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There's always been news... The difference is the rise in social media that has led to more divisive and extreme opinions being shared online and people taking those extreme views into the real world which has it's own implications.
So yeah, social media became a thing, one thing led to another and Elon Musk ends up doing a Nazi salute at a Presidential Inauguration 🤷♂️ |
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I rarely watch news these days and of the opinion thatvif anything significant happens will here it from someone. It seems lots feed on propaganda of one sort of another, creating extreme views, setting on against the other. It even sips on here. No interest in it at all  |
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By *osseffMan 1 week ago
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I've always had a hatred for greed. It always seems like someone is making money or gaining power from it or getting 'something' out of it to be better than someone else.
You'd think as an intelligent race we'd be trying to stick together. All the good we could do together I know...crazy idea |
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By *929Man 1 week ago
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It’s best not to watch the news the odd time I do it’s always annoying or depressing, reality is very little of it actually effects out every day lives best to just exist in own little bubble not ever seeing the news |
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"Love the news but I do miss Essex Tom for his excellent coverage of marine matters. 🐋"
Although there's a couple mimicking him. Not sure if he's the M of the MF or Wonko in disguise. The world of Fab has gone mad. |
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"Love the news but I do miss Essex Tom for his excellent coverage of marine matters. 🐋
Although there's a couple mimicking him. Not sure if he's the M of the MF or Wonko in disguise. The world of Fab has gone mad."
Some might say mimicking, others say the form of flattery is imitation. |
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"Love the news but I do miss Essex Tom for his excellent coverage of marine matters. 🐋
Although there's a couple mimicking him. Not sure if he's the M of the MF or Wonko in disguise. The world of Fab has gone mad.
Some might say mimicking, others say the form of flattery is imitation."
Others may say that when the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.
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"Love the news but I do miss Essex Tom for his excellent coverage of marine matters. 🐋
Although there's a couple mimicking him. Not sure if he's the M of the MF or Wonko in disguise. The world of Fab has gone mad.
Some might say mimicking, others say the form of flattery is imitation."
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By *ild_oatsMan 1 week ago
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"I've always had a hatred for greed. It always seems like someone is making money or gaining power from it or getting 'something' out of it to be better than someone else.
You'd think as an intelligent race we'd be trying to stick together. All the good we could do together I know...crazy idea"
About 2000 years ago someone got nailed to a tree for saying something similar…. |
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"I've always had a hatred for greed. It always seems like someone is making money or gaining power from it or getting 'something' out of it to be better than someone else.
You'd think as an intelligent race we'd be trying to stick together. All the good we could do together I know...crazy idea"
It’s not how it seems , you are reading the wrong stories , there are many people doing great things. I spent much of my 30s working with organisations like the Trussel Trust and all kinds of people the ones who remortgage the houses to set up community centres or other projects, the ones picked up by helicopters at an hours notice and sent to do things like first line tsunami relief, right through to ones just showing random acts of kindness to strangers, and everything in between….
Also take comfort in this piece of scientific research done a few years ago, analysing the long-term effects of being good or being bad. They looked at things like crime families and corrupt leaders following them 2 to 3 generations along and it is very clear humans progress far. more by collaboration, kindness and generosity.
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"There's always been news... The difference is the rise in social media that has led to more divisive and extreme opinions being shared online and people taking those extreme views into the real world which has it's own implications.
So yeah, social media became a thing, one thing led to another and Elon Musk ends up doing a Nazi salute at a Presidential Inauguration 🤷♂️"
Only he didn't, but yeah, social media. |
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"There's always been news... The difference is the rise in social media that has led to more divisive and extreme opinions being shared online and people taking those extreme views into the real world which has it's own implications.
So yeah, social media became a thing, one thing led to another and Elon Musk ends up doing a Nazi salute at a Presidential Inauguration 🤷♂️"
Yeah very much agree |
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"There's always been news... The difference is the rise in social media that has led to more divisive and extreme opinions being shared online and people taking those extreme views into the real world which has it's own implications.
