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APP - Are Newsmax, OANN, and Fox Media threats to American Democracy?
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Yes, ban them all.
Whatever they do, it needs changed for the better. Kids need to at least come out of HS being able to count change if the cash register breaks.
We pay for the first 13 years of a kid's education, they should have learned enough to get a start if they don't go to college. If they do, let them pay for it, win a scholarship or have wealthy parents. And if they borrowed, pay it back.
There's actually good money in both, but yeah, that's besides the point. To echo Jack, automation is taking over. Those things do break or wear out, learning how to repair them is profitable.
Trump is no longer president. He lost. The damn Penguins lost in the 2nd. overtime tonight. It sucks, but that's reality. Tomorrow's another day. I'll do what I do.
Militias? What militias? Betraying who?
Dutch Uncle
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Trump throwing the militias under the bus for their actions on 1/6.
You don't think they'd retaliate for the betrayal in some manner?
Throwing what militia under the bus? That was one unorganized riot of unarmed activists. Far less destructive than BLM's riots (plural).
Retaliate? Against what? Against who? How? Hopefully come 2022, Americans will see what the left is doing.
You can save the annoying gifs if you want an adult discussion.
Dutch Uncle
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The militia teams going into Congress seemed to have a plan. Do you think their actions and intent should be investigated? Or should it be swept under a rug to protect those who staged the event?
This relates to the OP since the RW news media has been playing up the militias and Trump all summer and fall leading to the election:
A convoluted way of thinking there, goat. If you don't need authority then how do you know how to read, write and do math? We all learned from authorities at one point or another.
There is no way to question your position if you can't compare your position to various authorities on the subject. Otherwise you are simply pissing into the wind to see which way it is blowing. And even then you are relying on an authority that told you what wind is.
We have a different perception of environmental stimuli. Where you see education, I see programming. If more people were willing to stand up to the system, we wouldn't be in the situation we find ourselves in today. You either believe your culture is superior or the only culture there is. I'm here to challenge that archaic assertion.
I'm on jury duty this week. During jury selection, it was clear that both sets of attorneys decided to weed out the Trumpers.
'Where do you get your news' - Fox News was a common answer. None of those individuals was seated on the jury.
'Do you have any bumper stickers or other stickers on your car, and what do they say' - Four Trump bumper stickers, non seated.
Attorneys absolutely do not want a fucking Trump retard sitting on the jury. Too funny.
'Where do you get your news' - Fox News was a common answer. None of those individuals was seated on the jury.
'Do you have any bumper stickers or other stickers on your car, and what do they say' - Four Trump bumper stickers, non seated.
Attorneys absolutely do not want a fucking Trump retard sitting on the jury. Too funny.
I don't believe a word of it.
I don't give a fuck. Anything else you want to discuss?
Of course education is programming. You were programmed how to read and how to write. The question is whether your education programmed you how to think critically. If we didn't get some education/programming we wouldn't be able to communicate. We would all still be hunter/gatherers struggling to survive without education/programming. Education is not in and of itself bad. Authorities on subjects are not in and of themselves bad. To attack them as always being that is not critical thinking. It isn't really thinking at all.
You're dependent on government for every aspect of your life. God forbid the power went out for 3 days and you had to go without MSNBC telling you what to think. Authority made sure you would never see the big picture. Your education didn't teach you how to survive a systemic breakdown. You probably think a garden is something with flowers that your landscaper takes care of. At least Q knows how to dress a deer.
Dutch Uncle
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Not a lawyer but I fail to see how that's legal. OTOH, if the case involved politics, it would be legitimate to rule out any diehard fans such as Hillary or Trump voters whose bias may influence their judgment.
Joke: What's the biggest difference between Hillary and Trump?
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Hillary didn't piss off the militias so much they put out a contract on her oldest kid.
I see you don't want to discuss the topic but just want to resort to proving you know nothing about me by assigning attributes to me that you somehow think are demeaning. Does this mean you think your culture is superior? Didn't you describe that as being an archaic position? You are wrong in everything you attributed to me.
I don't rely on the media to tell me much of anything other then what sources I should be checking. No news source ever gives anyone the full picture. When it comes to the OAN, Newsmax and FOX, they give less of a true picture than the NY Times, the Washington Post and Public Radio. I am curious as to what sources you use to find out what is going on in the world. The problem is that critical thinking requires that people find reliable sources that give them the most complete picture. MSNBC isn't far from OAN, Newsmax and Fox when it comes to providing information and I spend less time watching them than I do Fox which I don't waste my time with.
