Free Palestine

[Emperor]

I feel like the proliferation of non standard media (basically everything that is not controlled by the few that ran newspapers and the AP) has caused a "need" to make all mainstream news to be polarizing.

Accuracy and truth are not really needed when shallow reporting backed up by editorials and opinions (which can be woven into the narrative so seamlessly that they are hard to differentiate from facts) are utilized to polarize the masses.

Consider that very few people are actually interested in regular news, mainly because it is either repetitive or boring, or hard to digest due to requiring a wealth of past knowledge to accurately interpret correctly. So it is much better to make the news polarizing, as that way the desired viewership can approach the magic 100%, half of which will believe one way, and half the other.

I use this as an example. My daughter, who is sub high school, knows the names of many politicians. At her age I barely knew the name of the current president. Certainly did not know any senators or reps names. So she has had the dubious benefit of this addition education over what i received. Good or bad, this is the direction that the connectivity of the modern world has given us.

It all goes back to the saying, "there is no such thing as bad publicity". Now these people are making themselves more accessible, using social media to promote their agendas. This broadens their appeal to the ones that agree with them, as well as those that do not. Instead of maybe 10 percent of people knowing who they are, and maybe half of those agreeing with them, they are aiming to get everyone to "tune in" and even if that means that they approach the "magic" 50/50 of love/hate or agree/disagree, they now have orders of magnitude more supporters. I do not believe that this "polarizing" will make any improvements, however I may be wrong.

I would slightly challenge some of this premise. Aside from the poor saps all over the country that have no cable access for alternative news, these viewers of the bigger networks, are essentially cheerleaders. There is no way I would believe that half of the viewers of ABC, NBC, CBS, & CNN are not ideologically vested. After the years of out and out lies from all of them, you simply cannot be a free minded critical thinker if you watch any of them for any other reason than to enforce your own bias and viewpoint. These are not news outlets, these are propaganda mills. They are still ideologically censoring certain "major" news issues just to make these scoundrels in the democrat party look less like the scum and America haters they truly are. I make sure they never darken my life or my living room at 5:30.

I am actually stunned they are all still in business!

 

[machinedrummer]

All this theater will end one day and the only winner is the war machine. The American taxpayers will again have to pay for the rebuilding of all damages on both sides. Unless there is a nuclear exchange…or Jesus returns. Of course along the way we will also lose more freedom in order to keep us safe.

 

[V.Taltos]

I would slightly challenge some of this premise. Aside from the poor saps all over the country that have no cable access for alternative news, these viewers of the bigger networks, are essentially cheerleaders. There is no way I would believe that half of the viewers of ABC, NBC, CBS, & CNN are not ideologically vested. After the years of out and out lies from all of them, you simply cannot be a free minded critical thinker if you watch any of them for any other reason than to enforce your own bias and viewpoint. These are not news outlets, these are propaganda mills. They are still ideologically censoring certain "major" news issues just to make these scoundrels in the democrat party look less like the scum and America haters they truly are. I make sure they never darken my life or my living room at 5:30.

I am actually stunned they are all still in business!

I agree! Gone are the days when the media was the "watchdogs of the people", telling the truth the government wanted kept hidden. Here's a link showing the ownership of the mainstream media networks- https://www.webfx.com/blog/internet/the-6-companies-that-own-almost-all-media-infographic/

I feel the division, the polarization seen in America is being done with the intention of both to keep us from coming together to change the rotten state of the government, but also to do what they've failed to do thus far. Disarming the people. So long as we retain our firearms, they cannot force us to do anything. However, if they goad us into attacking each other, or into threatening to depose the unlawful, unconstitutional government then they can inact martial law and disarm us by force.

I don't watch the MSM news at all except select clips just to see the narrative they are pushing.

 

[WilsonCombatant]

Who’s ready for another paradox?

 

[falshooter]

If only they had a clue

 

[falshooter]

 

[jdindadell]

Those memes are great.

