The illegal collective punishment will continue until subservience improves.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_chain_strategy

An aprosthetic would be a non-prosthetic, like for instance an aphrodisiac.

Do it cowards.

A Public US Person Gets Shot belongs in the FREE SPACE box, because it’s a given.

Nearly always, they just want to get your stuff and GTFO, so let them have it/give it to them. Try not to seem threatening and try not to startle them, because they’re scared & jumpy and running on adrenaline, too.

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But muh Media Bias/Fact Check says it checks out!

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/contact/

Dave M. Van Zandt obtained a Communications Degree before pursuing a higher degree in the sciences. Dave currently works full time in the health care industry. Dave has spent more than 20 years as an arm chair researcher on media bias and its role in political influence.

Van Zandt is some hobbyist who was in the right place at the right time: the “post-truth” moment of Clinton’s loss to Trump and the string of Russiagate conspiracy theories and Kellyanne Conway’s alternative facts and the Cambridge Analytica hysteria.

The whole concept of the “left” or ”right“ “bias” being inversely correlated with factualness is garbage. These kinds of graphs, which try to convince us that centrism equals factualness, are garbage:

The core bias of corporate media is the bias of the capitalist class, but people like Van Zandt don’t seem to understand this.

The inner workings of corporate media were explained about forty years ago in Inventing Reality and Manufacturing Consent.
A five minute introduction: Noam Chomsky - The 5 Filters of the Mass Media Machine

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I said “these kinds of graphs,” of which there are many https://duckduckgo.com/?q=media+bias+chart&iax=images&ia=images

But you’ve sparked an idea for an interesting project: use MBFC’s API to create one of these graphs from their own data. Doing a little googling, it seems that scripts and data dumps aren’t hard to come by.

I think armchair media analyst Dave M. Van Zandt is going on vibes. I don’t think he understands corporate & think tank media. Does he know who Walter Lippman or Edward Bernays were, or what the Council on Foreign Relations (“least biased” 🤡) is or made note of its prominent media members? Does he know about the Powell memorandum or the Trilateral Commission’s report, The Crisis of Democracy?

No results found for site:mediabiasfactcheck.com "manufacturing consent".

I’ve seen The Grayzone debunk the New York Times’ lies many times, and yet:

Also, in what universe is the neoliberal, anti-labor NYT center-left? And if the Grayzone in the ultraviolet territory, where does that leave the explicitly Communist Monthly Review, outside of MBFC’s Overton window? Surprise, it’s to the right of it:

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The first step is to understand the media, which Media Bias/Fact Check and the Ad Fontes Media* are never going to teach you. The only people who are taught it are those who get degrees in marketing, public relations, political science, history, and journalism; and even then only some of them.

The new post-Trump/“post-truth” media literacy curricula won’t teach it to you either, because it was paid for and crafted by the US military-industrial complex: New Media Literacy Standards Aim to Combat ‘Truth Decay’.

This week, the RAND Corporation released a new set of media literacy standards designed to support schools in this task.

The standards are part of RAND’s ongoing project on “truth decay”: a phenomenon that RAND researchers describe as “the diminishing role that facts, data, and analysis play in our political and civic discourse.”

None of it is a secret, though, and it can be learned.

• Noam Chomsky - The 5 Filters of the Mass Media Machine
• Propaganda model
• Edward Bernays
• Walter Lippmann
• Council on Foreign Relations
• Powell Memorandum
• The Trilateral Commission’s report, The Crisis of Democracy

In my pants.

Oh, FROM.

I think they want Trump to be aberrational and are trying to work backward from there. Just BlueMaga things.

By that logic every president since Roosevelt was a dictator.

Not that people will even go to a website. It’s app or nothing for many, it seems.

Generational proclivities are a red herring. At best they’re useful to marketing firms and at worst they’re pumped out by PR firms to distract us from the class war. The changes that are happening would have happened regardless, because they benefit the bourgeoisie. These are specifically oligarch-driven changes, not gen-x vibes-driven.

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The powers that be have had their eyes on us for a few years already. Previously. Previously. Previously.

Among other reasons, there’s no marketing budget.

Captain America, things ain’t like they used to be like before you was froze.

…that you know of.

However, now that the majority of CEOs are Gen X, we are seeing an unprecedented mass surveillance and data-collection economy, like fucking Gen Xers want complete control over everyone.

Increasing mass surveillance and data collection aren’t a gen-x thing; they’re a continuation of what was already happening due to late-stage, neoliberal capitalism and the process of technology development.

Most of OP’s posts aren’t even about Russia or Ukraine.

Calling users shills—Russian or otherwise—without evidence is liable to get you banned.

This Russian talking point parrot canard is just a thought-terminating cliché.

If Putin says the sky is blue, does that make it not blue? See? It’s just a facile excuse to ignore any countervailing arguments or evidence.