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These are the same types of idiots that think they’re going to be targets of a terror attack in some small backwater town.
These types of propaganda methods really resonate with boomer types.
I remember someone that thought that they were going to be mailed anthrax back when they had the anthrax scare in the US.
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How much anthrax do you think terrorists have that they could afford to mail it to you, a random person in the US?
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Why do you think you’re so important that you’re going to be targeted?
You need to either be clueless or really full of yourself to think these scenarios apply to you.
The only time you’re possibly going to be caught up in something is if you’re going to an important or significant place, or you’re interacting with people much more important than you are.
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“AAAHHH! Hamas are attacking… Doncaster?”
Stupid ass
for a second I thought this was a fucking onion article lol
Real talk, we have to figure out how to handle this kind of chronic fear and paranoia, because this shit ain’t normal, but it is frighteningly common.
Like yeah this is a hilariously over-the-top example, but the amount of people you and I both know who go through life genuinely thinking that they’re going to be the victim of a kidnapping or worse at any given time is astounding. And it’s not without impact either, because this is exactly the unfounded sense of fear that conservatives/fascists seize on to manipulate the population.
I don’t know the solution, but a world where everyone is afraid of their own shadow is a literal hellscape.
There were people who went out and shot at water towers during the radio airing of War of the World’s. Floridians will routinely try to make hurricanes go away by shooting at them. Police get hundreds of calls about Venus every year.
There’s no fixing this type of stupid. All we can hope for is to keep it from spreading too far.
God damnit, stop making the case for eugenics already. Let RFK’s absurd health advice do its thing, weed them out, and we can hand out the Darwin awards in a few years.
When I said no fixing I meant it. Not even genetic manipulation can fix this kind of stupid.
That’s still eugenics, just as side effect
If I were a betting man, I’d wager this woman spends a lot of time scrolling through right-wing posts on Facebook about the “invasion” of Britain. A Brexit type, if you will.
That’s just speculation in this specific case, but the amount of fear-mongering right-wing content on social media is absolutely a contributor to this kind of worldview more broadly.
A contributor? I would call it a primary source, tbh.
The way to handle it is to find the “The Architects of Fear”, getting rid of them, and making sure no new ones take their place.
I don’t think you’ll ever be able to get fully rid of religion and terrorists
The solution is multi-factorial and will take a generation to implement. Expand the social safety net, expand public education to encompass critical thinking skills and researching skills, restrict private media monopolies that hold public consciousness in a deathgrip.
sLaMs
That picture is not Doncaster, It’s Devils Dyke in Sussex, UK. It is facing East toward Chanctonbury Ring (furtherest hill in the distance). Behind the photographer will be a pub and a carpark. Its a drive of about 230 miles between there and Doncaster. #justsaying
Well, duh. The photo isn’t of Doncaster because it’s already fallen to Hamas.
So you’re #justsaying that the chickenshit woman is also full of regular human shit?
More likely the ‘journalist’ just grabbed a stock image (it even credits Getty Images) of paragliders.
They found a photo of the leader
Dont u dare conflate hg for pg >:[
Odd woman yells at
cloudparagliders.D O N C A S T A H
sauce?
Gyo, it’s the same guy who created Uzumaki
forgot there were sharks thought it was just the fish with the spindly legs
Junji Ito for sure
Holy propaganda victim
My thoughts as well.
It makes me wonder about my own fears. How many of them were put there by propaganda?
For one, there’s journalists picking the dumbest tweets and pretending it’s news. Then screenshots of the “news” article of a dumb tweet getting propagated on other fora.
It’s ragebate, conditioning us into a default distrust in and condescension of others.
victim of mass media brain rot
Do you know what else terrorists use all over the world? Cars! How long will we allow these dangerous contraptions to be freely available?
So that’s why the US banned Toyota Hyluxes.
It’s not. The real reason is so much stupider. IIRC it happened partially because of eggs.
Ahh that’s right. Chickens not eggs.
That depends on which came first
Don’t the chickens come on the eggs?
That’s fish.
TIL. Flying fish or…? How do they reach the chicken eggs?
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Well classical lobbying then.
You are now an admin on /c/fuckcars
Cars have legit gotten somewhat popular as a rampage weapon in Europe. I think knives are still number one but there’s a trend for sure.
Knives are still number one because some of us can’t afford a car!? Mass murder isn’t the cushy gig it once was, between enshittification, inflation, corporate greed, etc.
