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Topic: OT-Politics Thread: please TRY to keep it civil, you damned dirty apes

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Re: OT-Politics Thread: please TRY to keep it civil, you damned dirty apes
« Reply #47166 on: July 23, 2025, 09:34:53 AM »
Quantitative "news" like baseball scores, stock market results, the labor numbers reported, I believe are accurate (a mistake every so often, but rare).  Obviously with economic news about what the "UE" rate is is reported correctly, but the analysis could be off or shaded by BLS.  I don't think it's intentionally shaded.

A lot of what I see "on line" is termed "analysis", and one can take that FWIW, some of it might be illuminating.  What a politician says is obviously going to be shaded, perhaps to the point of being misleading.

One of the most frequent thing I see is failing to report on a thing.  If you read Fox News and then CNN, the headlines will be very different, nearly always barring some major event.  And a major story on one can be ignored on the other, at least for a while, like this "treason" story.  Then the other side will come out with their "explanation" as to why it's not really a story.

Humans would like the "news" to report what they like to see, which is why we have such polarized news outlets, each has their market.  The "Allsides" site noted above at least references different news links and their takes labeled as Left or Right which is useful, to me anyway.

A truly centered news outlet would probably struggle for "business" because each side that are sided wants to read their confirmed biases stuff.

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Re: OT-Politics Thread: please TRY to keep it civil, you damned dirty apes
« Reply #47167 on: July 23, 2025, 09:39:13 AM »
Mark Epstein refutes White House's claims about Donald Trump, Jeffrey Epstein visits
Mark Epstein refutes White House's claims about Donald Trump, Jeffrey Epstein visits

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Re: OT-Politics Thread: please TRY to keep it civil, you damned dirty apes
« Reply #47168 on: July 23, 2025, 10:55:04 AM »


I would modify this with some axis relating to confirmation bias.

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Re: OT-Politics Thread: please TRY to keep it civil, you damned dirty apes
« Reply #47169 on: July 23, 2025, 11:07:04 AM »
Who is delivering the "evidence", and who is the "expert"?

A key metric.



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Re: OT-Politics Thread: please TRY to keep it civil, you damned dirty apes
« Reply #47170 on: July 23, 2025, 11:32:17 AM »
The supermarket/grocery business is pretty cut throat.  Hard to imagine a city government succeeding at that.  But it'll be fun to watch.
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Re: OT-Politics Thread: please TRY to keep it civil, you damned dirty apes
« Reply #47171 on: July 23, 2025, 11:34:50 AM »
Government run grocery stores are a great idea!


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Re: OT-Politics Thread: please TRY to keep it civil, you damned dirty apes
« Reply #47172 on: July 23, 2025, 11:47:13 AM »

Please kindly scroll down this site to a board called Area 51.  You belong there and only there.
This KC grocery thing is a true story - published in several outlets. What's wrong with posting the truth?
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Re: OT-Politics Thread: please TRY to keep it civil, you damned dirty apes
« Reply #47173 on: July 23, 2025, 12:07:07 PM »
It's not about truth or not.  It's about an avalanche of one-sided, single-topic posts.  I just think he'll feel at home there.  
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Re: OT-Politics Thread: please TRY to keep it civil, you damned dirty apes
« Reply #47174 on: July 23, 2025, 12:12:49 PM »
It's not about truth or not.  It's about an avalanche of one-sided, single-topic posts.  I just think he'll feel at home there. 



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Re: OT-Politics Thread: please TRY to keep it civil, you damned dirty apes
« Reply #47175 on: July 23, 2025, 12:19:00 PM »
I'm highly suspicious of anything stated openly by any politician - foreign or domestic
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Re: OT-Politics Thread: please TRY to keep it civil, you damned dirty apes
« Reply #47176 on: July 23, 2025, 12:23:03 PM »
Mark Epstein refutes White House's claims about Donald Trump, Jeffrey Epstein visits
Mark Epstein refutes White House's claims about Donald Trump, Jeffrey Epstein visits
Trump is and has been lying his fucking ass off about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, and has been trying to deflect and obfuscate. i am not suggesting that Trump was party to Epstein's crimes or was being blackmailed by Epstein- at all. but the fact remains they were VERY close friends for a decade plus and that fact alone is highly embarrassing to Trump.

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Re: OT-Politics Thread: please TRY to keep it civil, you damned dirty apes
« Reply #47177 on: July 23, 2025, 12:39:10 PM »
I used to have friends that now embarrass me, I'm neither a billionaire nor a President.
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Re: OT-Politics Thread: please TRY to keep it civil, you damned dirty apes
« Reply #47178 on: July 23, 2025, 12:42:30 PM »
We should sometimes post about football and shit like that.
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Re: OT-Politics Thread: please TRY to keep it civil, you damned dirty apes
« Reply #47179 on: July 23, 2025, 12:43:42 PM »
We should sometimes post about football and shit like that.
I mean, there are dozens of threads for that.  And only one for politics.

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