Just a below average idiot that mostly comments for one of 3 reasons:

Catharsis, expressing exasperation over the general state of things.

Looking to make someone laugh.

Self deprecation.

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Cake day: July 25th, 2023
  • Asafum@feddit.nltoTechnology@lemmy.world•Racist AI-generated videos are garnering millions of views on TikTokEnglish
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    10 days ago

    “Daddy daddy, what do you think the future will be like?”

    “Oh I think it will be wonderful: flying cars, more understanding of our neighbors, space travel, cures for diseases, people will live more comfortable easy lives!”

    The future: fascists, racist robots, billionaires, more fascists, bombing civilians, cutting science funding, the earth is on fire, more fascists, cutting HIV study funding, more racist robots, gutting artistic employment, more billionaires, fried donuts.

    I guess it’s not all terrible, just mostly.

  • Asafum@feddit.nltoEurope@feddit.org•Two recent studies show how the consumption of, and trust in, American news is dangerously polarised. Europe should take note.English
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    12 days ago

    As someone in the US you’re not that far off even with the sarcasm.

    A lot of us are still blind to it, but around the 2010 period we had a massive consolidation of news media by major corporations. The entirety of our “legacy media” are corporations that only care about profit and creating a “news product” for their intended audience. I can’t think of any well known publication that is “independent” from corporate propaganda influence let alone political. The right actually does recognize this to some extent and get really irritated about focus on social issues related to identity as that’s the only “safe” conversation for corporations to have that feed their intended “news product audience.” So they see that news as manufactured and it reenforces their desire to seek “other media” that confirm their biases.

    What I do know is the right wingers are having a feast. Their media embraces the worst of their far right troglodytes as they always embrace the Republicans mission of feeding the wealthy. The so called “left wing” media will join in on the bashing of anyone to the left of Joe Biden as they also aim to protect the status quo of “feed the wealthy.”

    There’s no real culture war, there is only class war. :/