boltonbonce wrote: Sluffy wrote:
I didn't except your challenge but I did give you the reason why I use him as an example so often on here so people can see for themselves the point I'm making about how people use social media to lie to and manipulate others into believing false and fake news for their own purposes.
Truss economics would have worked if she had only introduced slowly rather than all at once - is one lie that someone on here believes implicitly for example.
Depressing thing is, it's getting worse, what with AI and all its technological brethren.
I sometimes wonder if my fellow Nutters are real. Surely I can't be the only well rounded individual around here.
There as always been propaganda Bonce, the Egyptians were using it with their big statues advertising the fact that people should fear them because of how they demonstrate their immense power in being able to build stuff like this in the first place.
Also gives me a chance to post up one of my favourite poems too (although written about 2,000 years later)
OzymandiasI met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley
And yes it has gone exponentially worse these days, people are targeted and elections effected -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook%E2%80%93Cambridge_Analytica_data_scandalIt was used to help Trump beat Hilary Clinton, the Brexit NHS bus was a lie...
There's millions even billions of people of people simply believing what they are told - in countries such as Russia and China, by the state itself, and in the west by manipulation of media (we all know the Mirror is Labour, the Mail, Tory for example) and more greatly these days by social media and the Confirmation Bias groupings people clearly follow like Wanderlust (yes I mention him again), Hip Priest (the random from Scunthorpe he believed!) and W63 who his in denial of even simple facts (he must see them as some conspiracy against his views in some way I guess?).
People even believe random nutjobs like QAnon, lizard like paedophiles, ruling the planet which only Trump can save us from...
Really???
All the conspiracy over Covid, the jabs are meant to somehow control us or give us Cancer or something, burning down the newest mobile phone masts, and other such bollocks.
How the fuck are people so stupid to believe such shite???
One of my neighbours did, probably still does!
Ok we are only small beer on here but even still we have serial nutjobs like Wanderlust (yes yet again) spouting bollocks, telling lies when he is given the facts to disprove him, then claiming I'm stopping him from having opinions - err no, I'm trying to stop your hatred and your fake news that you've not bothered to check before you regurgitated it on here, and now trying not to admit you were wrong about.
We have Hip Priest who still believes the PPE awards were fraudulent despite a mountain of Inquires, judicial reviews to the contrary and zero evidence to back up HP's believes in the three years since the awards were made!!!
We have W63 who believes 'alternate facts' (lies in other words) rather than the real facts I constantly put under his nose - which he chooses to be in denial of.
We now have Bob who seems to believe 11,000 people (or 1 person 11,000 times) are really reading the thread on the Administrators action on striking down £7.5m security of both EDT and KA rather than understand that this isn't how forums work these days and most of the views are from automated monitoring bots (public ones like Google) and non public ones from sources who want to see but not be seen themselves.
At the end of the day it all means nothing, Wanderlust will still post up fake news and spew his bile elsewhere, HP will always be convinced there was a vast cover up about the billions Tory cronies received from PPE awards, W63 will believe his 'facts' and 'experts' (and GB News) rather than the real ones and Bob will no doubt believe he's got his message to 11,000 viewers rather than say 1,000 viewers and 10,000 bots.
I just enjoy simply trying to open a few peoples eyes to how the world (and social media) really works these days and how people are played by it and manipulated into the way they act.
Am I wasting my breath - almost certainly but it amuses me and helps pass my time and gives me the best laughs I get these days... Major and May were more deceitful than Boris, the man who lied more than Wanderlust did on here!!!
Brilliant!
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