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2019-08-05 at 5:53 PM UTC in The USSA should raise the minimum age to buy an assault rifle to 28.
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2019-08-05 at 5:51 PM UTC in Ohio shooting
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2019-08-05 at 5:50 PM UTC in Ohio shooting
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2019-08-05 at 4:32 PM UTC in The USSA should raise the minimum age to buy an assault rifle to 28.
Originally posted by Jυicebox that and the trench shovels are what I was referring to
Point of my post was, if you can't even define what you want to ban, you're not allowed to call for banning it
Specially because you just know some clever sombitch will design a platform that that barely skirts the legal definition.
Like the PT Cruiser was specifically designed to barely qualify as a "truck" so Chrysler could bring the average fuel efficiency stat of their truck line down.
People will just engineer closer and closer to the lines, and closer around the edges. -
2019-08-05 at 4:25 PM UTC in Ohio shootingAlso, joke aside... I didn't say I never thought about anything hundreds of times. Just that going and killing people is nobody's first thought, you get walked up to it by something else.
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2019-08-05 at 4:24 PM UTC in Ohio shooting
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2019-08-05 at 4:20 PM UTC in Ohio shooting
Originally posted by -SpectraL Let's say you hated Trump and you hated the Republicans, and you even wrote that online. Would your first thought be to go shoot up a school of Democrat children, or a gay bar full of Democrat party-goers, or a college full of Democrat socialists? Makes no sense!
It only gets the chance to be your 300th thought if you've been thinking about it hundreds of times. And that's when it makes sense to these people, not as a first thought. -
2019-08-05 at 4:03 PM UTC in The USSA should raise the minimum age to buy an assault rifle to 28.
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2019-08-05 at 3:59 PM UTC in Ohio shootingLike, the media is the media. You can explain 99% of this stuff as American media doing its thing, jumping on half assed scoops because it's easier to apologize, treating white house information packets like Word of God.
If you see how similar their process pipeline is, it's no wonder that there are particular narrative cycles and focuses, they're all working off similar information in similar ways.
90% of what big news outlets do anyway is enhancement Reuters' newswire for their particular target audience. -
2019-08-05 at 3:53 PM UTC in Ohio shooting
Originally posted by aldra that doesn't explain the suppression of the other, better-supported viewpoints though. if it were truly a 'marketplace of ideas' as it's often claimed and as you insinuated earlier, it'd benefit a news outlet to go against the grain and prove all the others wrong - in many areas like those listed above though, it simply does not happen. the smaller outlets that do are reviled and their integrity is constantly attacked, with Assange being the extreme case of someone literally being imprisoned for decades for doing the job of an investigative journalist.
You are still not hearing what I'm saying. I'm not saying media outlets have no agenda and are fully devoted to the honest dissemination of unbiased information for the benefit of the public.
There is no "free marketplace of ideas" in media, if you think that is even happening on the internet then you are incredibly naive and simply swallowed the marketing from the next group of hucksters who want your eyeballs for YouTube ad revenue. You really think the Daily Stormer is giving you a bias free factual report?
News outlets are also trying to push an agenda. But it's their own agenda and that's what you're seeing rather than some directed government or jéw propaganda effort. Their agenda is money. Not what idea is the best but how does our brand want to draw attention, and what angle they are taking.
If I am Fox News, I have a viewer profile I want to appeal to. I want people to post clips of Hannity on Facebook to own their libtard aunt, I want them to want my stats as if I'm their verifying factor.
The current state of American news media is an emergent one from many agents making decisions locally, not one agent making a decision globally.
Look, American news will always have a white house flavour, that is going to be true for any country with legit outlets, the government is their direct line to what's going on out of public view. For example with the Crimea referendum, you will usually only either see lies of omission or direct quotes from US officials without a judgement either way, which is how they trim a narrative. "US official said X", but no mention of contradictory claims from credible international bodies for example.
To you it seems like a directed effort, but to me I just see how similar the news outlets' process pipelines are: "Crimea has an election and it goes smoothly" isn't the story, the story is "CIA SAYS CRIMEA ELECTION RIGGED" with the pictures and quote you got firsthand from an official at a podium with an eagle on it. -
2019-08-05 at 3:22 PM UTC in The USSA should raise the minimum age to buy an assault rifle to 28.
Originally posted by Jiggaboo_Johnson Spears for black people
Fuck yeah
If they didn't hit the musket shot, this will be a win for the black 9/10 times. Plus they are easy to use in formation.Tomahawks for native Americans
Oh fuck yea, bit of range as well as effective melee weapons.Rice cakes for Asians
Asians get the special "don't want any trouble" passive, which means they cannot aggro, but if aggroed themselves they are unstoppable with improvised weaponryAnd lawn mowers for Hispanics
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2019-08-05 at 3:09 PM UTC in Ohio shooting
Originally posted by aldra do you actually believe this? I mean, of course they do not operate purely for the propagation of propaganda, but it's become so prolific that I have to question whether the things that aren't propaganda are disseminated to make the propaganda more credible.
How many major news groups air stories that run against US foreign policy? Crimea, for example - their referendum to return to Russia passed by over 90%, was authenticated as legitimate by around 20 foreign observers but decried as illegitimate only by the US… who did not send an observer. Or Syria, where Assad has been accused of 'gassing his own people' over 200 times… yet only ~5 instances were independently investigated and none were able to prove guilt.
