in 2014 (most recent I've seen), 652,639 abortions.

BUT LE FERTILITY!

I can't take the fertility argument seriously when they're trying to promote things that contribute to the problem.

plot twist, that was mostly immigrate babies

https://twitter.com/qikipedia/status/998917313465344000?s=20

does this mean we are slowly making it taller?

also it becomes fact when most people agree it is fact until someone else gets enough people to believe it is wrong

I imagine the snow maybe washes it downhill

no. The only reason it's not getting taller is coz of it's wiaght. More mass will make it sink more.

ooff :/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-44210796?ocid=socialflow_twitter

Don't you mean stallers?

i mean, if they use #metoo, how do they expect anonymity?

also, that articles name should be changed to "google finds stuff posted on the web"

Once again, people seem to forget that Social Media means they're broadcasting to the world, not just their circle of friends.

gonna atleast be another generation before people start understanding that

^ Especially Twatter, Ryecast

Well, unless their tweets are protected..

someday i hope that i can lift my progressive stack enough to reach anita's level of bourgeoise

so this is a thing https://www.drphil.com/videos/why-a-self-described-debunker-of-pseudoscience-claims-creator-of-jilly-juice-is-preying-on-vulnerable-people/

Anyone notice the Occupy Democrats Instagram page was taken down? @Timcast

I took my gun and vanished

oh shit, do you know why?

what is their instagram?

also https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/22/us/panama-city-active-shooting/index.html

ew cnn

why would you read that trash

its just one of the first links

its an active situation

There still focusing on the white kid that shot up that school. YET they moved right past the crazy muslim that shot up youtube

didnt fit the narrative of evil white male enough

fuck cnn

are they even still on that recent one? he had a shotgun and a revolver. doesn't really help their narrative. This is some dude who police where investigating and when they went to raid his house, started opening up

Nasim was pretty clearly totally batshit though

Although the memes that rolled out were pretty cool

The sturmwhatever wave folks did nasimwave

And to be fair to the press the only person to die was her. Yes it was YT but the body count wasn't big enough.

I love my state

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5758531/The-moment-quick-thinking-woman-hangs-pick-truck-wrangle-runaway-horse.html

Only.. in Texas

yknow you gotta hand it to these hollywood marketers.. theyve managed to market shame and guilt... - whats that? youre not going to see black panther? well now.. youre not a racist are you... off you go to the cinema

I dont really understand the point of trying to do legit journalism with insane people like Vic Berger lying and cheating

these people do not want honesty

they do not want truth

You have the extremes of the far left being actually insane and the far right being entirely detestable

surely it doesnt really matter what they want, its want the general masses want, if they want the truth ...

thinking about that compelled speech law in Canada, if that precedent has now been set... if a white supremacist somehow got into power, they could compel people to use the n-word whenever referring to a black person, punishable by fine if they don't :/

and people have already said they think its a good law and fine to do... blows my miind

(obviously if a white supremacist got into power, this would probably be the least of most peoples worries)

😛

@Timcast there is still value in the work, even if the term journalism may no longer hold the same meaning, the actual work is still needed. I have a running theory that as the news media struggles to find a place in the internet age in which they are no longer the gate keepers of "the facts", as you pointed out, their standards have slipped (or their lack of standards at times are being exposed). This is leading to a greater number of people starting to distrust it, while the remaining people split along the divide. However, as the left keeps making fools of itself, and the right keeps being the right, people are gonna start looking more and more for a reputable news source.

There is still trust in the media, the journalists now are exploiting the trust the media spent decades earning from the populace. Just happens that we all now realise that journalism has always been tainted with bias and misinfo.

Also... A good instance of how freedom of the press can be akward to handle. You got multiple sites with their own "side" of the fight, of course you will only report stuff to keep your readers happy.

the idea that many people still believe at least one side of the major media is telling them the honest truth is incredibly depressing

Finding an unbiased news outlet today is like trying to find a needle in a haystack

Especially from the Legacy media

the problem isint people who want to lie and change the throughts of the world to their own narritive. the problem is people who want the honest truth when all they know is dominated by 2nd hand and 3rd hand sources

has the media ever really told the truth? probably only when the truth was more valuible than fiction

i mean, i have never really trusted the media

People's trust in the media, especially Legacy media is dropping fast since we have the internet

You can cross-reference different sources with the click of a button

the internet is no more honest than the legacy media, it just has more honest people in it

Honest means, I do not lose anything from stating the truth.

how do you know what the truth is that anyone tells you?

even people who trust the current highly bias left leaning sites, given how, with each passing day, the list of stuff you can do to get kicked out of "the left" is growing, more and more will lose that trust as the remaining people get more and more fickle.

the internet probably also has more people looking to exploit and manipulate the opinions of others for some grand design than legacy media

Id say people value personal image too much

legacy media seems to be mostly in it for the money

"Downvotes and unfriending"

For-profit tend to do that, AG

well of course they do

at the end of the day

the money in legacy media will become more and more what political interests what the less the mass's attention and money it has

it's a business to them

Indeed

its business to the internet too

It's sad that Twitter has become a place where you have to walk on eggshells to avoid getting blocked.

I didn't even have to do anything to get hit with a blocklist

blocked?

I don't fear blocked

I fear being banned

you should try to get as blocked as much as you posibly can, the deeper into the echo chamber your opponents get the less they know

Once someone blocks you, the conversation ends. Where do you go from there?

war or segrigation

I don't block unless someone's earned the total asshole achievement

how does one earn that

Constantly spin and twist your words, try emotional manipulation/blackmail, strawmanning, +++

Well, yeah, in the case of harassment I'd eventually mute or block.

Over time you just get sick and tired of the same regurgitated arguments

The same insults thrown in in subtle ways

if you want to change minds, dont fight soldiers, talk to civilians

Indeed. Talk 101

A group itself, no matter how big or small, is going to be difficult to change. The individuals inside those groups however..

people are more willing to listen to you if they think they know you and like you before they realize you have a ideological opinion that opposes their own

Hence why I talk with people outside of politics

And made some of my best friends that way, despite not agreeing much

come at someone airing their laundry on twitter with an objection they will see you a stranger that pulled on them a blade in the night

ye

we have this shitty world where people treat politics like some sort of tribal warfare

Unfortunately that is true

it begins with one man who throws a stone