The second part. It’s the second part. Whether you consider “humanity” as all human life, or just modern civilization, is what changes this point.

I don’t understand, why would you want to be part of a group you trust so little?

And then it turned into a white supremacy app.

I’m a millennial… The Internet had the promise of great things. Sharing the entirety of human knowledge with all, right?so much promise. But it’s mostly used to share brain rot videos and misinformation. Like your one sentence quip that didn’t provide anything beyond snark.

Sounds like you watch a lot of porn…

Exactly. And if we could stop the storm… Wouldn’t that be great?

All facebook users deserve to be slapped repeatedly to wake them up from the reality they’ve imposed on themselves.

Do you not see the irony there?

How tf are you talking about the positives of the Internet while people are getting abused because of it? Bandwidth being higher allows them to spy on you more effectively. Availability hasn’t changed enough for that to be relevant unless you’re talking about spaceX. Which is owned by possibly one of the most evil people in american history.

If I had my way, the Internet never would have existed. Despite the positives, I feel it’s done more harm than good. It had the capacity to do great things and yet we used it to spread misinformation and evil. There is no benefit worth the evil that’s happened due to giving everyone a voice. “Freedom” doesnt come from some obnoxious cunt ranting from their $80,000 truck drivers seat. Burn them, burn them now and let’s move forward.

But in the aftermath, they’ll still be the same people. Fucking disgusting, and unwilling to grow.

Exactly. He doesn’t need to ruin movies. We know that movies are for entertainment, it doesn’t need to be dissected as fact. And we certainly don’t need someone taking our escapism away from us. Let us have this, dude. We need this right now, including from the time he became prominent. He killed Pluto, which I guess is fine because it was accurate, but he didn’t need to shove himself into movies and try to ruin our very-much-needed escapism. It’s egotistical, and insulting, as if we don’t know that it’s a movie.

He is a know-it-all ass. He’s a self-important dickhead. But I appreciate his role in getting young black kids seeing a role model that they can relate to. That’s far more important than his ego.

Whaaaaat? Who could’ve seen this coming?!?

Welcome home then.

It’s about giving up hope.

They want to feed brown people to alligators. That’s it. it’s that simple.

Trust the overseer to do what’s best for you. /s

While I agree with you, force doesn’t work in arguments, it only makes them plant their feet even harder.

Sob stories. Seriously, they eat that shit up. Even if it’s fake, but sounds plausible. If you make it personal to you, especially if it involves a white person getting “accidentally” fucked over by bad policy. I’ve had pretty good luck getting softer responses from Rs by making up personal stories that they connect with. Even if you only get them to question one policy, you put a crack in their foundational beliefs. I avoided this for a long time for ethical reasons, but we’re past that now. I’m not above being deceitful anymore to get a point across. Most of them aren’t necessarily evil, they’re just convinced of evil policy by evil people. If I got my right wing mother to admit that Israel is committing genocide, there is hope.

The biggest thing here, is they think they can separate themselves from consequences of their choices. If they know someone they like that felt those consequences, instead of a nameless, faceless stranger, it makes it harder. Put your name and face out there as being effected by it, and the Rs in your circle will start to question their policy.

That’s worked for me on my mother and a few older Rs at work. Sure, maybe I’m being manipulative, but honestly, I don’t fucking care anymore.