Gas Bandit's Political Thread V: The Vampire Likes Bats
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Well my investigative abilities have revealled that he is in fact a rich white man.
Rich, yes, white, no.
Must be very very rich.
And clearly not a drag queen.
GasBandit
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I dunno, the way things go, I am pretty sure 90%+ of republican politicians are on the down low and drag.
figmentPez
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The FBI is investigating GOP officials in Oklahoma for discussing hiring hitmen to murder journalists.
lol funnily enough I was looking through the trans bathroom bill thread from 2016 and seeing you drop stuff like “trans rights are fine but what about cis rights” sure reminded me of how it was.
They didn't distort it. They straight-up lied. Version 5 to the publicly posted version is a complete reversal in the results.
Fox News settles in Dominion case over election lies
$780 million, but hey, at least no court ruled they lied! Legal for a fee, and all that.
$780 million, but hey, at least no court ruled they lied! Legal for a fee, and all that.
Fox is worth nearly 16.5 billion, much of which is not liquid assets. Barring any financial shenanigans, 780 million is more than 4.5% of what the company is worth.
On the one hand, I get it. Dominion faced an expensive lawsuit against Fox no matter how good the receipts were. On the other hand, Fox clearly knew they were about to be dragged through the town square and are throwing money to preserve their image, perhaps even that of specific individuals involved in the company. Is 780 million enough to make it sting for Fox? And will some of the other "networks" notice? Maybe. A little. Probably not enough.
On the one hand, I get it. Dominion faced an expensive lawsuit against Fox no matter how good the receipts were. On the other hand, Fox clearly knew they were about to be dragged through the town square and are throwing money to preserve their image, perhaps even that of specific individuals involved in the company. Is 780 million enough to make it sting for Fox? And will some of the other "networks" notice? Maybe. A little. Probably not enough.
GasBandit
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Nobody will notice shit until heads roll off blocks.
On the plus side, if the stock price from Fox tanks tomorrow, maybe the shareholders will bring a suit against the directors of the board.
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Exclusive: Fox investors seek records in possible step toward suing directors
Fox Corp shareholders are demanding company records that may show whether directors and executives properly oversaw Fox News' coverage of former President Donald Trump's election-rigging claims, sources told Reuters, in what could be a prelude to lawsuits seeking to make directors liable for costs.
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They had to publicly acknowledge that they spread "inaccurate" information about Dominion. Not a huge win, but's something at least.
The typical Fox News viewer is a 68-year-old white man without much education. Let's call him Wally Krunkleburger. He is still fighting the Civil War even if he lives in a Union state like Ohio or Kentucky, and he firmly believes that "woke" teachers are trying to indoctrinate his grandchildren and that's why they don't like visiting him. You can be sure that his wife watches with him partly because she was raised to do whatever her husband said. So long as Wally has the remote, they'll stick to Fox News or maybe move to harder stuff like Newsmax.
Except after eight o'clock. That's when Murder She Wrote is on.
Except after eight o'clock. That's when Murder She Wrote is on.
GasBandit
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‘We may be looking at the end of capitalism’: One of the world’s oldest and largest investment banks warns ‘Greedflation’ has gone too far
Albert Edwards, an economist at the 159-year-old investment bank Société Générale, says corporate greed may call for the unthinkable: Price controls.
This isn't true. It's easy to assume that they are all slack jawed uneducated yokels, except they aren't. And they fall for it anyway. And that's what makes it even more dangerous. They can be highly educated, stand up citizens, respected among their peers, and they still fall for it.
If you have no connection to anyone like this, it's easy to assume they are just morons, but that's a highly dangerous assumption that belittles the true threat and undermines the real danger. I know highly intelligent people that have fallen for this particular kind of brain worm. I'm sure people like @GasBandit can back me up on this.
I don't have an answer for how to combat this, just that turning your nose up and assuming they must be inbred rednecks is going to miss the point entirely.
You and I have different definitions of "highly intelligent."
GasBandit
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Doctors and Engineers high enough to meet your threshold?
I would reply except it would just be the exact same thing I just wrote, so just reread that and assume I wrote it to you.
GasBandit
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Crazy thing is, my Dad IS an NPR listener. He fancies himself erudite and contemplative because he'll flip back and forth between CNN and Fox News to get "the full picture of both sides" or some nonsense like that. He is (well, WAS, he "retired" some years ago) a doctor, a gulf war veteran, a paratrooper, a pilot, a well educated and well traveled man. And just like every other over-60, the neoliberals have got him tilting at the windmills of his perceived societal and cultural threats.
I didn't know until today what an ammosexual he's apparently become. I straight up told him it was not lost on me that, of the several "funny" political humor pictures he sent out today, the Kyle Rittenhouse one was the one he didn't CC his (African-American) wife, my stepmother.
I wonder if everything's all right on that front.
Ben Carson is (or at least was) an incredibly well-respected brain surgeon. Don't conflate having a degree with intelligence.