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Started by Icarus, July 28, 2019, 10:50:15 PM

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Icarus

DO yourself a favor and spend a few minutes reading about the program in Finland that sets out to make themselves immune to social media  false claims and "fake news". https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2019/05/europe/finland-fake-news-intl/

I hope that you can access this. It is worth reading.  It makes me angry to find still more evidence that the Finns are way smarter than Americans.

joeactor

Quote from: Icarus on July 28, 2019, 10:50:15 PM
DO yourself a favor and spend a few minutes reading about the program in Finland that sets out to make themselves immune to social media  false claims and "fake news". https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2019/05/europe/finland-fake-news-intl/

I hope that you can access this. It is worth reading.  It makes me angry to find still more evidence that the Finns are way smarter than Americans.

They're on the right track. I'm afraid that would never work in the USA. It would require the government to actually do something, and for the populace to be educated and literate on the issues involved. Quite sad, actually, that things have degraded so much.

Icarus

Agreed Joe. I am ashamed of us sometimes........... :felix:

Tom62

Is there any  news that you can trust nowadays? Even CNN produced fake news and most items that I see on the news are heavily biased.
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Davin

It gets better if you try to avoid opinion pieces. Of course that naturally means cutting out 99% of conservative leaning news.
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Tom62

I guess that is also true for 99% of non-conservative news.
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Robert A. Heinlein

Davin

Not anywhere near as much. Conservatives don't like facts (or at most selectively choose the facts they like), because it interferes with what they want the world to be like.
Always question all authorities because the authority you don't question is the most dangerous... except me, never question me.

Bad Penny II

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Tom's not going to let him get away with that is he?
Probably, he isn't combative.
Take my advice, don't listen to me.

Tom62

Quote from: Davin on July 31, 2019, 03:10:21 PM
Not anywhere near as much. Conservatives don't like facts (or at most selectively choose the facts they like), because it interferes with what they want the world to be like.

Strange, that is what the conservatives also think about the people on the left.  I think that both groups do have interesting facts to offer that are plausible but not correct.
The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
Robert A. Heinlein

Davin

Quote from: Tom62 on July 31, 2019, 07:10:31 PM
Quote from: Davin on July 31, 2019, 03:10:21 PM
Not anywhere near as much. Conservatives don't like facts (or at most selectively choose the facts they like), because it interferes with what they want the world to be like.

Strange, that is what the conservatives also think about the people on the left.  I think that both groups do have interesting facts to offer that are plausible but not correct.
Strange, you seem to think there are only two groups. That misconception is an example of how conservatives avoid facts so that they can pretend to live in a simpler world.

Quote from: Tom62 on July 30, 2019, 05:08:22 PM
I guess that is also true for 99% of non-conservative news.

If you irrationally conflate "not conservative news" with "left news" then you're blinding yourself to reality and/or very selectively choosing which facts you will accept.
Always question all authorities because the authority you don't question is the most dangerous... except me, never question me.

Tom62

Quote from: Davin on July 31, 2019, 08:13:46 PM
Quote from: Tom62 on July 31, 2019, 07:10:31 PM
Quote from: Davin on July 31, 2019, 03:10:21 PM
Not anywhere near as much. Conservatives don't like facts (or at most selectively choose the facts they like), because it interferes with what they want the world to be like.

Strange, that is what the conservatives also think about the people on the left.  I think that both groups do have interesting facts to offer that are plausible but not correct.
Strange, you seem to think there are only two groups. That misconception is an example of how conservatives avoid facts so that they can pretend to live in a simpler world.

Quote from: Tom62 on July 30, 2019, 05:08:22 PM
I guess that is also true for 99% of non-conservative news.

If you irrationally conflate "not conservative news" with "left news" then you're blinding yourself to reality and/or very selectively choosing which facts you will accept.

That are a lot of assumptions instead of facts. What makes you think that I believe that there are only 2 groups? I come from a country that has more political parties than most people in USA can even dream of.  Most Americans don't even seem to know the difference between socialism and communism. I'm not a conservative either. Yes, I do share some of their economic opinions, but disagree with them on many issues (like gun control, education, healthcare, environmental responsibility, etc.)
The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
Robert A. Heinlein

Davin

Quote from: Tom62 on July 31, 2019, 09:23:43 PM
That are a lot of assumptions instead of facts. What makes you think that I believe that there are only 2 groups?

The facts that make it appear that that is what you're doing, is that you said these things:
Quote from: Tom62 on July 30, 2019, 05:08:22 PM
I guess that is also true for 99% of non-conservative news.

Quote from: Tom62 on July 31, 2019, 07:10:31 PM
Quote from: Davin on July 31, 2019, 03:10:21 PM
Not anywhere near as much. Conservatives don't like facts (or at most selectively choose the facts they like), because it interferes with what they want the world to be like.

Strange, that is what the conservatives also think about the people on the left.  I think that both groups do have interesting facts to offer that are plausible but not correct.

First thing here, you say that non-conservative news has the same amount of opinion pieces as conservative news. Note here you brought the "left" group into the discussion and then said, "I think that both groups[...]"

That's why it appears that you're doing that (the faulty dichotomy). Because based on what you said, you're doing that. Don't like those facts? Just ignore them, no big deal.

Quote from: Tom62
I come from a country that has more political parties than most people in USA can even dream of.  Most Americans don't even seem to know the difference between socialism and communism. I'm not a conservative either. Yes, I do share some of their economic opinions, but disagree with them on many issues (like gun control, education, healthcare, environmental responsibility, etc.)
I don't see how this is relevant. You're bringing in a lot of tangential things and I don't see a rational connection. It would be great if conservative economic policies were more of a doing what they say kind of thing instead of saying one thing and the wasting billions of dollars on stupid things. I don't know every single country and their conservatives, but of all the ones I am familiar with, I've only seen the hypocritical version of "conservative economic policies." So if your place has the non-hypocritical kind, then that's like a unicorn congratulations.

Also, even if you were to have named "left" news as having 99% opinion pieces (even though that would still be irrational), I have read a lot of both and I don't feel like you have because you arrived at that judgment. Conservative news bases their opinions on other opinion pieces, it's like opinion pieces all the way down. And then they come around acting like every one else is ignoring facts and reality. There are "left" opinion pieces that do the same thing, but we're not talking about finding an example here and there, wouldn't want to commit more falacies. I'd say that about 75% of "left" news is opinion pieces (most of which still cite actual facts instead of other opinion pieces), while conservative news is almost completely opinion pieces that cite other opinion pieces that cite other opinion pieces... etc. until you find the baseless tweet that started everything. It's also common knowledge that most conservative news denies science.
Always question all authorities because the authority you don't question is the most dangerous... except me, never question me.

Bad Penny II

Sorry Tom, you've been enfiladed by Davin's righteous replies.
But Davin was mostly aiming where Tom wasn't.
That comment is 98.4% conservative opinion piece.
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xSilverPhinx

This 'fake news' discussion probably merits a thread of its own. I suggest we split this topic.
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Tank

Quote from: xSilverPhinx on August 02, 2019, 02:59:43 PM
This 'fake news' discussion probably merits a thread of its own. I suggest we split this topic.
Off you go!
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