US Politics Thread

[mat]

 

[BlueMoonAcrossThePond]

I think that the UK is safe from this sort idiocy atm.

Just make sure that the right wing propaganda in the guise of news as is being spread by Rupert Murdoch-owned entities across the globe doesn't begin to take a foothold in the UK.

Once it does, you'll have a segment of your population who won't listen to actual facts and instead believe that whatever Tucker Carlson says is the gospel truth. If and when - and I hope that this never occurs - this segment of your population reaches enough size to sway elections, you're in trouble.

I've argued before that the anti-science, anti-factual broadcasts put forth by Murdoch-owned and similar organizations needs to be regulated.

Quite frankly, believers in this sort of stuff are members of a cult. Our trusted leaders proclaim that X is true - so X must be true. And if X is true, then, really, I need to do Y and Z.

Completely unfettered free speech versus the right to a functioning society. This is the major issue of our times.

 

[mat]

I think that the UK is safe from this sort idiocy atm.

Just make sure that the right wing propaganda in the guise of news as is being spread by Rupert Murdoch-owned entities across the globe doesn't begin to take a foothold in the UK.

Once it does, you'll have a segment of your population who won't listen to actual facts and instead believe that whatever Tucker Carlson says is the gospel truth. If and when - and I hope that this never occurs - this segment of your population reaches enough size to sway elections, you're in trouble.

I've argued before that the anti-science, anti-factual broadcasts put forth by Murdoch-owned and similar organizations needs to be regulated.

Quite frankly, believers in this sort of stuff are members of a cult. Our trusted leaders proclaim that X is true - so X must be true. And if X is true, then, really, I need to do Y and Z.

Completely unfettered free speech versus the right to a functioning society. This is the major issue of our times.

That ship sailed years ago sadly.

 

[BlueMoonAcrossThePond]

That ship sailed years ago sadly.

Please clarify. I don't know what you precisely mean.

 

[mat]

Please clarify. I don't know what you precisely mean.

The majority of our media outlets are right wing.

 

[west didsblue]

I think that the UK is safe from this sort idiocy atm.

Just make sure that the right wing propaganda in the guise of news as is being spread by Rupert Murdoch-owned entities across the globe doesn't begin to take a foothold in the UK.

Once it does, you'll have a segment of your population who won't listen to actual facts and instead believe that whatever Tucker Carlson says is the gospel truth. If and when - and I hope that this never occurs - this segment of your population reaches enough size to sway elections, you're in trouble.

I've argued before that the anti-science, anti-factual broadcasts put forth by Murdoch-owned and similar organizations needs to be regulated.

Quite frankly, believers in this sort of stuff are members of a cult. Our trusted leaders proclaim that X is true - so X must be true. And if X is true, then, really, I need to do Y and Z.

Completely unfettered free speech versus the right to a functioning society. This is the major issue of our times.

You’ve just described how Brexit happened and why so many still believe in it in spite of all the evidence that it’s hugely detrimental to the country.

 

[FogBlueInSanFran]

The question is who decides? An unelected court plucking a right to abortion out of thin air or the people's representatives who are accountable to their voters and can be removed if the majority disagree? The supreme court didn't ban abortion, it returned the decision to where it should always have been, within the democratic process. The American federal system allows for people with different views on this emotive subject to set different laws according to the political persuasion of the state they live in and this seems like the fairest way to resolve this to me.

And the answer is: a woman. She is free to get an abortion, or not. People with “different views” on this “emotive subject” are free not to get abortions.

 

[urban genie]

You’ve just described how Brexit happened and why so many still believe in it in spite of all the evidence that it’s hugely detrimental to the country.

A difference though is brexit was thought of as a special issues affecting everyday lives, arbortion or the cranks against it is based on a fundemental religious mindset, and the UK public and electorate really isn't arsed about the bible or christian dogma as much the septics

 

[west didsblue]

A difference though is brexit was thought of as a special issues affecting everyday lives, arbortion or the cranks against it is based on a fundemental religious mindset, and the UK public and electorate really isn't arsed about the bible or christian dogma as much the septics

I was talking about the influence of the billionaire controlled media, not the religious aspect.

 

[urban genie]

I was talking about the influence of the billionaire controlled media, not the religious aspect.

I know you was, however..
You was the latest response to the conversation over the tiktok post, would be rude to but in and ignore your opinion.