1/3 of the country don’t really pay attention to anything if it doesn’t affect them directly.
The biggest drama in my family is how my uncle failed to pay child support and now has to go to court. They only recently learned about ICE like a week ago, even though they’ve been in the news in my city for the past year.
At my night classes, someone brought up Epstein and a student my age said that she thought it was released a few years ago. I don’t think she’s stupid. She has like 5 kids and was attending night school for more job experience.
I won’t be surprised if the Superbowl will be the first time a large percentage of Americans even learn about ICE.
Perhaps a dumb question, but I’m not from the U.S, so a genuine question here: Why might the Superbowl be a way for a lot of Americans to learn about ICE?
Because they’ve announced that ICE will have a presence at the Super Bowl, and nobody can understand why. Is it really necessary to show up and harsh the buzz of everybody who is spending a fortune to have a good time? I suspect it’s in retaliation for Trump not being able to attend because they know he’ll be book mercilessly, and perhaps even be a target for assassination. So they’ll send ICE to get some airtime, and intimidate the rest of America.
There are also plans to send ICE to Italy for the Winter Olympics, which is an even weirder idea.
I would imagine the idea is to demand a contingent go to the Super Bowl and the Olympics, and then give the assignments out as rewards for the leaders and the soldiers who have been the biggest assholes.
It kind of reminds me of Gimme Shelter, the documentary about how the Rolling Stones allowed the Hells Angels to be the “security” at their big tour ending concert, and the bikers got really violent, and ended up murderering a guy right in front of the stage as the Stones were playing. I can’t wait for ICE to start beating people in front of the cameras at the Super Bowl or the Olympics. That should go over big.
Because events are when the general population actively pay attention. It’s why ads cost so much during that time.
Someone who couldn’t be bothered to watch the news is probably going to be watching sports. But they’re also probably watching it with a half dozen friends, who they can talk about it.
At my night classes, someone brought up Epstein and a student my age said that she thought it was released a few years ago. I don’t think she’s stupid. She has like 5 kids and was attending night school for more job experience.
Yep, so much of people yelling about “stupid” voters is victim blaming people experiencing poverty and the US’s lack of social safety nets
When you are working multiple jobs, and trying to keep your kids from becoming juvenile delinquents, drugged out zombies, or pregnant, it can be hard to keep up with the daily news.
I know through studies of the economic anxiety that the poor have, which led them to elect the populist right, but I didn’t personally feel it until I lived close to an underprivileged area. They do not get support from the government, and any social housing is blocked by the property-owning middle and wealthy class, because it brings down the property values. As a result, the poor are made to compete for limited resources with migrants, who themselves are victims of imperial capitalism through foreign interventions and environmental exploitation, leading to climate change and its resulting economic decline of the land prompt people to move. The competition for resources makes both locals and migrants go at each others throats, while the rich are laughing their way to the banks with the wealth pickpocketed from the rest of us.
A lot of people don’t know about ICE because of personal distractions, but also the hyper-personalisation of mass media cooped all of us into our own bubble, which gives us information blindspot. We don’t really watch TV anymore, so we no longer share the same sources of information. Most people these days use social media for news, but the algorithm of social media curates our desires, which then forces us into a tunnel vision. Hence, we each live in different sets of reality, seeing only what the social media shows us.
But on the one hand, and I don’t know what to make of it, people genuinely switch off from the news because it makes them depress. I understand where they are coming from, but being completely cut off from news is just silly. A friend of mine did not even know about Trump threatening to take over Greenland.
1/3 of the country don’t really pay attention to anything if it doesn’t affect them directly.
The biggest drama in my family is how my uncle failed to pay child support and now has to go to court. They only recently learned about ICE like a week ago, even though they’ve been in the news in my city for the past year.
At my night classes, someone brought up Epstein and a student my age said that she thought it was released a few years ago. I don’t think she’s stupid. She has like 5 kids and was attending night school for more job experience.
I won’t be surprised if the Superbowl will be the first time a large percentage of Americans even learn about ICE.
Perhaps a dumb question, but I’m not from the U.S, so a genuine question here: Why might the Superbowl be a way for a lot of Americans to learn about ICE?
Because they’ve announced that ICE will have a presence at the Super Bowl, and nobody can understand why. Is it really necessary to show up and harsh the buzz of everybody who is spending a fortune to have a good time? I suspect it’s in retaliation for Trump not being able to attend because they know he’ll be book mercilessly, and perhaps even be a target for assassination. So they’ll send ICE to get some airtime, and intimidate the rest of America.
There are also plans to send ICE to Italy for the Winter Olympics, which is an even weirder idea.
I would imagine the idea is to demand a contingent go to the Super Bowl and the Olympics, and then give the assignments out as rewards for the leaders and the soldiers who have been the biggest assholes.
It kind of reminds me of Gimme Shelter, the documentary about how the Rolling Stones allowed the Hells Angels to be the “security” at their big tour ending concert, and the bikers got really violent, and ended up murderering a guy right in front of the stage as the Stones were playing. I can’t wait for ICE to start beating people in front of the cameras at the Super Bowl or the Olympics. That should go over big.
Obviously, ICE has far too much money.
Because events are when the general population actively pay attention. It’s why ads cost so much during that time.
Someone who couldn’t be bothered to watch the news is probably going to be watching sports. But they’re also probably watching it with a half dozen friends, who they can talk about it.
The American education system failed us by design
Yep, so much of people yelling about “stupid” voters is victim blaming people experiencing poverty and the US’s lack of social safety nets
When you are working multiple jobs, and trying to keep your kids from becoming juvenile delinquents, drugged out zombies, or pregnant, it can be hard to keep up with the daily news.
I know through studies of the economic anxiety that the poor have, which led them to elect the populist right, but I didn’t personally feel it until I lived close to an underprivileged area. They do not get support from the government, and any social housing is blocked by the property-owning middle and wealthy class, because it brings down the property values. As a result, the poor are made to compete for limited resources with migrants, who themselves are victims of imperial capitalism through foreign interventions and environmental exploitation, leading to climate change and its resulting economic decline of the land prompt people to move. The competition for resources makes both locals and migrants go at each others throats, while the rich are laughing their way to the banks with the wealth pickpocketed from the rest of us.
A lot of people don’t know about ICE because of personal distractions, but also the hyper-personalisation of mass media cooped all of us into our own bubble, which gives us information blindspot. We don’t really watch TV anymore, so we no longer share the same sources of information. Most people these days use social media for news, but the algorithm of social media curates our desires, which then forces us into a tunnel vision. Hence, we each live in different sets of reality, seeing only what the social media shows us.
But on the one hand, and I don’t know what to make of it, people genuinely switch off from the news because it makes them depress. I understand where they are coming from, but being completely cut off from news is just silly. A friend of mine did not even know about Trump threatening to take over Greenland.