Notices by hypolite (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)

@threetails I don't think we are being told the truth about his true political power, but i don't think it goes the way you seem to believe. Kirk seems to get a lot of media and government attention not because of what he was, but because of what he represents.

He was a media figure, and that's why he is revered in media circles that have been clobbered into bothsideism by right-wing propaganda. He was also the bigot billionaires' boy, showering him with money in order to spew their bile better than they ever could. Finally, he was very racist, which warrants the full pomp of the current US administration.

Nothing about any of these hints at a supposedly larger power he would somehow have held. Or rather, his whole life has been about pretending to hold a larger power than he actually did.

@silverwizard The suggested searches have long revealed both the general ignorance as well as the blind trust in the machine some people have.

That the chatbots are more personable could only increase the affordance in that regard. I get that it’s foreign for us people who are enjoying thinking, but we’ve never been the majority.