(February 8, 2024 at 10:01 pm)Belacqua Wrote:(February 8, 2024 at 5:42 pm)Aegon Wrote: If you're a mainstream lib, you watch liberal cable news and your algorithms are classified as "moderate Democrat." You won't see any really bad Biden moments because your choice of news outlets and social media algorithms sheltered you from them.
Just like the conservatives won't see Trump's dumbest moments.
You sit here and think, "How the hell can anyone vote for Trump, he is so clearly braindead?" Guess what they're thinking? "How the hell can anyone vote for Biden, he is so clearly braindead?" Unfortunately I think both sides are right. You know who doesn't come across as braindead? Bernard Sanders. Oh lord, what could have been in 2016...
This extreme siloing of information is really unfortunate. It's as if two separate realities exist side by side, and neither one is accurate.
I mean, we all accept that Fox can't be trusted. But then people will turn around and believe MSNBC or Anderson Cooper or whoever. Rachel Maddow's lawyers use the same arguments in court that Tucker Carlson's make: she doesn't have to tell the truth because everyone knows it's just entertainment and no sane person would believe her.
There are still people who believe all that Russiagate nonsense. There are still people who think Hunter's laptop was fake.
And I agree with you about Sanders. Even at our most cynical, if we think he was just saying those things and didn't mean them, it's a pleasure to hear somebody stand up and let us imagine government doing what it ought to do.
Help me out here. Where has Maddow been to court for the same sort of stuff Carlson pulls? You posit it as truth, so your sources should be close at hand, and not much effort to reproduce.
If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.