• Carrolade@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    The protests this month also drew out younger people who were not around for past marches. Kira Miller, a 19-year-old student at the University of Richmond who attended a protest in Washington, said she believed that failures in the education system cause young voters to be uninformed, and therefore apolitical or apathetic; marches can help bridge that gap. “There is power in the visual impact of protests,” she said, “and in the attention that they bring to issues.”

    She’s got a point.

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      they weren’t uninformed. they knew exactly what they were voting for.

      they were indoctrinated due to a lack of education that would otherwise protect them against manipulation.

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        Maga is a cult, they’re basically unreachable and we know that. Apathy and despair is the real enemy here. If “Didn’t Vote” was a candidate, they would have won. By a landslide.

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        Actually, I’d argue that due to isolation from mainstream news sources, quite a lot of them are uninformed. Was their specific tiktok account putting the info into their feeds? If not, you can get uninformed.

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          tiktok is not a news source. tiktok is propaganda. propaganda is meant to program a response from people.

          the education system failed to prepare these people for a toxic inhospitable world where their very identity is being attacked on the daily.

          also, these people failed to prepare themselves once they became adults because they couldn’t identify the risks to themselves. they lack the skills to identify where their opinions end and the mobs values begin because of a lifetime of indoctrination through tools like Facebook and Tiktok.

          they were not uninformed. they made a conscious decision to vote the way they chose. they can certainly change their perspective and their values, but they have damaged their integrity and irreparably broken the trust given to Americans around the world.

          just because you don’t understand why you did a thing doesn’t absolve you from being guilty. if someone is uninformed they made choices based on falsified information. there are numerous cases that specifically told the world how big of a corrupt criminal Trump is. Too many sources to ignore it, this is why they chose of their own free will and were not “uninformed”.

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            Whether someone is informed or not is something that can be objectively analyzed. It had nothing to do with responsibility or guilt. Either they know or they don’t, it is an entirely separate topic whose fault that is.

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              court: so you then hit the victim seventeen times in the head with a hammer. what do you have to say for yourself.

              defendant: I didn’t know that hitting a person that many times would kill them. I saw it happen on Looney Tunes hundreds of times and thought they would be fine.

              so by your own admission the defendant should be let go because they can’t be held responsible or guilty because they were uneducated and/or misinformed?