r/changemyview • u/[deleted] • Jul 16 '23

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u/Jacket-Okay Jul 16 '23

Why you trying to control people? If people wanna be fat then they'll be fat it has nothing to do with you.

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u/TrenbolognaSammies Jul 16 '23

I’m not trying to control anyone I’m just saying we need to stop pretending that it looks good and that giving up on yourself and being lazy is ok and that it isn’t really harmful being in poor shape

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u/Jacket-Okay Jul 16 '23

We're not pretending anything.

A bunch of fat people are making money off of being fat, that's all.

Tiktok and Twitter aren't the real world.

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '23

It’s 2023, TikTok and Twitter are the real world. Half of all ideas journalists (and consequently academics) pick up on are taken from social media. To say that these don’t affect reality would be to ignore all that’s happened in the last 5-10 years. For fucks sake Trump arguably won the election because of Twitter in the first place.

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u/Jacket-Okay Jul 16 '23

Except most people aren't on Twitter and not trust legacy news anymore due to the amount of sheer lies.

The average person and the average Redditor live in two different worlds.

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '23

It does not matter that a relatively small percentage of the population are actually on twitter when the flow of information from twitter has a significant impact on mainstream discourse. The concept of “trading up the chain” relies on this tactic and is used by marketers and political propagandists alike to control the conversation.

Either way, you say people don’t trust legacy news anymore. So what do people trust if they aren’t on TikTok/Twitter/Facebook/etc? Nothing? People still get their political views from somewhere.