Do you think the attacks on politicians are partially due to the media?

@DiegoWolfe Good point!!

@fanuc2013 not just this but all Major companies are also corrupting influences on the political machine turning it into a tool for their agenda and their agenda alone.

@DiegoWolfe How do you overthrow the media? And you have no right to overthrow the government, try it and see what happens.

@LeopoldBloom Media is overthrown by use of the Wallet, stop spending on shit the Media pushes or companies sell on places that you disagree with and see how fast they change tact.... its how this works

@DiegoWolfe All that will do is inconvenience me unless there's a national boycott where my participation will actually make a difference. That being said, I've stopped using Facebook, not for political reasons but because the site went into the toilet over the past few years and no longer works the way I want it to. Twitter has always been a garbage site and with Musk in charge it will either get worse or become irrelevant. I haven't had cable TV for years, so I don't watch CNN, MSNBC, Fox, or any of the other mainstream media sites. I guess if enough people feel that way, eventually those sources will disappear and be replaced by even more impregnable echo chambers.

I wish there was a social media site where I could keep up with what people I've known throughout my life are doing, and have conversations with them the way Facebook was ten years ago. Unfortunately, no site like that exists and never will again.

@LeopoldBloom so what you are actually saying is you want a echo chamber of your own then

@DiegoWolfe No, I want a social media site where I can keep up with what the people I've met throughout my life are doing. It has nothing to do with politics. Many of the people who I attended high school with are conservatives. The way Facebook is now is an echo chamber, as it prioritizes posts from people I engage with, who tend to be liberal. The more I engage with them, the more I see, and it's just a self-perpetuating feedback loop.

What I want are uncurated chronologically ordered posts the way Facebook was ten years ago. The problem is that even if Facebook changed back to that, the people are gone, and they aren't going to join any new site. So what I want is impossible to have.