You know those people who play leapfrog with themselves, assuming the arguments their opponents will make and arguing against those assumptions? Those who speak in memes?
I’m starting to put them into one group and writing them off. I might as well be talking to the same brain dead idiot every time because they’re all so eager to fit in with each other to feel relevant.
hey man don’t come at me like this
The internet doesn’t break people’s minds.
What does is lack of proper mental health care. A system that doesn’t care about people. A system of perpetual slavery, hate, and violence. Religions lying to people about everything, all the time.
That’s what hurts people.
Is nyan cat hurting people? No.
Is religious hate spread on the internet hurting people? Yes. Is it the internet’s fault? No.
Is Wiki huritng people? No.
Are billionaires buying up all media platforms on the internet hurting people? Yes. Is that the internet’s fault? No.
Don’t demonize techonology, look into who and how it’s being used - and address that problem. Because that problem doesn’t go away if you take away the internet, it just moves to another platform.
How about we all move to an underwater based medium where memes are exchanged by means of colourful air bubbles that propagate at the speed of sounds
I make bubbles in the bath all the time. They don’t smell very good, and they are flammable so you have to be careful.
explosive memes tho
That… was well said.
Isn’t there a term for them already? “terminally online”
Yeah, I came in here assuming it to be sarcastic since it’s like they used a thesaurus on terminally online to come up with two more words that mean the same thing, as an entirely new term. Hehe.
People were “following the current narratives” way before the internet, now they just have platforms to display their unoriginal ignorance, which admittedly makes it more commonplace and annoying (but if we could just snap our fingers and make people think, the world would be a fundamentally different place, lol). Maybe they wouldn’t be able to hold these ridiculous opinions for long if they had more “shameful” interactions that others could spectate (IRL or on public videocalls, for instance), but on pseudonymous discussion forums like this one conversations and dissent can be more… challenging.
Every technology needs one - https://youtu.be/XSsxriCJSfY
I’ve seen so many that it could be referred to as a digital genocide or holocaust at this point.
It’s a mental war zone out there and we’re all losing
I believe the term is idiot.
