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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: BannedFromDU on July 12, 2021, 10:45:52 AM
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Star Member berniesandersmittens (10,235 posts)
Fox "news" has destroyed my family no it hasn't - you're just butthurt
I had a conversation with my grandparents today.
They told me Ashley Babbit was shot while talking on her cell phone.
They believe the election was stolen, so the January 6th terrorists were justified. And since there were no guns, it was all peachy keen.
When I mentioned the police who were beaten by the terrorist my grandmother said " that didn't happen"
I come from a strong Democratic family. families don't have political bents, you Trotskyist scum I was raised by these very same people that Republicans were terrible, corrupt, and liars.
My first presidential vote was for Al Gore.
In the last 10 years, the patriarch and matriarch of the family became housebound. Fox news is on 247 at their house.
I love these people. Disinformation and lies have brain washed them.
I hate fox and I hate the divide they have caused within my family. The only divide is probably your butt cheeks, moron
Here's a thought: Fox isn't destroying ANYTHING - you guys just want to control what your family consumes (https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=15613840)
There are almost 100 replies to this steaming stack of monkey loaf, each lamenting that a television channel they don't like is freely consumed by people close to them, whom they would like to control.
Their solution, of course, is to force their "loved" ones to watch MSNBC and CNN instead, so they get the "truth," or at least would be fed Dem talking points from people who are acceptably BIPOCJHFF or LGBTQWEXM or whatever.
Star Member Dream Girl (4,543 posts)
3. I wonder if there's any way they can be held accountable.
You're in luck, "Dream Girl," I checked with a couple of Stalinists sitting outside a 7-11 and they say YES. Just boycott Fox and they'll be toast in no time.
FM123 (9,002 posts)
8. I am so sorry for what you have been going through with your family.
I remember reading an article from a few years back about this kind of thing happening more and more...
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/04/i-gathered-stories-of-people-transformed-by-fox-news.html
I think you mean DEPROGRAMMED from decades of NEA influence and 60's burnout college professors.
Dreampuff (503 posts)
25. I'm so sorry.
I know what you were saying about fox. We also have relatives who just don't seem to get it and they listen to that rhetoric day after day.
My theory is still that we need to bring back the fairness Doctrine. I would hope it would take care of this huge division caused by lies.
Remember to add Newsmax and OAN to that list. I lost a long time friend who was addicted to oan and neither of us could take it anymore. Many, many years down the drain, unfortunately.
The Fairness Doctrine would likely create MORE right-leaning news sources, not fewer. "Fair" does not mean "what you like."
I really don't see the big deal, anyway: the median age on DU appears to be about 65. Half of them are about to croak, anyway.
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Where is the self-awareness in DU topics like these?
We could write a book write volumes have a college major in devote an entire lifetime to studying how left-leaning news has divided the country, deceived voters, and just generally been a menace.
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The mask hits the ground
Response to MarineCombatEngineer (Reply #83)
Mon Jul 12, 2021, 09:55 AM
Dukkha (7,177 posts)
93. not even remotely realistic
When people are given freedom of choice they will always make the wrong choice. Always.
It's not about choosing to turn it off it's about stopping the propaganda from indoctrinating people who leave it on 24/7.
ESAD
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Where is the self-awareness in DU topics like these?
We could write a book write volumes have a college major in devote an entire lifetime to studying how left-leaning news has divided the country, deceived voters, and just generally been a menace.
CNN just did a long segment on self-awareness. Dan Rather made some good points, as did Al Sharpton and Olbermann.
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I wonder what would happen if the word "hate" was banned from du?
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grandparents? "berniesandersmittens/backtoblue" is 41 years old, and these two are her parents:
https://clustrmaps.com/person/Rylee-43dujb
https://clustrmaps.com/person/Rylee-43dtee
they are both in their late 70s, Jenny-poo
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Lefty has never truly embraced Freedom of the Press, or free thought for that matter.
Lefty has no plans for freedom in this nation. We must all OBEY or Lefty will get violent.
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tirebiter (1,762 posts)
27. Use the channel control to nlock Fox News.
Don’t announce it or ask permission. It’ll be our secret.
Croney (3,232 posts)
13. I can relate. In the dead of night, I snuck into the TV room
of elderly relatives and used parental controls to block Faux News. But when I flipped through channels to where it had been, the screen announced in all-caps that the station was blocked by parental controls.
So I put it back. The best I could do was switch the default channel from Faux to CNN -- so every time the TV is turned on, it starts on CNN. They never noticed to this day, and I've never seen them look for Faux when I'm there.
ShazzieB (2,267 posts)
38. I'm actually glad my parents died before Fux Noise had a chance to steal their brains.
When my dad died in 1988, Fux Noise didn't exist yet. They were just getting started the year my mom passed away (1996). I am so glad neither of them were exposed to it, and I shudder to think what effects it might have had on them, especially my mom.
My sister is a "born again" Christian, and as such, leans politically conservative. There aren't many things we see eye to eye on.
KC
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grandparents? "berniesandersmittens/backtoblue" is 41 years old, and these two are her parents:
https://clustrmaps.com/person/Rylee-43dujb
https://clustrmaps.com/person/Rylee-43dtee
they are both in their late 70s, Jenny-poo
A DUmmy stretching the truth? Say it ain't so.
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Evolve Dammit (5,983 posts)
60. Two different realities. Both think they are the real patriots. One fact-based, the other delusional
One delusional. You got that right. Russia-gate, Men are women and vice-versa, BLM protests are "mostly peaceful", CRT is just history, AOC is smart, and we're all gonna die from either Covid, climate change or both just off the top of my head :mental:
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tirebiter (1,762 posts)
27. Use the channel control to nlock Fox News.
Don’t announce it or ask permission. It’ll be our secret.
Walrus junior?
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Can't argue using facts? Shoot the messenger - ad hominem attacks or censorship.