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Facebook, Twitter, and the MSM.
by tamaharbor 5y ago
Facebook, Twitter, and the MSM.
- silisili 5y agoMSM is really the root of the problem. The other two are just idiots parroting what some network told them to.
- lotsofpulp 5y agoFacebook, Twitter, and the MSM caused the income/wealth gap and certain socioeconomic classes to move down relative to others?
- silisili 5y agoMSM is very much complicit in this. See: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/lbj-convince-the-lowest-white-man/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/lbj-convince-the-lowest-wh... This alone should be shouted from every rooftop, but now is relegated to snopes fact checking, apparently. Yeah it's a political statement, a blunt one, but it's a candid statement of how to keep poor people poor.
- lotsofpulp 5y agoHow much is MSM responsible versus technology and economic progress in other nations bringing huge amounts of labor online that would cause prices for many types of labor to go down in the US, and labor prices to go up in poorer parts of the world?
- silisili 5y agoTo be clear, I didn't mean to say MSM is responsible, only complicit. If we had real, independent, healthy media, these issues and those responsible would be plastered all over. Instead we're stuck with whatever the hell we have today, that seems mostly entertainment, selected outrage, outright lies, with a few actual happenings sprinkled in.
- watersb 5y agoMSM = "Mainstream Media"? If so, I wonder why it wasn't obvious to me.
- alkonaut 5y agoBack when effectively only MSM was consumed there was much less division. To claim the so called MSM is the cause should require some more argument than gut feeling I think. The narrative that everything is a zero sum game has been pushed for decades. “If they lose I win” isn’t anything to build a functioning society on.