• Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    441·
    5 days ago

    Also, we’ve had excellent evidence that many powerful people, including the president of a world superpower, has done literally that exact same thing except with non-consenting children, and nothing happened.

        • FenrirIII@lemmy.worldEnglish
          17·
          5 days ago

          There’s evidence that the rise of social media has had a negative effect on real-world involvement in social movements.

          • sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyzEnglish
            10·
            5 days ago

            baring Cambridge Analytica tipping an election or tiktok putting every nazi with a podcast in young boy’s faces. yeah callouts or black square profile pictures kind of have a more sedative effect.

    • jorymo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      4 days ago

      Yeah I think my biggest nitpick with that movie is the way it portrays the public as immediately changing their beliefs based on new information. IRL, absolutely nothing would have happened to Lex Luthor.