Tag: inaction

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Don’t fall for propaganda shaming people into inaction.

There are always people who will mock civic engagement, and you better believe that the opposition is the beneficiary when people get shamed into inaction.

Read More 2025-03-23

The image is the deep fried meme of Garfield the cartoon cat’s head and underneath it is the caption You are not immune to propaganda.

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Don’t miss the message because social media incentivizes us to prioritize rage over action and change.

2024-01-03

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Public comment at PA DEP environmental justice meeting

Public comment at a public meeting of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP)

Read More 2023-10-25

Hypernormalisation Documentary, 2016, by Adam Curtis. ”The liberals were outraged at Trump. But they expressed their outrage in cyberspace so it had no effect. Because the algorithms made sure that they only spoke to people who already agreed with them. Instead ironically their waves of angry messages and tweets benefitted the large corporations who ran the social media platforms. one online analyst put it simply — angry people click. It meant that the radical fury that came like waves across the internet no longer had the power to change the world. Instead it became a fuel that fed the systems of power making them ever more powerful.”

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Shitposting into a void

2023-10-03

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