This war shows just how broken social media has become — The global town square is in ruins::The global town square is in ruins.

  • atzanteol@sh.itjust.works
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    9 months ago

    Why do people operate under the assumption that the “town square” was anything other than crazy people shouting at each other? In the US in the 1600’s we had witch hunts where people were killed over vague claims made by malicious people spreading lies. Why would people today be any better?

    • btaf45@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      Why would people today be any better?

      Yep. It is important to understand that conservative have always been people who love to be lied to. The internet just makes it more obvious. Before they said Obama was a Muslim they said Ike was a Communist. Before they said that horse medicine cures covid they said that Laetrile cures cancer.