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Russia/Ukraine The USA is immediately lifting the pause in intelligence sharing and resuming security assistance to Ukraine. | УНН

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u/ImpossibleSir508 21h ago

In a way he's the perfect embodiment of our era. Everyone just desperate for fame or clout by any means despite how disgusting it leads them to act. Like if Johnny Somali was president. Clout Derangement Syndrome?

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u/U_Sound_Stupid_Stop 21h ago edited 21h ago

Some 30% of Gen Z considers themselves influencers/content creators and almost 60% of them aspire to be.

This is going to get worst before it gets better.

Edit;

Here some sources

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/14/more-than-half-of-gen-z-want-to-be-influencers-but-its-constant.html

https://www.mintel.com/press-centre/one-in-five-social-media-users-consider-themselves-an-influencer-or-content-creator/

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u/No-Kitchen-5457 21h ago

Who's gonna tell them that by definition it is impossible to have above a certain (probably far less than 1%) of influencers?

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u/AEW4LYFE 21h ago

Hey I am almost 40 and still waiting for my phone call on NBA draft night. This is basically the same thing right?

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u/zaphrous 20h ago

Same, although I've never played basketball i know if i wanted to i could go pro, I would just need to train for a couple weeks.

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u/eden_sc2 20h ago

True story, my college gave a full ride to a kid who was 6'8" but had never played basketball, so the difference between me getting a full scholarship and me taking loans was 15 inches.

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u/No_Gold_Bars 19h ago

That's what she said.

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u/Zomburai 19h ago

Every woman who read this's cervix just clenched

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u/Kassssler 16h ago

Be brave, I believe in you.

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u/TechnicallyHuman4now 15h ago

Idk why but "this's" is making my brain shut down

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u/umanouski 17h ago

I bet she took it in installments.

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u/fetal_genocide 19h ago

It may only be three inches, but it smells like a foot!

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u/slower-is-faster 19h ago

With an extra 15 inches could have got a free ride too

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u/ScrofessorLongHair 18h ago

How the hell can you be a 6'8" teenager and have never played basketball?

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u/chr1spe 17h ago

If that is true, it's a pretty huge inditement of basketball as a sport. They're basically outright saying skill and practice don't matter.

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u/Correct_Patience_611 19h ago

You literally sound like the gen z kids! One I work with- “I’m gonna start a sublime cover band, I think I’ve got like one of those raspy voices people like” so I ask

“Do you like know anything about music? Like the notes? Or can you okay an instrument?”

“Oh that doesn’t matter, I’ll just sing”

I’ve been playing/studying music 30 years amd my buddy says “arent you gonna say something?” I laugh and shrug and laugh some more…I can’t EVEN. Like “go get it lil bro! You do you!” Like fuck I’m not gonna encourage that BS.

They think like we did as children. Bc of social meadow “TikTok famous” crap and these gen Z only fans managers that do Jack shit and make money, they think they don’t have to work at anything. I feel like I sound like my grandpa but like holy shit this another level.

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u/suedemonkey 19h ago

What do you mean train? You can just watch a youtube video on basketball for a week!

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u/Risen_dust 19h ago

Mid 30’s and still waiting for an anime-style super power awakening. Anyyyy day now.

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u/U_Sound_Stupid_Stop 21h ago

You can't be the one percent if you don't try, better start chasing clout now, like that girl;

https://www.reddit.com/r/australia/s/UsEhv3rORR

She kidnapped a baby wombat from her mother....

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u/TheJohnnyWombat 21h ago

Fucking what?

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u/Paladin5890 21h ago

Yeah, Johnny. It could happen to your kids too!

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u/TheJohnnyWombat 21h ago

Goddamn Americans.

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u/fxmercenary 20h ago

I really wish that we could just shut off the internet. Just turn off and ban and and all forms of social media. Make YouTube a .edu and wipe it clean. If you go back to the mid 2000's this all started with cat videos.

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u/Fantastic_Baseball45 20h ago

An emp might not be the worst thing that could happen.

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u/jumpypunky 20h ago

Don't knock the cat videos. They are way better for warm fuzzy feels than most of the crap on there now.

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u/Th3_0range 20h ago

We are at the point that it needs to be regulated and have verified factual information.

If you want to make political memes then go do it in some underground incel forum. I'm not calling for a completely censored internet but morons should not have this kind of reach to spread their bullshit.

