• yucandu@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    I kept saying back in the 2000’s that the internet was a wide open propaganda-hole, just waiting for Russia or China to use it to spread propaganda. And everyone was like “why you worried about the internet? it’s funny cat videos n stuff” or “no way, people get their propaganda from the New York Times” and I was like “Nobody trusts the news anymore because of Iraq! Everyone’s gonna start getting their news from some random guy on the internet!”

    I swear I said all this in 2006. I started saying this after I witnessed both my far-left leaning friend and my right/libertarian friend both hate NATO.

    I also noticed my far-left leaning friend was starting to push very heavily on trans rights. And while I personally love trans people, I knew a lot of people, especially women, were going to have a problem with it. I also predicted that one day this will piss enough people off that America will elect a fascist and invade us (Canada).

    I also predicted that one day computer programming as a career will be obsolete, because our bosses will be able to just say into a computer what they want it to do, and it will translate their human language into machine language.

    But now all I can predict is when the milk is going to go bad.