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The questions that are broadly acceptable to the corporate media - i.e. that are the subjects of written or spoken debate - are generally not the important or i
by photochemsyn 4y ago
The questions that are broadly acceptable to the corporate media - i.e. that are the subjects of written or spoken debate - are generally not the important or interesting questions. They're mostly click-bait fluff intended to up the 'engagement' factor.
The only one in that list that's of much interest is about the origins of the Covid pandemic, and even there the real question is whether or not to implement a global ban on gain-of-function research with infectious viruses and microbes. As far as the details on the origins of Covid and links to the Ecohealth-Alliance-funded Wuhan Institute of Virology, well, read a book (Viral by Chan & Ridley, 2021).
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58647975-viral https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58647975-viral
Here's an alternative list of questions that I'd argue really matter, but which are typically avoided by corporate media:
1. Is the US economy overly controlled by finance, and does this have serious negative repercussions for the long-term health of the economy? Is finance really capable of long-term planning and basic infrastructure development?
2. Is the US military budget out of control? The (inflation-adjusted) size of that budget over the past few decades has certainly increased. Are those wasted resources? (A related question has to do with our military entanglements around the planet, such as with Saudi Arabia, Israel, NATO, etc.)
3. Do all of the free trade deals that the USA has pushed for over the past 40 years really help the US economy prosper, or are they the main reason for the huge wealth gap across American society and the destruction of the American manufacturing sector (and the rise of angry populist politics) ?
Now, those are interesting questions and I imagine views vary widely on those issues - but you won't see them addressed in our pathetic media system.
- mberning 4y ago#3 was warned about long ago. Look at the debates with Ross Perot in them. He predicted precisely what has happened. He essentially said if we have free trade with the rest of the world and they make $2 an hour and we make $10 an hour then jobs will not stop leaving until everybody makes $6 an hour. And that is precisely what is and has happened. The question to me is how the political class in the US has become completely captured by globalist robber barons for decades.