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Neito posted:Ben is, to extend my little League joke, a Silver-Tier player; against a Bronze-Tier player, like a college student or a trash-tier lib or whomever he goes after, he feels like he's running rings around you, like he's mastered some hidden tech that makes you a god. In reality, all he's mastered is the debate version of last-hitting and chain-ulting; he's learned a few things that are astonishingly basic in higher tiers, but aren't things that new players think of, understand, or consider in their play. I know there no such thing as getting a gold star since this is SA not Reddit but drat this is beautiful analogy.
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Levantine posted:She sucks, full stop. this. i wouldnt be shocked if most states in its direct path are doing something similar. like i get why people make the click bait over it. She is a religious nutjob and i have seen enough chuds saying insane poo poo about the eclipse that i could totaly see it being for some insane reason.
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Levantine posted:She sucks, full stop. Agreed. Last time I was in the path of totality, people would bargain their soul for a pair of viewing glasses and/or dispense their life story because they came all this way to see the eclipse. That was during daylight hours, so cutting to drinking/partying was easily a step, not a leap. Go ahead and wreck that rental, eclipse viewers, the prosecution won't catch up to you before your flight leaves and you'll have one more story to tell.
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https://twitter.com/JuddLegum/status/1777692784176009350
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Talk radio was all over this yesterday NPR faces right-wing revolt and calls for defunding after editor claims left-wing bias https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/11/media/npr-uri-berliner-left-bias-right-wing-media/index.html quote:New York
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Oh man the leopards are eating another face. Bet they're happy they spent years insulating themselves from criticism by being fair and balanced towards Trump. Giving him years worth of benefit of the doubt far, far past the point when it was unearned and had become blatantly obvious it was being abused was surely a wise and studious course. Nice, Polite Republicans indeed. It took them how many years to just use the actual word 'lies'? I remember that was a whole big thing, had to be super nice for years and just couldn't shatter decorum by saying the liar lies. Well no worries all that good will banked with the fascists will surely let this little kerfuffle be evaluated in a sober, balanced manner respectful of all sides of the issue. loving idiots.
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I listen to a little NPR and the only liberal bias I can ascertain is that reality has a liberal bias. THey're the only station I hear really giving semi decent coverage to the genocide in Gaza and even that treads rather lightly. I don't see how people think they'll get more fair and balanced news from a corporate sponsored outlet that's owned by one of many 3 major media conglomerates versus a publicly funded national station but, then again, the people who hate NPR want to privatize social security, education, utilities, police and poo poo like that so...
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I like how Berliner tells CNN that he is done talking to them but then sends another email with a chart showing Democrats also no longer trust the media. I have seen many Democrats complain about places like NPR because they give Rs too much leeway. However, that floats in the opposite of his entire premise so he just leaves the chart and stops talking to them.
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Quoting summary from the politoons thread where it got my attention first:Discendo Vox posted:What a loving mess- it's a current employee writing for Bari Weiss's platform. His supporting evidence for bias consists of "The audience has trended liberal over time according to surveys", and by dismissing the idea that Trump officials colluded with Russia, endorsing the Hunter Biden laptop conspiracy theory, and endorsing a lab leak theory for Covid. His root belief in the causal factor: that NPR accepted the idea that systemic racism exists, and basically got politically correct over it. Those are the highlights, but it's basically a greatest hits of Weiss's "I swear I'm not a conservative, I am just being silenced for my beliefs...you know the ones" playbook.
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BiggerBoat posted:Talk radio was all over this yesterday Yes we have a motherfucking empire of propaganda but how dare your audience trend in the direction of objective reality for this one outlet when we go the other way
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fwiw that CNN analysis article is very good at pointing to some of the giant problems with the piece; it's worth a full read.
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The Russian collusion was absolutely real and that's why the GOP is still working to suppress any dialogue about it.
