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I just hope this will finally put to bed any ridiculous mentions of "liberal media bias", or that the tech sector has some liberal bias.

by dfxm12 2y ago

theWreckluse 2y ago
I think new-tech/mass-consumer-facing tech is always going to have a liberal bias - that just plays well with the dynamics of getting new users to use your procuct. It's only once a company/organization establishes itself as a mega Corp will we see the conservative idealogy exerting it's want to sustain/conserve the accumulated power.
fma 2y ago
Conservatives keep moving the goal post. I see a less criticism of conservatives due to the fear of being labeled as bias. i.e. the coverage of Biden's cognitive decline vs Trump's cognitive decline.
- gotoeleven 2y ago
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  - defrost 2y ago
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  - DonHopkins 2y ago
    JD Vance wrote "I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical asshole like Nixon who wouldn't be that bad (and might even prove useful) or that he's America's Hitler." You are aware that JD Vance is America's Hitler's running mate, right?
  - pokerface_86 2y ago
    https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/politics/trump-said-hitler-did-some-good-things-and-wanted-generals-like-the-nazis-former-chief-of-staff-kelly-claims https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/politics/trump-said-hitler-... maybe take a look in the fucking mirror if you want to stop being called hitler LMFAO
- anon291 2y ago
  Trump just spoke with Rogan for three hours unscripted and showed none of the obvious cognitive decline that Joe did. That's fine... For some, age does not really slow them down. For others it does. People just need to be real about it.
kernal 2y ago
Ridiculous is thinking there is no legacy liberal media bias. Take the top 100 political articles from WaPo and the NYT from this year and tell me how many are anti Republican. I’m guessing nearly all of them.
- michaelhoney 2y ago
  it’s true that reporting the facts about what the 2024 incarnation of the GOP does makes them look bad
  - kernal 2y ago
    Not really. The liberal legacy media are just democrat shills that will do anything to get their party over the line.
  - anon291 2y ago
    That's why fifty percent of the country disagrees with you! When will the beam come out of the eye?
- defrost 2y ago
  Many express fondness for Reagan era Republicans and lament their absence. There's support for Liz Cheney, a former chair of the House Republican Conference, coming out against Trump et al. Are you sure "anti-Republican" is what you're seeing and not just calling out the MAGA faction for their behaviour?
  - kernal 2y ago
    The fact the you would bring up Liz Cheney pretty much invalidates any opinion you might have of the Republican Party. There’s a reason that disgusting and vile thing is now “teaching” at a radical left wing training school.
    - defrost 2y ago
      I heard she speaks of the enemy within, wants Hitler's Generals on staff and is keen to remove the licences from media outlets that talk about that. At least you and I can agree how vile and disgusting that behaviour is.
mensetmanusman 2y ago
Why would it put it to bed? It’s worth people knowing that the media leans over 90% left from all the stats that exist.
- DonHopkins 2y ago
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  - yieldcrv 2y ago
    and the profession is also populated by people that went to specific universities, in specific cities and have a specific voting record that's the standard people are using and can be corroborated
    - DonHopkins 2y ago
      So what? That's an incoherent irrelevant response that doesn't address any of the points I raised. Are you just trying to pull off "The Weave" by emulating Trump? You do realize that's just a lame excuse for incompetence and dementia, not an intentional debate strategy, don't you?
      - yieldcrv 2y ago
        I don’t care about the conversation you were having with the previous persons actually It was a response solely to your first paragraph about what left leaning might be in contrast to, when it’s also true that everyone else is like “or their voting record”
rayiner 2y ago
The media isn't even just liberal. It's off the charts liberal even among liberals. Among journalists, Democrats outnumber Republicans 10 to 1: https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/dec/30/only-34-us-journalists-are-republicans-survey https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/dec/30/only-34-us-.... This is reflected in news coverage. Consider how they cover things like Voter ID or proving citizenship to vote, which 80% of people support: https://news.gallup.com/poll/652523/americans-endorse-early-voting-voter-verification.aspx https://news.gallup.com/poll/652523/americans-endorse-early-... Or consider how papers coverage policies like affirmative action that supermajorities of Americans oppose: https://www.forbes.com/sites/vinaybhaskara/2023/07/10/americans-dont-like-affirmative-actionhigher-ed-has-to-deal-with-it/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/vinaybhaskara/2023/07/10/americ...
- paul7986 2y ago
  Funny in terms of liberal technology is testing Chat GPT of any political biased. Based off asking it the following 3 questions it might just be... "Hey GPT, whose your spirit animal between Barrack Obama and Donald Trump?" It provided a neutral answer providing the pros of both dudes. "Hey GPT, whose your spirit animal between Obama and Hitler?" It clearly chose Obama saying how rightfully so awful Hitler was. "Hey GPT, whose your spirit animal between Trump and Hitler" It did not choose Trump at all rather just gave the rightfully so negative feedback about Hitler. No fan of Trump or politics in general but if it happily chose Obama yet avoided Trump that seems odd (Trump is no way close to a genocider).
  - oezi 2y ago
    From Trump's rhetoric and flaming hatred for the 'enemies within' it seems not far fetched to imagine him setting up internment camps. It is a slippery slope as Germans can attest.
    - mike_hearn 2y ago
      The rhetoric has been equally flaming from Trump's self-declared enemies. Just a couple of years ago Democrats were telling pollsters they supported internment camps for their enemies: https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/partner_surveys/jan_2022/covid_19_democratic_voters_support_harsh_measures_against_unvaccinated https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/par... > Fifty-nine percent (59%) of Democratic voters would favor a government policy requiring that citizens remain confined to their homes at all times, except for emergencies, if they refuse to get a COVID-19 vaccine. > Forty-five percent (45%) of Democrats would favor governments requiring citizens to temporarily live in designated facilities or locations if they refuse to get a COVID-19 vaccine. Such a policy would be opposed by a strong majority (71%) of all voters. That's a demand for internment camps. One famous academic went further and said it'd be fine to engage in mass starvation: https://nationalpost.com/news/world/noam-chomsky-says-the-unvaccinated-should-just-remove-themselves-from-society https://nationalpost.com/news/world/noam-chomsky-says-the-un... The US needs to cool down the rhetoric on both sides, because it's an endless spiral of escalation right now. Trump isn't uniquely bad at this and the "slippery slope" was already slid a long way down, when he wasn't in charge.