So yeah, social media became a thing, one thing led to another and Elon Musk ends up doing a Nazi salute at a Presidential Inauguration 🤷♂️
Only he didn't, but yeah, social media. "
Sound, do it at work and let me know how it goes  |
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Cyberbalkanisation. It's almost as if Chomsky's manufacturing consent was used as a blueprint.
Little echo chamber pockets, where there's just enough space for debate as to allow people to feel they have a voice, but never to the extent that it will change the status quo or effect any change. |
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"There's always been news... The difference is the rise in social media that has led to more divisive and extreme opinions being shared online and people taking those extreme views into the real world which has it's own implications.
So yeah, social media became a thing, one thing led to another and Elon Musk ends up doing a Nazi salute at a Presidential Inauguration 🤷♂️
Only he didn't, but yeah, social media.
Sound, do it at work and let me know how it goes "
HR were very understanding and could see it for what it was 👍🏾 |
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"There's always been news... The difference is the rise in social media that has led to more divisive and extreme opinions being shared online and people taking those extreme views into the real world which has it's own implications.
So yeah, social media became a thing, one thing led to another and Elon Musk ends up doing a Nazi salute at a Presidential Inauguration 🤷♂️
Only he didn't, but yeah, social media.
Sound, do it at work and let me know how it goes
HR were very understanding and could see it for what it was 👍🏾"
A Nazi salute? |
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"There's always been news... The difference is the rise in social media that has led to more divisive and extreme opinions being shared online and people taking those extreme views into the real world which has it's own implications.
So yeah, social media became a thing, one thing led to another and Elon Musk ends up doing a Nazi salute at a Presidential Inauguration 🤷♂️
Only he didn't, but yeah, social media.
Sound, do it at work and let me know how it goes
HR were very understanding and could see it for what it was 👍🏾
A Nazi salute?"
Just as you're never going to convince me it was I'm never going to convince you it wasn't, but, my heart goes out to you 🖤 |
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I deleted my news apps, got off all social media (except instagram where it’s only dark memes and no news) and now life feels so much better. There’s so much news out there that I really don’t need to know about |
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"There's always been news... The difference is the rise in social media that has led to more divisive and extreme opinions being shared online and people taking those extreme views into the real world which has it's own implications.
So yeah, social media became a thing, one thing led to another and Elon Musk ends up doing a Nazi salute at a Presidential Inauguration 🤷♂️
Only he didn't, but yeah, social media.
Sound, do it at work and let me know how it goes
HR were very understanding and could see it for what it was 👍🏾
A Nazi salute?
Just as you're never going to convince me it was I'm never going to convince you it wasn't, but, my heart goes out to you 🖤 "
I don't think you can convince me you actually did it at work tbf, but it's fine. I'm sure a lot of other people would bottle it too 🤗 |
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"There's always been news... The difference is the rise in social media that has led to more divisive and extreme opinions being shared online and people taking those extreme views into the real world which has it's own implications.
So yeah, social media became a thing, one thing led to another and Elon Musk ends up doing a Nazi salute at a Presidential Inauguration 🤷♂️
Only he didn't, but yeah, social media.
Sound, do it at work and let me know how it goes
HR were very understanding and could see it for what it was 👍🏾
A Nazi salute?
Just as you're never going to convince me it was I'm never going to convince you it wasn't, but, my heart goes out to you 🖤
I don't think you can convince me you actually did it at work tbf, but it's fine. I'm sure a lot of other people would bottle it too 🤗"
Yes Joe, I made the HR bit up, but only because I don't work, or to be more accurate, don't need to, for the time being at least. And no, I'm not on benefits either. So yeah, I bottled it 🤗 |
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"There's always been news... The difference is the rise in social media that has led to more divisive and extreme opinions being shared online and people taking those extreme views into the real world which has it's own implications.
So yeah, social media became a thing, one thing led to another and Elon Musk ends up doing a Nazi salute at a Presidential Inauguration 🤷♂️
Only he didn't, but yeah, social media.
Sound, do it at work and let me know how it goes
HR were very understanding and could see it for what it was 👍🏾
A Nazi salute?
