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The political bias from either party is unreal most of the times. It isn't exclusive to the left or right.
by encryptluks2 4y ago
The political bias from either party is unreal most of the times. It isn't exclusive to the left or right.
- taolegal 4y agoExcept every important cultural institution and practically every tech space is left-biased.
- lilactown 4y agoTwitter's now owned by Elon, who is making friends with right wing reactionaries in public. Fox News is the most watched news channel on the continent. All tech companies at the very least are pro-capitalist, it's often a choice of whether they're outwardly more pro-market or more technocratic, which has nothing to do with political lefts and rights.
- taolegal 4y ago> Fox News is the most watched news channel on the continent. They have high viewership in spite of the fact that liberals have complete dominance over so-called "official" news media & centers of cultural production, as well as universities. Conservatives don't control government or anything else in any meaningful sense. Just look at American govt over the course of the 20th & 21st century to see that progressives squarely won in terms of shaping the size, scope & spending of govt. > has nothing to do with political lefts and rights You're supposing a True Scotsman that "liberals" aren't true left or something, that's complete nonsense. You may as well be regretting that a horse isn't a unicorn. Tech companies are overwhelmingly biased towards liberals. Don't play dumb.
- ModernMech 4y ago> Conservatives don't control government or anything else in any meaningful sense. 6/3 conservative Supreme Court and the House. That’s half of the federal government.
- Vecr 4y agoMore like a just over a sixth, there's three branches, executive, legislature, and judicial. If you buy into the whole "media is the fourth branch" thing, I say that's actually a minority or a plurality.
- kevingadd 4y agoIf you think "complete functional control over the supreme court for likely decades" is insignificant enough to make conservatives count as a minority you need to pay more attention to the powers and impact of the supreme court. They can effectively overrule any legislation if they wish and have proven a desire to do so.
- Vecr 4y agoThey say they can do that (judicial review is kind of not in the constitution) but what California and New York are doing post New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen puts a bit of a question on that. Making much of New York City a "gun free zone" is not what "the right to keep and bear arms" sounds like to me.
- ModernMech 4y agoI’m counting executive branch, judicial branch, and congress as two because they each individually have their own mandated powers. The conservative Supreme Court just unilaterally gutted fundamental human rights for everyone in the country. That’s serious power that not even the President has. It’s a joke to pretend conservatives have no political power in the face of that. The third highest government official is the Speaker of the House, who will be a Republican in January, so it’s pretty hard to say Republicans have no power when they control the Speaker. It’s crazy how much power that is. But to call the media a branch of government and to assign “control” of media to Democrats is really a stretch. Pretty hard to make that case with Fox News around.
- taolegal 4y agoProgressives aren't able to beat conservatives into submission because there's foundational checks and balances against that. That conservatives have any power at all is a testament to progressives ability to catastrophically & embarrassingly mismanage themselves and fail to deliver. But really progressives are just complaining that things aren't changing fast enough, it's inarguable that govt as it exists today is nothing remotely like limited govt.
- whateveracct 4y agoReality has a known liberal bias
- archagon 4y agoAs Colbert once said, "reality has a well known liberal bias."
- hk__2 4y ago> Except every important cultural institution and practically every tech space is left-biased. This is because progressism is associated with the left. The tech space lives on the edge of innovation, so of course it leans toward progressism.
- encryptluks2 4y agoThis is what I find fascinating. A majority of these companies are staffed by the best in technology who are particularly intelligent and vote more progressive. Then comes along some dumb conservative complaining that a majority of people working there don't want to hear some dumb conspiracy.
- taolegal 4y ago> a majority of people so minorities should be abused?
- encryptluks2 4y agoI can't even begin to fathom how you are reaching that far. We are taking about skills here not race.
- taolegal 4y agoYou're saying that when people are outnumbered they should be at the mercy of the majority. Even worse that you're apparently ableist saying that it's better if it's on the basis of skill rather than race.
- encryptluks2 4y agoYou're saying that if people have no medical degree that they should be given jobs as surgeons because they are in a minority group of not having the skills necessary to perform surgeries? No where have you claimed or provided proof that conservatives are being discriminated against in hiring.