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Originally Posted by Redux
..but in the larger political arena, that there are so many who will rely on one source of information and proclaim they have the facts, even knowing that while it may be factual, it does not tell the whole story.
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Even worse, it makes insightful and analytic discussion mostly impossible. Always necessary are the reasons why. When one is posting a political mantra - without reasons why – the diatribe insults all who learn why before knowing something. Turns discussions nasty. Cheap shots make no contribution to interesting or relevant conversation.
Cheap shots and hateful propaganda is what Sharon did to restart the Intifada. Serbs did it to incite hate in the Balkans. How a massacre was justified in Rwanda and Brunei. Of course an early master was Hitler. Disparage the bourgeois and intelligencia. Then the resulting breakdown of analytic discussion simply empowered his Brownshirts.
Morethanpretty noted this attitude in
Choosing network adapter in the Technology board.
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The cheapshot at TW before he ever even posted in this thread was very unwarranted and bad taste. I don't appreciate it in the politics threads (any of the cheap shots taken by anyone), but shit like that needs to stay in those threads. I generally stay away from them because I don't like all the personal attacks. I hate that the politics threads are so immature and unpleasant because of it,
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To all non-American Cellar dwellers. Years ago, was a warning how confrontational Fox News/Limbaugh rhetoric has made America. The resulting silence told me back then that nobody outside of America appreciated the confrontational attitude. Why "Mission Accomplished" was so necessary when it was so obviously a lie. And why so many Americans thought nothing of kidnapping any other foreigners (extraordinary rendition) because they 'might be evil'. How many back then did not realize a confrontational Fox News, Limbaugh, et al even consider American allies as second class and subordinate peoples? How many did not realize back in 2003 and 2005 how confrontational and adversarial America has become?
Scary how many just know from only one source of information. When Fox News anchormen snicker during news stories so that you know what political agenda to believe. Snickering news anchormen – even Radio Moscow’s 1960 cold war commentators did not snicker.
It was not a accident that we almost got into a shooting war with China over a silly spy plane. How many non-American understand a dangerous that mindset of a large American minority that even consider torture to be normal and acceptable behavior.