so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god
okay so i just got my dream job??? a week after applying to it?? and now i’m thinking….maybe this is the good luck post
…..not even six hours later i got an offer of a well paying full time long-term job with free room and board in queens in nyc, allowing me independence and a way to escape an abusive situation and an unhealthy environment
likes charge reblogs cast, folks, this is the good luck post
My dad was a straight-ticket Democrat, gave money to the ACLU, and left the Catholic church when his local parish prioritized a new, bigger church over hungry parishioners. He was VERY liberal.
He voted for Al Gore in 2000.
In 2004 (when he was 75yo) an injury forced him to spend time at an assisted living facility for rehab. The TVs there were all tuned to Fox News.
All it took was six months.
Upon his release that’s all he watched. He obsessed over Fox. Became convinced liberals were out to destroy HIS America.
From 2004 onwards I watched my liberal dad – the guy who imbued me with my beliefs and values – decline into a ranting, angry, hateful person.
He almost died alone because I told him I simply could NOT stand to hear any more about how Obama was ruining the country. He relented, and I said goodbye to him in 2011 at his hospice, only because we agreed not to discuss “politics”.
Fox News is pure 100% brainwashing. I’ve seen it up close, and it is evil.
It wasn’t Fox News with my dad, it was another evil.
Talk Radio.
The far right has pretty much taken over talk radio and monopolized it, and through it radicalized a lot of people.
My dad worked nights, driving, so he listened to a lot of this crap. Rush Limbaugh and even worse people.
There’s like, nothing on the left even close to the amount of ears these people can reach, every day and every night, spewing their hatred and their vile thoughts.
Talk Radio is Fox News on steroids and both are evils that need to be addressed.
It’s important to recognize the way people are radicalized and find ways to counter it.
God I feel this something special. My father was a union worker, hard democrat and believed in helping the everyday man. It wasn’t talk radio or Fox News that did him in. That mother fucker Mark Zuckerburg advertised it to him. My father fell down the Facebook rabbit hole like so many other people his age and they formed groups to talk about how wrong us “liberals” are. He has, during several family dinners, coaxed arguments out of me to dominate the conversation and when he can’t he just storms off leaving everyone feeling angry and upset. I use to look up to this man and it’s hard to see him completely brainwashed by “Trumps America”. I think the hardest part was the night he told me that the liberals had brainwashed me and I didn’t read enough.
Brainwashing people into thinking people that disagree with them are brainwashed is the ULTIMATE ace in the hole. There is no turning back to the light if you’re convinced it’s the dark.
my favourite trope is “antagonist and protagonist narrowly avoiding each other in the same space” and The Emperor’s New Groove nails it perfectly I wish more media did stuff like this
