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[a character sits at their desk, in front of their computers, and complains angrily]
Mainstream media? Unreliable, biased, full of fake news, they keep lying…
You can’t trust them!
[changing to a point of view beind the character allows us to see that their screen is filled with other angry characters that look like the main character]
That’s why I get all my news from angry dudes on social media and men’s right activism podcasts
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Does anyone have that image of matt Walsh and like 5 other “independent thinkers” that all posted almost identical responses on Twitter? Theyre not even listening to real people’s opinions lol
Yeah but it’s true about mainstream media - they all sold and owned by someone.
There is 0 coverage of Gaza genocide or many other issues - it’s absolutely untrustworthy.
Who are funded by the same pedofile Zionist billionaires who own the mainstream media
they are mainstream media. joe rogan is one of the most popular media franchises. it doesn’t matter he’s in a newer format than fox news, it matters that he’s part of the same mechanism and cultural delivery system
Someone at work listens to JRE. What recommendations do people have for an alternative?
I suspect that behind the bastards is ‘too political’. I was thinking pehaps Marc Maron or similar.
Alot of those Podcaster dudes target the vulnerable and disenfranchised to get clicks. Also they are part of the reason for young men getting into the alt-right pipeline
Hey look, it’s my dad… 😑
Yeah mines the one spewing hatespeech on internet forums. He has his own yt channel devoted to his views. I don’t talk to him.
Mine would have fallen for the same shit if he had lived to see it - makes me glad i don’t have to deal with that, i’m sorry for you and your family, wish you all the best
Thank you for the kind words.
On paper mine could have. Instead he spent his last years dying, cutting out all his friends that echoed the sentiment of the men his own father flew to Germany to unalive, in disbelief. And he “wasn’t political.” Just common sense. Worked 7 days a week until the end when he went out under water from medical bills, and about to lose the house. No sarcasm, my father was a working class American hero.
Kill. Murder. Execute. Shoot. Decapitate. Dismember. Disembowel.
These are words you can use on the Fediverse. You don’t need to self-censor with words like ‘unalive’ because there’s no corporate algorithm, no shadowbanning and no de-prioritising content based on language. There’s no need to import TikTok/Instagram newspeak.
And then I scroll to this a moment later https://lemmus.org/post/20014498
It’s not mods I’m minding. Still public and permanent
Oh mine was no hero. He was spewing hate and voting far right for decades. Was a drunkard to boot. Went out stumbling in his flat and hitting his head. No heroics here, only wasted years and a broken home.
That sucks. Mine was far from perfect but you got a shit situation dealt and I’m sorry. Hope you grow up a better adult than him
He taught me nothing, but i learnt a few lessons: to stay away from alcohol, to be more empathetic and to put a dampener on the choleric traits i inherited. Also to be left wing and to avoid rash judgment - i definitely broke the cycle.
Sadly it also means living with psychological issues like recurring depression, social anxiety and a personality disorder. But all in all i’m a better human being than he ever was.
Uh… Take away the ironic “men’s rights” part and you are your dad. Unless you’re actively ensuring your feeds are not algorithm content and the parts of the internet you’re hanging out in aren’t socially reinforcing…
Otherwise, we call these “echo chambers”. And funny enough is that those in them create the most “me vs them” content, all the while constantly reassuring “the audienice” that they’re not in one.
But, yeah. I’m sure I’m wrong and helping your dad to navigate through the ongoing onslaught of media is something you’ve tried.
Edit: GOD DAMN I’m so self- righteous and sassy tonight. Ignore the sass. Get the vibe. A apologise for the sass, but I won’t delete because the vibe.
Point is, you and your dad have two opposing feeds. Recognise that they are feeds and move on from that.
I’n not the person you replied to, but I just want to offer kudos for your edit. Recognising that you didn’t need the snark is a rare thing online now-a-days.
And thank you for calling it out.
I had to stop being friends with a guy because he doesn’t trust in a lot of news.
But he would constantly go, “Asmongold said…”
But I would constantly go, “Asmongold said…”
Must be hard to break off a friendship with yourself, lol
Damn typo strikes again! Fixed.
“But he…”
Asmongold fan by typo is a cursed reality of our time.
So I had the misfortune of hearing a joe rogan podcast the other day. It was quite insufferable before I even knew who it was. They were talking about some cool science stuff for a couple minutes, then spent the next half hour bashing the scientific community and making ad hominem arguments about them. Sponsored by a gambling app. For fucks sake, talk about the science thing more damnit!
Many years ago I sometimes got stuck in a work truck with a guy who would play nothing but conservative bullshit radio, and it was insufferable.
Nothing but a non-stop stream of hate and bile and misinformation, and so many ads for products I would be embarrassed to be seen buying.
All sources are biased. The ones that say they aren’t are trying to trick you. Understanding the bias of what you consume allows sifting through to get the information.
Mainstream media owned by billionaires is wank tho
Turns out the world is ruled by a secret cabal of people that decide its fate during weird highly immoral sex ceremonies… And it was that cabal that decided to give visibility to those people.
Its all been lies as long as Ive been alive. True integrity in journalism has always been rare and an uphill battle. As soon as you come to terms with the fact that monied interests are never going to stop manipulating media, its easier to not take any of it too seriously.
Left wing people on lemmy do the same thing… so many links posted on news and world news communities is just left wing blogs…
Too many times, when an article posted on lemmy shits on the Democrats as a “controlled opposition party” over a recently passed bill, the roll call shows the vast majority of Democrats voted against it. Funny how news articles practically never link to the official congressional page on a bill or its roll call votes.
I haven’t found this. In my experience I’ve only gotten articles. Some articles of dubious veracity yet, articles from sources at least making an effort to appear reputable.
Then again I’ve only been using Lemmy on one account so far.
Some articles of dubious veracity yet, articles from sources at least making an effort to appear reputable.
well thats what i’m talking about. Not literal blogs, but opinion websites masquerading as news sites. I dont see how that’s any better than the right wing manosphere trash the comic is criticizing
If those blogs are “unreliable, bias, full of fake news” then, yeah I guess. Again, I haven’t run into those problems with articles on Lemmy.
Could you point me to an example of your experience?
Just go to one of the biggest news communities on lemmy…
If you cant tell the difference between bbc, reuters, the guardian… and publicwitness.wordandway.com (a very highly upvoted link over the last day) then there’s no point in me scouring the whole fediverse trying to prove my point.
And you can all downvote me to hell just to stay in your echo chamber… but you’re no better than the right ring idiots we mock in this comic
Okay. I guess that’s just your opinion then.
Mainstream media? Unreliable, biased, full of fake news, they keep lying…
Angry dudes on social media
