the “can’t live without a phone” culture/mindset is intentional of course, to harvest your data and spy on you
currently looking to replace my smartphone with a dumb one, but there are a lot of things i have to find solutions for like MFAs etc–things that require my own research into what can reasonably be considered trustworthy
everyone is free to play whatever they want, but everyone is also free to call your opinion dumb. which it is.
“i just needed to pop in here and mention that the terrible/wrong/evil thing in the post doesn’t affect me at all, like it does for you suckers ROFLMFAO…but also: LOL”
LOL “if it was opt-in, no one would do it!”
no fucking shit. there is nothing worth watching that i would buy a smart tv for
LOL what the fuck. i’ve never seen a more subservient bitchass group of bootlicking sheep than republicans
an informed population capable of asking questions and forming their own opinions is antithetical to the owner class’s agenda. everyone who consumes any mainstream media (and everyone who doesn’t) should read the book Propaganda by eddie bernays, the “father of public relations.” bernays wrote in favor of propaganda as a good and necessary thing for a functioning society. but he spells it all out, how to control the opinions of the public. goebbels utilized bernays’s methods, and you can see the results
they’re doing it again. it’s a conspiracy, but there’s nothing “theory” about it. if nothing else whatsoever, you should be questioning and scrutinizing everything you read from every source. yes, including lemmy. but it’s probably too late to stop anything set in motion years ago. it’s not “if” blood in the streets will happen, but “when”