BigRedBuster
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What a stupid f#&%ing question.
Media Bias
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Scarlet
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BigRedBuster
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OMG….my 87 year old Fox News junky father would have another stroke right there in front of me.
I really would like them to explain what they think that means.
Scarlet
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That's how the conversation went after the shock subsided. I said "I don't even know what woke is. Can you tell me?". Of course she couldn't. She's also a Fox News junky btw
BigRedBuster
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Wait!!! Miss Botox and Gavin used to be a thing? That’s funny.
ZRod
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That's another one. Can someone explain what radical left really is?
I mean I've been called a pinko commie before, and I know I lean left of what center used to be, but I get on Reddit and see things that are too extreme for me (i.e. ACAB, anti work, f#&% cars, latest age capitalism, etc.). However; that never seems to be what Biden and reasonable Dems are discussing.
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BigRedBuster
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My friends think I'm a bleeding heart liberal because I refused to support Trump and voted for Biden in the last election and registered as an Independent. I don't even know what those things are that you listed.
The fact is, Republicans are going to label ANYONE who isn't a die hard right wing conservative registered Republican as being an extreme liberal. It's just what they do and how they convince a certain percentage of their base to remain supporting their right wing initiatives.
Anyone who doesn't think Woke and CRT are destroying 'merica, must hate 'merica.
ZRod
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ACAB - all cops are bastards. No explanation needed.
Anti work - is a bunch of people b!^@hing about their jobs and management. Some legit criticism, but as you can imagine a lot of people just don't understand business
f#&% cars - pretty self explanatory. Some good points about how cars have ruined urban planning and destroyed landscapes, but then you have morons that think all pickups need to be banned and that rural communities are basically non-existent.
Late stage capitalism - highlights the absurdity of capitalist society, but leans extremely left in it's takes usually.
BigRedBuster
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Scarlet
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Who could ever imagine that Fox News knew the election wasn't stolen but continued to gaslight MAGA cement heads?
https://www.npr.org/2023/02/16/1157558299/fox-news-stars-false-claims-trump-election-2020
And continue to do so to this day
https://www.npr.org/2023/02/16/1157558299/fox-news-stars-false-claims-trump-election-2020
And continue to do so to this day
ZRod
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I mean they clearly are entertainment because those texts prove they care more about their audiences' emotional response than reporting factual information.
Can we get a lawsuit to remove the title "news" from any organization that fails to report facts?
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Dr. Strangelove
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I get why we're criticizing the media, particularly Fox News.
But we also need to blame the average conservative voter watching. They're adults with their own brains. Sure, it doesn't take 50 IQ points to listen to Trump - or any MAGA talking head - and realize that they're all grifters.
Conservative voters WANT to be spoonfed nonsense from Fox News. They deserve as much criticism as the network itself.
ZRod
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But at the same time these "news" organization take advantage of the fact that most people don't have the time to sit there and fact check everything. When they get a daily gish gallop of the 24 hour news cycle it's impossible.
I'd like to think I do a good job of staying up to speed and fact checking events, but with work, family, and friends it's pretty difficult to always be 100% on top of the latest fad headline.
Guy Chamberlin
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The Left never liked Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi, but they work with them. The radical left maintains its ideological purity by taking loud unachievable stances and staying away from actual power.
There remains a netherworld of national health care, Green New Deals and police reform that are actually more practical than radical but get dismissed out of hand as extremism. Our discourse is so crippled that anything coming out of Joe Biden's mouth is considered socialism by half the nation.