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   Micky Metts (freescholar@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 15:23:26 JST Micky Metts

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   • Erik Moeller

   @eloquence The plan is to make people voluntarily turn away from mainstream news and only tolerate information that is neutral or positive. This is an old tactic, but it still works! There was a brief public discussion on this when the networks decided to show footage of the Vietnam war and the caskets coming home. It took years to get the percentage of bad news the public can stomach before they turn it off.
   I enjoy http://ground.news

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     Erik Moeller (eloquence@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 15:23:27 JST Erik Moeller

     There was a knife attack in Germany. A pretty brutal one, with a small Moroccan kid and one German man killed by a mentally ill man set for deportation.

     As usual, it's fodder for the right and a giant media story.

     But I didn't read about it here in my feed until well after it happened. And that's how it should be, frankly.

     Violence is awful, and reading about it hits us in the least intelligent, most reactive parts of our brain. Proportionality matters.