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ghostofbordiga 18 hours ago

You really think that Hiroshima would have been worse if instead of dropping the bomb the USA somehow got people addicted to social media ?

tines 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Yep. Look around you. The bomb leveled a city; Facebook killed a country. We are but the walking dead.

rightbyte 16 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Well they got both I guess?

KerrAvon 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Really crude comparison, but sort of. It would have taken much longer, and dropping the bombs was supposed to bring about an end to the war sooner. But in the long run social media would have been much more devastating, as it has been in America.

The destruction of the American government today are a direct result of social media supercharging existing negative internal forces that date back to the mid 20th century. The past six months of conservative rule has already led to six-figure deaths across the globe. That will eventually be eight to nine figures with the full impact of the healthcare and immigration devastation inside the United States itself. Far worse than Hiroshima.

Took a decade or two, but you can lay the blame at Facebook and Twitter's doorsteps. The US will never properly recover, though it's possible we may restore sanity to governance at some point.