SPYING 1 Posted April 22, 2022 Share Posted April 22, 2022 Rich and famous are paying obscene amounts for homes in South Florida NYPOST.COM The average cost of a spread in Palm Beach -- home to an ever-growing roster of celebrities... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StarLight28 Posted April 22, 2022 Share Posted April 22, 2022 Bei den Beiträgen der letzten Tage frage ich mich welche Probleme der US-Staat im inneren wirklich hat. Alles ungelöst - Aggression in fremden Ländern ist wichtig um von internen US-Problemen abzulenken. Das Trauerspiel seit 70 Jahren. Wie viele Amerikaner wurden im Ausland sinnlos getötet ??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
letsdothis Posted April 22, 2022 Share Posted April 22, 2022 This is part of a speech the psychopath gave at a Heritage Foundation conference in Florida. A very disjointed (and unconfirmed) anecdote about pulling the US out of NATO. And they asked me, one of the presidents of the countries in a closed meeting, 28 countries at that time, they said, 'well sir, are you saying that if...' cause they knew I was very unhappy cause we were paying a very, very... we were paying for most of it in my opinion. But a very high amount. So we're defending Europe. At the same time, they rip us off on trade, very, very seriously rip us off. And he said, 'does that mean you won't protect us in case, uh, we don't pay, uh, you won't protect us from Russia, was the Soviet Union now Russia?' I said, 'that's exactly what it means.' Now if I said, 'no I don't mean that,' then why would they pay? So somebody had to say it. I was amazed it didn't get out. I was amazed the fake news didn't pull it out. I dunno, maybe no one wanted to talk about it. I said, 'no that's exactly...' and the money started to flow in. And the secretary-general said, 'I never saw money like this in my life.' This is just one of the many twitter responses. That asshole wanted to pull out of NATO to protect Russia. It's a damn shame his father didn't pull out to save the US and the world. — Kat (@Kat) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
letsdothis Posted April 22, 2022 Share Posted April 22, 2022 This is the kind of batshit craziness we should expect from the likes of Deathsantis, the GOP, etc., etc. As you read this, keep in mind that CRT is not taught in K-12, it's taught in Law Schools. Florida bans 54 math books to keep our schools mediocre WWW.MIAMITODAYNEWS.COM Florida bans 54 math books to keep our schools mediocre by at MiamiTodayNews.com. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
letsdothis Posted April 22, 2022 Share Posted April 22, 2022 There was something about this chart I thought people might notice, but since they haven't, or more likely, just didn't want to talk about it, allow me to point it out. The bottom three rows of this chart (see the row titles on the left), contain at least twice as many media outlets on the right as on the left. The bottom row contains no outlets, at all, from the left, and the second row up contains only one outlet on the left. Both these rows are littered with far-right outlets, including well known "news" outlets, such as OAN, Newsmax, Hannity, Infowars, Tucker Carlson and, of course, the well known "news outlet", Faux News, aka, the bullshit factory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happyone Posted April 23, 2022 Author Share Posted April 23, 2022 43 minutes ago, letsdothis said: There was something about this chart I thought people might notice, but since they haven't, or more likely, just didn't want to talk about, allow me to point it out. The bottom three rows of this chart (see the row titles on the left), contain at least twice as many media outlets on the right as on the left. The bottom row contains no outlets, at all, from the left, and the second row up contains only one outlet on the left. Both these rows are littered with far-right outlets, including well known "news" outlets, such as OAN, Newsmax, Hannity, Infowars, Tucker Carlson and, of course, the well known "news outlet", Faux News, aka, the bullshit factory. The Ad Fontes Media Bias Chart is full of bias and problems — by a journalist | by Tamara Pearson | Medium TAMARAPEARSON.MEDIUM.COM The media chart that lots of people are sharing can’t be trusted. So how do you decide which media to trust? And another article which outlines the bias in the chart Latest ‘Media Bias Chart’ pushes left-wing outlets into classrooms as credible WWW.AIM.ORG A new media bias chart released by Ad Fontes Media is making some dubious claims about which news sources are the most biased. The chart scatters a wide array of web, podcast, and TV sources across... So the reason no one commented on the chart is because most realized that it was biased and not accurate. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
