There’s a difference between feeling targeted, and being targeted in actuality. If you can’t tell the difference, then you’re not being targeted.

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lazide 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Who do you think isn’t being targeted by large scale manipulation attempts right now in the US?

Everyone can definitely tell. Even the cult followers. They just can’t get their heads out of their asses enough to do anything but follow with the manipulation, but it’s a very rare person indeed right now that is going ‘oh yeah, everything is actually fine’.

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nis0s 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Oh okay, that’s what you meant by “target”. I make two distinctions here from my understanding: 1) if group A targets group B, then that’s not a personal attack, but a social or system issue, which I would count as a source of stress, not distress. 2) If group A targets a person, then that is a personal attack, and not a social issue, which is a source of direct conflict, and therefore distress.

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lazide 3 hours ago | parent [-]

The beauty of social media is that individuals are being targeted effectively as part of group targeting between groups.

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nis0s 2 hours ago | parent [-]

That’s stress, not distress.

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seba_dos1 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Potato potato.

	▲	DontForgetMe 24 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Absolutely no way are people arguing here that being targeted for one's race, religion, sexuality etc, or being the personal victim of a targeted campaign of harassment and / or violence, is 'just as stressful and distressing' as being targeted by ads. Surely I must be misunderstanding this thread.
	▲	nis0s 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		It’s not the same thing as a different way to say the same thing if the implementation of two sources of conflict is different. One is a societal conflict, and the other is personal conflict.