Just as you're never going to convince me it was I'm never going to convince you it wasn't, but, my heart goes out to you 🖤
I don't think you can convince me you actually did it at work tbf, but it's fine. I'm sure a lot of other people would bottle it too 🤗
Yes Joe, I made the HR bit up, but only because I don't work, or to be more accurate, don't need to, for the time being at least. And no, I'm not on benefits either. So yeah, I bottled it 🤗"
You didn’t have to tell us you’re not on benefits btw. 🥴🥴 |
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"There's always been news... The difference is the rise in social media that has led to more divisive and extreme opinions being shared online and people taking those extreme views into the real world which has it's own implications.
So yeah, social media became a thing, one thing led to another and Elon Musk ends up doing a Nazi salute at a Presidential Inauguration 🤷♂️
Only he didn't, but yeah, social media.
Sound, do it at work and let me know how it goes
HR were very understanding and could see it for what it was 👍🏾
A Nazi salute?
Just as you're never going to convince me it was I'm never going to convince you it wasn't, but, my heart goes out to you 🖤
I don't think you can convince me you actually did it at work tbf, but it's fine. I'm sure a lot of other people would bottle it too 🤗
Yes Joe, I made the HR bit up, but only because I don't work, or to be more accurate, don't need to, for the time being at least. And no, I'm not on benefits either. So yeah, I bottled it 🤗
You didn’t have to tell us you’re not on benefits btw. 🥴🥴"
I felt I did |
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"There's always been news... The difference is the rise in social media that has led to more divisive and extreme opinions being shared online and people taking those extreme views into the real world which has it's own implications.
So yeah, social media became a thing, one thing led to another and Elon Musk ends up doing a Nazi salute at a Presidential Inauguration 🤷♂️
Only he didn't, but yeah, social media.
Sound, do it at work and let me know how it goes
HR were very understanding and could see it for what it was 👍🏾
A Nazi salute?
Just as you're never going to convince me it was I'm never going to convince you it wasn't, but, my heart goes out to you 🖤
I don't think you can convince me you actually did it at work tbf, but it's fine. I'm sure a lot of other people would bottle it too 🤗
Yes Joe, I made the HR bit up, but only because I don't work, or to be more accurate, don't need to, for the time being at least. And no, I'm not on benefits either. So yeah, I bottled it 🤗
You didn’t have to tell us you’re not on benefits btw. 🥴🥴
I felt I did"
But why 
It literally doesn’t matter at all.
You made the story up. Nobody cares whether you are employed or not or whether you claim benefits or not. |
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"I've always had a hatred for greed. It always seems like someone is making money or gaining power from it or getting 'something' out of it to be better than someone else.
You'd think as an intelligent race we'd be trying to stick together. All the good we could do together I know...crazy idea"
Intelligent race? Have you seen the state of trump?
He can't be considered intelligent, not even compared with an amoeba. |
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"There's always been news... The difference is the rise in social media that has led to more divisive and extreme opinions being shared online and people taking those extreme views into the real world which has it's own implications.
So yeah, social media became a thing, one thing led to another and Elon Musk ends up doing a Nazi salute at a Presidential Inauguration 🤷♂️
Only he didn't, but yeah, social media.
Sound, do it at work and let me know how it goes
HR were very understanding and could see it for what it was 👍🏾
A Nazi salute?
Just as you're never going to convince me it was I'm never going to convince you it wasn't, but, my heart goes out to you 🖤
I don't think you can convince me you actually did it at work tbf, but it's fine. I'm sure a lot of other people would bottle it too 🤗
Yes Joe, I made the HR bit up, but only because I don't work, or to be more accurate, don't need to, for the time being at least. And no, I'm not on benefits either. So yeah, I bottled it 🤗
You didn’t have to tell us you’re not on benefits btw. 🥴🥴
I felt I did
But why
It literally doesn’t matter at all.
You made the story up. Nobody cares whether you are employed or not or whether you claim benefits or not. "
I made my HR comment within 12 minutes of Joe suggesting I make the gesture at work. As opposed to making the story up I was leaning towards a more comical response (remember comedy is subjective) but who elected you spokesperson for the whole site? I'm sure there are some who care whether I'm employed or unemployed, whether I claim benefits or not, but more importantly, why do you care so much that I state I'm not on benefits? |
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But there does seem to have been a slight uptick in the amount of madness in recent years.