letsdothis Posted April 23, 2022 Share Posted April 23, 2022 To continue... Sherkat's research also explored how religion impacted support for Donald Trump among white voters: "This study confirms that white Americans with fundamentalist views of the Bible and those who embrace identifications with sectarian Protestant denominations tended to vote for Donald Trump in the 2016 election." Belief that the Bible is the literal "word of God" also impacted Trump voting: "Viewing the Bible as a book of fables is also significantly predictive of vote choice, with secular beliefs reducing the odds of a Trump vote by 80 percent when compared to literalists, and reducing the odds of a Trump vote by 52 percent when compared to respondents who view the Bible as inspired by God." In an email to Salon, Sherkat offered additional context and implication on the relationship between white Christianity, American neofascism and cognition: The problem of the contemporary American fascist right is rooted in education and information. And this problem is not simply about attainment of some quantity of education, but of the quality and content of education, how that leads generations of white Christian Americans to process information about a wide range of issues. The segregation academies that proliferated in the mid-1960s and accelerated in the 1970s have taught millions of Americans a radically skewed version of American and world history and encouraged a continued segregated society. The homeschooling movement augmented this division, and further denigrated the value of knowledge. White fundamentalist Christians have always segmented their communities from the rest of America, and even exert considerable control over public educational institutions, particularly in rural areas and in the states which embraced slavery. White fundamentalist Christians distrust mainstream social institutions like education and print media, and they actively seek to eliminate public education and to provide alternative sources of information. As a result, people who identify with and participate in white Christian denominations and who subscribe to fundamentalist beliefs have substantial intellectual deficits that make them easy marks for a wide variety of schemes — from financial fraud to conspiracy theories. If you can't read the New York Times, you're going to believe whatever you hear on talk radio or on television. It's simply impossible for people with limited vocabularies and low levels of cognitive functioning to make sense of the complex realities of the political world. And we now have a population where for 55 years substantial fractions of white people have gone to private fundamentalist Christian schools that leave them both indoctrinated in Christian nationalism and ill-prepared to process any additional information. Worse, we now have over a million children in a given year who are homeschooled by parents who are uneducated white fundamentalists — and that total has been pretty constant for three decades since the homeschooling movement blossomed. What does this mean for the present and future of American democracy in this time of crisis? Sherkat cited the "disturbing ... influence of anti-intellectualism on American public life," which lends "performative power to ignorant elites": Spouting off obvious untruths is no longer a mark of shame, because even basic historical and contemporary truths are not recognized. We seem to have a stable set of about 30% of Americans, 35% of white Americans, who are oblivious to political realities and incapable and unwilling to come to terms with any of our key social problems. The increasing control over public education by right-wing fanatics is entrenching ignorance and intellectual laziness in future generations. It does not bode well for the future of American democracy. Donald Trump and his movement did not create all these American authoritarians and aspiring fascists. Such people have long been a feature of American society. What Trump and have accomplished in recent years is to empower and normalize a dangerous set of antisocial, anti-human, retrograde and anti-democratic values and beliefs. Saving America's democracy will require a moral and political reckoning and acts of critical self-reflection on a nationwide scale about the American people's character and values, and about how their leaders and governing institutions have failed them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPYING 1 Posted April 23, 2022 Share Posted April 23, 2022 4 minutes ago, letsdothis said: To continue... Sherkat's research also explored how religion impacted support for Donald Trump among white voters: "This study confirms that white Americans with fundamentalist views of the Bible and those who embrace identifications with sectarian Protestant denominations tended to vote for Donald Trump in the 2016 election." Belief that the Bible is the literal "word of God" also impacted Trump voting: "Viewing the Bible as a book of fables is also significantly predictive of vote choice, with secular beliefs reducing the odds of a Trump vote by 80 percent when compared to literalists, and reducing the odds of a Trump vote by 52 percent when compared to respondents who view the Bible as inspired by God." In an email to Salon, Sherkat offered additional context and implication on the relationship between white Christianity, American neofascism and cognition: The problem of the contemporary American fascist right is rooted in education and information. And this problem is not simply about attainment of some quantity of education, but of the quality and content of education, how that leads generations of white Christian Americans to process information about a wide range of issues. The segregation academies that