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04-05-2019 , 10:54 PM

#13301

dth123451

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That type of interaction really highlights the role of media for me.

I’m an objectively intelligent person, and I fell for the Ron Paul bull****. There are literally tens of millions of people who have been radicalized by right wing media. Say what you want about these people, they got the power of cable news from the start.

04-05-2019 , 11:14 PM

#13302

tgiggity

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Quote:

Originally Posted by eyebooger

Who cares who began the program?

Start your questioning with "Is it a good policy?"

Quote:

Originally Posted by eyebooger

Also it's funny how the people who claim "Obama started it" never say that with things like stock market returns.

agreed on both points

04-05-2019 , 11:26 PM

#13303

Trolly McTrollson

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Quote:

Originally Posted by dth123451

That type of interaction really highlights the role of media for me.

I’m an objectively intelligent person, and I fell for the Ron Paul bull****. There are literally tens of millions of people who have been radicalized by right wing media. Say what you want about these people, they got the power of cable news from the start.

I'm gonna borrow a line from Dvaut and suggest that this is the cart pushing the horse. Let's take it the other way around: Rather than saying Fox News put the whammy on millions of people, let's suppose that America is chock-full of racist olds who created a market for reactionary right-wing news and Fox showed up to fill that market. It's more like the people radicalized the media once the technology became able to give consumers a-la-carte media options for the types of media they consume.

04-06-2019 , 12:13 AM

#13304

kerowo

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That's a bit like letting Netflix off the hook for all of the shows it airs that revolve around violence towards women. If people didn't watch it so much no one would put it on the air...

04-06-2019 , 08:58 AM

#13305

mosdef

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Originally Posted by Trolly McTrollson

I think the key point is that it is actually an insidious feedback loop where the racist instincts of America's worst people create a market for curated racist content, which in turn emphasizes and strengthens the racist instincts and grows the market.

One thing that market dogma has instilled in many people is the mistaken belief that markets always drive things towards equilibrium balance. This is a useful framework for analyzing plenty of economic situations, especially in Econ 101, but it is certainly not a universal truth.

04-06-2019 , 09:25 AM

#13306

realDonaldTrump

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04-06-2019 , 09:42 AM

#13307

realDonaldTrump

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04-06-2019 , 09:58 AM

#13308

realDonaldTrump

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04-06-2019 , 10:11 AM

#13309

skiier04

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Diamond and Silk

He's done more for black people than any other President in our lifetime.

rofl

04-06-2019 , 10:16 AM

#13310

Clovis8

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It depends how you define “done more”. If you follow it with “harm” it makes sense.

04-06-2019 , 10:23 AM

#13311

realDonaldTrump

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04-06-2019 , 10:31 AM

#13312

realDonaldTrump

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04-06-2019 , 10:33 AM

#13313

kerowo

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I like how not reading is seen by Trump to be a good thing. The Education President!

04-06-2019 , 11:02 AM

#13314

Clovis8

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I’d bet a decent amount of money trump is functionally illiterate.

04-06-2019 , 11:27 AM

#13315

markksman

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Originally Posted by ChrisV

Racist ban

04-06-2019 , 11:28 AM

#13316

feedthabeast

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Have you seen the video of him being asked to read something during a deposition? He can't read it. He's a moron.

04-06-2019 , 11:30 AM

#13317

markksman

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Originally Posted by realDonaldTrump

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Nobody thought you read it. In fact it is unlikely you have the requisite ability to read anything more than 2 pages long.

Of course it is insane for you not to have read it but you do you.

04-06-2019 , 11:33 AM

#13318

dth123451

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Mueller let this ****ing imbecile submit written answers. He didn’t want to get him.

04-06-2019 , 11:50 AM

#13319

realDonaldTrump

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04-06-2019 , 11:51 AM

#13320

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04-06-2019 , 11:53 AM

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04-06-2019 , 11:57 AM

#13322

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04-06-2019 , 11:58 AM

#13323

epcfast

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Started with grave concerns about collusion between just about everybody you know and russians?

04-06-2019 , 12:09 PM

#13324

cuserounder

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Methinks if the report was really all about TOTAL EXONERATION, 45 might stop slamming the 13 ANGRY DEMOCRATS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Somebody's levels of shookness are on the rise again.

04-06-2019 , 12:59 PM

#13325

goofyballer

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So Trump was rage-tweeting on one phone, while one of his staffers wrote the "going to Las Vegas" tweet, forcing Trump to delete and re-post the first one to avoid breaking his inter-multi-tweet flow

WATTBA

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