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The Islamic Shock posted:THE RIGHT-WING MEDIA UNIVERSE Right wing's been against NPR as far as I can remember. NPR usually counters that they serve all communities, and if they had their funding slashed they'd probably have to stop reporting so much on cattle futures.
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killer_robot posted:Right wing's been against NPR as far as I can remember. NPR usually counters that they serve all communities, and if they had their funding slashed they'd probably have to stop reporting so much on cattle futures.
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The back and forth I hear about NPR is "Only a small % of funding comes from federal taxes" "Then why get upset if it goes away?"It's very much a similar gotcha to them feigning confusion at LGBTQ groups when they are vehemently opposed to the idea of a "throw pedos in a wood chipper act" bill.
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Panfilo posted:The back and forth I hear about NPR is
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BiggerBoat posted:I listen to a little NPR and the only liberal bias I can ascertain is that reality has a liberal bias. THey're the only station I hear really giving semi decent coverage to the genocide in Gaza and even that treads rather lightly. well it also helps when you have this one weird trick: never, ever act in good faith 
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https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1778405715243069842 Newsmax clearly has late stage Alzheimer's
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James Garfield posted:https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1778405715243069842 Some real "you forgot the "e" on the word "potato" vibes here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYNGCNtDb-w
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Apparently Tim Pool has opted to represent himself. Will he swear on his beanie to tell the truth, the whole truth, so help him god? https://twitter.com/BankstonAtLaw/status/1778814093001896183?t=AwXy9oA1RPitBCZ4Ap8OZA&s=19 Fox News, Far-Right Podcasters Sued For Linking Wrong Man To Neo-Nazi Shooting https://www.huffpost.com/entry/fox-news-far-right-podcasters-sued-for-linking-wrong-man-to-neo-nazi-shooting_n_66182adbe4b00830e916c232?j34
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Fuckin’ get ‘em, Bankston
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That’s a wild list of slam dunk lawsuits. Hopefully he puts a few of those under with this suit.
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Hope Fox gets nailed again. gently caress them all.
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I expect most of them will settle without admitting wrongdoing, while publishing a retraction in 6 point font in invisible letters on a page nobody can find on their respective sites.
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Shooting Blanks posted:I expect most of them will settle without admitting wrongdoing, while publishing a retraction in 6 point font in invisible letters on a page nobody can find on their respective sites.
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Well thats just bizarre https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1778920375876763946
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OgNar posted:Well thats just bizarre
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The Islamic Shock posted:The Attorney General of the United States officially does not act in an independent capacity. Well isn't that interesting. To be fair, what the judge is saying here is that there's no evidence of this being selective prosecution, and even if it were the case that the AG was selectively prosecuting Hunter, the AG's boss is Hunter's father, which makes the claim nonsensical.
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I’m sure there are fathers who would abusively prosecute their kids if they had a chance!
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In fairness to Hunter, it's not a nonsensical argument. For a start, the argument about a targeted prosecution does have merit in that he was charged with some charges, a "deal" was offered and then further charges were made after a lot of publicity. I'm not saying it's a slam-dunk argument, but there is certainly an argument to be had there. Where I'm less sure on is the reasoning that "the AG reports to the President." As far as I'm aware, in a slight distinction, the AG's client is the US Government as opposed to the sitting President. Obviously, it's into splitting hair's levels and the question about what is the practical differences, but I think anyone would acknowledge that President Biden is certainly staying as far away from the Hunter case on a professional level. He's not telling them to drop the hammer on Hunter or telling them to go easy on him. Where as other actors within the different departments could be interfering one way or the other.
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FlamingLiberal posted:That would be the smart move. Counterpoint: Tim Pool is not a smart person. In fact, he's the opposite!
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It's funny, in all my years of schooling the teachers pushing their politics into the classroom were always conservatives or right leaning conspiracy theorists. Never once was I taught leftist woke politically correct propaganda. Several of my teachers, particularly in college, were clearly to the left of the center but they never pushed any agenda. I remember kids getting poo poo for being different, but it was always from the safe seat of a young white Christian boy.
