The fact that like. The mainstream media in our country is dying for us to have a trump moment cos makes them money and so are using the exact same strategies as first trump era to manage people's attention/shift the overton window towards like. A situation in which people then actually manifest/normalise populist like celebrity/entertainer figures as leaders, as a reality. cos they genuinely think it's what's happening and like the vibe of like 'polls'. The results actually don't matter it's what you're being made to accept by having a message repeated and normalised I can't like we need to evolve beyond news rn. I'm not just being a cooker like there's a lot of research and like empirical evidence ig that supports this hypothesis it's part of how the news stays profitable is this deployment of like fake balance, sensationalism/outrage, platforming fuckass celebrities having anti-woke phases girl wbk like they're complaining about woke shit that genuinely isn't even happening because it makes them money as pundits and then like. Source-message dissociation is another part of it too. Even progressive media doing this whole like fact-checking/outrage/retort vibe is just playing into it too. But yeah I'm like annoyed that people haven't like realised this and tbh people in my family will probably fall for cos life feels fucking shit and stressful and it's a distraction but idk. The harder thing to accept is that it's not about reality it's about creating the impression that a certain reality is occurring because it's the most stimulating, and like the aim is making it feels like this reality in which populism is on the rise is like both unequivocal and legitimate. Also works by provoking people non step by showing them the most inflammatory stuff to get them deeper engaged into the whole discourse of it I mean that's literally me rn in an abstracted sense but this is why I don't watch news and don't vote cos until this like monopoly on our media is dismantled you actually cannot really have a democratic voice if the conditions that occurs within demonstrate that like mainstream media is just playing a fucking political experiment on us and on our lives and then you feel like outrage or being galvanized to take a stand or having any reaction, is already being calculated/predicted because you're algorithmically likely to consume media that is like. Stop fascism. Ykwim? Every outcome is predetermined. I feel like polls should be illegal to broadcast tbh on a kind of philosophical level I think it's completely irrelevant/destructive to democracy it's giving Sportsbet. Idk if that even made sense but it's depressing as fuck but that's the tea for me and in some karmic way populism even if it's being amplified and it's fucked, is a response to smugness and self righteousness among leftists who are also like participating in the same idk. Media-mediated political reality echo chamber mass psychosis putrid fucked up world. We all retarded fr
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