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  • Nobody operates on facts alone. Unless you were there when it happened, you have to trust a source to some degree.

    Quite a lot of people just say fuck it, if its all varying degrees of shit, I’m not going to listen to any of it.

    Thats how word of mouth type stuff ends up on fox news, because even they know a lot of right wing Americans wont trust professional news stories over their neighbors anecdotes.

    We might think we use better sources, and check into things more vigorously, but our conclusions still require faith as much as any republicans beliefs.

    We still haven’t even figured out how to refute religion conclusively, for example. Juries still out on whether religion is fantasy or actual reality, whether we think thats ridiculous or not.















  • I think with young voters the main difference is they think voting is a cool thing to do regardless of party. They still are very susceptible to the media bubbles, but I’m not sure either party has the advantage there.

    I saw both sides of tiktok for republicans and democrats, and it was like they paid the same viral marketing campaign because they followed the same templates.

    Short clips, out of context, along with a quick message leading you to the right conclusion. Not a whole lot different than the radio and TV ads.





  • I will tell you that middle schoolers these days just say the dumbest shit. Like lines they’ve heard others say but have no idea what it means.

    And they argue over the dumbest shit too. Anyways this is just me saying this story fits well with my current understanding of young kids in school. I think its only news because it related to trump and the election, and thats worth money nowadays.

    Remember, the news stories we are served are chosen by profitability rather than social impact.