People that act like the media landscape was better or people more informed overall when everyone got their news from the same big 3-4 networks and 2-3 newspapers BLOW MY FUCKING MIND. Like, please read Manufacturing Consent once.
This take that things only got “political” when conservative talk radio got popular…I honestly can’t.
they’re just not representative of the general population.
Good. If I wanted the general population, I’d scroll Facebook
"I don’t like Reddit.
Its interface is ugly as sin. There are fewer users there and they’re all pretentious, extremely liberal, and anti American."
-Some Digg user circa 2008/2009 (probably)
It was honestly a just a joke, and I’m not on Hexbear. Really wasn’t that serious.
Feel free to take that one innocuous comment and use it as an example for further fragmentation of the platform though.
OP is a Lib
Yeah I’ve joined sportscult but most the torrents from back then are dead or don’t include the pre-game and post-game shows.
Hopefully I’ll find them all one day.
Dunno about porn, but there’s cultural value in “entertainment”.
The full English broadcasting for the 2019-2020 Liverpool FC season complete with pre-game, halftime, and post-game shows.
Would also take the 2018-2019 season.
Should have downloaded them back then because all the links on sites like rojadirecta are dead now
Seeing these types of articles in publications like The Atlantic makes me dread a coming crackdown.
It’s always better when this type of stuff is unknown in the mainstream
I agree with everyone that this is an issue that affects all data on the Internet and everyone should treat what they publish with this in mind.
However, it may be worth requesting a feature for broadcasting delete requests to federated instances, though it’s not going to be a high priority as the devs prioritize scaling, bug fixes, and mobile app development.
It’s not about ignoring them or not having to see the content. It’s about not providing them a platform.
They would seep into other communities
Some of the very first articles I read that pushed me toward leftism were The Responsibility of Intellectuals and Manufacturing Consent. So no I’m not apt to blindly accept the consensus of academics and Western elites without looking at it as closely as I can.
but its exhausting to hear criticisms from people who obviously haven’t done their homework and they let the propaganda (seated in racism/orientalism/whatever Red Scare shit) do the talking.
Yep. This is why I’m really leaning more on the side of the mods and general culture on this instance (and others) than the users flinging loaded language and spreading FUD about the platform.
but for me, I know that I have grown massively in my understanding of the world (modern and historical), and continue to do so. I assuredly have blind spots of my own that I have yet to deal with.
This is basically where I am. I’ve learned a lot in my years to see that the world is very complex and nuanced and many assumptions I had were completely baseless. I’ve come to the conclusion that I am far too ignorant of the history and geopolitics of the USSR/China to really feel like I have an informed opinion that isn’t influenced by cold war propaganda. And I just have not had the time to rectify that yet.
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