Random political thought thread.

yeghor · Aug 16, 2022

The Cat · Aug 16, 2022

Virtual ghost said:
And this is why I find US politics kinda stupid. Everyone talks about monsters, about radical right and how they are growing in numbers around the countryside ... etc. While at the same time to just about no one occurs that perhaps they should ban the practice that employees have to piss in the bottles to save time on the job. That small farmers could really use some help with droughts or local infrastructure. That having a drinkable water would be a nice change. A little bit higher minimum wage wouldn't hurt either. Getting all those drugs off the street would also be nice. It is always as if the radicalization is happening just like that and we just have to talk more about it to warn people.

The Cat · Aug 17, 2022

she's going to run for president i think

yeghor · Aug 17, 2022

Humanity Is Acting Like A Self Destructive Individual

Doctor Cringelord · Aug 17, 2022

There's this old round table style debate from Charlie Rose featuring Christopher Hitchens, Naomi Wolf, and some other random feminists. It's hilarious because they clearly disagree with Hitch, but the way the body language (especially Wolf's) becomes flirtier as the debate progresses is just...wow.

Always the actions you need to read, not the words.

The Cat · Aug 17, 2022

yeghor · Aug 17, 2022

https://orinocotribune.com/polls-sh...dia-after-decades-of-war-propaganda-and-lies/

By Benjamin Norton – Jul 31, 2022

The CIA has long manipulated the media, spreading disinformation to justify US wars. Today just 11% of Americans trust television news.

Very few people in the United States trust the mainstream corporate media. This is confirmed by a July survey from the major polling firm Gallup, which found that just 11% of Americans trust television news, and a mere 16% have confidence in newspapers.

Red Herring · Aug 18, 2022

yeghor said:
https://orinocotribune.com/polls-sh...dia-after-decades-of-war-propaganda-and-lies/

By Benjamin Norton – Jul 31, 2022

The CIA has long manipulated the media, spreading disinformation to justify US wars. Today just 11% of Americans trust television news.

Very few people in the United States trust the mainstream corporate media. This is confirmed by a July survey from the major polling firm Gallup, which found that just 11% of Americans trust television news, and a mere 16% have confidence in newspapers.

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I see you have switched from state-sponsored Russian propaganda to a pro-Chavez Venezuelan source!

Have you tried Xinhua? Kayhan? KCNA?

I agree that American tv news tends to be too partisan and sensationalist. Quality newspapers tend to be better. And the lower peoples' education level the lower the quality of media they tend to consume. Political extremism also correlates with a mistrust in quality media so considering the enormous polarization in the US this mistrust comes as no surprise.

I think if you are interested in reliable sources the best advice would be to cross-reference different independent professional media from several free democratic countries. The least reliable lowest quality sources tend to be extremist amateur "alternative" media and state-run media from illiberal countries.

Here's the press freedom index of Reporters Without Borders: https://rsf.org/en/index

As you can see 9 of the top 10 freest countries are European. The US is only #42 (Turkey is #149 and pretty far at the bottom, in case you were wondering)