>>515438274
It was more than 10 years ago, I think. It really started in the Obama days, the cracks.

Once money was allowed into politics with Citizens United, it became a profit incentive to raise the political temperature in the US because people get more invested in politics if they're more emotionally invested -- and drama, drama is what gets people invested. So you saw cable news become more divisive, more inflammatory, and once the internet opened up -- well, easy peezy to just get people to spam your narratives over and over again until they catch on.

These are dark fucking times, man. I don't know where we go from here.