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Zoo_View said:
Just where did you get the figure that 99%+ of Greenland’s population is white?

Please link to the source.

Fox News isn’t journalism; so, it’s no big deal.
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Wait, is getting the questions beforehand now considered bad? Should they not have done that?
 
Callatoroy said:
Wait, is getting the questions beforehand now considered bad? Should they not have done that?
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I dunno. Y'all hit the roof when this happened and these were scarcely surprises. Getting all the actual questions in advance seems like quite a step up, doesn't to you?

WikiLeaks posted emails from Brazile to the Clinton campaign that tipped it off that a woman from Flint, Michigan, would ask Clinton about the situation there for a town hall. Brazile also told the campaign that Clinton would be asked about the death penalty at a separate town hall.
 
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Leaked Meta Rules: Users Are Free to Post “Mexican Immigrants Are Trash!” or “Trans People Are Immoral”

Facebook now allows attacks on immigrants and trans people, and posts like “Mexican immigrants are trash!” and “I’m a proud racist.”
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Meta is now granting its users new freedom to post a wide array of derogatory remarks about races, nationalities, ethnic groups, sexual orientations, and gender identities, training materials obtained by The Intercept reveal.

Examples of newly permissible speech on Facebook and Instagram highlighted in the training materials include:

“Immigrants are grubby, filthy pieces of shit.”

“Gays are freaks.”

“Look at that tranny (beneath photo of 17 year old girl).”

The changes are part of a broader policy shift that includes the suspension of the company’s fact-checking program. The goal, Meta said Tuesday, is to “allow more speech by lifting restrictions.”
 
If guys like Zuckerberg actually were secure alpha males they wouldn't be doing this sort of thing. An often underrated aspect of Trumpism is how much of it is generated by the rage of beta males/conservative male losers at a world that mostly laughs at them and women who won't touch them.
 
Mulberry Heel said:
If guys like Zuckerberg actually were secure alpha males they wouldn't be doing this sort of thing. An often underrated aspect of Trumpism is how much of it is generated by the rage of beta males/conservative male losers at a world that mostly laughs at them and women who won't touch them.
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I mean he does not need money-ever. He just seems to be buying orangeturds favor and Okay with horsehit on his platforms
 
mpaer said:
I mean he does not need money-ever. He just seems to be buying orangeturds favor and Okay with horsehit on his platforms
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Agreed on currying favor with Trump, which seems to be all the rage with corporations and media sites and wealthy plutocrats right now. Still doesn't make him an alpha male, and it's telling that his opening facebook and instagram to personal insults seems to be targeted at allowing insults of certain groups (say, transgenders and gays) and not others (say, Trump supporters). Which seems to be where we're heading on social media generally.

What is really disturbing about all this is that we're seeing the rolling back of diversity initiatives across a wide away of corporations, which means that decades of hard work are being wiped out in a matter of a few months because many corporations are terrified of Trump and his supporters and aren't willing to fight anymore or to promote the shocking idea that diversity in workplaces and society is a good thing, given how extremely diverse our society has become.
 
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altmin said:
Well I know why they cancelled Bosch, costing me one of my main jobs, before the latest season has even aired. Needed to put that money in the bribe fund.
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Have you met Michael Connelly?
 
farce© said:
Have you met Michael Connelly?
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Not personally, but have been in email exchanges with him. He wrote at the end of one of the seasons about how happy he was with one of the graphics I made, which represented the end of one long running character arc on the show.
 


The 62-year-old [columnist Jennifer Rubin] indicated she will continue to write scathing columns about Trump at her new site, The Contrarian, which she launched Monday along with the CNN legal analyst Norm Eisen (who is also exiting his role).

"... She went more in depth in a statement shared with the Daily Beast: “We’ve watched as corporate and billionaire owners of media outlets abused their audiences’ loyalty and undercut journalism’s vital role in a free democracy. Instead of safeguarding democratic values, they have enabled the gravest threats to democracy—Donald Trump and his allies—at the very time when a robust and independent press is most essential. We need an alternative, truly independent outlet that is unafraid of the administration and unwilling to equivocate or bend the knee.” ..."
 
Mulberry Heel said:
Social Media is going to be the death of us all eventually. It spreads lies and disinformation and propaganda faster than the truth can catch up to it. And as the technology improves it's only going to get worse, not better.
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Yep, I've been shouting about the societal and political threat presented by social media since at least 2018 when I deactivated my Facebook account. These platforms have become significantly more toxic and disinformative since that time with the rise of an additional app (TikTok) and the right's commitment to further leveraging these platforms for political gain. Now the billionaire technocrat owners of these social media platforms have bent the knee and are removing the already-insufficient disinformation guardrails from social media before Trump has even taken office. And in Elon's case, he's transformed sXitter into an unfettered propaganda machine that would make even Goebbels blush. Roughly half of the American electorate inhabits an alternate reality and there's seemingly nothing that can be done about it.

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Mulberry Heel said:
Social Media is going to be the death of us all eventually. It spreads lies and disinformation and propaganda faster than the truth can catch up to it. And as the technology improves it's only going to get worse, not better.
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Kind of a side point but reading the first 20 or so comments on that tweets/whatever surprised me.

I know X has fallen into a right wing echo chamber but I didn’t realize the full extent.
 
ChapelHillSooner said:
Kind of a side point but reading the first 20 or so comments on that tweets/whatever surprised me.

I know X has fallen into a right wing echo chamber but I didn’t realize the full extent.
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I think it's clear by this point that was Musk's intent from the beginning - to move the platform sharply to the right. And he's succeeded beyond his wildest dreams. And now it seems clear that other large social media platforms are all moving in that direction as well, except for Bluesky, assuming that Musk or some other right-wing plutocrat doesn't buy it as well.
 
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“… Scum that runs Comcast — Comcast should pay a big price” for late night comedy…”
 
i deleted facebook in 2019, twitter in 2020 and instagram is next. doing it on 1/19, the same day the tiktok ban begins.

sayonara, social media. good luck to everyone who keeps playing in those minefields of BS.
 
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