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Oh its absolutely not though. And you thinking that, thats decades of propaganda operating on you. And it worked. It shifts the responsibly from those in positions power, who can make societal scale decisions, to those who have the least power, who can only change their individual behavior.
And its not an accidental thing as a mechanism for governments, corporations, etc.. to use to shift blame. Its all very well established.
There's no propaganda. Its very simple logic and reason. I've done it. There's no reason you can't too.
It doesn't shift responsibility anywhere. For some reason society gets this ridiculous notion that there can be only 1 person or entity to blame for anything, when in reality that's almost never the case. Platforms have the choice not to exploit their users, and the users have the choice to leave. Both are responsible for the way things are, and either party has the power to end it.
Of course there is no war in bah sing seh! How could I forget.
Individual choices are practically immaterial and have almost no impact on the outcomes societies endure. For all practical purposes, individual choice is meaningless. You doing or not doing something doesn't mean shit, because you aren't in a position of power over systems.
Yes...you are. Claiming you're not is exactly the kind of attitude that perpetuates these monoliths and they thank you kindly for your service.
I bet you don't vote either, do you?
Ah yes. The pee-wee herman defense. How astute.
As long as you put the responsibility for outcomes on individuals and not systems and those with power over systems, you are doing their work for them.
I already told you that's not what I'm doing. You need to read more carefully. I put the responsibility on the people responsible. All of them.
They said, as they repeatedly did the thing they were being accused of..
Except they didn't, and everyone can see that they didn't so I don't know who you're trying to gaslight here.
Sure. You're entirely immune to propaganda campaigns that existed even before your grandparents were born.
EVERYONE is victim to propaganda but you. You alone are able to identify the issue, that those in the positions of least power are the ones we should be asking to change global systems, an approach that has quite literally never worked to affect change.