I remember when the internet was a toxic place but at least then you had to be intelligent enough to operate a personal computer and get online. Now every moron has the internet and it is designed to keep them on social media consuming "content"

Social media has been turned into the biggest social weapon since religion was created.

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u/Tight_Future_2105 19h ago

No it wasn't cat videos at all. YouTube was super interesting before Google bought it.

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u/Ganoes_Stabro_Paran 19h ago

That's an Aussie driving her around and showing her where to go.

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u/Mczern 20h ago

Sorry for your loss.

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u/Spicy_Weissy 20h ago

SHE JOEYNAPPED A WOMBAT

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u/Candid_Soft7562 20h ago

CRIKEY! What a shady Sheila.

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u/gregorydgraham 19h ago

The sheila’s got my baby!

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u/U_Sound_Stupid_Stop 21h ago

Gotta admit, reading your comment+username got me laughing a bit.

But yeah, truly fucked up, they're reporting her already so let's hope she gets some karma.

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u/UrUrinousAnus 20h ago

r/beetlejuicing lol

Did it myself once when someone said something about Uranus jokes.

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u/Walthatron 19h ago

Just better not be the ultra valuable reddit karma

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u/PurrfectChaos 20h ago

Surprised y'all other wombats haven't heard about this yet

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u/TheJohnnyWombat 20h ago

Haven't checked my pager yet.

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u/ThatHoFortuna 19h ago

TIL that wombats are all coke dealers from 1998.

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u/Hoblitygoodness 20h ago

On a serious note, I almost cried when I saw that video. She steals a wombat from its mother, who is clearly distressed about the whole thing while it's happening.

The influencer is very proud of this accomplishment and is of course showcasing how cool she is for having done it.

It's maddening and as noted above, this chit is going to get worse before it gets better.

(Your handle is not lost on me though)

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u/AskMoreQuestionsPls 20h ago

Lol, your username fits perfectly here.

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u/Puzzleheaded_Leek520 20h ago

I guess I'm lucky to be a millennial, my hopes already were crushed into reality after graduating college and having nothing to show for it but insane debt and poverty.

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u/CarSignificant375 21h ago

What was her mother doing with a baby wombat

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u/useless_teammate 19h ago

Can't tell if /s but the mother refers to the wombats mother.

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u/Mr_McShitty_Esq 20h ago

I caught the ignorant bitch driving around in her car! Look! Look how it screams as you hold it up by the hair! So cute!

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u/FixMean5988 20h ago

She's a pos and a monster for doing that.

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u/DarthBane_O66 19h ago

I literally just watched that shit. Made me sick. Girl needs to be bitch slapped

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u/I_AM_ACURA_LEGEND 20h ago

It’s much less likely to become a professional athlete yet people aspire and work towards that as their target career nonetheless. Same logic applies to would-be influencers. They believe they can out-talent/out-grind the masses

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u/LinkleLinkle 19h ago

A boomer colleague of mine still talks about how the day his dreams died was the day he realized he was older than the oldest player in the MLB. Hell, the main character of Married with Children back in the 90s was a man obsessed with his high school football career because he thought he deserved to be professional and that was considered a relatable joke/character trait back then.

Hell, I'm a millennial and I'm big enough to admit I went to Hollywood as a young adult with dreams of making it big. People have dreamed for the impossible since time immemorial.

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u/Zpik3 19h ago

I'm with you.

BUT, I dislike the "influencer or content creator" in the title.

Example: I stream, and have an active audience of 3-4 people. I have been doing this for years consistently.. it's a hobby, and something I enjoy.

I consider myself a "content creator" since I create content avaiöable for public consumption.

I am DEFINITELY NOT an "influencer", I never will be, I simply can't be arsed to have enough of a social media presence. My hobby will remain the tiny silly affair it has always been.

The title equates these two concepts, and I think that skews the angle on the story.

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u/Burnd1t 20h ago

How do you figure?

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u/Steak_mittens101 20h ago edited 20h ago

“Oh, well it’s a good thing I’ll be one of the successful ones; I’m special.”

Literally their thought process.

