Not yet. Working on it, though.

In a marvelous twist of irony, the commenter unwittingly and perfectly exemplified how easily it is to get people talking as if they were good little disciples of Goebbels. But don't worry: he's here to make us all woke, or red pilled or whatever specific propaganda term the party has commanded during this election cycle

It sounds like your personal anecdote is particularly uninformative then.

That way Han Solo can make sense in the infamous quote.

EDIT: even Gemini gets this wrong:

> In Star Wars, a parsec is a unit of distance, not time, representing approximately 3.26 light-years

A certain percentage of comments I write on social networks end up being deleted before even clicking post. Sometimes after spending 10 or 15 minutes writing it.

The reasons are many, and I've long suspected I shouldn't feel like I'm throwing my time away when this happens.

Now I have a way to remember why.

A very workable definition of "propaganda" might be "an idea crafted specifically so that you will think it was your idea in the first place"

That's why "agreeing" with propaganda is not the correct verb.

You either believe propaganda or you don't. This has nothing to do with reason or logic.

Hell, some will even pay extra for access to the highest levels of ass kissing.

I like to call this the "Yahoo Effect"

Which is usually back to back with the thought that in bygone times "the human mind used to be cleaner / healthier / smarter and it was slowly destroyed by modern living"

There's not that much difference between our behavior and that of a chicken fixated on the chalk line in front of it.

You meant the "vulgus". "Vulgar" has the same root, but a very different meaning.

This random thought is kinda disconnected from actual human history. "Not allowed to study Scripture" was not a thing: Illiteracy was. There were people that knew how to read and people who didn't, that's it.

I'm trying hard (and failing) to visualize your mental image.

"Dear Father: it looks like the Bible has been translated to English by my dear brothers up at the monastery. I'm sure you understand why I can no longer be a priest"

Remember that you're living in the actual earth timeline, not the 40k one.

That's the whole point: the word exists precisely as a testament to something that used to exist but now doesn't.

Anybody old enough to remember the word when it was common use should realize that it would have been impossible for the term to be coined in 2026.

If you missed that part of the Internet (maybe you were too young or maybe you were focused on other things, like the vast majority of people in the 90s), that's totally fine, but plenty of us did experience it and remember it pretty clearly.

> Usenet, forums, Reddit, comment sections, and every other social part of the internet have been full of bad behavior long before Facebook came along.

You can tell approximately how old someone is by whether they have reached the "everything sucks" part of life yet or not.

Understanding words does not require being impressed by anything, nor caring about the opinion of kids.

https://www.ebay.com/b/Olympic-Medal/27291/bn_55191416?_sop=...

> People, acquaintances and strangers alike, frequently comment on the knit socks I often wear,

Ok, that explains pretty much everything about your line of thought.

Thanks.

This sort of thing was done at a time when everybody did it, and now that it's not done, nobody does it

No kid ever said "did you see the sweater that Timmy's grandma knitted for him? That kid is so cool! "

Mostly because they all had grams sweaters as well.

I don't know what term you were looking for, but a handmade present for someone dear is about the furthest thing from a "status symbol" that I can think of:

- it can't be bought

- it can't be transferred without losing almost all value (ie: it's only valuable to you, or at most your family, eBay doesn't want it)

- it provides no improvement whatsoever in one's social standing