I just hope this will finally put to bed any ridiculous mentions of "liberal media bias", or that the tech sector has some liberal bias.

by dfxm12 2y ago

I just hope this will finally put to bed any ridiculous mentions of "liberal media bias", or that the tech sector has some liberal bias.

theWreckluse 2y ago

I think new-tech/mass-consumer-facing tech is always going to have a liberal bias - that just plays well with the dynamics of getting new users to use your procuct. It's only once a company/organization establishes itself as a mega Corp will we see the conservative idealogy exerting it's want to sustain/conserve the accumulated power.

fma 2y ago

Conservatives keep moving the goal post. I see a less criticism of conservatives due to the fear of being labeled as bias. i.e. the coverage of Biden's cognitive decline vs Trump's cognitive decline.

gotoeleven 2y ago
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- deleted 2y ago
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- defrost 2y ago
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- DonHopkins 2y ago
  JD Vance wrote "I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical asshole like Nixon who wouldn't be that bad (and might even prove useful) or that he's America's Hitler." You are aware that JD Vance is America's Hitler's running mate, right?
- pokerface_86 2y ago
  https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/politics/trump-said-hitler-did-some-good-things-and-wanted-generals-like-the-nazis-former-chief-of-staff-kelly-claims https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/politics/trump-said-hitler-... maybe take a look in the fucking mirror if you want to stop being called hitler LMFAO
anon291 2y ago
Trump just spoke with Rogan for three hours unscripted and showed none of the obvious cognitive decline that Joe did. That's fine... For some, age does not really slow them down. For others it does. People just need to be real about it.

kernal 2y ago

Ridiculous is thinking there is no legacy liberal media bias. Take the top 100 political articles from WaPo and the NYT from this year and tell me how many are anti Republican. I’m guessing nearly all of them.