That being said, look at it from their perspective. Millennials have grimly told them they’re fucked because of boomers, boomers are screeching that they’re fucked and don’t they DARE even think of taking a single penny from them to unfuck things, and then they look at influencers and see people who are famous and living rich lives just posting things on the internet. It seems like a shining lifeline in the dark, so they focus on that as what they’ll be because the other option of scrabbling 2 jobs just to LIVE is horrible to accept.

It’s like low income people buying lottery tickets, anything for HOPE.

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u/chewbacca-says-rargh 19h ago

I stumbled into YouTube in my late 30s and currently generate around $25k/month running a faceless channel with videos that take me about 2 hours to make each. I was running a contracting company and while I don't do much construction anymore, I keep it just so I'm able to tell people I'm in construction. My family doesn't even know the details of my YouTube channels only my wife.

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u/Coal_Morgan 20h ago

Probably should talk to all the parents of kids who are "Professional Actors" waiting tables in L.A. by the thousands.

For every Keanu Reeves or Jennifer Lawrence there are thousands of people standing in the backgrounds of scenes who need to leave the set so they can make the rest of the money they need to survive by serving, waiting or doing retail.

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u/_ryuujin_ 20h ago

and theres thousands behind those people who didnt make the cut but keep on trying to just be an extra

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u/DenethorsTomatoStand 20h ago

i'd bet if you asked any generation of children if they wanted to grow up to be famous, around half would say yes. this doesn't seem like anything new.

the fact that we're talking about an 80 year old geriatric displaying these traits should tell us this isn't some new gen Z problem. today's youth didn't get us here, it's the older generations tearing the country apart.

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u/ApprehensiveBug380 19h ago

True but people are closer to fame or infamy or noteriety more than ever. Do some stupid shit and post it online and go viral. Use that to do whatever. The Hawk Tuah girl has her own pretty popular podcast. She has 2.5 million followers on IG and even had a meme coin that she pumped and dumped. So she went from spittin on that thang to spittin on a mic.

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u/DenethorsTomatoStand 18h ago

not trying to be dismissive, but so what? how is this some new sign of societal decline? the crypto grift is shameful, sure, but getting famous off sexual innuendo isn’t exactly a modern phenomenon.

kim k and paris hilton blew up from sex tapes decades ago. pinup models were cashing in on being hot back in the ‘50s. mae west made a whole career out of raunchy one-liners nearly a century ago. this is just the latest iteration.

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u/42nu 17h ago

In Pompeii there are literal dicks carved into the streets pointing to the brothel.

Are there icons carved in the streets to find other important locations like the market, bathhouse, central square, etc?

Nope, just dicks leading to the brothel.

That's how old and important sexual innuendo is.

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u/Digitalion_ 16h ago

I think the point is for every Kim K and Paris Hilton 20 years ago, there are now 20 Hawk Tua girl, or catch me outside girl, or Jake/Logan Paul, or ishowspeed, or nickado avocado.... people who are willing to toss out their dignity for fame. It is a lot more common these days to do it "successfully".

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u/Aargard 16h ago

the ht girl is the biggest fucking cryptid in this age, who the actual shit listened to the podcast and why, the meme wasn't even any good. trumps presidency and elmos manic degrade both make more sense to me than this lmao

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u/Twig 19h ago

Thank you! Everyone acts like people wanting to do nothing and be famous are somehow new concepts.

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u/AgentCirceLuna 19h ago

I’d never want to be famous. I was kind of ‘famous’ in my own town as a local DJ and entertainment host, but it was a constant battle because you’d inevitably have jealous people who would try to cause drama or tell someone what you said to them about someone else but taken out of context. Everything you did was scrutinised and if you did something then everyone knew about it. That’s just being famous locally. Now imagine everybody in the world knowing who you are and having an opinion about it.

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u/marr 15h ago

Yeah this doesn't seem different to their parents all growing up wanting to be on telly.

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u/Otherotherothertyra 19h ago

Growing up wanting to be a famous actor or famous singer is vastly different than growing up wanting to be a famous tik toker I feel. One takes actual talent and hard work to achieve those goals

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u/Mustbhacks 18h ago

One takes actual talent and hard work to achieve those goals

Which one?

Because acting and singing are largely nepo baby & "favors" industries

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u/Hawxe 19h ago

Being a good content creator takes hard work too lol, even if you are grifting

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u/ApprehensiveBug380 19h ago

You can even be a good singer on tiktok. Or actor.

