• DarthKaren@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    I still find it so weird that the people who grew up during the red scare, doing duck and cover drills, and probably still watched some of these in school, ended up voting for this hook line and sinker.

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      17 hours ago

      In a lot of ways, boomers grew up in a world of mass media, where there was a barrier to entry when it came to publishing stuff, and while mass media wasn’t always truthful, there was trust to be had.

      Their minds never really adjusted to this current world where anyone could publish whatever they wanted without any gatekeepers.

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        17 hours ago

        “You really think someone would do that, just to go on the internet and tell lies?”

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      16 hours ago

      The red scare, you mean where people were swimming in propaganda and hate of the unknown?

      Yeah, so surprising that their critical thinking skills atrophied…