If you got hung up on some of the words used and didn’t watch the whole thing or blew it off as some progressive leftwing nonsense, why am I not surprised? The truth hurts.
Clearly though, some of the points and behaviors outlined in the video are absolutely and directly applicable to some of our members here that are quick to parrot salacious or highly questionable right-wing media stories, rumors, conspiracies and conjecture without taking the time to vet whether they are accurate or not or present the proper backstory or context for them to be seen as anything other than partisan propaganda hence virtue signaling their affiliation for those on their ‘side” in order to promote their social standing within the group. Frankly, it is pretty lame.
More times often than not, most of these posts are focused on negativity, doom and division and do nothing but add to the chaos and outrage and are posted simply to fuel manufactured culture wars you’ve blindly been manipulated into being soldiers for by somehow believing you are morally superior or righteously just in thinking you’re smarter than everyone else and somehow able to see behind the veil because crackpot theories and conspiracies occasionally do turn out to have some degree of veracity therefore they all must be true and unquestioned.
Of course, these behaviors can also befall those on the far left as well, which the video did point out, but here at good ol’ Rogue Nation (and at ATS), this doesn’t happen very often and when it does, it is quickly dogpiled and torn to shreds and the person posting is branded as a brain dead liberal leftist lunatic that can’t think beyond what the MSM feeds them even if they are just trying to point out that usually there is more than one side of a story or that information is missing or obfuscated to the detriment of critical unbiased thinking.
I understand whose house I am in here and the sway of this community to the right and further right but I have been here long enough to hope, even if perhaps foolishly, that we might maintain some degree of intelligence, balance and objectivity without falling into the category of just another partisan internet filter bubble.
Clearly though, some of the points and behaviors outlined in the video are absolutely and directly applicable to some of our members here that are quick to parrot salacious or highly questionable right-wing media stories, rumors, conspiracies and conjecture without taking the time to vet whether they are accurate or not or present the proper backstory or context for them to be seen as anything other than partisan propaganda hence virtue signaling their affiliation for those on their ‘side” in order to promote their social standing within the group. Frankly, it is pretty lame.
More times often than not, most of these posts are focused on negativity, doom and division and do nothing but add to the chaos and outrage and are posted simply to fuel manufactured culture wars you’ve blindly been manipulated into being soldiers for by somehow believing you are morally superior or righteously just in thinking you’re smarter than everyone else and somehow able to see behind the veil because crackpot theories and conspiracies occasionally do turn out to have some degree of veracity therefore they all must be true and unquestioned.
Of course, these behaviors can also befall those on the far left as well, which the video did point out, but here at good ol’ Rogue Nation (and at ATS), this doesn’t happen very often and when it does, it is quickly dogpiled and torn to shreds and the person posting is branded as a brain dead liberal leftist lunatic that can’t think beyond what the MSM feeds them even if they are just trying to point out that usually there is more than one side of a story or that information is missing or obfuscated to the detriment of critical unbiased thinking.
I understand whose house I am in here and the sway of this community to the right and further right but I have been here long enough to hope, even if perhaps foolishly, that we might maintain some degree of intelligence, balance and objectivity without falling into the category of just another partisan internet filter bubble.
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.