That's a possibility as well.
Just wait until we find out her husband didn't know she was at the game because he was at a Coldplay concert.
Social media is destroying our humanity
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That's a possibility as well.
Just wait until we find out her husband didn't know she was at the game because he was at a Coldplay concert.
That's actually THE NAME of it?
And women GET it??
I just......you know, I feel like George Costanza when he said nobody asks for the Larry Fine.
a couple of examples from the google
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I'm looking for a quote in a book I was reading last weekend. (I'm not sure which one - but I'm usually reading 4-5 books at a time and switching it up). The quote dealt with how prior to the proliferation of television, it took reactions to traumas DAYS to settle in, people had time to process their public reactions and how they felt about things. Television then dramatically reduced the reaction time from first news to first reaction to almost a live action shot for MANY PEOPLE (but not all).
But what social media has managed to do is take that reaction time that television gave us live on camera and shrink it to so quick and tight that ANYONE who naively says exactly what they're thinking at the moment is on camera either from someone else or their own phone. It's NOT that people didn't say things previously ("I'm glad someone killed that traitor, Kennedy"), it's that they didn't have the means to project those into the public forum and be seen by ANY other people.
If I'm out in rural Mississippi on November 22, 1963 (getting ready for the Friday night cross burning), and I hear Kennedy has been killed, my first reaction might be, "Good, I hated that Catholic, (racial term) loving dictator, and he won't be missed." But in 1963, nobody is going to hear it except my immediate family, and it won't shock them since they no doubt already know not only how I feel about Kennedy but how hypocritical I am when I say on Sunday at church to "pray fuh ah leaders."
But if I have that SAME reaction today and somebody has a phone recording?
I'm probably going to have to leave the country.
Exact same reaction - completely different results.
But what social media has managed to do is take that reaction time that television gave us live on camera and shrink it to so quick and tight that ANYONE who naively says exactly what they're thinking at the moment is on camera either from someone else or their own phone. It's NOT that people didn't say things previously ("I'm glad someone killed that traitor, Kennedy"), it's that they didn't have the means to project those into the public forum and be seen by ANY other people.
If I'm out in rural Mississippi on November 22, 1963 (getting ready for the Friday night cross burning), and I hear Kennedy has been killed, my first reaction might be, "Good, I hated that Catholic, (racial term) loving dictator, and he won't be missed." But in 1963, nobody is going to hear it except my immediate family, and it won't shock them since they no doubt already know not only how I feel about Kennedy but how hypocritical I am when I say on Sunday at church to "pray fuh ah leaders."
But if I have that SAME reaction today and somebody has a phone recording?
I'm probably going to have to leave the country.
Exact same reaction - completely different results.
Back in the 1960's, just seeing peaceful protest on TV was enough to make changes in policy and public behavior. Now no one bats an eye to violent riots, looting, or assassinations.
SMH
SMH
It's because we've become "protest weary". When everything is existential and the end of democracy as we know it, at least once or twice a week, protests no longer have the gravitas they once did.
Not to mention that once it got out that a lot of these protestors were getting paid to be there, it had the opposite of the intended effect for the protest itself. Once the protest has been stripped of its authenticity and combine that with the protest fatigue you pointed out, these things have become one of my favorite things to completely ignore.
I do feel it should be pointed out that this is not necessarily a good thing. Some protests are legitimate and absolutely need to happen to keep the elites in line (or as in line as they actually can be.) If nobody can tell the difference between a real protest and a fake one, we the people have lost one of our most important rights. They can't take away our right to peaceably assemble, but they can damn sure affect its impact.
Protesting now looks more about whining about not getting their way than fighting a wrong.
Protests are only effective if they can reach critical mass. The Argentines who toppled the dictatorship in 1983, the Berlin Wall, the toppling of Ceacescu in Romania.
Eventually, enough people have to get sick of the status quo, and the military and LE stop supporting it, and the government falls.
This isn't the case with the ICE protests, and others. There are enough people in this country who are perfectly fine with what ICE is doing. Because they don't have a dog in the hunt, no relatives being deported. Heck, they even cheer when it's brown people who are under the gun. Some even believe they are eating their dogs and cats, and spreading diseases.
But the dumbest protests were the ones that protested against Trump's inauguration. If you don't like the results, try not to get the idiot elected(and RE-elected). Show up at the polls. If your candidate isn't your 1st choice, it's damn sure a lot better than the idiot who gets elected. Protesting is not going to reverse the outcome.
Eventually, enough people have to get sick of the status quo, and the military and LE stop supporting it, and the government falls.
This isn't the case with the ICE protests, and others. There are enough people in this country who are perfectly fine with what ICE is doing. Because they don't have a dog in the hunt, no relatives being deported. Heck, they even cheer when it's brown people who are under the gun. Some even believe they are eating their dogs and cats, and spreading diseases.
But the dumbest protests were the ones that protested against Trump's inauguration. If you don't like the results, try not to get the idiot elected(and RE-elected). Show up at the polls. If your candidate isn't your 1st choice, it's damn sure a lot better than the idiot who gets elected. Protesting is not going to reverse the outcome.
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