This makes me thing about my reaction to getting out of my own bubble.
And what I find is that I can listen to, and try to evaluate, a conservative point of view if it is mostly fact based. For instance, I'm listening to a radio program right now about changes to Canada's energy policies, and they have knowledgeable people talking about it from various points of view. It's been interesting, because there's a lot of "here's an aspect of that particular issue that you haven't addressed" type of talk, with people on all sides agreeing as to what facts are. I'm learning things, and not getting angry.
However, I simply cannot listen to hyper partisan right wing discussion at all - it just makes my head explode.
So I appear to be happy to leave my left wing bubble and swim around in neutrality, but a right wing bubble appears to be toxic to me.
did you see the documentary "the brainwashing of my dad"? A elderly man changed jobs, with a long commute, and on his drive he would listen to things like limbaugh, and then when at home he would watch Fox, and read chain emails from wingnut factories. he went from a sweet old guy to a seething ball of rage in very short order. https://youtu.be/pNTsTOcRO-k
That was my experience during the 2016 primary as well. I talked to a lot of folks in the deep red part of our state who were willing to vote for Sanders. Some saw benefit to his ideas, some said they would vote for him because he was an "honest public servant". What people out there did NOT want to vote for was "another Bush or Clinton" or a "status quo" politician. People forget, tfg was a protest candidate.
No, the new editor had John Solomon for a mentor, she is taking it down to Fox lite with click-bait headlines written by someone's otherwise unemployable Maga Nephew.I do realize you were snarking they have never been totally liberal.
You really don't know what you are talking about. The Fairness Doctrine pre-dated streaming, and as such would not apply.
you bed hopping trollop …
commit suicide is more like it … i find cnn a bit too “right” myself …
i see what you did there, seen lawrence odonnell throw really indirect shade at biden … wondered what that was all about …
This makes me thing about my reaction to getting out of my own bubble.
And what I find is that I can listen to, and try to evaluate, a conservative point of view if it is mostly fact based. For instance, I'm listening to a radio program right now about changes to Canada's energy policies, and they have knowledgeable people talking about it from various points of view. It's been interesting, because there's a lot of "here's an aspect of that particular issue that you haven't addressed" type of talk, with people on all sides agreeing as to what facts are. I'm learning things, and not getting angry.
However, I simply cannot listen to hyper partisan right wing discussion at all - it just makes my head explode.
So I appear to be happy to leave my left wing bubble and swim around in neutrality, but a right wing bubble appears to be toxic to me.
I got my winter tires swapped over this week, and for the first time ever there, they did not have FOX on tv in the waiting room. It was so nice.
Kudos for the creative imagery. I especially liked the picture of the Hannitucker Mucus coating making people impervious to reason.
did you see the documentary "the brainwashing of my dad"? A elderly man changed jobs, with a long commute, and on his drive he would listen to things like limbaugh, and then when at home he would watch Fox, and read chain emails from wingnut factories. he went from a sweet old guy to a seething ball of rage in very short order. https://youtu.be/pNTsTOcRO-k
obligatory viewing on this phenomenon, in the other direction, what starting to watch wingnut media does to the brain. https://youtu.be/pNTsTOcRO-k
That was my experience during the 2016 primary as well. I talked to a lot of folks in the deep red part of our state who were willing to vote for Sanders. Some saw benefit to his ideas, some said they would vote for him because he was an "honest public servant". What people out there did NOT want to vote for was "another Bush or Clinton" or a "status quo" politician. People forget, tfg was a protest candidate.
And on our taxpayer paid for military bases
I find myself yelling "you lie" at the TV when in a waiting room, when Fox propaganda is on.
Yes, it needs updating to catch up with the technology.
Me too, they hire a bunch of righties, and right leaning rabble.
That's good advice no matter what!
No, the new editor had John Solomon for a mentor, she is taking it down to Fox lite with click-bait headlines written by someone's otherwise unemployable Maga Nephew.I do realize you were snarking they have never been totally liberal.
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