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by dylan604 1740 days ago
>Muting it altogether can only make things worse as it will confine you in your "safe" but out of touch personal reality.

How do you get to that conclusion? If you're one to believe one way or another so decidedly that you will no longer listen to reason and fact, you're not going to blindly come across some post on social that makes you suddenly question everything. In fact, you'll probably become incensed with how there are suddenly things that conflict with what you believe instead of being force fed from social's algos. You'll probably assume there is a conspiracy out to get you to look at stuff you don't want to see instead of a firehose of like minded content.

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>you're not going to blindly come across some post on social that makes you suddenly question everything

Deprogramming takes a long time, it doesn't happen all at once or with a eureka moment. Political discourse and the nature of politics is programming at its core. How else can we explain decades and decades of broken promises and total deferment to the lobbyists and highest bidders?

>How else can we explain decades and decades of broken promises and total deferment to the lobbyists and highest bidders?

You just said it. Money.