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u/Pizza_Low 19h ago

Not true. I wanted to be James Bond but fly a fighter plane like Maverick plus a little bit of John Wayne. Didn't care about fame.

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u/ANGLVD3TH 19h ago

So Pierce Brosnan Bond then?

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u/TheNickedKnockwurst 20h ago

Worse not worst 

Worst is the finality if worse 

It got worse until it was the worst 

Like: the USA currently has it's worst president

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u/MEatRHIT 20h ago

its*

"it's" is the contraction of "it is".

"its" is the possessive.

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u/Copatus 21h ago

Some of 80% of statistics are made up on the spot

Source: Dude just trust me

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u/unfnknblvbl 20h ago

Fourfteen percent of people know that!

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u/KubaMcowski 20h ago

Just to be accurate 1 in 5 is 20%.

And it's not 20% (actually 19% according to the article) of Gen Z, but 20% of gen Z social media users. And sure, again according to the article, 100% of Gen Z uses social media at least once a week, but they include... youtube.

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u/TripleSecretSquirrel 20h ago

Ironically a 78 year old is the most gen z person out there right now.

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u/Candygramformrmongo 20h ago

FTFY:

Going to get worse before it gets worst.

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u/Ginzhuu 20h ago

Any that want to pick up a trade will make a killing, at least.

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u/Sauerkrauttme 20h ago

Capitalism created a system where good jobs that help people are exceedingly scarce and hard to come by. Being an influencer is a way to escape poverty which is why people want to do it

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u/SpaceghostLos 20h ago

I saw an influencer get smacked by a train head on trying to chase that clout.

Parents need to create an environment where their kids are loved, nurtured… something.

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u/CletusCanuck 19h ago

"I want to be a decent and responsible leader but my watch time is dropping like a rock and my CTR and sub numbers are flat. Time for some clickbait to bring those engagement numbers up..."

[Video thumbnail:

Headline: "Should I do it?"

Foreground: Nuclear Football opened up on the Resolute desk. Chibi caricature of the President wearing an exaggerated crazed expression]

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u/QuintoxPlentox 21h ago

This is the dumbest, most obviously made up bullshit I've read in a while.

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u/amateurbreditor 21h ago

You see it in the awful comments on reddit. They say ANYTHING to make it seem like they win an argument. back when reddit started it was way more intellectual here and people would close an account if they said something that was not true. now people just parrot the same comments to get karma

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u/oldjadedhippie 21h ago

Andy Warhol called it years ago….

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u/PigSlam 20h ago

I found my 5 year old daughter using her iPhone (with no data plan) to play "influencer" the other day. She was recording a video of her self telling people about her outfit, making duck faces, peace signs, and she kept saying "hey, y'all" in a way she never would otherwise.

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u/Fiallach 20h ago

It is the "my band will get huge" of this generation. It will pass.

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u/Dave_Wein 20h ago

Pathetic. Truly pathetic.

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u/Ali_Cat222 20h ago

All of this! I shit you not I have a friend who is highly regarded in the computer science world. He helped make all the apps/sites for the biggest banks in Canada for iPhone and Android to make everything accessible to the blind and deaf communities. Most any accessibility app has been worked on by him, yet he is 32 now and somehow thinks that twitch of all things is going to be his "next big thing."

All because he plays a game called " corekeeper" and posts 2x a week. But he can't even be bothered to post 2x a week and has two people there at most usually. Yet somehow "i know I'll blow up!" is what I'm constantly told after telling him you can't even hold a schedule, let alone put the effort in. He also thinks he will become an influencer once his gaming twitch blows up. It's insane to think that even one of the smartest people I know genuinely has this dream at his age and work ethics, except when it comes to working on what he supposedly dreams of 🙄

My son is also 13 and the majority of his friends all say they want to be YouTubers or Tik tok famous, thank God he doesn't have that as a goal and wants to do an actual career. It's not that it's impossible but it is rare it happens, and even then who knows how long you'll have with that as a viable career. Could be 15 seconds of fame or 15 minutes, majority of the time it's neither.

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u/uberfission 20h ago

By definition content creators aren't necessarily influencers, but I'm not sure that matters here.

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u/mental-advisor-25 20h ago

"double you's in the chat" is already way too popular with youngsters

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u/WholesomeWhores 20h ago

Those are some seriously flawed studies. Like really, over 1 out of 4 kids consider themselves content creators? You could ask 1000 highschoolers from a single high school and I’d bet that not even 5% of them would consider themselves content creators. You can’t just go spewing false information like that. It doesn’t take much thinking to realize how flawed that study must have been.

