The Political Thread 2021

Also good the pipeline on native land is canceled

https://apnews.com/article/biden-coronavirus-aid-plan-update-d486569860a84de146bf9f27a89eed30

GOP wants to halt any covid relief

Fuck them

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Eh. I don’t know who/what Say is posting, but nobody really takes a guy like Alex Jones seriously or expects that they’re going to get “true news” when they watch him. The same can’t be said about Fox or CNN. People actually think those are 100% truthful sources of news when they have corporate sponsors and the higher ups have a hand in what gets reported or not. I really think stuff like that should be forced to carry a label of “news entertainment” because more often than not, that’s what it is.

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I’d put them a half step above YouTube vids labeled screaming lib tears.

Not a very high bar mind you lmao.

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Well no, I mean obviously “liberal tears” videos are partisanship porn. I mean actual news. Say what you want about Tim Pool, but I don’t see how people can they don’t trust him when he does exactly what cable news does, except (to my knowledge anyway) without higher ups and corporate sponsorship.

I’m gonna wait and see on the pipeline deal…

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Tim appeases his base, says he’s unbiased while claiming to be centrist. Oh and he’ll show an article, then just vomit his own opinion for 20-30mins.

Normal shit at this point.

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Love this. Make america take care of americans again

This is good news especially for those trump fucked over

In barely 10 dAys biden reversed all trump eo’s

Now get the gop to play ball as the gop argue helping people is bad

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Tulsi would get it

So would boehbert

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Calling react videos from 7 years ago the “News” is even more laughable
Especially when they are irrelevant to anything being discussed.

Keep in point were mocking a guy who called official court documents from the official US government site fake news and some kid in 2016 crying his Proof.

Most news outlets has a bias, this chart places news by the bias and how accurate they are


This chart not 100% accurate, but it gives you an idea what to expect.
I suggest you look at multiple sources, and if you see news sources from both sides being about the same than at least you know it’s not a partisan issue.

I don’t expect Zalta smart enough to figure this out, I still think you see this and go “Oh okay that makes sense”.

Associated Press and Reuters are your gold standards, yes they aren’t perfect and they know that.
But they try as humanly as possible to strive for accuracy and not to color their news with personal biases.

If you really want to be mad at comprate news, don’t be mad at CNN, be mad at ABC News, who first had the bright idea that the News division of a TV Network could actually make money instead of existing as a Public service as part of their FCC mandated requirements (that now been repealed).

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Based 0n the Tim Pool videos I’ve seen he just reads the news the rest of us reads then argues with no one for half an hour about said news.

He’s a news pundit at best.

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Sure, but how’s that any different than what Rachel Maddow does? @Radiantsilvergun3 is right, Pool is a pundit, just like Maddow. If you agree with them, you’ll tune in to get their takes and leave happy.

Fair enough, but I’m afraid that there is indeed a not-small number of people who take their skepticism of big media and channel it into shutting their brain and listen to youtube entertainers or Alex Jones assuming that since they’re not “establishment” they alone can be trusted.

In fact, I fear that group of people is anything but small.

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All you gotta do is flash your dong at minors and she’ll fall head over heels for you.

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Sure, but I think that cuts both ways. A lot of people think that just because something is on tv and has a logo they’re familiar with that it’s automatically trustworthy and that anything that doesn’t have those things automatically isn’t.

You have to take these things on a case by case basis, but if you’re inclined not to trust the establishment (and why would you at this point?), then you’re more inclined to try to seek alternatives to the establishment news sources and there’s a significant number of people in the US who are doing that, I think rightly so given how compromised the corporate press has been shown to be.

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Gretchen Whitmer also has some poweful ara ara energy.

In a particularly reptilian brain capacity, that crazy ass Melissa Carone activates a base response as well. I blame those big ass co-morbiditiddies.

They must be putting something in the Michigan water besides. . . yknow. . . lead. :expressionless:

I find ground.news is a handy aggregator of media and partisanship. Saves me a bit of time vetting sources through bias databases, but I’m not so committed I’m willing to pay for the service.

Get her out of office…she’s fucking crazy.

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That is how media works and algorithms

Though yt went nuts pushing alt right yt on everyone

Daily Show actually became more reliable than mainstream news.

How the fuck did we end up here

Shit posters saved AMC lmfao

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Go ask around another forum (because it’s tribalism here) on what is more reliable, videos of actual people being recorded (which you brand as youtube vids) or what is reported on the news.

You are the one who sticks to an actual narrative that appeases your beliefs just by how you are making the news source as a better comparison.