until we fix the disinformation, nothing sane is going to work. Things are only getting worse.