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....change, but you can look out for what I've listed to see if certain things are BS.

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.....is a good idea, it can be argued on results. -Outright lying, or misleading. "Student debt relief is for white people" Nope, the people who took it up and who measurably would benefit from most plans leaned more black, for various reasons. Obviously, the techniques/exact arguments will.....

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....without arguing the results of policies. Saw a lot of "Biden's immigration policy is awful", "Eric Adams lies a lot" followed by "black voters supported them." First two obviously called things accurately. Arguing a group support or opposition is emotionally manipulative, if something.......

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-Applied inconsistently. "Black voters decide the election." and "progressives are out of touch with black voters" were never really seen before 2018, maybe 2016 at earliest. Only came up when people were running in races as progressives, not other types of dem primaries. -Argued for policies..

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....repeated these talking points and ways of thinking. ' How do you tell these are BS at the time, just an excuse to attack progressives? -"Elite Educated Liberals are out of touch with Real America". gets repeated, often close to word for word, with different groups substituted for Real America..

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You notice how "Latinx" disappeared from most political discussion after the 2022 election? Or how black voters aren't said to hate progressives early so much? Or Latinos don't actually oppose abortion? These were obviously BS at the time, but a lot of people somehow didn't notice and......

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....anything at all and stay subscribed makes more money then the person paying nothing. But yes, price lack of transparency is annoying.

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Econ 100-something explanation is: Publishing the paper is a big fixed cost, but distributing it to people (especially over the internet) costs almost nothing. So they want a big block of full price subscribers to pay the fixed costs, but when someone threatens to quit, having them pay...........

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She's said a lot of different things, but actually endorsing particular goals, putting them on the platform....not so much.

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