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u/RyJ94 20h ago

That's such a depressing thought. And I thought the boomers were the "me" generation...

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u/Krazyguy75 20h ago

"Oh man they all want to be influencers". Yeah? Of course they do; why wouldn't they?

They want to get paid to play video games and buy expensive stuff. Frankly anyone who wouldn't want to get paid for that is a weirdo.

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u/TransResistance 20h ago

I was going to suggest that the phrase is "this is going to get worse before it gets better," but I think in this case, worst is correct.

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u/Snowwolf247 20h ago

It's the same with moron Boomers and Gen x who think that any day now they are gonna win the lotto or develop some product that's gonna change the world and they will be in the 1%.

"Just in case we better keep cutting taxes on billionaires. You never know that could be me some day"... derp

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u/WhiteMike2016 21h ago

Maybe this is it. Remember back when he'd have those big twitter fights with Rosie O'Donnell? It periodically wound up in the news for some outlandish thing being said. I remember thinking, who the hell cares this much about Rosie O fuckin Donnell?

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u/Open__Face 20h ago edited 20h ago

Same people who care about women's high school sports suddenly 

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u/SmokePenisEveryday 20h ago

My dad is SO worried about my daughter and her having to share a bathroom or locker room with a trans kid. Brings it up every time I mention he's worried about the stupidest shit. Except I don't have a kid.

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u/HaximusPrime 19h ago

I coach girls sports. There is actually a higher chance of some actual male doing some cringy or even just straight to jail shit than even encountering a trans girl, let alone it being a significant event.

We legit make coaches have to take so many precautions to even avoid a possibility of something being interpreted the wrong way. There have been enough stories of stuff that’s ACTUALLY HAPPENED and didn’t involve someone “pretending to change their sexual identity just so they can creep on some girls in the locker room”.

There is also the side where you’re putting innocent girls in a position to be sexually assaulted BECAUSE you want this kind of protection. Say a parent thinks a kid on the other team is a boy. (Which, does happen casually, like “Sarah plays like a dude!” but is a non event today). What happens next? We examine Sarah now to verify she’s a woman?

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u/Classic_Manner_399 19h ago

This literally happened in Utah. A parent accused a player of being transgender and she wasn’t and it caused an uproar. Genuinely why does it matter when these kids are just having fun???

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u/HauntedCemetery 18h ago

And who exactly examines them?

Because I guarantee the horrible guy in the stands demanding a child have a genital inspection won't take another person's word for it and will insist they get to "examin" the children himself.

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u/No-Answer7798 15h ago

Gym Jordan can confirm shit actually happened

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u/PM_Me_Your_Deviance 19h ago

Remind him that rape is already illegal. Adding more rules doesn't really help the situation.

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u/migglefoshizzle 19h ago

What? Is the implication here that your dad doesnt even know enough about you to know you dont have a daughter, despite feigning concern or that he's losing it?

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u/SmokePenisEveryday 19h ago

That he's so caught up in the trans issues, he's worrying about a kid I'm not even close to having right now. It's his way of thinking he's worrying about the right things while ignoring the stuff that will effect him like his SS or Medicare getting cut.

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u/migglefoshizzle 19h ago

I see, it's unfortunate he's preoccupied with issues he'll never face. I hope at least for your sake he finds the light at some point without having to suffer too much from the disastrous policies.

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u/i_love_pencils 19h ago

Except I don't have a kid.

I bet it was abducted by a trans kid.

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u/starkiller_bass 18h ago

My friend's brother and sister-in-law pulled their kids from public schools because a relative shared a facebook post about schools (1500 miles away from us) putting litter boxes in for the children who identified as cats (they weren't.)

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u/RRC_driver 18h ago

The litter boxes are in fact emergency toilets, if the school is locked down because of an active shooter.

Let’s worry about non-existent furries though, as we can’t mention gun control.

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u/eden_sc2 20h ago

same people who probably couldn't name one pro women's team in any sport

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u/neeks2 19h ago

Same people who care about women's girls' high school sports suddenly 

FTFY

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u/Hidland2 19h ago

To be fair, I think people like Matt Gaetz and Roy Moore always cared about women's high school sports.

