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  • BearsWiin
    BearsWiin Member Posts: 5,076
    Existential crisis

    Epistemic uncertainty

    Distrust of institutions

    "What do we really know anyway? So Race's feelings are as good as anybody's facts"

    I can explain your whole fucking playbook from those three simple lines
  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 115,541 Founders Club
    BearsWiin said:

    Existential crisis

    Epistemic uncertainty

    Distrust of institutions

    "What do we really know anyway? So Race's feelings are as good as anybody's facts"

    I can explain your whole fucking playbook from those three simple lines

    No you can't

    Nobody runs from facts faster than you

    I don't have a playbook. Interesting that you feel that. Accusing others of what you do

    Fox News bashing is found by the wishbone in the playbook
  • BearsWiin
    BearsWiin Member Posts: 5,076
    You seem upset that that twitter chick has you so well pegged
  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 115,541 Founders Club
    If I was upset you might have a point

    Nice factual counter argument on your part

    You seem upset. Right
  • BearsWiin
    BearsWiin Member Posts: 5,076
    "I'm not upset you're upset!"

    "I'm not in a bubble you are!"

    "I'm not projecting you are!"

    good talk as always
  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 115,541 Founders Club
    Grab a mirror

    This is your show
  • UW_Doog_Bot
    UW_Doog_Bot Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 18,553 Founders Club
    BearsWiin said:

    Existential crisis

    Epistemic uncertainty

    Distrust of institutions

    "The media sucks, they're all as bad as the shit I watch, both sides" yada yada

    lather rinse repeat

    Lol I've never watched fox news in my life. Try harder.
  • BearsWiin
    BearsWiin Member Posts: 5,076
    Your collective insistence on focusing narrowly on Fox News is as silly as your insistence on focusing narrowly on a supposed transcript

    it's a lot larger than that

    but it doesn't fit your narrowtive

    like I said, good talk as always, let's have the same damn convo later
  • SFGbob
    SFGbob Member Posts: 33,188
    BearsWiin said:

    Your collective insistence on focusing narrowly on Fox News is as silly as your insistence on focusing narrowly on a supposed transcript

    it's a lot larger than that

    but it doesn't fit your narrowtive

    like I said, good talk as always, let's have the same damn convo later

    Yeah how dare they focus on Fox News.

    Been thinking a lot about why Trump will survive impeachment when Nixon didn’t. For 20+ years Fox News (and rightwing talk radio) has told GOP voters that Democrats are evil. As lawless as Trump is, Republicans believe Dems are worse. That’s the power of propaganda.

    Yes, absolutely. But it goes beyond Fox News. This story can be traced back to the creation of right-wing think tanks, which were founded for the explicit purpose of helping conservatives win the "war of ideas", as former Reagan adviser Murray Weidenbaum once said. 1/

    Conservative think-tanks arose from the expectation that conservative ideas deserve the same weight as objective facts. When that didn't happen, conservatives cried "liberal bias" and went off & created their own echo-chambers, with think-tanks as the foundation. 2/

    Conservative think-tanks exist to produce ideologically-driven "research" and partisan "knowledge". When the media did not give this "knowledge" the same weight as objective facts, conservatives created their own sources of media to disseminate this partisan information. 3/

    Conservatives used this to create the narrative that the mainstream media is corrupted by "liberal bias" -- simply because mainstream media refused to treat partisan information as if it carried the same weight as objective facts. 4/

    In doing so, they not only undermined public trust in shared sources of knowledge -- they poisoned our political process by making it impossible to even agree upon a shared set of facts. How can you debate an issue if one side won't even acknowledge that objective facts exist? 5/

    Fox News is the vehicle for this partisan information, and they've contributed to the problem far more than any other right-wing media outlet. But ultimately, this is about more than Fox News -- it's about an asymmetric relationship with knowledge producing institutions. 6/

    Fox News is successful because of a 50+ year campaign promoting ideological rigidity, hyperpartisanship, & disregard for objective truths as core conservative values. There now exists an entire ecosystem to produce, disseminate, and promote right-wing propaganda as "facts". 7/

    And yes, there are left-leaning think tanks and media outlets. But there's nothing comparable to the conservative ecosystem. They literally created an alternative knowledge-producing mechanism & media infrastructure because mainstream media was too objective. 8/
    Sledog


  • Sledog
    Sledog Member Posts: 38,601 Standard Supporter
    TDS meltdown. Trump controls the world!