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I wish I could go back in time to when I didn't need to tense up before opening up the news each day. How does this policy help the country? It's just so blat

I wish I could go back in time to when I didn't need to tense up before opening up the news each day. How does this policy help the country? It's just so blatantly designed to hurt people. The whole point seems to be to rile up Trump's base at the cost of people who are just trying to go about their lives during a pandemic.

dimator 6y ago
> I wish I could go back in time to when I didn't need to tense up before opening up the news each day. This really hits home. These four years have been such a depressing time for just reading the news. Every day it seems the US is edging closer and closer to.... I don't even know what. With half the country happily marching to the drumbeats. It's amazing just how fragile our systems were. I've been wondering if it's just mentally more healthy to go the ignorance is bliss route. I know so many people who don't even register these kinds of events, and they seem happier.
- redis_mlc 6y ago
  > These four years have been such a depressing time for just reading the news. I know right. The Democrats have so little regard for our nation that they've nominated two Manchurian candidates in a row.
DenisM 6y ago
> I didn't need to tense up before opening up the news If you frighten people enough they will vote for anything that resembles safety. The first part is accomplished, wouldn't you say?
anonymouswacker 6y ago
Don't trust the news. Watch documentaries about mainstream news (Manufacturing Consent is my personal fav) and you will see that reality is not what they are peddling--it is influence.
zalkota 6y ago
Remember when the media didn’t lie? Yeah, that was nice.
- colejohnson66 6y ago
  No? Yellow journalism has been a thing since the newspaper became a thing.
- dragonwriter 6y ago
  > Remember when the media didn’t lie? No, but I'm old enough to remember when all the major media told approximately the same lies so that they were part of the shared, accepted “truth”, which is probably what you are thinking of.

dimator 6y ago

> I wish I could go back in time to when I didn't need to tense up before opening up the news each day. This really hits home. These four years have been such a depressing time for just reading the news. Every day it seems the US is edging closer and closer to.... I don't even know what. With half the country happily marching to the drumbeats. It's amazing just how fragile our systems were. I've been wondering if it's just mentally more healthy to go the ignorance is bliss route. I know so many people who don't even register these kinds of events, and they seem happier.

redis_mlc 6y ago
> These four years have been such a depressing time for just reading the news. I know right. The Democrats have so little regard for our nation that they've nominated two Manchurian candidates in a row.

DenisM 6y ago

> I didn't need to tense up before opening up the news If you frighten people enough they will vote for anything that resembles safety. The first part is accomplished, wouldn't you say?

anonymouswacker 6y ago

Don't trust the news. Watch documentaries about mainstream news (Manufacturing Consent is my personal fav) and you will see that reality is not what they are peddling--it is influence.

zalkota 6y ago

Remember when the media didn’t lie? Yeah, that was nice.

colejohnson66 6y ago
No? Yellow journalism has been a thing since the newspaper became a thing.
dragonwriter 6y ago
> Remember when the media didn’t lie? No, but I'm old enough to remember when all the major media told approximately the same lies so that they were part of the shared, accepted “truth”, which is probably what you are thinking of.