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What's a current or growing trend only you seem to have concerns about? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've definitely turned into the paranoid nutcase within my friend group in recent years, I hate that everything is "smart" nowadays requiring an app/internet connection & account, just to do basic things that didn't require any of that before.

What's some things currently making you ramble like an old man?

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Children dying as a result of right wing extremist parenting.

Here are a couple of examples: children murdered by Qanon dad (https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/matthew-taylor-coleman-qanon-children-killing-1239151/), child murdered by antivaxxer father (https://magazine.atavist.com/sins-of-the-father-san-francisco-vaccines-murder-suicide/?fbclid=IwAR0OBzNIqVkbPa47epDcffhw-aw61QhAGk5_IvNX3KN1AGIMRy4lhs-Suyk), Qanon dad kills family (https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/09/12/igor-lanis-murder/).

There is no help for kids whose parents are caught in right wing conspiracy theories and CPS seems to be very hands off with such parents. As far as I'm concerned if you're an antivaxxer and homeschooling your kids should be apprehended for their safety.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Far-right media have become very effective at creating and then weaponizing anxiety. It's a politicized specialization of the standard "if it bleeds, it leads" news reporting strategy: getting people to spend time and money on violent scary news that they can't do anything about.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Weaponized disinformation. It really is much more than your kooky uncle believing in chemtrails.