• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    NYT after endorsing a Dem for 70 years:

    Maybe 81 is too old to be president?

    “Moderates”:

    You’re exactly the same as trump supporters and you always have been.

    It’s still insane how similar the far right of both parties are acting these days.

  • danc4498@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    The subtitle:

    White farmers filed lawsuits to block a debt forgiveness initiative, but the Biden administration is still bearing the blame.

    Is this post implying that the New York Times is creating a narrative. It sounds more like they are reporting on the fact that black Georgia farmers aren’t supporting Biden when they should.

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      3 months ago

      “Black Farmers Should Be Supporting Biden, But they’re Not Because of RepubliQan Fuckery” is an accurate title. “Black Farmers Are Mad At Biden” is not an accurate title.

      The NYT is keenly aware of the difference. One of them creates the narrative that Biden is losing the black vote for the purpose of separating Biden from the black vote and one of them is accurate.

  • awake01@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Because people are absolutely idiots. Not a race thing… Most people of all colors and creeds seem incapable of going more than surface deep on anything. I don’t know when we dropped our critical thinking skills, but I know it will be the end of us. I think this is what Generations theory sort of predicts. We stop caring about facts, logic, etc. We just drive ourselves into hardship until things are so bad that we realize these things have value . That’s my Strauss-Howe pitch of th day. Welcome to the worst part of the seculum.

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      3 months ago

      There are most likely more people now with sufficient critical skills than ever before as their existence is predicated on the opportunity for self education. The problem currently is that unbalanced aggregations of personal and corporate wealth are capable of yoking the zeitgeist to their ends so that most untethered minds are functionally insane when it comes to ‘political’ considerations. It may seem like there are less cognisant minds out there but the reality is that they are being drowned out more than ever by cynical manipulation.