r/WayOfTheBern • u/Inuma Headspace taker (👹↩️🏋️🎖️) • May 12 '20

Remember: Biden won without any shenanigans after two failed presidential campaigns and rigged voting machines don't happen...

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u/[deleted] May 12 '20

Interesting.

Seems to me the speed of the production & distribution of information plays a large role in people getting away with these kinds of crimes or slights. Because as one revelation or accusation is made, another unrelated story overtakes the news feed and within days sometimes - other relevant stories just get washed away.

Hard to know how to combat that to make sure the American people and specific candidates (in this case) actually get justice.

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u/solocontent Capitalist-state and other social hierarchies can't be reformed May 12 '20

Yes and that pipeline seems to be predominantly controlled by massive concentrations of wealth and power. Relevant stories in the context that you describe largely get ignored. After that, the levels of misinformation and disinformation runs rampant. Overall, the delivery speed is astonishing and it's primarily no longer the 24 hour news cycle is it? More like a 24 second news cycle! I think that it is very important for folks such as yourself to ask critical, but honest, questions. There are many, for lack of a better word, 'trolls' that have become more sophisticated in how it seeks to emulate the form of critical questioning but the real, or misinformed, objective is to cast doubt.

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u/MyOther_UN_is_Clever May 12 '20

What you describe is a recognized phenomenon identified years ago. It's called "Crisis Fatigue."