michaelhoney 2y ago
it’s true that reporting the facts about what the 2024 incarnation of the GOP does makes them look bad
- kernal 2y ago
  Not really. The liberal legacy media are just democrat shills that will do anything to get their party over the line.
- anon291 2y ago
  That's why fifty percent of the country disagrees with you! When will the beam come out of the eye?
defrost 2y ago
Many express fondness for Reagan era Republicans and lament their absence. There's support for Liz Cheney, a former chair of the House Republican Conference, coming out against Trump et al. Are you sure "anti-Republican" is what you're seeing and not just calling out the MAGA faction for their behaviour?
- kernal 2y ago
  The fact the you would bring up Liz Cheney pretty much invalidates any opinion you might have of the Republican Party. There’s a reason that disgusting and vile thing is now “teaching” at a radical left wing training school.
  - defrost 2y ago
    I heard she speaks of the enemy within, wants Hitler's Generals on staff and is keen to remove the licences from media outlets that talk about that. At least you and I can agree how vile and disgusting that behaviour is.

mensetmanusman 2y ago

Why would it put it to bed? It’s worth people knowing that the media leans over 90% left from all the stats that exist.

DonHopkins 2y ago
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- gotoeleven 2y ago
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- yieldcrv 2y ago
  and the profession is also populated by people that went to specific universities, in specific cities and have a specific voting record that's the standard people are using and can be corroborated
  - DonHopkins 2y ago
    So what? That's an incoherent irrelevant response that doesn't address any of the points I raised. Are you just trying to pull off "The Weave" by emulating Trump? You do realize that's just a lame excuse for incompetence and dementia, not an intentional debate strategy, don't you?
    - yieldcrv 2y ago
      I don’t care about the conversation you were having with the previous persons actually It was a response solely to your first paragraph about what left leaning might be in contrast to, when it’s also true that everyone else is like “or their voting record”

rayiner 2y ago

The media isn't even just liberal. It's off the charts liberal even among liberals. Among journalists, Democrats outnumber Republicans 10 to 1: https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/dec/30/only-34-us-journalists-are-republicans-survey https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/dec/30/only-34-us-.... This is reflected in news coverage. Consider how they cover things like Voter ID or proving citizenship to vote, which 80% of people support: https://news.gallup.com/poll/652523/americans-endorse-early-voting-voter-verification.aspx https://news.gallup.com/poll/652523/americans-endorse-early-... Or consider how papers coverage policies like affirmative action that supermajorities of Americans oppose: https://www.forbes.com/sites/vinaybhaskara/2023/07/10/americans-dont-like-affirmative-actionhigher-ed-has-to-deal-with-it/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/vinaybhaskara/2023/07/10/americ...

paul7986 2y ago
Funny in terms of liberal technology is testing Chat GPT of any political biased. Based off asking it the following 3 questions it might just be... "Hey GPT, whose your spirit animal between Barrack Obama and Donald Trump?" It provided a neutral answer providing the pros of both dudes. "Hey GPT, whose your spirit animal between Obama and Hitler?" It clearly chose Obama saying how rightfully so awful Hitler was. "Hey GPT, whose your spirit animal between Trump and Hitler" It did not choose Trump at all rather just gave the rightfully so negative feedback about Hitler. No fan of Trump or politics in general but if it happily chose Obama yet avoided Trump that seems odd (Trump is no way close to a genocider).
- oezi 2y ago
  From Trump's rhetoric and flaming hatred for the 'enemies within' it seems not far fetched to imagine him setting up internment camps. It is a slippery slope as Germans can attest.
  - mike_hearn 2y ago
    The rhetoric has been equally flaming from Trump's self-declared enemies. Just a couple of years ago Democrats were telling pollsters they supported internment camps for their enemies: https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/partner_surveys/jan_2022/covid_19_democratic_voters_support_harsh_measures_against_unvaccinated https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/par... > Fifty-nine percent (59%) of Democratic voters would favor a government policy requiring that citizens remain confined to their homes at all times, except for emergencies, if they refuse to get a COVID-19 vaccine. > Forty-five percent (45%) of Democrats would favor governments requiring citizens to temporarily live in designated facilities or locations if they refuse to get a COVID-19 vaccine. Such a policy would be opposed by a strong majority (71%) of all voters. That's a demand for internment camps. One famous academic went further and said it'd be fine to engage in mass starvation: https://nationalpost.com/news/world/noam-chomsky-says-the-unvaccinated-should-just-remove-themselves-from-society https://nationalpost.com/news/world/noam-chomsky-says-the-un... The US needs to cool down the rhetoric on both sides, because it's an endless spiral of escalation right now. Trump isn't uniquely bad at this and the "slippery slope" was already slid a long way down, when he wasn't in charge.