proliferated in the mid-1960s and accelerated in the 1970s have taught millions of Americans a radically skewed version of American and world history and encouraged a continued segregated society. The homeschooling movement augmented this division, and further denigrated the value of knowledge. White fundamentalist Christians have always segmented their communities from the rest of America, and even exert considerable control over public educational institutions, particularly in rural areas and in the states which embraced slavery. White fundamentalist Christians distrust mainstream social institutions like education and print media, and they actively seek to eliminate public education and to provide alternative sources of information. As a result, people who identify with and participate in white Christian denominations and who subscribe to fundamentalist beliefs have substantial intellectual deficits that make them easy marks for a wide variety of schemes — from financial fraud to conspiracy theories. If you can't read the New York Times, you're going to believe whatever you hear on talk radio or on television. It's simply impossible for people with limited vocabularies and low levels of cognitive functioning to make sense of the complex realities of the political world. And we now have a population where for 55 years substantial fractions of white people have gone to private fundamentalist Christian schools that leave them both indoctrinated in Christian nationalism and ill-prepared to process any additional information. Worse, we now have over a million children in a given year who are homeschooled by parents who are uneducated white fundamentalists — and that total has been pretty constant for three decades since the homeschooling movement blossomed. What does this mean for the present and future of American democracy in this time of crisis? Sherkat cited the "disturbing ... influence of anti-intellectualism on American public life," which lends "performative power to ignorant elites": Spouting off obvious untruths is no longer a mark of shame, because even basic historical and contemporary truths are not recognized. We seem to have a stable set of about 30% of Americans, 35% of white Americans, who are oblivious to political realities and incapable and unwilling to come to terms with any of our key social problems. The increasing control over public education by right-wing fanatics is entrenching ignorance and intellectual laziness in future generations. It does not bode well for the future of American democracy. Donald Trump and his movement did not create all these American authoritarians and aspiring fascists. Such people have long been a feature of American society. What Trump and have accomplished in recent years is to empower and normalize a dangerous set of antisocial, anti-human, retrograde and anti-democratic values and beliefs. Saving America's democracy will require a moral and political reckoning and acts of critical self-reflection on a nationwide scale about the American people's character and values, and about how their leaders and governing institutions have failed them. People voted for Trump cause he loves America 🇺🇸, Trump believes in putting the American taxpayers first, and Trump believes in the constitution Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
letsdothis Posted April 23, 2022 Share Posted April 23, 2022 On 4/22/2022 at 8:13 PM, happyone said: So the reason no one commented on the chart is because most realized that it was biased and not accurate. I don't agree with your comment, but what on Earth would you expect a right-biased media outlet to say. Of course, they would adversely criticize anything that doesn't go their way. Come on Happy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
letsdothis Posted April 23, 2022 Share Posted April 23, 2022 18 minutes ago, SPYING 1 said: People voted for Trump cause he loves America 🇺🇸, Trump believes in putting the American taxpayers first, and Trump believes in the constitution Spy, I knew you were a psychopath supporter, but that is just beyond ludicrous. None of that is even remotely true, not even a single syllable. The psychopath loves three things: himself, money and power, and nothing else. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPYING 1 Posted April 23, 2022 Share Posted April 23, 2022 1 minute ago, letsdothis said: Spy, I knew you were a psychopath supporter, but that is just beyond ludicrous. None of that is even remotely true, not even a single syllable. The psychopath loves three things: himself, money and power, and nothing else. How's America 🇺🇸 doing since FUCK joe biden has destroyed the American taxpayers with the inflation & the prices of goods are services 🤔 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPYING 1 Posted April 23, 2022 Share Posted April 23, 2022 3 minutes ago, letsdothis said: Spy, I knew you were a psychopath supporter, but that is just beyond ludicrous. None of that is even remotely true, not even a single syllable. The psychopath loves three things: himself, money and power, and nothing else. Are you blind, haven't you seen the price of fuel, food, houses, record high rent, automobiles, building materials Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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