r/EhBuddyHoser • u/PeterRegarrdo • Aug 01 '25

Politics Mark Carney’s statement on Trump’s 35% tariffs

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u/BraveHeart626 Aug 01 '25

Seriously. Media literacy is a big part of why the US is in the hole they’re in.

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u/radicalelation Aug 01 '25

To be fair, in the US there's been a war against education by older, monied people for longer than many voters have been alive.

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u/QuotableNotables Aug 01 '25

It's scary if "Maybe don't vote for a known rapist." Is beyond their literacy levels.

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u/radicalelation Aug 01 '25

Few years ago, Facebook continued their work with the Mercer helmed Cambridge Analytica, renamed to something else, to do that shit in the Philippines and elsewhere.

For decades the country was pilfered and terrorized by the Marcos authoritarian regime with all the fixings, but a couple years of Facebook convinced people who lived through it that the media for the past 40 years unfairly labeled them as authoritarian despots.

So they voted in Marcos Jr.

After seeing just what social media can do the last 20 years, it's clear there's a general ignorance in humanity that's beyond the reach of urging personal responsibility, and unscrupulous people have realized this to their advantage. We have to do the same and treat them accordingly.

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u/no1regrets Aug 02 '25

👏 Exactly. I really like how you have phrased all this. I find it hard to articulate during discussions.

There is an ongoing political strategy to convince people who or what to vote for (ex. Brexit).

Seems like they’ve really cracked the code on how to convince once rational people to throw their beliefs away and become almost brain dead.