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The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?

Robert Reich—Bluesky.

  • lowleekun@ani.social
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    6 days ago

    No, they do not as thats the stuff they use. The level of education ist just bad and it is only getting worse. People do not read books at all and i would be hard pressed to find someone who likes to challenge mainstream narratives.

    So how i can expect from the people that are propagandized 24/7 to care about a single issue like billionaires owning the media outlets? In fact we can not, because most people are so overwhelmed by the amount of superficial information that they consume, there js no space to think about action.

    In fact most comfort themselves with the idea that there is nothing one possibly can do against all the decline being clearly visible. And that is exactly where you want your population. Downtrodden and compliant. People taking action will be at best prortrayed as idealists that won’t change anything and at worst as somehow affiliated with hate or even terror(for example Palestine Action).

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      taking action will be at best portrayed as idealists that won’t change anything

      People love viewing my activism that way even on the fediverse.

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        6 days ago

        Let those not diminish you or your actions. They are simply telling themselves why it is ok to not take action (it isn’t). So kudos to you.

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      Whenever I try to sit down and explain some of these nuances to family members/coworkers/… they almost all default to “yeah, but what about all those foreigners though”. It’s a fucking record stuck on repeat. All pretense of logical thought has left these people, and I’ve given up on trying to kindle that spark in anyone else.

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        Hell yeah it’s the foreigners! A billionaire South African owns Twitter and a billionaire Australian owns Fox News!