Those poor mass murderers just couldn’t get their hands on a gun. So unfair!
Oh no! If they take out Doncaster, who will eat all the Gregg’s?
How deep do you need to be in the propaganda to think like that?
Don’t forget that in WW2 UK civilians were taught to pay attention to other peoples’ shoes because of rumours of hairy-handed nuns in Fallschirmjäger issue boots. This kind of shit is nothing new.
There genuinely were German spies in Britain though.
I remember the early 2000s when basically 90% of all Americans were absolutely certain that jihadists were going to attack their local supermarket any minute now because Power Cable, Nebraska was such a strategic target.
Heck, there was a bomb scare because of an advertisement campaign for Aqua Teen Hunger Force that involved placing PCBs with LEDs on them that would display characters from the show. Because surely Al Quaeda would put conspicuous LED displays on their bombs.
News media want people to panic so they keep tuning in. Panicked people tend to come up with remarkably stupid scenarios like “Al Quaeda have unlimited resources and can show up anywhere to shoot people at random” or “Hamas want to take Dorcester as a strategic location to strike at Israel from”.
In Nate Bargatze’s recent standup special he talked about how he, a water meter reader at the time, was tasked with protecting his town’s water tower after 9/11. With a flashlight. He did a much better job making it funny than I can, but I remember that level of fear. “It’s called terrorism because they make you afraid they can hit anywhere!” I remember hearing.
Which is silly in retrospect, Al Qaeda only hit major, symbolic targets in the US and never did “hit anywhere.”
I was working for a company that was renovating and upgrading the water filtration system in the ass end of nowhere and we had some official show up to ask us what we were doing b/c someone called us in thinking we were terrorists sabotaging the water system.
That’s reasonable I think, if people are messing with infrastructure, it’s good it’s being verified they are doing legitimate work. Though don’t call them on a hunch terrorists obviously…
I remember in 2008 when Putin was invading Georgia (the country) there were some confused and scared people from Georgia (US state).
Ah the 20 upvotes to 14 down. Good ol’ reliable internet.
Well tbf i woke that morning and saw the head lines on the news and thought what the fuck when did the cold start again. Then. Minutes I learned there is a country named Georgia
tbf that was around the time the cold war resumed.
No. 90% were not scared. It was the corporate media that hyped up every single flimsy lead. The rest of us knew that we would be perfectly fine.
Fair enough. The dumb ones were just loud enough to sound like 90%. But I sure did talk to some panicked dumbasses online back then.
I literally had an old lady tell me that black lives matter was going to take over destroy the UK and take over Britain. Like the organisation. There are some people that are so deep in right-wing newspaper and Facebook shit that they will unironically spout something like that.
That is literally frightening. I honestly feel bad for her. That is not a good life. Pushing hate like that requires a lot of internal suffering.
Don’t do social media, kids.
I mean, we’re also using social media but can still recognize that she’s delusional. There’s a lot of different factors contributing to people’s delusions.
I lot of people are like this. They don’t conceive a world outside their own. When I was in grade school, so many people in my hometown thought that… we were going to be the next Columbine (not like there were any kids actively acting odd, just the feeling that we were somehow important enough to have such a tragedy). They also thought several big companies were going to open up shop (like Best Buy, Red Lobster, etc… it was the 90s). Currently, some people still live there who think they have the highest number of Somalians living there (they don’t), the largest amount of Muslims (they don’t), and they’re like the drug central for the state (they’re not). It’s a small town filled with people who don’t really travel more then a few hours any direction and so they really don’t have a concept of what’s outside their world. The town of 20,000 must represent ALL 8+ billion people. If something bad is happening somewhere, then it MUST be happening really close to them. I had someone message me about how the Chinese were basically getting ready to invade them (so many texts about that). Oh, and after 9/11, so many people legit though that small town no one knows exists, was definitely going to be targeted next by middle-eastern terrorists…
and they’re like the drug central for the state (they’re not).
To be fair you never know. There is a small town fairly near where I live that had one of the largest meth production operations in the country at one point. Turns out it’s pretty easy to make a lot of drugs and not get caught when you do it in the middle of nowhere.
Average right-wing american levels
Britain might be better off banning American TV for a bit
I don’t think they’re much better. British TV is what created the modern antivaxx people with the MMR Scare
