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Democratic values work really well. Things like public education, transparency laws, public discourse, and campaign finance reform all have been good for society. And it's why the conservatives (and to some extent the Liberals) oppose them. Stronger democratic controls on social media would be a big step away from fascism.

This is a popular misconception on the right. Regulation with democratic controls is better than letting privately held propaganda machines drive the public into fascism.

While no platform can deliver The Truth, it is the role of journalists to deliver context and accurate data. And social media helps deliver both well researched content and pure drivel. We need regulation and democratic controls of regulation.

Fox News argued that it's their constitutional right to spread malicious lies and half truths. And the courts sided with them. Even when those lies killed countless numbers of people. In canada Pollievre wants the same thing: media that is run by the "free market" (meaning all propaganda). I think politicians will have to choose between what donors want and what services the public good. And being politicians you know how they'll vote.

In all fairness, a fringe economist told him that. Navarro still hasn't been able to successfully explain to anyone why tariffs won't raise prices. He gets as far as "they can't raise tariffs on the largest market in the world" as if there weren't high tariffs on the us before.

I doubt anything interesting will turn up but let's be fair: when the government does illegal stuff they destroy the documents. The stuff that we get usually gets misplaced and rediscovered.

Hilariously the FBI announced that they have 2400 pages of newly discovered material which by accident was not part of the disclosure process and was unknown to anyone in government.

https://apnews.com/article/jfk-fbi-trump-newly-discovered-files-0bd8ad5569f5fa3ed92b8ee9b795c9e7

Guaranteed to either not get released and not contain anything interesting.

The article mentioned that SAIF is a non profit health insurance company where the executives are reasonably paid and don't have massive security teams

Food conglomerates had tried to sell a more efficient vision of the kitchen to working mothers:

Less food prep time meant more time for family and career. But it also meant more sales of processed food and the extinction of the skills required to prepare food.

The children of the seventies and eighties were among the first to experience this change toward preprepared foods.

Republicans purged 3.5 million voters likely to vote Democrat from rolls in 2024.

Because there are propaganda networks out there and these have tried to convince their users and viewers that Elon is doing the right thing.

We can blame our judicial and legislative branches for allowing propaganda networks to be funded by oligarchs. These people too were being bankrolled by the ultra wealthy.

There are a number of open weight open source models out there with all their data sourced from the public domain. Look up BLOOM and Falcon. There are others.

That's a common misconception. Eric didn't have any cigarettes on his person. Meaning the fake crime he was executed for wasn't just minor. It was non existent.

He had been cited in the past for selling loosies. But there's no info on whether they used an undercover or ci to offer to buy a cigarette. Using honeypot traps on pedestrians should be illegal.