Jaw
It's OVER 5,000!
I smiled all the way through it.
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I smiled all the way through it.
Jaw
It's OVER 5,000!
Bezos has an evil dictator vibe. If we were in an aristocracy he seems like the duke that would come to the village and rape the women while the young men were seized to fight in the army, then he'd betray the king on the battlefield. Zuckerberg I could see slipping out at night to do some Jack the Ripper stuff. Gates I picture with people in cages hung from the ceiling. Elon is definitely my favorite tech billionaire.
Guy is Mr. Burns
Jaw
It's OVER 5,000!
What was that movie where the whole world was going to end so the elites built themselves lifeboats in China?
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https://news.gallup.com/opinion/gallup/354938/adults-estimates-covid-hospitalization-risk.aspx
As far as you know, what percentage of unvaccinated people have been hospitalized due to the coronavirus?
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Only 2% of (D) were able to answer this question correctly in a Gallup poll from a few months back (the answer is ~1%). A staggering 40% of (D) thought the answer was 50% or higher!
But please tell me more about Joe Rogan.
As far as you know, what percentage of unvaccinated people have been hospitalized due to the coronavirus?
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Only 2% of (D) were able to answer this question correctly in a Gallup poll from a few months back (the answer is ~1%). A staggering 40% of (D) thought the answer was 50% or higher!
But please tell me more about Joe Rogan.
sturg33
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The media is intentionally dishonest.
And democratic voters are the easiest to fool and control. There are no dumber people who currently walk among us
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Mrs. Not-Romney-Anymore brings me to a soapbox rant that I’ve been annoyed by for a while now. Why must we persist with this narrative that Fox and the Right Wing news sphere is some group of plucky underdogs standing up for the real news while there’s a totally separate and unstoppable MSM keeping them down? At this point news has devolved into competing factions going after their target audience for profits, so of course they stay silent on stories that won’t generate revenue for them. It’s the same reason that Fox largely ignores the things that MSNBC endlessly goes on about. When it comes to stories that aren’t yet big enough to cross over to appeal to their audience, both sides ignore it. Sure, CNN likes to pretend so much of what they do is impartial, but so does Fox. Both sides tell their viewers they are just looking for the real story, but at the end of the day, they’re just chasing the profits from their target demographic.
Mrs. Not-Romney-Anymore brings me to a soapbox rant that I’ve been annoyed by for a while now. Why must we persist with this narrative that Fox and the Right Wing news sphere is some group of plucky underdogs standing up for the real news while there’s a totally separate and unstoppable MSM keeping them down? At this point news has devolved into competing factions going after their target audience for profits, so of course they stay silent on stories that won’t generate revenue for them. It’s the same reason that Fox largely ignores the things that MSNBC endlessly goes on about. When it comes to stories that aren’t yet big enough to cross over to appeal to their audience, both sides ignore it. Sure, CNN likes to pretend so much of what they do is impartial, but so does Fox. Both sides tell their viewers they are just looking for the real story, but at the end of the day, they’re just chasing the profits from their target demographic.
Jaw
It's OVER 5,000!
It isn't FOX, CNN, and MSNBC that people are sick of only seeing one side of the story from. It's NYT, WaPo, ABC, CBS, NBC, NPR, and PBS. They still pretend they're something other than extremely biased while continuing to drag the Overton Window as hard to the left as they can. I can truthfully say I think the LA Times is a fairer news outlet than any of those, which points to what a farce they are.
Yeah, but it’s really just a symptomatic of the same problem. These outlets have varied levels of bias, but the biases largely come from appealing to an audience instead of trying to inform them. It’s certainly a fair critique, and honestly rebuts my rant pretty well. My particular frustration was with the idea that these right leaning publications, bloggers and YouTube hosts like to pretend that they aren’t just the mainstream themselves at this point. Where I think you are right is that these left leaning outlets are pretending to be about journalism for the sake of journalism. I guess my frustration is largely with my perception that “the other side” is getting away with it more. I suspect you feel the same.