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  • TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world
    17·
    2 months ago

    China, Iran and Russia are all spreading disinformation to sow discord

    It’s not about supporting one candidate over another because they are more closely ideologically aligned with that candidate, it’s about amplifying division among Americans. Make no mistake, however, these countries did not create the divisions. The divisions stem from our ideological, political, religious, cultural, etc, differences, but these countries are trying to exacerbate conflicts and division, to increase instability and weaken the US.

    If you are at war with someone, where do you attack them? Where they are strongest, or where they are weakest? You target their weaknesses, and our divisions are where we are weakest. Where we fundamentally disagree on our political, social, and cultural vision for America is where they target.

    And it worked, we hate each other. To be fair, we might have gotten to this point even without outside interference, but I think it at least accelerated the process.

    • 2piradians@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      2 months ago

      Well put. Without the social media lies this country would be very different. I really hope education will develop that imparts critical thinking/warns of the consequences of sensationalism. But even with that, people have to want to learn.

      • chakan2@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        2 months ago

        It’s not just social media…maybe it is, but IMO it’s not.

        Somewhere along the way people started being proud of being ignorant. It’s weird as hell. I don’t watch the news is a big bragging point for a lot of conservatives these days. (The current game is MSM deep state lizard people…but before that even, people were tuned out and only watching Fox)

        They’re also very proud of not having a higher education. Ok Bob, that’s cool you get 30-45 an hour doing manual labor, how’s that oxy addiction going for you. Let’s talk about the subtle nuances of socio economic control by our corporate overlords…oh…right…immigrants bad…moving on.

        You’re not wrong about social media, but building this critical mass of uneducated willfully ignorant chronically sick cultists took decades and multiple avenues.