Flocking Together

WHAT FACEBOOK FEEDS ME is about half house cats, ten percent tigers, some supremely beautiful deep space photography of distant, colorul galaxies and nebulae, and a good, healthy dose of Donald Trump hatred. I love every last scrap of it. Just what the doctor ordered, for me. My fellow anti-Trumpers and I, in the same room, spweing and venting our own hatred, unlike that of Trump and his MAGA mob minions, predicated solidly on fact. Leave it to Facebook to supply an endless stream of material taylored to the individual, to lure and seduce said individual to come back...and back...with ever increasing frequency, like Cocaine. Like cocaine, the goods and services offered to us by our loving, beloved, drug pushing corporate masters uses careful scrutiny of our personal behavior to fabricate the perfect marketing strategy. Sacrement of algorythms. I keep going back to Facebook, and I keep reading posts expressing hatred of Trump, and I keep cheering them on, responding with the word "precisely", in full agreemment. And in the advertisements I post daily promoting this website, I try to lure my fellow Trump haters to log on to these essays by promising that if they do, they will be gifted an abundant quantity of writing expressing my hatred of Trump, advocating for his removal, indictment, trial, conviction, incareraration, and execution, and...it works, as they say, like a proverbial charm. Trump haters flock to my website, this website, and they seem to read these essays, my essays. And I flock to Facebook, addicted, it seems. But pro Trump posts occasionally sneak their way into and onto my digital social media universe, like moles or spies in the realm of my life. How they make it in, I have no idea. Does the Facebook AI algorythm mistake them for Trump opposition? Improving at lightspeed though Artificial Intelligence is, its still nascent, and makse mistakes. I scrolled by a post (is that called "doomscrolling", when you just keep on scrolling...and scrolling...?) which claimed that there are currently twelve million people over the age of one hundred and twelve receiving Social Security, mostly dead people, presumably. The message being, obviously, that Social Security is corrupt, like a ponzi scheme, which in fact it is, and, by implication should either be drastically reformed or eliminated altogether, perhaps with the Muskovite chainsaw. The infamous thing, this misinformation post, reeked with Musk, more than Trump. I interpreted it as being the work of a Trump supporter, either that, or of a mentally ill person, or a pathological liar, or all of the above. In most cases, Trump supporters indeed are, all of the above. So absurd, so dishonest that I found it laughable, and "shared" it. Almost immediatley my fellow Trump haters jumped all over me, like vultures on carion. Do I want to lose all my friends, they asked? What am I, some kind of right wing fascist Trump loving idiot, they asked? You get the idea. I don't always pay attention to responses to my comments, and I didn't this time, there were so many of them, and they were nearly all so full of venom and bile. Ssome kind soul posted a comment warning me that people were misunderstanding my intent, and were assuming that I had shared the post in support and agreement with it, rather than as I in fact had, to show folks how idiotic, laughable, and Trumpian it was. That, to me, seemed, as Jefferson might say, "self evident", that not only did I disagree with these alleged "facts" about Social Seurity, but that I found them absurd and pathologically dishonest. Exposing and mocking perfidy, in other words. Indeed, people need to "wake up". They need to become more conversant with the English language, and with nuanced, subtle, sarcastic behavior and verbal expression. How could anyone seriously believe that I was aharing this psot for any reason other than to show the heinous absurdity of it? My bad, I suppose. It looked for all the world as if I was the one making thes false claim. Most, if not all folks only share posts they steadfastly agree with. I share stuff that I find interesting, usually material I agree with, but not always. If something is hilariously false, I want people to see it, to mock it. For now on I must be careful not to become too damned nuanced for the masses, progressive, or otherwise.