What about the overwhelmingly negative coverage of Donald Trump? I remember reading that at least 70% of all coverage on the major networks was highly critical of him.
Or the constant chorus of 'Russiagate'? Even after the $32 million dollar investigation turned up nothing but a few thousand dollars worth of advertising and general social media shitposting coming from Russian IP addresses, they're still beating that dead horse to the absurd degree that Lindsey Graham, one of the original progenitors of it, has become a target:
point is the news industry is a highly politicised tool and often works in almost unanimity when the 'powers that be' have something to tell you.
You're reading too much coordination into what is effectively just another market acting like a market.
If you try to look at it through the propaganda lens, this is a coordinated effort to not report X but highlight Y and mischaracterize Z, and somehow this careful secretive dance is being maintained with the most delusional ideologues in the universe, newsroom journalists, across multiple media networks, across the country and the world.
If you look at it through the simple lens of selfishness, it is simply networks jumping on bandwagons and hyping shit up to get eyeballs for ads. That's what it has always been, that's what it will always be. What's the hot new subject? Then we move on to the next one.
In fact, no deliberate cooperation or collusion is even necessary: if you want to create a story, leak a spicy quote. If you want to kill that story, leak a different spicy quote.
Simple fact is, if this was some left wing nut then that shit would be plastered on Fox News.
Obviously news media is highly politicised but so is the mother shitting Daily Stormer, you want me to believe it is actually a fucking global conspiracy rather than the Daily Stormer bullshitting? -
2019-08-05 at 2:55 PM UTC in Ohio shootingTo a panicked middle aged housewife who has never even imagined being shot at, a guy wearing a jacket with a lotta pockets and carrying a gun basically has the same silhouettes as a SWAT cop with spots for trauma plates.
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2019-08-05 at 2:51 PM UTC in The USSA should raise the minimum age to buy an assault rifle to 28.The only legal weapons should be muskets and sabres.
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2019-08-05 at 2:48 PM UTC in The Retarded Thread: Malice Metro EditionOne of my child's fundamental human rights is the freedom to work in a carpet factory.
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2019-08-05 at 2:35 PM UTC in The Retarded Thread: Malice Metro Edition"Free" market lmao
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2019-08-05 at 2:33 PM UTC in Ohio shooting
Originally posted by aldra I was more or less agreeing with you; a lot of these shootings have had questionable reports and suspicious data surrounding them but nothing that unequivocally demonstrates they were a 'false flag'.
in the absence of hard (ie. video, photos, audio etc) evidence or at least a concensus, we have to dismiss outlying reports describing multiple shooters and the like simply because panic and acute stress makes peoples' recollections unreliable.
I've read that most people hallucinate every single day - usually seeing an animal or a tree or something in the distance that isn't actually there, and it's usually the result of the mind filling in a 'blank' where they scanned over the landscape without constantly concentrating on what they were seeing.
The more I learn about memory, the less I trust memory. I tell everyone I have a bad memory but in truth I think I have an average memory but I'm just more aware of how unreliable my own memory is, and most people just fool themselves about what they remember.
When I hear about an eyewitness account, I mentally convert it into "moving blob format". I.e. anything they're describing about general gross movements in a scene, I generally think it's probably accurate.
Everything else is a straight toss up.
Even within your visual field, the focused center you can pay attention to is arounf the size of a postage stamp held at arm's length. So even if you were looking directly to the left of some shit, your brain is already starting to make stuff up and fill in the blanks, let alone anything happening in your periphery. Specific wording of sentences etc is also sketchy. -
2019-08-05 at 2:16 PM UTC in Ohio shooting
Originally posted by Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country News media companies aren't run to make a profit, if they were they'd all have closed shop long ago.
Uh why? They make money hand over fist.
Originally posted by aldra corporate news media make the bulk of their profits through corporate sponsorship and government grants rather than their readers. 'keeping readers informed' is no longer their primary capitalist purpose and doing so does not give them a competitive edge
The "corporate sponsorship" you're talking about is advertising. They make money off their reader or viewership by selling their attention to advertisers.
Advertising makes money, it makes money like nothing else. Some of the biggest tech companies in the world are entirely driven by selling ads, and the ones that aren't, want to get involved with it.
Even Apple is pushing hard to enter the services space so they can advertise to you inside their ecosystem and keep all the money in their platforms, while touring the data security and privacy benefits of only letting Apple rape you.
Nobody is running these huge media outlets purely for propaganda, I know that game, shit does not work a d is unnecessarily expensive and inefficient. You use smaller outlets with strong regional reach.
For example the guy riding around in his pickup listening to Christian radio is probably doing so because he chose Christian radio, not because he was listening to the radio and he ran across that station. You can tell him anything as long as you do it through his radio and the dial says 91.5 FM. -
2019-08-05 at 1:42 PM UTC in Think I am going to get a Playstation 2
Originally posted by G4LM They sell for like 150. Not that much.
And besides that, I know someone with one, still working, who will give me a good price. Which is the only reason I even consider it over a ps2.
Basically just going to be for kingdom hearts and to load up my RPG maker game I made as a kid.
Just remember that 20 and 60 GB models are the only ones with PS2 BC. Watch out for YLOD or laser error, take a can of compressed air to the fans. -
2019-08-05 at 1:39 PM UTC in Ohio shooting
