February 21, 20232 yr 3 minutes ago, we_gotta_believe said: So true. Cities like Rome and Venice are amazing even from a civil engineering perspective too. Haven't been to Pisa myself either, but hope to one day. And Florence too. Fun fact: Florence is home to the world's largest Wesson Oil museum
February 21, 20232 yr 2 minutes ago, Arthur Jackson said: Fun fact: Florence is home to the world's largest Wesson Oil museum Had to google it You are older than I am
February 21, 20232 yr This is the dumbest F'ing article I've ever read and for some insane reason it's not in the Opinion section of CNN despite it being 99% opinion. CNN is complete dog sheet. (see, @CountBlah, that's how it's done).
February 21, 20232 yr 38 minutes ago, VanHammersly said: This is the dumbest F'ing article I've ever read and for some insane reason it's not in the Opinion section of CNN despite it being 99% opinion. CNN is complete dog sheet. (see, @CountBlah, that's how it's done). Get ready for a chunk of these kinds of articles attempting to throw shade at Rowling without telling an honest story.
February 21, 20232 yr 2 hours ago, JohnSnowsHair said: It comes down to reach. Fox News has the biggest reach of any news outlet. Liberals don't watch network news in nearly the same numbers for starters. The liberal media is really limited to the major national publications (NY Times, Washington Post) and to a degree social media (though Twitter is becoming decidedly less so). Those are the outlets with a lot of reach. Smaller regional and local newspapers are much more of a mix, with suburban and rural newspapers being anywhere from moderate to fairly right-wing. In terms of influence, Rupert Murdoch's empire has much greater ability to shape the minds of its viewers and readers than any other. The "media" taken as a whole has more ability to influence right-wingers than left. By nature left-wingers / liberals argue and fight as much with their own news outlets as right wingers do. Lots of liberals hate the NY Times, some because it's too liberal some because it's not liberal enough 🙄. There's some of that on the crazy right fringe with Newsmax eating up those for whom Fox is "too liberal". In any case, anybody who has boomer age parents probably recognizes the hold Fox seems to have on that whole generation. It's actually freaking scary. No, it comes down to the magnitude of misinformation. Are the NYT, WP, etc. all liberally biased? Yes. Is MSNBC very liberally biased? Yes. Are they as bat ish insane as a network claiming that voting machines were manipulated to rig an election? No. Fox takes everything to an 11.
February 21, 20232 yr 28 minutes ago, vikas83 said: No, it comes down to the magnitude of misinformation. Are the NYT, WP, etc. all liberally biased? Yes. Is MSNBC very liberally biased? Yes. Are they as bat ish insane as a network claiming that voting machines were manipulated to rig an election? No. Fox takes everything to an 11. I don't disagree. However that is a more advanced level of thinking that I don't think Trumplicans are - or will ever be - ready to engage in.
February 21, 20232 yr 13 minutes ago, JohnSnowsHair said: I don't disagree. However that is a more advanced level of thinking that I don't think Trumplicans are - or will ever be - ready to engage in. It's just so disingenuous. It's akin to saying because your opponent got a speeding ticket, you should be allowed to commit murder. They're both doing illegal things!
February 21, 20232 yr 19 minutes ago, vikas83 said: It's just so disingenuous. It's akin to saying because your opponent got a speeding ticket, you should be allowed to commit murder. They're both doing illegal things! Exactly. That's been the point all along. One is worse, even far worse, but that affords zero excuse for the other.
February 21, 20232 yr 6 minutes ago, DrPhilly said: Exactly. That's been the point all along. One is worse, even far worse, but that affords zero excuse for the other. Oh, it's definitely a legit excuse. Fox took a media landscape with a soft liberal or centrist tilt and presented a hard-biased slant, proving that that model makes a hell of a lot more money than the moderate model. They ruined media.
February 21, 20232 yr 1 minute ago, VanHammersly said: Oh, it's definitely a legit excuse. Fox took a media landscape with a soft liberal or centrist tilt and presented a hard-biased slant, proving that that model makes a hell of a lot more money than the moderate model. They ruined media. No two wrongs never make a right. It isn't a valid excuse. Fox is horrible and so is, for example, CNN. Fox is worse but that doesn't make CNN ok. It is valid to criticize Fox with more assertion but that's a different item.
February 21, 20232 yr 4 minutes ago, DrPhilly said: No two wrongs never make a right. It isn't a valid excuse. Fox is horrible and so is, for example, CNN. Fox is worse but that doesn't make CNN ok. It is valid to criticize Fox with more assertion but that's a different item. Once Fox did it and proved you could turn a massive profit, the game was over. Capitalism and news are not compatible.
February 21, 20232 yr 1 minute ago, VanHammersly said: Once Fox did it and proved you could turn a massive profit, the game was over. Capitalism and news are not compatible. Sure
February 21, 20232 yr 1 hour ago, vikas83 said: It's just so disingenuous. It's akin to saying because your opponent got a speeding ticket, you should be allowed to commit murder. They're both doing illegal things! Intellectual dishonesty is turned up to 11 within the Republican party right now. Unfortunately, that's because it's what we the people that make up the Republican base want.
February 21, 20232 yr 1 minute ago, JohnSnowsHair said: Intellectual dishonesty is turned up to 11 within the Republican party right now. Unfortunately, that's because it's what we the people that make up the Republican base want. You are only saying that because the jewish space lasers are making you.
February 21, 20232 yr 1 minute ago, paco said: You are only saying that because the jewish space lasers are making you.
February 21, 20232 yr 18 minutes ago, paco said: You are only saying that because the jewish space lasers are making you. do Italians get a pass ? you know, with the noses and all ....
February 21, 20232 yr https://twitter.com/BillboardChris/status/1625462390572843008?t=6tuD0GqFhqdKU3f8H71mCA&s=19
February 21, 20232 yr 44 minutes ago, Alpha_TATEr said: do Italians get a pass ? you know, with the noses and all ....
February 21, 20232 yr 2 minutes ago, paco said: I dunno, Italians and Jews have a lot in common. noses. body hair. well, they have at least two things in common.
February 22, 20232 yr Author Which is precisely the reason why we were never supposed to be a Democracy in the first place
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