I don't rely on the media to tell me much of anything other then what sources I should be checking. No news source ever gives anyone the full picture. When it comes to the OAN, Newsmax and FOX, they give less of a true picture than the NY Times, the Washington Post and Public Radio. I am curious as to what sources you use to find out what is going on in the world. The problem is that critical thinking requires that people find reliable sources that give them the most complete picture. MSNBC isn't far from OAN, Newsmax and Fox when it comes to providing information and I spend less time watching them than I do Fox which I don't waste my time with.
All too often these threads end up in the, no, you are, no, you are land. But there are consequences to information as the riot on Jan 6th demonstrated. Trump is not gone, his hatred for democracy is still evident. Does the so called conservative right in America want an autocracy? A Russia? China? Belarus? It seems they do sometimes as they too spread the big lie. Newsmax and OAN still do at times if you watch. But now they point at weaker subjects as being sued for lies has consequences. Americans need to realize if they want to keep their freedom they need to support a governmental system that works for everyone.
'How the ‘Culture War’ Could Break Democracy'
https://www.politico.com/news/magaz...e-war-politics-2021-democracy-analysis-489900
"The president [Trump] is a nationalist, which is not at all the same thing as a patriot. A nationalist encourages us to be our worst, and then tells us that we are the best. A nationalist, 'although endlessly brooding on power, victory, defeat, revenge,' wrote Orwell, tends to be 'uninterested in what happens in the real world.' Nationalism is relativist, since the only truth is the resentment we feel when we contemplate others. As the novelist Danilo Kiš put it, nationalism 'has no universal values, aesthetic or ethical.' A patriot, by contrast, wants the nation to live up to its ideals, which means asking us to be our best selves. A patriot must be concerned with the real world, which is the only place where his country can be loved and sustained. A patriot has universal values, standards by which he judges his nation, always wishing it well—and wishing that it would do better." Timothy Snyder 'On Tyranny'
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33917107-on-tyranny
"First, democracy is more than holding elections; it requires the development of civil society, meaning such complex and counterintuitive institutions as the rule of law, an independent judiciary, multiple political parties, minority rights, voluntary associations, freedom of expression, movement, and assembly. Democracy is a learned habit, not an instinctive one, that requires deep attitudinal changes such as a culture of restraint, a commonality of values, a respect for differences of view, the concept of loyal opposition, and a sense of civic responsibility." Daniel Pipes
'How the ‘Culture War’ Could Break Democracy'
https://www.politico.com/news/magaz...e-war-politics-2021-democracy-analysis-489900
"The president [Trump] is a nationalist, which is not at all the same thing as a patriot. A nationalist encourages us to be our worst, and then tells us that we are the best. A nationalist, 'although endlessly brooding on power, victory, defeat, revenge,' wrote Orwell, tends to be 'uninterested in what happens in the real world.' Nationalism is relativist, since the only truth is the resentment we feel when we contemplate others. As the novelist Danilo Kiš put it, nationalism 'has no universal values, aesthetic or ethical.' A patriot, by contrast, wants the nation to live up to its ideals, which means asking us to be our best selves. A patriot must be concerned with the real world, which is the only place where his country can be loved and sustained. A patriot has universal values, standards by which he judges his nation, always wishing it well—and wishing that it would do better." Timothy Snyder 'On Tyranny'
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33917107-on-tyranny
"First, democracy is more than holding elections; it requires the development of civil society, meaning such complex and counterintuitive institutions as the rule of law, an independent judiciary, multiple political parties, minority rights, voluntary associations, freedom of expression, movement, and assembly. Democracy is a learned habit, not an instinctive one, that requires deep attitudinal changes such as a culture of restraint, a commonality of values, a respect for differences of view, the concept of loyal opposition, and a sense of civic responsibility." Daniel Pipes
Our system of government is not working. We live in an oligarchy that intentionally keeps us divided. You don't seem to mind that America is like Brazil or other third world countries. The big lie is that Biden will do the things FDR did to prevent a systemic collapse. Being locked down for a year is about as far from freedom as we can get. How did we end up in a police state?
Dutch Uncle
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The US isn't a police state and I do not see where Midcan is a traitor to American ideals as you accuse.
police state
noun
a totalitarian state controlled by a political police force that secretly supervises the citizens' activities.
Dutch Uncle
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Thanks for proving your claim the US was a police state was wrong.
Smart of you to recognize you violated APP standards with a personal attack and false allegation.
