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I agree that those who watch Fox News live in a different reality. I see it in my parents every day. That network has become dangerous.
holy smokes, both readwithcindy and Barack Obama in one post? I actually can't handle how good this is
The thing that both Democrats and Republicans have to realize is that they are both fed misinformation by the media that panders to the opinions that they hold . As long as I've been alive I've seen news reporters who think that thier job is to give sarcastic comments and be disrespectful of our presidents , that is not the job of the news media . Thier job is to report facts not give thier opinions . News has turned into more of a tv soap opera than a reporter of facts .
if this isn't addressed in one of her videos I'm gonna cry. It's also true that most of us live in their ideological echo chambers and only looks to the other side in disbelief and rage. However, it's kind of hard to try and see the point of people who straight up deny scientific evidence or to discuss that evidence since apparently nowadays a good counterargument for evidence is "that's fake" or "that's staged".
Sorry, but the country's division started during your presidency. 2015 was exceptionally bad. The radical left irritated the people who were closer to the center than anything else. If someone dared to oppose their opinions, even in the slightest, they would mark them as Nazis, etc. Also, 2015 was the year BLM organized first big protests. So, you're right, 2008 didn't feel divided. The democrats helped Trump win in 2016 just by letting this division to deepen.
Agree that there is an echo chamber, the social media algorithms display links based on prior preferences instead of the most reliable or credible sources. And most people only read the headline, instead of the context. This is abysmally misleading and contributes to polarization and cancel culture.
This isn't related, but I think its really cool that a past president is answering questions. It just makes me smile that he would take time out of his day to chat. That's all, and for anybody reading this I hope you have a good day! :)
I personally think it comes down to this: Profit-motive-driven social media engineered to monopolize attention and revenue-generating clicks acts as a fuel as well as an accelerant to those elements of human nature that lend themselves to tribal polarization.
Mark Zuckerberg et al are effectively transforming the world into a mad Frank Costanza hall of mirrors obsessed with cultivating grievances and wallowing in indignant outrage (note: as I understand the Seinfeld character, Frank would likely reject most any tribal affiliation or cooption much along the lines of Groucho Marx's not wanting to belong to any club that would accept him as one of its members, which is to say, what Facebook's click-hungry algorithms do is a doubly-tragic obscenity).
Now reasonable people can argue as to what the best approaches to mitigating these effects are—except Libertarians, who wish to inhabit a dog-eat-dog, `free markets always know better than any one individual or collective of individuals' happy place, which is their prerogative—but what I believe to be absolutely essential is a shared acknowledgement of this social media driven Pavlovian training mass hysteria across all strata of society.
Long story short: humanity ought to reflect on what Silicon Valley has been up to for the last 25 years and how that has immeasurably changed societies the world over.
P H E W...............WAS THIS NECESSARY?? DON'T THINK IT IS WHAT WAS ASKED FOR....???
Foreign interference in a hypothetical election might benefit or burden a hypothetical (impossible) campaign. Defends on the candidate and influencer (China and Russia don't always see eye to eye...)
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I agree that those who watch Fox News live in a different reality. I see it in my parents every day. That network has become dangerous.
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holy smokes, both readwithcindy and Barack Obama in one post? I actually can't handle how good this is
The thing that both Democrats and Republicans have to realize is that they are both fed misinformation by the media that panders to the opinions that they hold . As long as I've been alive I've seen news reporters who think that thier job is to give sarcastic comments and be disrespectful of our presidents , that is not the job of the news media . Thier job is to report facts not give thier opinions . News has turned into more of a tv soap opera than a reporter of facts .
if this isn't addressed in one of her videos I'm gonna cry. It's also true that most of us live in their ideological echo chambers and only looks to the other side in disbelief and rage. However, it's kind of hard to try and see the point of people who straight up deny scientific evidence or to discuss that evidence since apparently nowadays a good counterargument for evidence is "that's fake" or "that's staged".
Sorry, but the country's division started during your presidency. 2015 was exceptionally bad. The radical left irritated the people who were closer to the center than anything else. If someone dared to oppose their opinions, even in the slightest, they would mark them as Nazis, etc. Also, 2015 was the year BLM organized first big protests. So, you're right, 2008 didn't feel divided. The democrats helped Trump win in 2016 just by letting this division to deepen.
Agree that there is an echo chamber, the social media algorithms display links based on prior preferences instead of the most reliable or credible sources. And most people only read the headline, instead of the context. This is abysmally misleading and contributes to polarization and cancel culture.
This isn't related, but I think its really cool that a past president is answering questions. It just makes me smile that he would take time out of his day to chat. That's all, and for anybody reading this I hope you have a good day! :)
I personally think it comes down to this: Profit-motive-driven social media engineered to monopolize attention and revenue-generating clicks acts as a fuel as well as an accelerant to those elements of human nature that lend themselves to tribal polarization.Mark Zuckerberg et al are effectively transforming the world into a mad Frank Costanza hall of mirrors obsessed with cultivating grievances and wallowing in indignant outrage (note: as I understand the Seinfeld character, Frank would likely reject most any tribal affiliation or cooption much along the lines of Groucho Marx's not wanting to belong to any club that would accept him as one of its members, which is to say, what Facebook's click-hungry algorithms do is a doubly-tragic obscenity).
Now reasonable people can argue as to what the best approaches to mitigating these effects are—except Libertarians, who wish to inhabit a dog-eat-dog, `free markets always know better than any one individual or collective of individuals' happy place, which is their prerogative—but what I believe to be absolutely essential is a shared acknowledgement of this social media driven Pavlovian training mass hysteria across all strata of society.
Long story short: humanity ought to reflect on what Silicon Valley has been up to for the last 25 years and how that has immeasurably changed societies the world over.
P H E W...............WAS THIS NECESSARY?? DON'T THINK IT IS WHAT WAS ASKED FOR....???
Foreign interference in a hypothetical election might benefit or burden a hypothetical (impossible) campaign. Defends on the candidate and influencer (China and Russia don't always see eye to eye...)