Reminds me of the young lib-inary person holding a sign saying "zombies are people too"

 

[CatCam]

 

[70mikenike70]

Can someone either change the title of this post or delete it? It’s a joke! These idiots are terrorist baby killers that don’t deserve the word ”free” next to their title… Can’t everyone see that we are flooded with these hate filled muslims that want us all dead? Wake up people! The wars that our fathers, brothers, and I fought were just a precursor to what is about to happen here. Our own dumb leaders are letting them in by the thousands!!! I just watched a video of a forklift raising concertina wire up to let them in through the border and border patrol was parked there doing nothing! We have to bind together and pray this eminent threat doesn’t activate Israel 2.0 here!

 

[CatCam]

"Put your trust in God, my boys, and keep your powder dry!"

 

[scoutgunner]

I think I should run for President. I’ll last about a year, but there will be a LOT of changes. First nuke Iran and the rest will behave.

 

[WilsonCombatant]

I think I should run for President. I’ll last about a year, but there will be a LOT of changes. First nuke Iran and the rest will behave.

You got my vote

 

[machinedrummer]

Just tell them the US will not rebuild and or fund either side anymore and all this would stop. They will still shoot each other but the major destruction would stop.

 

[Manimal]

You got my vote

I think I should run for President. I’ll last about a year, but there will be a LOT of changes. First nuke Iran and the rest will behave.

Just curious, were y'all in the military? I was not.

 

[WilsonCombatant]

Just curious, were y'all in the military? I was not.

No sir. I’m a working class nobody

 

[Czechnical]

not really because they are just mercenaries from various places pretending to be religious or ethnic people of certain places. They are willingly evil PoS and the reality of it is that they do not reflect the sentiments of the majority of their populations any more than Pelosi or McConnel do. Do I hold "America" accountable for destroying the most decent place in all of Africa, Lybia? No...that was just the leadership & the mercenaries they hired. The same people the US paid to destroy Libya fight for Hamas, ISIS, Al Qaeda, they are just bought losers with no life goal other than at best martyrdom, but mostly it's the life insurance their families will get after the Mercs get paid for Mercing, eat well, rape and murder people for a while.

There are 200,000+ Palestinian Christians in Israel and Palestine, do they get thrown into the meat grinder too...for the greater good?

A crusader built orthodox christian church was destroyed by an Israeli strike already.

It was ancient. They literally do not care who they bomb, they just see red and everything inside the gaza border is a target, doesn't matter if it's civilians, Christians, atheists, islamists whoever.

It's becoming clear that the goal is to evict the whole strip, or kill everyone in it so that it can be annexed.

 

[DBMJR1]

A crusader built orthodox christian church was destroyed by an Israeli strike already.

It was ancient. They literally do not care who they bomb, they just see red and everything inside the gaza border is a target, doesn't matter if it's civilians, Christians, atheists, islamists whoever.

It's becoming clear that the goal is to evict the whole strip, or kill everyone in it so that it can be annexed.

Just because you don't see the logic, doesn't mean it doesn't exist. They are bombing tunnels under what you see.

 

[Czechnical]

Just because you don't see the logic, doesn't mean it doesn't exist. They are bombing tunnels under what you see.

Chew through civilians and one of the oldest churches in the world to get to the tunnels.....

Damn man...

Who knows the real reason they decided to destroy it, it can't be undone though.

 

[DBMJR1]

Chew threw civilians and one of the oldest churches in the world to get to the tunnels.....

Damn man...

Well if the cowards wouldn't built their tunnels under things, things wouldn't get bombed. Do they build tunnels in a field someplace ? No. They build them under schools and hospitals so they can say, 'oh look at us poor martyrs'.
Want to save lives in Palestine ? Convince all of Hamas to lay down their arms and surrender. Release all of the hostages.

 

[Czechnical]

It baffles me that there are people who believe retaliating against innocents is justifiable on any level and not see it as a war crime...