• Steve@startrek.website
      184·
      23 days ago

      Satire is dead, reality is absurd. Imagine how actual boomers are processing the world right now? Why do you think fox news is taken seriously by half the population?

        • curbstickle@anarchist.nexusEnglish
          75·
          23 days ago

          Sorry to break it to you, but this problem is not limited to the US. The US is just a really big and obvious example.

            • atopi@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
              1·
              22 days ago

              there have been people in my country who, when confronted with the choice between voting for a candidate that promised to legalise same-sex civil union and a candidate that praised a dictator that was allied with nazi germany during world war 2 and said the west is putting microchips in soda, chose the latter

              the second candidate was predicted to win before the election was cancelled (and later the candidate banned) due to russian connections

              i have seen teachers talk about how great the current president of the united states is, the ruler of a country half a continent and an ocean away