• Draupnir@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

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    Not one yet, I just understand how landlording and real estate investing works. Sure there are scum landlords out there, but what good do we bring the situation by demonizing an entire group, complaining online and cutting ourself off from the greater understanding of how things work and interplay in a complex society?

    This could apply to any news or situation. Have you ever considered that maybe there is more to understand than what you currently know? Have you considered the strength of the force that the way information is presented upon you can have on your perspective, attitudes, and beliefs about a situation? News articles have a tendency to use this in an effort to weaponize your emotions against something or someone, or to distract you from other causes.

    In this case, perhaps it has succeeded in manipulating your emotions to blindly attack me without fully and coherently understanding the situation.

    Edit: take these arbitrary downvotes for example. They communicate what is called a “social proof” to you that I am wrong, subverting your own free thinking and making potentially yourself as well as others stop and simply shortcut to agree the same.