• iii@mander.xyz
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    The weird thing is that that’s always been the case. Only thing that changed last decade is the gullibility of the reader.

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      No, it was the widespread adoption of social media. People aren’t more gullible you just started having non-technical in a space they dont understand and cannot behave responsibly in.

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        It’s marketed capitalistic abuse and rape of a technology, just like what happened to everything good that humans make.

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        Bull, people are more gullible. Back when I was a kid, if you hear something on the street, you went and checked it. But on the internet, people accept shit as-is, because they like it and that’s it. Fucking hell.

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          I grew up pretty certain in the ideas that AIDs was gay cancer, Boy George was straight, Marilyn Manson had a rib removed to perform auto fellatio, Mother Theresa was the very idea of kindness, a girl couldn’t get pregnant if she sucked on you after cumming in her, and that jet fuel could melt steel beams.

          (Some of those I only half-believed and maybe not all the best examples)