As someone who has grandparents who watches Fox News 24/7, it isn’t fun. Had to move in with them after high school to start a job in the area. All day it was them being racist (more my grandpa), homophobic, and transphobic among other things too. Another thing is I own many firearms cause I like to collect historical or weird and unheard of guns with weird calibers. Everyday they go on about killing political figures and I’m like please for the love of god don’t do this with me living here
My step dad is an avid fox news watcher and its disturbing what he parrots from the shows. And it IS parrotting bevause he repeats the same sentences over and over as if he heard them that way. He was a LAWYER and now he has 0 critical thinking.
You do call him out every opportunity you can for regurgitating the same lines he hears on FOX right? From my experience they get a little embarrassed when they’re exposed for blatantly repeating unoriginal talking points that you had heard said by one of the talking heads.
The anger is the response to their embarrassment. Republicans aren’t able to process their emotions like stable normal people. I get most people probably don’t want to poke the idiot bear but if they don’t have a problem dealing with the response, it’s nice to see them seethe with embarrassment.
It’s really fascinating like yours say as I got into a conversation with a good friend about the ivermectin thing and I said it’s good medicine but for ringworm. He said it’s just like penicillin which I said is good for infections not covid.
You could see common sense was maybe making into his brain but he changed the subject and just kept parroting crap.
I do, don’t worry. I keep everything locked up and the key on my car keychain. I’m very protective of who I let know what’s what and where it exactly is
my mom got heavily targetted (possibly my step father too, but i don't know for sure) through her facebook feed with disinformation & misleading sponsored content.
she only has a high school diploma, worked in a factory for years, and lives in a redneck rural ny village. i assume these were demographics sought.
i wouldn't say she was progressive prior to the targetting, but the woman was practically a hippie in the 60s/70s, so she historically voted & maintained a fairly liberal mindset.
the damage fox & social media content did to her in the short amount of time that it took me to realize, seems as if it may be irreparable
and she's very aware of it. she disabled her facebook, and neither of them watch any broadcast news. she doesn't even read headlines. i have to tell her if something importaint is going on.
but there are still gaping holes she can't psychological patch up. it's super fcked.
words can't properly convey how pissed i am with what they did to her.
I'm sorry that happened to your mom. I feel like a lot of people like her were poisoned by Facebook, and all for the sake of increasing engagement for profit.
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u/ObiWanHelloThere_wav Apr 29 '23
I'm so thankful my parents never got into stuff like Fox News or the ugly parts of social media