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Axis of evil
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this post was submitted on 08 Oct 2026
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I am losing…something…in me…about this country. It’s not the same one I grew up in. I can’t believe so many people are this hateful.
Maybe it was always really shitty in many ways that you didn't know, too. That's the bigger shock, I would imagine.
Things have changed.
People have always had sick ideas, but they used to be set straight when speaking to others. Today they get applause from an increasing number of online followers. The hall of mirrors on social media is causing this evil to thrive.
Many people became radicalized by billionaire propaganda to turn on their fellow neighbors.
Felt like the racism had always been here, but after 9/11, a lot of "Christians" saw Muslims as an active threat to Christianity and by extension, the US. May have just been me growing old enough to be aware of the rhetoric, but I felt like there was a huge uptick in the "We are a Christian nation" arguments in the years after 9/11. There was a lot of hate crimes against anyone who even looked a little "middle eastern" and there were parodies of children's songs about bombing Muslims that I pretty much heard on a weekly basis for the better part of a decade. I think that time normalized racism in the 2000s, and made it clear that having those opinions wouldn't necessarily ostracize you anymore. Thow social media into the mix, and you have a self-generating fire of hateful rhetoric based solely on the hateful lies and hateful perceptions the algorithm feeds to you because hate drives engagement.
Just my 2 cents there.
Its just how its always been.
Mass cheap global communication really changed things (internet / social media / cell phones). It allows people that had less common viewpoints or social desires that would've at one time remained isolated to find each other for good or ill.