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'Merica
(thelemmy.club)
I'm just happy to see Americans using the correct "you're" at this point.
Shouldn't the Americanized version of "you're" be spelled "yo'r"?
Hmm... Curious. 🤔
That might just work if any of them could read or decide how to feel on their own
with any luck they'll confuse it with a McDonald's commercial and follow instructions blindly
That's right, idiots, stay in your cult. Once you get duped you become branded for life as a stupid cultist, so you may as well stay and fester in the only culture that will ever accept you. Get comfortable licking that boot, because you need community to live and we will never allow you to join ours, so don't even think about it as an option.
...sarcasm, obviously. I hope.
clicks on link
It's goats.ex
goatse.cx
"Look at this program!"
"It... can't be, but... it is!"
That does seem like a very effective ad.
…For McDonalds.
I kid, but hopefully it helps some lost souls.
Bout damn time.
Could it be more of a sect?
Unfortunately that seems to be the pattern with a lot of beliefs right now, especially ones that the rich have vested interest in ensuring spread.
AI bros just updated their AI doomsday timeline again, from 2026 to 2030. At some point you'd think they'd see the parallels with the "world is ending on this specific day" cults and the constant timeline shifting.
As literacy, media literacy, numeracy, critical thinking, attention spans ... all broadly worsen...
... amidst a backdrop of very serious collapse of material conditions on the ground...
Basically every time in history you get that combo of conditions, humans start making cults.
Its a kind of sociological coping mechanism, or maybe basically panic/stress response.
When people don't have the tools to understand and evaluate reality, but people can very plainly tell tell that things are worsening, life is getting more tenuous... people will irrationally believe in anything that offers at least a real feeling of tribal belonging, identity, and that can also ideally either actually excercise force to secure material needs, or at the very least, make a convincing display that they could if they wanted to.
It's not "right now" it's always been that way.
Believing this is a new or temporary thing is wishful thinking.
sweet
this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2026
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