It started when she crushed him at their debate and the polls did nothing, maybe even got a smidge redder. That in and of itself should have been enough to convince them that debates don't matter much!
Because 1) They don't know either and 2) They think anything they don't know isn't important
Might be the most menacing trailer for a PG film I've ever seen.
I don’t think we’re any dumber now than we ever were! We used to be slightly more sheepish about it and we’re not anymore, that’s the only real difference.
Feels more like a treating-the-symptom-not-the-disease sort of thing, but I agree that it’s not completely without value.
One of the ways I see this ultimately playing out is that the news media becomes in large part owned by internet providers and gets subsidized into the cost people pay to get online.
it ends up the far-right absolutely understands the concept that not every service need be profit-generating if it provides a vital enough service that it should be propped up at a financial loss- but they selective believe that's not true of the government and is true of Tim Pool and Breitbart.
One of the biggest and quietest problems with the world is that actual news keeps getting locked behind paywalls, while disinformation is always freely available.
CNN launches a digital paywall, charging some users to read articles for the first time
CNN, one of the most popular news websites in the world, is starting to ask some of its visitors to pay $3.99 a month for access.
Members of Congress who voted to defund FEMA and the National Flood Insurance Program one day before Helene hit: Sen. Budd (R-NC) Sen. Blackburn (R-TN) Sen. Hagerty (R-TN) Reps. Bean, Bilirakis, Cammack, Donalds, Gaetz, Lee, Luna, Mills, Posey, Waltz, Webster (R-FL) Rep. Bishop (R-NC)
Only slightly less unhinged than the woman who said that violence against fictional characters is a form of abuse perpetrated by writers.