Facebook Follies of Friends and Families

[Darth Wagtaros]

Yeah, the Holocaust and the Killing Fields didn't trigger the "EVIL RULES THE WORLD" shit but normal street crime does.

[DGuller]

I find this constant fear fascinating. John Oliver recently looked at how media reports about crime skew perceptions of it.

I remember, 10 or so years ago, I mentioned to my sister that if I were to visit them I might take a stop in NYC to see the city. Response: "What do you want there? You want to get shot?" And she was not hyperbolic.

I've been saying this myself.  The real media bias is the cherry-picking of the worst things that happen to people and forming a narrative around it.  They may not intentionally be helping the authoritarians by doing this, but since authoritarians feed off fear, they're helping them nonetheless.  Apart from the politics of it all, it also lowers people's quality of life by making them fearful of things that are extremely unlikely to happen.

[viper37]

[Eddie Teach]

The second pretty much follows from the first.

[Admiral Yi]

The second pretty much follows from the first.

Disagree.  It wouldn't work if Sweden was Sweland.

[DGuller]

Id Sweden were Sweland, then the first thing wouldn't work.

[Syt]

[garbon]

That's not very classy.

[The Minsky Moment]

Is wearing a giant sock on your head while violating the US Flag Code the way one demonstrates emotional strength these days?

[Darth Wagtaros]

Is wearing a giant sock on your head while violating the US Flag Code the way one demonstrates emotional strength these days?

SNOWFLAKE!!!!!!!!!!!

[Jacob]

I think the guy in the picture is supposed to be an example of "emotionally weak nowadays" folk.

[Valmy]

I have a hard time imagining somebody looking at the internet the current generation has to confront everyday and thinking that is somehow watered down and curated in a way my generation which just had network TV wasn't.

That just doesn't make any sense.

[Josquius]

The whinging you often see about participation trophies gets me.
Millennials and gen z didn't choose that. It was set up by their parents generation.

[Admiral Yi]

Id Sweden were Sweland, then the first thing wouldn't work.

Sweland vs. Denmark would still be SWE vs. DEN.

[frunk]

Id Sweden were Sweland, then the first thing wouldn't work.

Sweland vs. Denmark would still be SWE vs. DEN.

What is this Sweden place?  I come from Sweland.