RE: When Hate Goes Mainstream. What It Feels Like Driving a Tesla Today.
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Hope your Tesla is safe always :) You're right, of course. It just shows how far away we've slipped from each other, I think. I wonder what keying some random stranger's Tesla or in some other way defacing it is supposed to do for you. Or for fighting Elon's "fascism". Bunch of stupid people seeming completely at ease inside their own stupidity, sounds like to me.
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Thank you! We'll see if my lucky streak continues. : ) I totally agree. The inability for people to think clearly and come to their own conclusions these days are frightening. If you're on one side, the other side is totally wrong. The demographic that are vandalizing are like robots who do whatever the Associated Press and social media influencers direct them to do. Granted, there's some of this going on on the other side as well. Intellectual laziness is at epidemic levels I suppose. I understand how people can be frustrated with the state of our world right now but misdirected aggression solves not a single thing. Just like the uproar about DOGE's actions. Why in the world would anyone be outraged by a group of individuals who are exposing government waste and corruption? It makes zero sense to me. The real enemies of the people are the corrupt politicians (both sides) and our ineffective bureaucracy that's been bleeding us dry for decades.
Frankly, I don't think people think that far. I think a lot of people are getting increasingly used to taking snippets of info at face value. DOGE = bad. Okay, noted, moving on. Unfortunately. It will become that much easier to corrupt and manipulate if people get it into their heads that equates being well-informed.
True, they don't get beyond the "triggered" stage. I saw today a sitting US Senator was spreading disinformation via their social media account about how Elon (DOGE) was planning to eliminate Social Security and Medicare. Thank God for Community Notes on X correcting her by countering with the fact that DOGE was seeking to eliminate fraud within those programs so as to make the programs solvent. This still didn't prevent people from being outraged and amplifying it.