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BiggerBoat posted:I kinda want to put this here since I know the CEO's of Apple, Google, Amazon and FB had their thing today. My post would get buried in USPOL thread and whatever. what i find funny is FB has been their best friend basicaly even more so than twitter. jack at least bans some of the chuds when poo poo gets too "loud" but zucker doesnt do poo poo outside deleting some of the insane covid poo poo.
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BiggerBoat posted:But the thing that made me sad is not one congressperson inquired about the deplorable working conditions for any of these companies, which I've come to understand universally suck - Amazon in particular - where these workers are basically slaves. Why would congress inquire about something working so well? You can't have subservient idiots beholden to your party if you don't let corporations suppress them.
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Dapper_Swindler posted:what i find funny is FB has been their best friend basicaly even more so than twitter. jack at least bans some of the chuds when poo poo gets too "loud" but zucker doesnt do poo poo outside deleting some of the insane covid poo poo.
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I don't think it's just refusing to police, on any given day the majority of FB news items shown are from alt-right sites like Brietbart. It's not in need of policing if it's the status quo.
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Less Fat Luke posted:I don't think it's just refusing to police, on any given day the majority of FB news items shown are from alt-right sites like Brietbart.
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:https://twitter.com/prageru/status/1288231685419487232?s=20 Not gonna lie Twitter has been doing a good job at clamping down on this garbage lately
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:https://twitter.com/prageru/status/1288231685419487232?s=20 lmao owned
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quote:“I really wish people would just stop politicizing this pandemic and grow up while innocent people around us are dying,” Hull also said. “You have no idea how painful it is to be forced to sit at home while your loved one dies alone in a hospital.” They love to bring up 'politicizing' as an issue yet no-one politicizes issues like the GOP.
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Vichan posted:They love to bring up 'politicizing' as an issue yet no-one politicizes issues like the GOP. The intense political debate of "this is important" vs "gently caress you no it's not and also even if it is i'd rather you die for number"
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Inspector Gesicht posted:So what's the worse things done by the late Herman Cain? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ-WTFA2vXY
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Inspector Gesicht posted:So what's the worse things done by the late Herman Cain? Really excited to see the right wing response to Herman Cain dying after the big mask-free Tulsa rally.
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Levantine posted:I really think there's more to it than that. I mean we are exposed to the same media but don't turn into salivating dogs every time the whistle is blown. What is it about some people who are just so susceptible to the brainwashing? I guess some folks are just assholes who like having their biases confirmed and there's nothing more to it. It's worth keeping in mind that a lot of this poo poo has happened slowly over the course of years. I suspect most of the people didn't just wake up going "ah hah! The minorities are to blame!!" or whatever, but instead had lots of small little ideas implanted one at at time that each seem fairly mundane and harmless in the grand scheme of things, but then added up create a big picture of bigotry. Remember that a lot of these people were raised by bigots themselves, and so are taught from a young age that's just how the world is. It's how a lot of these blatantly racist people claim not to be racist - to them it isn't racist to say black people commit more crimes, because that's literally a fact of life to them. From their point of view, claiming "black people commit more crimes" is like saying "mice are smaller than elephants" - it's just a fact of nature, you'd be stupid to argue against it. Surprisingly few people really try to challenge their own beliefs, and it's no surprise that christianity (among other religions) demonizes challenging your own beliefs. It's also worth noting that if someone preyed upon at a vulnerable moment, even a small lovely idea can be snowballed and echo chambered into something huge. Shortly after leaving college I was in a pretty lovely place in my life and was super depressed. I was lonely and hated myself and a lot of really hateful ideas sounded good to me at the time because they were comforting and helped me feel more empowered. I pretty quickly realized "hey wait no this is lovely" and distanced myself, educated myself, etc. When people are vulnerable they'll look for community and acceptance, and even if they don't agree with the views of those communities they may slowly be indoctrinated by them as the hate becomes normalized and eventually internalized.
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Munin posted:Through Herman Cain I briefly remember the halcyon days of the 2012 presidential campaign: 
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Munin posted:Through Herman Cain I briefly remember the halcyon days of the 2012 presidential campaign: "I can't believe Bill Gates used 5G to kill this American patriot! RIP in peace, Trump in two days
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Munin posted:Through Herman Cain I briefly remember the halcyon days of the 2012 presidential campaign: That thread was a real gift. 
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Oh no. Herman Cain died. Who is going to fill his AM Talk Radio slot that enriched our thinking so much?
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zeroprime posted:That thread was a real gift. I still find myself quoting "rolls for whores" from time to time.
