• mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    11 hours ago

    Yeah, it’s amazing how quickly the “don’t trust anyone on the internet” mindset changed. The same boomers who were cautioning us against playing online games with friends are now the same ones sharing blatantly AI generated slop from strangers on Facebook as if it were gospel.

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      10 hours ago

      Back then it was just old people trying to groom 16 year olds. Now it’s a nation’s intelligence apparatus turning our citizens against each other and convincing them to destroy our country.

      I wholeheartedly believe they’re here, too. Their primary function here is to discourage the left from voting, primarily by focusing on the (very real) failures of the Democrats while the other party is extremely literally the Nazi party.

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        8 hours ago

        Everyone who disagrees with you is a bot, probably from Russia. You are very smart.

        Do you still think you’re going to be allowed to vote for the next president?

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          8 hours ago

          Everyone who disagrees with you is a bot

          I mean that’s unironically the problem. When there absolutely are bots out here, how do you tell?

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            7 hours ago

            Sure, but you seem to be under the impression the only bots are the people that disagree with you.

            There’s nothing stopping bots from grooming you by agreeing with everything you say.

    • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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      11 hours ago

      I feel like I learned more about the Internet and shit from Gen X people than from boomers. Though, nearly everyone on my dad’s side of the family, including my dad (a boomer), was tech literate, having worked in tech (my dad is a software engineer) and still continue to not be dumb about tech… Aside from thinking e-greeting cards are rad.