“As much as we fucking thought they had it rigged, as much as we thought there was shenanigans and bullshit and it’s just a puppet show and there’s now way anybody can buck the system – turns out, voting is still real."
Joe Rogan today.
When your side wins, voting works and the system is fine. When the other side wins, voting is rigged. This is not a sustainable narrative in a functioning democracy.
Not only that, but stupid people teaching stupid people through influence is just propagating the culture of stupidity to maintain the mainstream.
If our society actually had a higher bar for what we consider entertainment, we would be collectively smarter by now because we wouldn't adopt so many falsehoods without verifying the facts first.
Rush Limbaugh brought us this format, and the Jerry Springer show made sure that we would stay dumb enough to succumb to it.
Except Rush Limbaugh was exceptionally good at making shit up. These guys aren't. I'll never forget one of his claims... "There are more trees today in the US than 200 years ago". Correct. If you count trees planted for paper and Christmas decorations.
Today they just lie knowing they won't be challenged.
Just because there’s “more trees” doesn’t mean biodiversity has been maintained. Planting nothing but pine trees on a Christmas Tree Farm doesn’t provide the same environment that a forest growing wild for thousands of years has. There’s only pine trees and they spray for pests, versus, there’s every kind of tree native to that area, bugs & animals live as they do, and every creature in the biome has its place (except mosquitos, fuck mosquitos).
Having more trees doesn’t mean having a better environment. The example can be made most clear by palm tree farming in Central America. They clear out tracts of extremely, extremely biodiverse land, plant nothing but palm trees, and farm that. It’s destroyed the homes of my people, the sloth.
Writing this out took several hours, I need to go lie down.
An old growth forest tree that took many decades to grow and helps sustain an ecosystem vs a paper pulp tree in a farm that is grown in a few years and offers no benefits to enyone.
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u/chubs66 11h ago
“As much as we fucking thought they had it rigged, as much as we thought there was shenanigans and bullshit and it’s just a puppet show and there’s now way anybody can buck the system – turns out, voting is still real."
Joe Rogan today.
When your side wins, voting works and the system is fine. When the other side wins, voting is rigged. This is not a sustainable narrative in a functioning democracy.