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Idiots exist with or without knowledge. What the world needs to learn is to not put idiots into positions of power, and to remove the ones that found their way into power.
That's absolutely right; the only problem is that those chief-idiot are so rich that they control most of what the Internet means to the vast majority of people.
That's just how people are, unfortunately, as evidenced by the fact that platforms like Twitter or Reddit, for example, are still used by the masses.
Like I said: humanity needs to learn to not give such people power and to remove power from such people, too.
Why is kinda hard ito always do, idiots will follow idiots which will hate on different idiots or less idiots which makes hard for the less idiots to do anything
Sorry, idiots are popular with idiots so the idiots vote for the idiot and now the idiot is in charge.
Yes, because idiots allowed vile malicious non-idiots to gain control of their "news" media and stock markets, so OFC that went down hill fast.
Again: It's all about preventing and removing idiots from power, not about trying to control the masses of idiots.
You control the up-stream. Fighting down-stream is just begging to be pissed on.
Sorry, power rests in the hands of the people.
Most of whom are idiots.
Sorry, power rests in the hands of the billionaires and oligarchs.
Ftfy
The people only have a facade
Well they’re also idiots.
You’re not wrong
To the oligarchs who have power they’re useful idiots.
They’d rather you blame the idiot orchestra than the conductor.
I’d rather blame all of us for leaving the trees.
It’s very clear that’s what happens. The concern now is what to do to break the system.
Thousands of articles of misinformation isn't power. It's a reminder on what to avoid and fact check.
Soon the arbiters of actual facts will be so broke they can't afford to peddle them anymore. Only those with financial incentive to shape truth will be providing "facts."
AI will likely be their greatest hammer.