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Originally Posted by dreadgeek
There was a time when that kind of lunacy would be confined to the margins, as it should be. However, we no longer live in that kind of information landscape. We live in a landscape where if enough people on the Internet believe it, it becomes true--in the sense that people begin to act on that belief.
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I love the internet.
However. And this is speaking as someone who is not an American...sometimes I feel like the internet is screwing up the whole world. Specifically what I see here at home are a bunch of formerly sane people who have had their eyes and ears so frequently attacked via the internet by the vocal and stupid minority FROM THE US that, like you said, they are starting to believe the hype.
I hate to use the phrase "un-Canadian" because I know it makes me sound exactly like the type of person who I think is an asshat...but I admit that there are some attitudes, behaviours, and beliefs that I feel
are un-Canadian. And because of increased access to What The Vocal Minority of Jackasses From The US are doing and saying - it's changing Canadians. Our Conservative party which was once mostly just fiscally conservative is now overrun with a bunch of scary SOCIAL conservatives - that's un-Canadian.
Ditto with those Tea Party freakadoodles. Would they have been able to so effectively manipulate formerly sane people in the US if it weren't for the internet? I doubt it.
Boy oh boy am I ever off-topic.