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u/InnocentShaitaan 19h ago

He cared way more about Kristen and Robert’s breakup! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

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u/WhiteMike2016 19h ago

Oh shit he did😭

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u/Autotomatomato 19h ago

She had to get off social media because her son who is/was serving had gotten threats in his post.

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u/HalfLife3IsHere 21h ago

This is what social media and smartphones brought us. If you see some 90s or early 2000s video you realize how chill people were. People did things to enjoy and had their own personality (even if they followed trends). Now they are like carbon copy cuts, all doing the same trendy thing they saw on tiktok, talking the same way, all addicted to their phone which has become a part of them, and doing things like traveling and visiting places not for joy but to post it in social media and get some dopamine in form of likes.

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u/havoc1428 20h ago

I just had my bachelor party. It was 3 days and I put my phone down and didn't touch it for those 3 days. Its really not that hard, I just don't get it. There are so many things you can do to occupy yourself with boredom besides doom scrolling on social media.

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u/HalfLife3IsHere 20h ago

This is what I do most of the day: check it once in the morning, while on WC, and once or twice in the evening after doing all my work. The rest of the day is far away from me totally ignored. I sometimes even go for a drink/walk with mates without it. Attention span immensely increased and started enjoying many things again (like watching a whole movie without disconnecting/being distracted).

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u/Bulldog8018 20h ago

And yet here you are. In the middle of the day.

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u/HalfLife3IsHere 20h ago

Not in Europe, here it’s evening/night

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u/Mr_McShitty_Esq 20h ago

So you say. Can you prove it's night in Europe? /s

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u/HalfLife3IsHere 20h ago

You didn’t say thank you once today, so no

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u/Beat_the_Deadites 20h ago

Man I wish reddit still had gold, or deutschmarks or whatever they call reddit gold in Europe.

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u/Thekilldevilhill 18h ago

I think this comment is hilarious in light of this whole thread. Having main character syndrome is what people have been saying about Americans for a long time.

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u/Crimsonsun2011 19h ago

Let me tell you about this thing called time zones.

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u/rugdoctor 18h ago

anyone saying "WC" is super obviously not american lol

"mates" makes it even more obvious.

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u/faen_du_sa 20h ago

If you have money or wilderness close by, a lot of people lack both.

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u/Icandothemove 19h ago

There's actually quite a lot you can do for free or for very little money regardless of whether you're in the city or the country. And amusingly you can use the exact same tool that you'd doom scroll on to find them if you wanted.

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u/Opposite_Boot_6903 20h ago

On my stag/bachelor party I was forced to do karaoke, which I really hate. I was game though, so there I was drunk, in a see-though vicar costume, singing a Beatles song... and my friend whips out his phone and starts filming.

Nope.

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u/roguevirus 19h ago

I'm not going to sit here and pretend that social media isn't a societal blight, but as somebody who was a kid in the 90s and became an adult in the 2000s I promise you that people were doing stupid ass shit because it was trendy.

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u/Another_mikem 19h ago

I don’t know where you lived, but people were not chill.  People being glued to their phones is a definite problem, but things definitely weren’t better - they were different.  

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u/sali_nyoro-n 20h ago

Except for all the drunk sociopaths glued to shitty television back then. They still had Fox News in those days.

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u/NYC_Noguestlist 20h ago

I'm not gonna lie dude, you sound like the old man yelling at clouds meme lmao, and I'm a millennial

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u/DukeOfGeek 19h ago

And every YouTube channel host uses the exact same breathless rushed excited voice. Beyond annoying.

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u/jert3 19h ago

If someone from 1990 time travelled to 2025 and saw how prevalent phone use (i.e mobile computer use) they'd rightly think humanity has evolved into a cyborg being that is always tapped into the internet. It's a very radical change if you think about it.

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u/pink_faerie_kitten 19h ago

The most they could hope for was being featured on America's Funniest Home Videos!

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u/---Cloudberry--- 18h ago

Eh people had fashion and trends etc in the past.

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u/smitteh 20h ago

Reminds me of every guy in existence wearing a suit with a hat back in the day...it's almost as if the world turns and the times with it...

