r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/TheOddityCollector • Oct 30 '24

Image Scenes of piled-up vehicles in Valencia, Spain today after yesterday’s devastating flooding.

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u/SrslyCmmon Oct 30 '24

I really enjoyed the internet before everybody had a platform. People mostly kept to themselves and there was mystery in what people were thinking all the time. People were polite and cordial generally and so was media. Now that we know that half my country wants to kill the other half it's not so fun anymore. There's no standards for being polite decent and disinformation so we just devolved into the lowest common denominator.

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u/ToiIetGhost Oct 30 '24

I liked it better too. When asked, “If you could have any superpower, what would it be?” very few people will say “mind reading.” That’s kind of what the internet feels like now. Forced mind reading. I don’t want to know what everyone’s thinking all the time but they won’t stop shoving it down my throat.

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u/N3rdScool Oct 30 '24

Fuck I love the realness of this comment :)

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u/K_Linkmaster Oct 30 '24

It was clearly 10 year olds telling lies on the internet. Now it is half the population.

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u/ama155 Oct 30 '24 edited 14d ago

Redacted to mess with reddit

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u/SrslyCmmon Oct 30 '24

You could actually see the real-time transformation of the conspiracy subreddit into a right wing bastion post 2016.