A recent Instagram post by The Washington Post appears to show a mundane bag of trash. The Post insinuates that NASA carelessly “flung” this “trash” into space, which later crashed into a Floridian's house. However, this portrayal not only misrepresents the event but also seems to bait readers into a misanthropic trap.
You made me see my inherent bias to disagree or dislike anything that a modern liberal agrees with. I honestly didn't want to read this at first, because I can see former friends of mine mocking internet conservatives for the NASA story underlying this article (while they themselves would not have read the actual article.)
You helped me take a step towards:
1) Inhibiting my reflexive impulse to disagree with liberals and mock them (mainly stemming from the anger and hurt of their betrayal of the commoners),
2) Remembering that I can't know what an article contains unless I read it, which showed me that ..
3) My initial reflex to not read this was maladaptive, because there is plenty in here to still side with the commoners and mock liberals.
Lololol couldn't help it, I just try to frame things in terms of how I would discuss it with my blue collar "conservative" (non-liberal) neighbors, who seem the most revolutionary-possible people around me. This article is an opportunity to correct them AND agree with them- Liberals are dumb, and they're correct to be exasperated with the constant invoking of climate change stuff, because the rich jackasses who stole our livelihoods are trying to steal even more via privatization* and the invocation of climate change.
*Somebody needs to write about the US post office mess and how it's purposely getting destroyed to strengthen the privatization narrative.
Like you said, NASA being seen as incompetent, means people will trust the private Space entities more. Whitney Webb reported that Elon just launched 2 satellites whose purpose will be to monitor carbon emissions of the global south in order to usher in a new economic model based on carbon debt. People will be more supportive of nefarious private Space entities if they think they are filling NASAs gaps in other less nefarious areas.
I also think articles critical of the government serve to lend legitimacy to legacy media. People won't pay attention to overt state-propaganda but will stay subscribed because they feel like they might miss out on more mundane articles like these that are perceived to be true because they are more "balanced".
So much here! Thanks for breaking it down.
You made me see my inherent bias to disagree or dislike anything that a modern liberal agrees with. I honestly didn't want to read this at first, because I can see former friends of mine mocking internet conservatives for the NASA story underlying this article (while they themselves would not have read the actual article.)
You helped me take a step towards:
1) Inhibiting my reflexive impulse to disagree with liberals and mock them (mainly stemming from the anger and hurt of their betrayal of the commoners),
2) Remembering that I can't know what an article contains unless I read it, which showed me that ..
3) My initial reflex to not read this was maladaptive, because there is plenty in here to still side with the commoners and mock liberals.
Lololol couldn't help it, I just try to frame things in terms of how I would discuss it with my blue collar "conservative" (non-liberal) neighbors, who seem the most revolutionary-possible people around me. This article is an opportunity to correct them AND agree with them- Liberals are dumb, and they're correct to be exasperated with the constant invoking of climate change stuff, because the rich jackasses who stole our livelihoods are trying to steal even more via privatization* and the invocation of climate change.
*Somebody needs to write about the US post office mess and how it's purposely getting destroyed to strengthen the privatization narrative.
Like you said, NASA being seen as incompetent, means people will trust the private Space entities more. Whitney Webb reported that Elon just launched 2 satellites whose purpose will be to monitor carbon emissions of the global south in order to usher in a new economic model based on carbon debt. People will be more supportive of nefarious private Space entities if they think they are filling NASAs gaps in other less nefarious areas.
I also think articles critical of the government serve to lend legitimacy to legacy media. People won't pay attention to overt state-propaganda but will stay subscribed because they feel like they might miss out on more mundane articles like these that are perceived to be true because they are more "balanced".