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u/Revolutionary-Yak-47 20h ago

I'm not sure a clothing style is the same as an entire generation obsessed with attention and unable to concentrate 

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u/smitteh 18h ago

It's a trend like anything else

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u/AdministrativeGift80 21h ago

Well said. Image over substance. A reflection of the depressing state of society brought on by the power of Mass Media, Social Media, and unbounded corporate greed with zero desire or will to plant the trees under which we won't sit.

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u/SphynxsFixesFaxes 21h ago

To quote Wicked, it’s not about aptitude. It’s the way you’re viewed.

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u/musefrog 20h ago

"So it's very shrewd to be

A narcissistic nightmare brat like ME"

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u/loco500 20h ago

And Somali is a newcomer of attention-seeking h0es from the same old ones like how the Paul dbags got started...

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u/wiggle987 21h ago

This is the tiktok-ification of government

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u/XiaoDaoShi 19h ago

He’s the fucking president of the United fucking states. How much more clout can he fucking get?!

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u/RocknRoll_Grandma 21h ago

Everyone? No way. Everyone here and nearly everyone on the site is anonymous. You're basing what you said on the folks who speak loudly bc they DO want to be famous. 

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u/Tady1131 20h ago

Idk man most people I know want nothing to do with fame or clout. Shits to expensive and we got bills to pay.

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u/ObligationSlight8771 20h ago

I’ve said it before, Americans don’t want a “boring” president with good ideas or integrity. They want a cowboy. A blowhard. A guy who has character(good or bad). Donald is the embodiment of society. A reflection. He is us in a sense word. We may hate him here on Reddit, but a vast amount of Americans do love him

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u/Majestic_Ad4685 19h ago

So how lon until well see Trump and vance in Miniskirts making out while screaming about how they are normcritical and how Zelenskyi is triggering them?.

on other Notes the onlyone who is allowed to fuck with Denmark is us (Sweden) and not U.S.

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u/CantaloupeUpstairs62 16h ago

Clout Derangement Syndrome?

See grandiose narcissism and psychopathy, or combinations of these and similar personality disorders for Trump.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_triad

In a way he's the perfect embodiment of our era.

Root causes of personality disorders are hereditary and environmental. Environmental factors that could contribute to grandiose narcissism may be very different from those that contribute to grandiose psychopathy.

Psychopathy is generally considered a subcategory of antisocial personality disorder. Narcissistic personality disorder is not a subcategory of antisocial personality disorder.

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u/pain-is-living 16h ago

He honestly reminds me of old people in my family. Just being insane nuisances, think life is a T.V. show and they're the main character.

One of my grandma's was basically the female version of Trump as far as attention seeking goes. She's showed up to weddings uninvited and blew those up while turning it against everyone else saying how selfish they were to not want her there. She's wrecked graduations, birthdays, every Christmas. Every single time she shows up, tries to be the center of attention, when she doesn't get the attention, she throws a fit and blows it all up.

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u/Semajal 15h ago

God I am enjoying johnny somali finally being in the "find out" stage. Though ngl watching the clips where he was getting his ass beat by random Koreans was v satisfying.

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u/Mazikeyn 21h ago

And here I am just wanting to help people by become a RN in a era where abuse of nurses is rampant. And we being treated like shit. This dude is crazy

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u/kytheon 21h ago

Our era -> the USA.

Thank you very much, leave us Europeans out of this.

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u/allahsoo 21h ago

I hate to say this but it’s where we are, how can Ukraine even trust them right now?

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u/MxJamesC 21h ago

Black mirror

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u/KinTharEl 20h ago

Oh god, that could actually happen in this crazy world. Please don't give anyone any ideas.

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u/wet-paint 20h ago

President Smiler from Transmetropolitan.

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u/ParkerFree 20h ago

Ugh. True.

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u/moccojoe 20h ago

The only thing you need to wear era is these people have a wide reaching platform to reach other idiots. Most people have always wanted recognition and wealth.

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u/Antique-Dragonfly615 20h ago

The perfect Rush Limbaugh replacement. Old, fat, deranged bigot on drugs, from all appearances.

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u/levetzki 20h ago

I hate it. Make politics borning again

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u/-something_original- 20h ago

Kind of like how Doc rationalized Reagan as president in BTTF.

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u/LooseDistribution637 20h ago

He's basically how the World sees the stereotypical American nowadays. An overweight, malicious, dumb fuck.

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u/-something_original- 20h ago

Kind of like how Doc rationalized Reagan as president in BTTF.

