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I thought the rules were changed to allow this? I don't remember the specifics but I remember being irritated that we were allowing them to keep their tax exempt status but also allowing them to get involved in politics...

One of those pieces of shit was literally quoted saying fox fucking news was a good model to follow... That they have "real journalism" surrounded by opinion shows...

Yeah guy, and if you paid any attention at all you'd know that Fox viewers HATED the real journalists like Shepard Smith because he had to actually read news and not orders handed down as to what to say...

CNN is just going to be Fox lite soon enough... Just what we needed. Not one less propaganda outlet, but one more terrible one...

This is exactly our problem.

Yes yes Trump is absolutely an issue, but it's propaganda outlets that are ruining the country. I have no solution to that problem. It's important to have a free press, but they are 100% taking advantage of that.

They stupidly set the stage for people like Trump, but they think they're just doing R vs D shit so they can get their asshole of choice into power. Well the people tend to get more crazy than anyone would prefer so you open the door for them and you have no control over who enters.

I spent hours with my mother explaining a scientific paper that was paraded around YouTube with the usual half-assed reading they do, and that fucker even ended with "don't trust me, read for yourself!" Which naturally no one does as "well he told me to look so he can't be lying."

Yeah well he was at best just dense and didn't understand, but more than likely capitalizing on sensational bullshit...

No, the Chinese are not trying to create a super deadly COVID variant Mr.Campbell...

People often completely disregard the value of money. (Mostly when it comes to our wages...)

Sure it's not a billion when referring to the old barons, but the purchasing power they held was still equivalent to billionaires of today.

Believe it or not, jail!

Not in that term, but as a concept. I do know it now though so thanks!

Breakfast cereal has evolved into a "new" market for candy makers... Reese's cereal?? Just brand it as breakfast and people somehow think they're not feeding their kids candy for breakfast... I used to buy that kind of stuff for a dessert snack lol

I have absofuckinglutley no faith whatsoever in our society to do the right thing in this respect. We value ownership waytoofuckingmuch when it comes to businesses, were never going to get past the argument of "I put forward the capital for this business, I am entitled to all of the profits. Who cares that there is no work for you? No work no pay."

I forsee a gigantic increase in homelessness and politicians will use that as an excuse to further cut any social spending as they'll pin all our issues on "communist policies." :(

In our society it's literally stupid NOT to do these things. If you got rich doing it you "won." Fuck the general population, fuck "good" things, fuck literally everything, C.R.E.A.M.

I hate it so much.

She's a woman of very strong faith. She has faith that as long as she spouts the "correct" kind of bullshit, she'll have money flowing in and all the power she craves...

The worst kind of faith. Faith in success for being a hypocrite.

It's looking more and more depressing on that front too...

Apparently we're discovering that our type of star system with its long periods of stability and lack of local disruptive bodies is incredibly, incredibly, rare... There are a (literal) astronomical amount of systems out there so there's no way we're the only one with life, but it's really looking like there could only be a "handful" of others out there :/