My father changed his politics radically when his health declined and he had to stay home watching tv because of mobility issues. Fuck FOX. Assholes. One of the most harmful entities in the USA. I wish every one of them would drop dead.
I feel extremely lucky that my parents somehow avoided going down that rabbit hole. I’m sorry the hate-media got to your dad, that really sucks.
My dad used to watch it to laugh at it, but I think my mom took a lot of it seriously.
That shit is a cognitive hazard.
Everybody thinks they’re immune to propaganda themselves, that it only influences other dumber people.
I listened to Infowars for fun for years. Surely it’s possible to listen to something and not start believing it. Maybe you’re right in general though.
You also don’t have to be dumb to fall for scams. (Though it certainly makes it easier.)
If they hit the right timing and get lucky with circumstances, they can get just about anyone.
Also most scams have been aimed at boomers. They’ll look different when they’re aimed at millennials.
Tim Walz is the dad and grandpa that Rush and Rupert stole from us. He’s the family we lost when their personalities changed seemingly overnight.
If the right wing funded rage machine never existed, we would have had millions like him. They’ve broken so many families.
This is exactly it. Fake news should have a regulatory body.
It should be illegal to present entertainment as news and opinion as fact to a global audience. There should be real life jail time (not fines that are only for the poor) for the business owners
When a society in the future figures this out, the world will be a better place.
Who gets to decide what’s fact?
Evidence backing it up
Whatever Newsmax thinks is evidence?
Can someone explain why exactly?
Last night’s Daily Show had a good segment on him.
He’s basically just a normal “dad”. Was a teacher and a highschool football coach, genuinely enjoys spending time with his family, sometimes is wrong but listens to others and is open to changing his mind.
It’s an incredibly low bar, but dude seems to be a decent human being.
It’s not any deeper than that.
I recently heard the phrase “the bar for men is in hell”. At first I thought they were talking about a drinking establishment for men with the devil. No, it’s saying that the bar for men to get over to be a comparably decent person is so low, it’s in the depths of the earth in hell.
Like, there are so many absolutely terrible men that someone who doesn’t inappropriately touch and does listen most of the time by comparison is like an Olympic gymnast
And yet I catch motherfuckers every day absolutely killing the devil himself in a limbo competition in his own home.
can I ask how you spend your days, that you’re able to find so many on the daily?
not doubting you, at all, just curious as to the frequency.
I work in a corporation that manages self storage facilities.
They’re above, below, in customers, and in the cracks.