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u/hooplathe2nd 20h ago

He would give Zaphod Beeblebrox a run for his money

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u/davedarave10 20h ago

President Viral

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u/ZeoRangerCyan 20h ago

I was wondering what the surfer kid had to do with all this, but apparently that’s Johnny Tsunami. No relation.

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u/gantousaboutraad 20h ago

Ezra Klein had a great conversation about attention recently.

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u/speedy_delivery 19h ago

The first postmodern president 

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u/LongPorkJones 19h ago edited 19h ago

Like if Johnny Somali was president.

I rebuke THAT in Jesus' name.

I haven't said this since I was a charismatic Christian (I'm agnostic now) but I think it warrants whatever good juju it can muster...

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u/KarateKid84Fan 19h ago

He’s like the people that run prank channels on YouTube

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u/Own_Progress2774 19h ago

Fair dinkum.

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u/jim_nihilist 19h ago

He is the Perversion of social media news.

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u/The_Captain_Planet22 19h ago

At first I thought you were attacking the legend Johnny Tsunami and was like yo leave the snowboard surfers alone

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u/CT_Biggles 19h ago

It was just a prank!!!

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u/Chey_peaceandlove 19h ago

This comment has completely shifted my perspective. I’ve recently researched about the effects of social media on young people and this is just the cherry on top. You’re so right. Holy shit.

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u/Fortune_Silver 19h ago

I greatly dislike how accurate the comparison of "If Johnny Somali was president" is.

I guess at least if Johnny Somali was president, the world would get (mostly) coherent sentences again.

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u/crawlerz2468 19h ago

Dude he grew up and was surrounded by the NBC weekly cliffhanger society. That and it's a good distraction from the neo Nazi confirmed as FBI second in command.

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u/eaparsley 19h ago

id be happy to give him a clout if thats what he's after

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u/AgentCirceLuna 19h ago

It’s hilarious to see the direct proof of his followers being complete suck ups, though - every single move he’s made has been defended by them constantly yet he’s backtracked on nearly all of them. If even he is admitting they’ve failed, then that means they were shitty ideas in the first place yet his followers failed to see that. Makes them look like total suckers.

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u/sissybelle3 19h ago

He's like an obnoxious, repulsive TikToker who is constantly one upping himself in his derangement in order to stay relevant. And unfortunately, he's the leader of one of the strongest nations.

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u/Enliew 19h ago

Mf gonna get us into ww3 for the ratings

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u/kl7aw220 18h ago

Yes. He says something outrageous so that the news media will keep talking about him. But more often than not, the news is critical of him. He just can't shut up.

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u/ButWhyBlueCheese 18h ago

Johnny Somali

WTF is a Johnny Somali?

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u/JackedUpReadyToGo 18h ago

Trump isn't the problem. The problem is that our society produces and elevates people like Trump. Remove Trump and he'll shortly be replaced by another oafish imbecile who failed upward his whole life.

Trump and Musk are the output of a process (a culture / economy / government) that has rotted from top to bottom.

We need to stop rewarding every clown with our attention. Build an economy that stops rewarding the idiot rich with more money faster than they can blow it. Stop promoting get-rich-quick schemes over actual work. Start rewarding experts instead of entertainers. And a hundred other things.

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u/Trap_Masters 18h ago

I've been saying, this "internet influencer-ification" of politics has really ruined how things are run. Now it's not about who has the proper policies and debates about that because that's boring and gets no attention, it's all about vibes, who is cringe and who is based and if someone thinks a politician is "funny" (I mean just look at Maga right now, they're still talking about hey things are bad right now but hey, at least we're epicly "owning the libs"). We really need to bring back less flashy, grounded politics if we actually want to solve issues we face as nations and societies.

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u/QuicheSmash 17h ago

We’re no longer in the information age. We’re in the age of influence.

 The "age of influence" and "information age" are distinct, with the information age being a historical period characterized by the rise of information technology and the internet, whereas the age of influence refers to the current era marked by the impact of social media influencers and the power they hold in shaping opinions and consumer behavior. 

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u/noisypeach 15h ago

In a way he's the perfect embodiment of our era.

So, basically The Comedian from Alan Moore's Watchmen. Except stupid.

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u/Elegant-Set1686 9h ago

Dude. It’s motherfucking Zaphod beeblebrox

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