If we’re going to talk about media ecosystems, I do think there’s something to learn from accounts like this. They aren’t reacting to change, they’re building a specific reality and insisting on that reality regardless of what the actual facts are, and people’s worldview changes around that. - ThreadSky

cooperlund.online • 5 days ago

If we’re going to talk about media ecosystems, I do think there’s something to learn from accounts like this. They aren’t reacting to change, they’re building a specific reality and insisting on that reality regardless of what the actual facts are, and people’s worldview changes around that.

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bwalla.bsky.social•5 days ago

Delusional on the largest possible scale.

spfhockeyfan.bsky.social•5 days ago

Guarantee this woman is miserable AF

skoryy.bsky.social•5 days ago

Hyperreality Rules Everything Around Me

stupidartpunk.bsky.social•5 days ago

Ugh.

redletter.bsky.social•5 days ago

That’s the thing about prophecy, it’s always just around the corner

opportunemarmoset.bsky.social•5 days ago

A collective societal delusion that persists despite not doing a good job mapping reality. I expect it provides some benefit, or else it would have died out.

boronmcnuclei.bsky.social•5 days ago

Where is she when her fellow Christian traveler is shooting Democratic legislators and their families in their homes?

dogsinautumn.bsky.social•5 days ago

This is symptomatic of the death cult problem. No amount of victory will satisfy them. They’ll celebrate it, but it can’t fundamentally change the nature of reality as they understand it, which is that they are under constant threat. Violence is therefore never not justified.

goondocks.online•5 days ago

And this narrative has been around forever. My wife and I were in evangelical churches -- and they were saying this 20+ years ago.

howdytimbo.bsky.social•5 days ago

Really becomes obvious when you listen to local talk radio (even the sports stations!) It's not "Elvis lives!" or Martians-level conspiracies, but the framing of everything is grounded in another reality.

paix120.bsky.social•5 days ago

Propaganda

fzupancle.bsky.social•5 days ago

Yeah, is Obama coming for our guns yet?

sikolnam.bsky.social•5 days ago

Back in my Quora days (forgive me for my sins), I recall a fellow Top Writer known for his conservative views *insisting* that Coastal Elites constantly laughed at Middle America, evidenced by sitcoms about Middle America.

sikolnam.bsky.social•5 days ago

But my sense is that most of those sitcoms about Middle America have always been primarily watched *by* Middle America, as the jokes just don’t land that well if you don’t have an Uncle Fred who likes shooting shit. (Don’t ask me what sitcom(s) in particular he or I are referring to.)

erichluepke.bsky.social•5 days ago

Also, what is Seinfeld, some kind of chummy celebration of cosmopolitan virtue? Hardly.

sikolnam.bsky.social•5 days ago

Right, that’s why it’s so silly. Though you could probably make a case around a show Modern Family elevating and evangelizing coastal liberal values, there are also shows like Seinfeld and Always Sunny that make us come across as massive dicks.

sikolnam.bsky.social•5 days ago

TLDR: dude was complaining about being offended by shows that nobody I know has ever even heard of.

metraeccentric.bsky.social•5 days ago

This is the hallmark of evangelical echochambers and probably the number one way they've influenced the broader Republican coalition. Their faith is predicated on externalizing any form of doubt they feel onto others. Anything that makes them feel doubt is a lie, and must be attacked on principle.

cooperlund.online•5 days ago

You can see this with Mike Lee’s post about Minnesota - he’s not acknowledging reality, he’s just posting as though reality is confirming his worldview, which makes the people reading it think it’s real. You can create your own reality through posting if you have the will (and stomach) to do it.

deathbymeteor.bsky.social•5 days ago

Will, stomach and lack of morality to do it.

Genuinely worries me how much longer before even that squishy centre of people that tune this shit out lose touch permanently with reality

mspdawg.bsky.social•5 days ago

Can’t even spell the governor’s name right, smdh

cooperlund.online•5 days ago

A counterpoint: we should be citing the twelve million number as much as we possibly can and insisting that it’s real. The alt accounts suck, but we should all embrace this lie as part of building our alternate reality.

thelearneddog.bsky.social•5 days ago

The good guys long ago surrendered the propaganda front and this is where it got us. Give me some harmless but sensationalist crap to put in front of the middle of the road voter on the sidelines.

bornbrokeagain.bsky.social•5 days ago

That’s actually an undercount. My research shows that there were 47 million people demonstrating against Trump yesterday at No Kings. The media doesn’t want you to know that!

beneprism.rip•5 days ago

I have it on good authority that 12 million Americans marched against Trump yesterday¹

jeremyhammett.bsky.social•5 days ago

Also it seems like we don’t talk enough about how awful Instagram is. All my nieces and nephews are on Instagram and it is overwhelmed with this kind of stuff and worse.

domesticshoggoth.bsky.social•5 days ago

The takeaway should be to relentlessly hammer on the truth. The left is often locked in debunking mode, always responding to false claims and thereby amplifying them.

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