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Why the gently caress did they say "sixth-graders" then write the kids as much younger? ("Despite being unaware of what a 'Biden Supporter' was...") Bush/Dukakis was when I was when I was in second grade - it wasn't covered in detail but everyone understood what it was. Bush/Clinton was sixth grade, and that included actual stuff about the electoral college and the history of why it existed. (My teacher said that, if someone won the popular vote but lost the electoral in the modern age, we'd probably do away with the EC. Which, looking back, lol, lmao, etc) I'm beginning to think these people don't know anything about kids (or schools) at all!
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Panfilo posted:Right wing humor in a nutshell: This was essentially me as a high school freshman in 2004, when my born again biology teacher polled the class on who they would vote for if they could vote. I was the only one who said Kerry and got to enjoy an entire semester of being on his poo poo list.
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99pct of germs posted:This was essentially me as a high school freshman in 2004, when my born again biology teacher polled the class on who they would vote for if they could vote. I was the only one who said Kerry and got to enjoy an entire semester of being on his poo poo list. A story with no heroes
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After The War posted:Why the gently caress did they say "sixth-graders" then write the kids as much younger? ("Despite being unaware of what a 'Biden Supporter' was...") Bush/Dukakis was when I was when I was in second grade - it wasn't covered in detail but everyone understood what it was. Bush/Clinton was sixth grade, and that included actual stuff about the electoral college and the history of why it existed. (My teacher said that, if someone won the popular vote but lost the electoral in the modern age, we'd probably do away with the EC. Which, looking back, lol, lmao, etc) If nothing else, this godforsaken century has been very good at showing us that we're just as loving stupid and illogical as we ever were as a species. So many reasonable assumptions about how we'd deal with crazy hypotheticals and historical repeats just thrown out the window, as we realize we're perhaps even dumber than out ancestors.
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BiggerBoat posted:Talk radio was all over this yesterday his letter briefly mentions that NPR stopped using "biological sex" as a phrase when referring to trans people as supporting evidence of their being ideologically untrustworthy. Like yeah dude, you want NPR to spend more time litigating people's gender identity? There are far more neutral ways to talk about trans people without using the dogwhistle  rhetoric.it's one of those things where it's like, what kind of conservative perspectives do you want NPR to better represent? Could it be that there's an important conversation happening on the other side of the political line that I'm not aware of? Oh wait no, you just want NPR to be more willing to give voice to transphobes and "gender critical" terfs? come on dude, you can't pull the "but my moms were lesbians!" argument on this poo poo. I had to stop reading the Atlantic bc they spent years signal boosting even the mildest forms of transphobia, while refusing to cover any of the attacks on trans rights. But I guess if NPR reports on transphobic bills without actively attacking the validity of trans existence then I guess it has succumbed to ideologically poisoned groupthink. the idea of total ideological neutrality when one side has elected officials who openly call minorities "imps, demons, and x-men" that need to be eradicated--it's just insane.
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Cephas posted:it's one of those things where it's like, what kind of conservative perspectives do you want NPR to better represent? Could it be that there's an important conversation happening on the other side of the political line that I'm not aware of? Oh wait no, you just want NPR to be more willing to give voice to transphobes and "gender critical" terfs? come on dude, you can't pull the "but my moms were lesbians!" argument on this poo poo. These people went through a very similar tantrum when CNN decided to stop bringing in the Family Research Council or the American Family Association and give them equal airtime with the pro-gay rights side whenever there was any sort of discussion about it. They're used to "both sides"-style reporting giving them an easy platform (and a lot of outlets don't even bother with that, they just give the transphobes all the airtime), so whenever they aren't invited on to call trans children mentally ill fad-following reprobates whose parents should be locked up, they whine about media bias. It's yet another tactic they used in the leadup to Obergefell that they've just slapped in the microwave for a minute or two and trained themselves to say "transgendered" instead of "homosexual".
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