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Don't Look Up (europe.pub)

submitted 1 week ago by UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world

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[–] Vespair@lemm.ee 80 points 6 days ago (4 children)

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.

[–] BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world 42 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Vespair@lemm.ee 14 points 6 days ago

A contributor? I would call it a primary source, tbh.

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 14 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] aramova@infosec.pub 6 points 5 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 11 points 5 days ago

That's still eugenics, just as side effect

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

When I said no fixing I meant it. Not even genetic manipulation can fix this kind of stupid.

[–] Toneswirly@lemmy.world 17 points 6 days ago

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.

[–] MithranArkanere@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] iii@mander.xyz 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I don't think you'll ever be able to get fully rid of religion and terrorists

[–] EldenLord@lemmy.world 106 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Holy propaganda victim

[–] Anomalocaris@lemm.ee 30 points 6 days ago

victim of mass media brain rot

[–] Plesiohedron@lemmy.cafe 13 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

My thoughts as well.

It makes me wonder about my own fears. How many of them were put there by propaganda?

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[–] yagurlreese@lemmy.world 17 points 5 days ago

for a second I thought this was a fucking onion article lol

[–] zazous@lemmy.funami.tech 30 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

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

[–] crank0271@lemmy.world 23 points 6 days ago

Well, duh. The photo isn't of Doncaster because it's already fallen to Hamas.

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[–] recall519@lemm.ee 20 points 6 days ago

sLaMs

[–] hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 39 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Ah yes, because paragliders obviously are a very good invasion method. How indoctrinated do you have to be to think this???

also before i clicked the imagine i thought it was the flag of estonia of a sec

[–] Anomalocaris@lemm.ee 20 points 6 days ago (1 children)

tbf,

the fact that a handful of paraglider managed to overcome one of the most advanced and well financed military on the world, through one of the most militarised and surveilled borders in the world, into one of the most militarised countries in the world, is quite impressive.

[–] herrvogel@lemmy.world 24 points 6 days ago

There is a trick to bypassing the Israeli defenses. Just make sure what you're doing will be giving the unhinged leader of the genocidal regime a casus belli to launch a war of conquest that they can sell as a defensive war, and suddenly you'll find you can do anything.

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[–] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 29 points 6 days ago (4 children)

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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 22 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Odd woman yells at ~~cloud~~ paragliders.

[–] Ghosthacked@lemm.ee 9 points 5 days ago

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.

How much anthrax do you think terrorists have that they could afford to mail it to you, a random person in the US?
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.

[–] ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 35 points 6 days ago

Well she is from Doncaster so that explains a lot of her delusional thinking.

[–] andybytes@programming.dev 7 points 5 days ago

Stupid ass

[–] RedFrank24@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

"AAAHHH! Hamas are attacking... Doncaster?"

[–] RizzoTheSmall@lemm.ee 14 points 6 days ago

Oh no! If they take out Doncaster, who will eat all the Gregg's?

[–] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

They found a photo of the leader

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[–] atlien51@lemm.ee 10 points 6 days ago

D O N C A S T A H

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 15 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

o no they got SLAMMED

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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 6 points 6 days ago

Aw naw! They're comin' from Bradford!

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