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by Andrew Brown

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Well I'm blanking out my social media account, and making fake social media accounts of individuals I know to be MAGA, using those accounts to call Trump a "wrinkled sack of bitch tits"

by Andrew Brown

polibrown.bsky.social
"Sike"

by Andrew Brown

polibrown.bsky.social
Hi that's already been the case for many people but, anyways, no, that's not the exclusive prerequisite.

by Andrew Brown

polibrown.bsky.social
oh geez well that settles it then. unless someone were to get another old guy who teaches similar subjects but has been doing it for a day longer, would that negate this?

by Andrew Brown

polibrown.bsky.social
And those people will, on many issues be morally superior to us.

by Andrew Brown

polibrown.bsky.social
"Be more like Putin, against people like Putin"

by Andrew Brown

polibrown.bsky.social
it's still pretty wild that our government is mostly just pedophiles and varying degrees of sexual predators, and then marco rubio, who just sits on the couch and watches for some reason

by Andrew Brown

polibrown.bsky.social
This isn't a causal link - and cautioning against the use of medicinal treatments for fevers might do more harm than good, especially based off of correlative research.

by Andrew Brown

polibrown.bsky.social
There have been studies that link Tylenol - and acetaminophen broadly - to developmental disorders, including autism. These studies are not of good quality and make hasty assumptions about mere correlation. It isn't as quacked as some would suggest - but how Trump approaches it, it very much is.
www.academia.edu

by Andrew Brown

polibrown.bsky.social
It's intriguing to me that his approval % remains, in aggregate, low 40s.

~10% of responders are actually willing to admit he's awful on all of these things, yet still approve?

by Andrew Brown

polibrown.bsky.social
does she pay you for this? I’m genuinely confused

by Andrew Brown

polibrown.bsky.social
Cool, so as long as you make up some bullshit “non zero” chance of a conspiracy, then the jokes and incitement for violence become acceptable?
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by Andrew Brown

polibrown.bsky.social
“He didn’t laugh, he asked questions”

Here he is, laughing as he says someone would be an “amazing patriot” for bailing out the guy who did it
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by Andrew Brown

polibrown.bsky.social
Charlie Kirk laughed his ass off at Nancy Pelosi’s husband getting bludgeoned by a psycho, and blamed the deaths of Minnesota lawmakers on… themselves
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by Andrew Brown

polibrown.bsky.social
There’s so much animosity from the right regarding Universities, and they always promote completely fake universities, or entities that just call themselves education resources for some reason… but then, the right never uses these as substitutes for themselves or their kids! They always fail.

by Andrew Brown

polibrown.bsky.social
I have to think that the redistricting ploy can easily blow back on whomever ultimately is on the negative end of a political swing. It produces some slimmer margins, and if those flip, you’re handing your opponent safe districts, AND the swing districts, AND the districts you wanted to flip.

by Andrew Brown

polibrown.bsky.social
You're replying to a bot.
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by Andrew Brown

polibrown.bsky.social
no opinion pieces or pundits = not impossible

not covering/manipulating media coverage to benefit interested parties and governments = not impossible
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by Andrew Brown

polibrown.bsky.social
If history has taught us anything, it’s that the people whose argument is “stop speaking” are always correct!

by Andrew Brown

polibrown.bsky.social
Of major US news sources, probably AP, PBS, NPR. They’re usually found to be the most balanced/accurate compared to CNN, MSNBC, or Fox (FOX is so far gone, they’re never balanced or accurate on anything).

Truthfully, none are sufficient, as smaller media outlets usually need to fill the gaps.
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by Andrew Brown

polibrown.bsky.social
It’s the most salient and egregious but I laid out two other things in detail…
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by Andrew Brown

polibrown.bsky.social
No, I never agreed with the equivalence of Fox and MSNBC, I stated that despite Fox being far worse and crazy, MSNBC still falls significantly short of journalistic standards.
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by Andrew Brown

polibrown.bsky.social
What should journalism be? Almost no pundit opinion, certainly not narrativized, media bubble nonsense. And it surely shouldn't just be a corporate/party coddling mess that tows the line on the issues they know might hurt their bottom line (Israel/Gaza, see Mehdi Hasan).
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by Andrew Brown

polibrown.bsky.social
Their coverage of news media is structured in a way that is alienating and largely damaging to the media consumption habits of their viewers, and opinion pieces/pundits are largely not experts in any of the areas they're discussing, and therefore, either produce misleading content, or produce slop.
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by Andrew Brown

polibrown.bsky.social
MSNBC has clear connections and favoritism for party officials/party favored candidates in the Democratic party. Therefore, they act as gatekeepers against candidates who run counter to party preference.

Their coverage of Gaza/Israel is dominated by pro-Israel sentiment, largely due to influence.
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by Andrew Brown

polibrown.bsky.social
You wrote them off before reading them, but anyways:

theconversation.com/pundits-cent...

www.researchgate.net/profile/Moha...

www.thenation.com/article/soci...

csrr.rutgers.edu/wp-content/u...

theconversation.com/dont-be-too-...
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by Andrew Brown

polibrown.bsky.social
Other research has shown them to behave as an extension of the Democratic Party, usually to attack Progressive candidates, enforce moderate positions, and repel against policy positions the party doesn't hold favorable.
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by Andrew Brown

polibrown.bsky.social
Sure, but we're on BlueSky so, you can just ask for further details so I don't have to chain 80 million comments to cover anything you might want clarity on.

MSNBC has been found through research to be unmistakenly pro-Israel, and share Israeli propaganda that largely ignores Palestinian atrocities
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by Andrew Brown

polibrown.bsky.social
I mean, not really, given I'm responding with a broad alternative to someone criticizing MSNBC on the basis of equating them with Fox News, by criticizing MSNBC in general.

MSNBC's coverage of the Gaza conflict, and their treatment of progressive candidates, is undoubtedly terrible.
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by Andrew Brown

polibrown.bsky.social
Not really, but then again, I wouldn't expect it to, given your cognitive deficiencies.
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