{"id":21160,"date":"2024-10-15T00:11:04","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T07:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=21160"},"modified":"2024-10-15T00:11:04","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T07:11:04","slug":"fear-hatred-the-political-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2024\/10\/15\/fear-hatred-the-political-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"Fear, Hatred, &#038; The Political Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The online vitriol connected with politics (and really, almost anything these days) is not caused by a narrowing of the mind by living in a bubble, but the the narrowing of the mind by living from living in a bubble <em>as a reaction<\/em> to being shown <em>the other side<\/em> who live outside your sense of normalcy in the most demagoguing and fearmongering way, which causes people reject, knee-jerkingly, anything out of the safety of their online \u201csafe spaces\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fuFlMtZmvY0?si=R06mYDJUoloRHexN\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Social media is partly to blame. Their algorythms are designed for engagement and nothing is more engaging than expressing rage. Of course, the old Mainstream\/Legacy Media gets in on this, but then increasingly so do the alternatives on the Right who have abandoned any pretense of trying to be insightful and informative and instead become part of many\u2019s online \u201csafe space\u201d where people can be assured that they are good and will become victorious over the evil <em>other<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/The-Internet-is-Worse-Than-Ever-\u2013-Now-What-\u2013-youre-brain-is-stupid.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/The-Internet-is-Worse-Than-Ever-\u2013-Now-What-\u2013-youre-brain-is-stupid.jpg 779w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/The-Internet-is-Worse-Than-Ever-\u2013-Now-What-\u2013-youre-brain-is-stupid-300x166.jpg 300w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/The-Internet-is-Worse-Than-Ever-\u2013-Now-What-\u2013-youre-brain-is-stupid-768x426.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1px) 100vw, 1px\" \/> <\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\"><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatblog\"><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalhat\"><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Fear, Hatred, &#038; The Political Internet\"><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"The online vitriol connected with politics (and really, almost anything these days) is not caused by a narrowing of the mind by living in a bubble, but the the narrowing of the mind by living from living in a bubble as a reaction to being shown the other side who live outside your sense of normalcy in the most demagoguing and fearmongering way, which causes people reject, knee-jerkingly, anything out of the safety of their online 'safe spaces'. \"><meta name=\"twitter:image:src\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/The-Internet-is-Worse-Than-Ever-\u2013-Now-What-\u2013-youre-brain-is-stupid.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The online vitriol connected with politics (and really, almost anything these days) is not caused by a narrowing of the mind by living in a bubble, but the the narrowing of the mind by living from living in a bubble &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2024\/10\/15\/fear-hatred-the-political-internet\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21161,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[15,77,65,33],"class_list":["post-21160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-elections","tag-democrats","tag-derp","tag-doom","tag-gop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21160"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21163,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21160\/revisions\/21163"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}