dcjones

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   by dcjones 1y ago

   Politico is owned by right-wing billionaire Axel Springer, who enforces various conservative ideological stances at his publications and who in 2020 asked his staff (slightly tongue in cheek) to pray for a Trump reelection.
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   by dcjones 8y ago

   It was clearly a miscalculation, but it's important to note that public opinion was in favor of the original, steeper head tax only a couple months ago [1]. I think proponents were all caught off guard by how quickly public opinion tur
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   Association of Facebook Use with Compromised Well-Being: A Longitudinal Study(academic.oup.com)

   2 points by dcjones 9y ago|0 comments
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   by dcjones 10y ago

   I've heard from a number of people who were there that the shooter was a Milo fan who was visibly intoxicated and picking fights all night. The man he shot was trying to break up a fight he started. Notice the victim wasn't wearin
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   by dcjones 10y ago

   > Sounds like a good, fair point to me - if true (which I don't know). "They love war when it's propagated by Assad or Putin," isn't a remotely fair or true assessment of those sites, which is why I called it sle
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   by dcjones 10y ago

   There is compelling evidence from serious sources that Russia spreads propaganda and misinformation, but that doesn't let PropOrNot off the hook, nor WaPo for giving them a platform. It's a sleazy, amateurish operation. Look how t