It’s not exactly a news flash that I spend many hours every day online. Most of the time, I’m multi-tasking. That’s my excuse anyway—-and I’m sticking to it.
Recently, for no apparent reason, I’ve noticed a sharp increase in the number of MAGA posts that litter my screen. More like A BOMBARDMENT of batshit.
Pro-Trump, far-Right extremist, alternative wacko media posts (most funded by ultraconservative PACs) now flood my Facebook feed. Translation: When I scroll down the page, roughly every 4 or 5 posts among my Facebook contacts get interrupted by an unsolicited news flash, or a propaganda hit piece, an idiot meme, or (worst of all) a video reel generated by AI. This is low-information scramble their tiny brains litter. Fucking garbage for idiots. Lots of American flags. Christian Crosses. Jesus the white guy. Fear. Lies. Untraceable fabrications for dummies. Pro-Trump low-grade disinformation bombards not just my feed, but worse — TENS OF MILLIONS of Facebook users. Of course, DISINFORMATION WORKS. Show them a bible and a flag and they cream Popeye’s spinach. Toss in a few insults about Marxism and trans people, and the canary in the coal mine morphs into the worst of humanity. Trouble is, most are gullible enough to believe what they see and FOX and NEWMAX and OAN and BREITFART know this game and they have perfected the scam.
If you spend anytime at all on Facebook, it’s become impossible to turn off the garbage. It’s like getting rid of roaches. You can’t. Once they’re in your house, you’ve got a bug problem. It’s the same with MAGA junk on Facebook. You’re screwed.
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For quite awhile, I ignored all the repetitive dummy posts (they often use the same talking points). Then, they became so annoying I started blocking them. That didn’t do any good either — one dead roach was replaced by another—one right-wing outlet filled the sludge hole. Things have now gotten so bad I’m now getting hit with financial donation requests from the pro-Trump candidate in the Texas Railroad Commissioners race, specifically the Republican primary. W.T.F.? Hell, after dodging MAGA traffic cones for weeks, I know more about those cowboy-hatted fucks than the representatives in my own state (Nevada).
One would think my association with Leftist politics would be self-evident. But I rarely come across posts from my own preferred candidates or organizations. Perhaps they don’t do as good a job at lying, and meme-ing, and skull-fucking truth and facts. I don’t know. Maybe Liberals should start using hand grenades in a knife fight. I thought truth and facts would win out, but apparently most of the social media universe is a lost cause.
Desperate to restore normalcy and decency in my life, I did the only thing that seems to work when it comes to reducing the number of MAGA posts, donations begs, scandalous video scares, and other sludge from the pro-Trump pipeline. Attempting to fool the baked in pollution that accompanies all capitalist marketing, I began CLICKING something different. Cat videos to the rescue! Cats playing piano. Cats cuddling up to dear. Cat toys. Anything with a cat — SMASH THE LIKE BUTTON.
Slowly but surely, the MAGA shit began to smell less bad. Fewer Ted Cruz and Charlie Kirk feeds hit my page. Trump began to fade, replaced by tuxedos and tabbies playing with plastic mice made in China. More cats! Less Trump! Fuck you, Zuckerberg…….I figured out your algorithm game!
Sometimes, personal salvation can be found in the strangest places.