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CodfishCartographer posted:It's worth keeping in mind that a lot of this poo poo has happened slowly over the course of years. I suspect most of the people didn't just wake up going "ah hah! The minorities are to blame!!" or whatever, but instead had lots of small little ideas implanted one at at time that each seem fairly mundane and harmless in the grand scheme of things, but then added up create a big picture of bigotry. That last point has a lot of merit. Grief, especially, can be a huge trigger. My aunt lost her husband about ten years ago. She was always somewhat conservative compared to the rest of the family but in the intervening years she has become very angry and is kind of a Fox News talking head at any family event. It's really upsetting sometimes to see but that Two Minutes Hate has a real effect on people.
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Levantine posted:That last point has a lot of merit. Grief, especially, can be a huge trigger. My aunt lost her husband about ten years ago. She was always somewhat conservative compared to the rest of the family but in the intervening years she has become very angry and is kind of a Fox News talking head at any family event. It's really upsetting sometimes to see but that Two Minutes Hate has a real effect on people. This, but for the parents of an only child who was killed about 20 years ago. They went from quiet and not terribly political back then to screaming MAGA hat wearers today. My parents won’t talk to them anymore because the refuse to acknowledge COVID is anything more than the flu and other Trump talking points. They were basically my second set of parents growing up, and their daughter was like my sister. My folks and I wonder a lot about how they’d be if they still had a Gen X voice to temper their Boomer brains, but it’s hard to say. I’ve texted them a few times (they live quite far from where I do these days), and it was difficult not to try and convince them of...whatever. But at this point I just can’t be hosed. I wished them luck with everything and let it slide.
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VitalSigns posted:Why are Taft and Teddy both on the evil liberals side. Taft was big on Antitrust so that probably put him in the bad books, because how dare the government limit the ability for one company to own everything? HiroProtagonist posted:The only good US president was William Henry Harrison, actually. I love how he died because he refused to wear a coat during his speech which lasted like 3 hours in the middle of January and then proceeded to get dead drunk at the ball that night. I don't know if he or Garfield had worse deaths, because Garfield would have been fine if it wasn't for the doctors and the lack of medical knowlage of the time.
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It's fascinating how much Americans know about their presidents, even the ones who didn't really do anything noteworthy other than "die." You'd never catch a Canadian or Brit knowing anything about our most useless has-been prime ministers, it would be unseemly and weird unless you're some kind of historian.
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If only Donnie followed Harrison’s proud example for his pandemic responsePT6A posted:It's fascinating how much Americans know about their presidents, even the ones who didn't really do anything noteworthy other than "die." Edgar Allen Ho fucked around with this message at 14:36 on Aug 2, 2020 |
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Hihohe posted:Jokes on them because all you gotta do is dig an iota deeper and then you can see all the indigenous populations they sign off on exterminating. Very good that you don't find that in the approved textbooks, you have to get into an advanced course where they'll just say "yeah so you can't tell poo poo by reading those textbooks you gotta read primary sources and lots of 'em"
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PT6A posted:It's fascinating how much Americans know about their presidents, even the ones who didn't really do anything noteworthy other than "die." Our education system loves giving kids lists of things to memorize. Also, a big factor is that individual states like to teach their own history so if there is a president who came from your state you’ll learn about him even if he did nothing of note. The state I grew up in, New Hampshire, only produced one president, Franklin Pierce, who was a useless drunk, but dammed if they didn’t teach us about him.
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PT6A posted:It's fascinating how much Americans know about their presidents, even the ones who didn't really do anything noteworthy other than "die." Do you learn about kings?
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We only really learn about the important presidents.
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Munin posted:Which goon created these again? Here is the link to On The Campaign Trail stuff which in it has a link to the thread. http://www.onthecampaigntrail.org/
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Groovelord Neato posted:We only really learn about the important presidents. Basically any president before Theodore Roosevelt is only taught well if they were involved in a major war.
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I remember at about 12 years old we went through a period in history class where we briefly touched on each of the presidents in turn. Unless they had a lot of big important events tied to them like Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, FDR, Kennedy, etc, we basically learned one interesting fact about each and moved on. Usually it was stuff like, "Was assassinated","died from eating strawberries", "formed the Bull Moose Party and split the vote" or "changed his initials to US because he loved the country so gosh-darn much." It's easy to run through 45 guys and give easily digestible and interesting facts for schoolchildren to learn. That's why everyone remembers things like Harrison's 30-day run as President. Because it's the one thing he's notable for.
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