Political Memes

"You can't deny science when you have a radio made by science and see all the electronic"

Turns out, once radios are complex enough, you don't see the electronic anymore

Admittedly they probably didn't expect an enormous, sophisticated, and well-coordinated effort to promote ignorance and push so much misinformation so as to effectively muddy the waters of that information either though.

People don't want to be corrected, they want to be validated.

"You're not just a regular moron, you were DESIGNED to be a moron. " - Portal 2

Probably the darkest truth - modern moronity is generally by design, not by misfortune.

Having access to information doesn't help people who can't read or don't have the ability to comprehend what they're reading.

Assuming all the information on the internet was true, this could have been reevaluated.

But in today’s world unfortunately internet is more fabricated information than real information

It was the lack of access to the right information. Most people won't spend hours researching a topic. Most people don't spend any time on seeking outbinformation. They only absorb whatever information they happen to come across. And liars are especially adept at being loud. So they're the first, and often only, to be heard.

In a world without corruption, a ministry of truth would work wonders. In our world, I don't know what would work.

I don't particularly remember many people saying that. I think they were all up their asses about iq.

Nearly everything I've learned in my life is thanks to the internet but sure. I guess I get the point

The internet did get rid of ETI theories of UFOs and probably facts. Now we have Wikipedia and ubiquitous cameras.

Instead we have WTF is THAT UFOs called UAP, and singing abandoned buildings, but no ghosts.

Part of the problem now is fake news and we're about to lose video authentication the first time someone makes a convincing AI-generated street incident.

tbf the internet is also jam-packed with misinformation which doesn't only counteract people learning the truth, but also makes them confident about their false views

I see you, ifunny watermark.

Information has always been controlled, obscured, and distorted by capital, hegemony., etc. Not to mention nonstop brainwashing from birth.

For example... Where I live, kids still grow up worshiping flags, enslavers, enslaver pacts, capitalism, etc... And the state is increasingly denying them access to the internet/phones, alternative information, etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_religion

I grew up before the Internet was mainstream and I don't remember this. We all had access to basically the same information and some of us still had worse or better ideas than our peers. Access was always only one part of the equation; beyond that, you need the information to be useful and accurate (big problem on the Internet), you need the desire to engage with that information, the ability to process and understand it correctly, the ability to discern when factual information is being cherry-picked or otherwise used in misleading ways ...

If you trip over on any of those points or whatever else I've forgotten to mention, you come out the other end with bad information, access be damned.

I hate how young American leftists like to alienate people by calling anyone without a university degree “uneducated”. I’ve met plenty of morons with degrees and lots of janitors with more brains.

Edit: this is why the American left is so toxic, can’t even call out your elitism without getting downvoted. The rest of us leftists around the world are face palming at the moronic American leftists who want to hate everyone