• u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    4 months ago

    My dad really changed since joining TikTok. Now that’s all he talks about. Come look at this, come look at this,…
    “But I am busy.”
    “Oh, come on, it’s short.”
    “Look. See? People love Putin.”

    For fucks sake… Then he proceeds to loudly curse when he gets yet another account banned for posting some trash.
    When I try to talk to him, I am met with “Wait, I just have to finish this video.” then later he complains I don’t talk with him. ¿?

    I mean, it’s not just TikTok alone, he uses Facebook, TikTok and VKontakte, but I feel like that had the biggest influence.

    • Vilian@lemmy.ca
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      4 months ago

      start behind the scene subscribing to anti-putin posts and channels and see he changing opinion lol

      • Alteon@lemmy.world
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        4 months ago

        100%. This actually works. Most boomers are not technologically late enough to track subscriptions and such.

        There was a YouTube video not a documentary (similar to The Brainwashing of My Dad) where their father went down the rabbithole, but they started subscribing them to better news sources, and eventually to left-leaning news sources, and he did a whole 180°.

        Fear is like a drug. It’s addictive, and rightwing media sources have cracked the formula on how to get people addicted to it, and it can happen to ANYONE. The uneducated to the well-educated. The only thing that makes you immune to it is critical thinking and empathy - which is why I feel that their next war is on education and masculinity. They are literally trying to perfect the addiction so you can never leave it.

        This is part of the reason why education is so insanely important.