There’s nothing more disheartening to me than coming across someone’s social media account where it’s nothing but shared memes and jokes that are all conservative conspiracy mongering and hate speech, particularly when it’s stuff you can easily disprove via fact-checking sites or publicly available government info.
Case in point: this idea that gas prices are high because Biden has cut oil production, which seems to be a whispering campaign that never actually cites any sources (and is contrary to everything you can find online with just some basic googling.)
It’s the kind of thing where I really really want to point out their fallacies and lack of evidence, but know it’s like bailing out the ocean. Face-to-face, in a friendly way I could say “is that true or is it just something you heard?” and see where it goes, but online the result is a pig-pile of angry invective from a crowd that materializes out of nowhere.
The nature of social media means there is always this lurking mob ready to drown out reasonable discussion, and sometimes it really feels like the monsters are winning.
