Toot link; transcript:
Greta Thunberg could have, by now, carved out a very comfortable life for herself as a liberal grifter-celebrity offering platitudes about personal responsibility at Davos. Instead she connected the dots between ecocide, capital, and empire, aiming squarely at the heart of the beast. And now fresh out of captivity she downplays her own suffering to recenter the urgency of aid to the Palestinian people. No wonder she's hated by the fascist+lib coalition that rules this world.
Author: JP (@jpbreton@mastodon.social)
On a good day, sure. Even before the pandemic, absolutely. But it's so much worse now.
Many of us have checked out of all but the most headlining headlines, because our media is under siege and pumped full of propaganda and factional nonsense from every extreme group imaginable. Then we have the areas of discourse online that are experiencing censorship, troll farms, automated comment brigades, and more. Finally, actual news, both foreign and domestic, is just really fucking terrifying a lot of the time now. This has all turned into such a tarpit of despair, that one could easily drown in it. We're missing a lot of actual information because not only is it harder to see for all the noise, but we're retreating more and more to save our own mental health.
Edit: some other Lemming on here felt that we're seeing a war waged in real-time, in the information domain. They may be right.
To that edit, absolutely. If we treated targeted disinformation campaigns with the intent of sowing domestic discord as the hostile actions of a foreign government, which they clearly are, then we would view ourselves as at war with at least two major countries right now. Instead we decided to shrug and throw our own disinformation on the pile.