Media Meltdown and also Media Bias 101

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Bumper music on CBS for the playoff game… Bulls on parade. Coincidence given recent events?  

[chasfh]

1 hour ago, mtutiger said:

Is the position here that a platform should be able to create and disseminate AI child porn without any sort of consequences?

I promise you that if X/Twitter were owned by a liberal and their version of Grok was doing this, they would be shut down, their top people would be arrested and put on show trial, and the rest of the liberal social media ecosystem (e.g., Bluesky) would all be sanctioned or worse right along with them.

[Tigerbomb13]

 

[romad1]

1 hour ago, oblong said:

Bumper music on CBS for the playoff game… Bulls on parade. Coincidence given recent events?  

Someone on their staff wanting to says something or they are saying the cops are right?

[romad1]

2 hours ago, mtutiger said:

Is the position here that a platform should be able to create and disseminate AI child porn without any sort of consequences?

Perhaps some would come for the kiddie porn but stay for the "for you" content that Supernazi billionaire owner Elon wants them to see and normalize. 

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10 minutes ago, romad1 said:

Someone on their staff wanting to says something or they are saying the cops are right?

It’s rage against the machine so it’s very appropriate for what went down in MN. Like most of their it’s about enforcing control, patriotic language masking brutality, conditioning the public to accept the feds violence, teaching who the enemy is without questioning. 

or it could have just been a cool riff  

Given what I know about the fox producers that make these decisions I expect a heavy Dead presence in the later game. Provided there’s time to do such things given Bobs passing yesterday.  

[romad1]

4 minutes ago, oblong said:

It’s rage against the machine so it’s very appropriate for what went down in MN. Like most of their it’s about enforcing control, patriotic language masking brutality, conditioning the public to accept the feds violence, teaching who the enemy is without questioning. 

or it could have just been a cool riff  

Given what I know about the fox producers that make these decisions I expect a heavy Dead presence in the later game. Provided there’s time to do such things given Bobs passing yesterday.  

Its funny that my gut instinct is still very conservative in that I reject the older media that had that type of rhetoric even if I totally understand the emotions now.   

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Obviously I understand.  We were part of or supportive of “the machine”.  That machine has been overtaken by others. But I can also see why I was wrong on some things too. 

[gehringer_2]

45 minutes ago, romad1 said:

Its funny that my gut instinct is still very conservative

If we could get back to normal institutional stability I'd be glad to argue with my most liberal friends about a lot of things, but old style liberal/conservative policy detail debates today feel like worrying about the hang nails of a patient with a metastatic carcinoma. 

Edited yesterday at 09:20 PM by gehringer_2

[Netnerd]

4 hours ago, Tigeraholic1 said:

Nothing says freedom like banning speech you don’t like.

Jimmy Kimmel says hello.

[Tigerbomb13]

37 minutes ago, Netnerd said:

Jimmy Kimmel says hello.

And the crew of 60 Minutes

[Tigeraholic1]

So an NFL game sound loop of a super popular 90’s song is code for the left to rise up? I might just stay up here in the UP until spring. 🙄

[VegasTiger]

You're not important. You'll be fine.

[pfife]

3 hours ago, Tigeraholic1 said:

the left 

shots

[chasfh]

17 hours ago, Tigerbomb13 said:

 

I’m 100% in support of his position, but TBF, Hizzoner is being disingenuous here. It’s one thing to own the inflammatory nature of the comment he made, which I think he should and, again, I’m totally in support of it. It’s another to deny that what he said was even inflammatory in the first place. It clearly was, and he knows it was. It would be more honest for him to acknowledge its flammable nature while saying that even so, it doesn’t even nearly rise to the level of murdering his citizens, and that the truly heinous post-shooting act here is the equivocation of the two by the regime, or worse, the elevating of his f bomb as being worse than the murder, which is definitely happening. That would be honest, and fair.

[chasfh]

17 hours ago, romad1 said:

Someone on their staff wanting to says something or they are saying the cops are right?

I had thought it was someone slyly putting across some dissent, but I suppose it could also be the power that be co-opting the aggressive nature of the song while neutering its intent.

[romad1]

4 minutes ago, chasfh said:

I had thought it was someone slyly putting across some dissent, but I suppose it could also be the power that be co-opting the aggressive nature of the song while neutering its intent.

Like "Born in the USA"

[chasfh]

17 hours ago, romad1 said:

Perhaps some would come for the kiddie porn but stay for the "for you" content that Supernazi billionaire owner Elon wants them to see and normalize. 

That’s actually a pretty good point. It is probably well known in those circles that their most ardent supporters index very high for interest in CSAM, so they may be driving the Grok news story about it to attract degenerate stragglers to X and energize them to their cause. Neo-nazism and CSAM consumption are among the most transgressive behaviors on the planet, so I would guess the Venn between them would be unusually high.

[chasfh]

1 minute ago, romad1 said:

Like "Born in the USA"

And “Fortunate Son”.

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And Good Riddance. (Do they even look at the title of the song?)

My best example of that is when Fox ran a Princess Di special after she died and it closed with that song.   But maybe they were being clever too.

 

[romad1]

I'm liking the pitchbot's t-shirt at the top of his page. 

 

[gehringer_2]

1 hour ago, romad1 said:

Like "Born in the USA"

One of the great misappropriations of a song that always made me laugh was when GM was using the instrumental lead in to the Who's 'Emminence Front' in the their truck ads, when the song is as much an anti-advertising/marketing screed as has ever been penned. I guess it works for people like my SO who says she never heard/knew the lyrics on any R&R songs.

[pfife]

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15 minutes ago, pfife said:

that always made me laugh... even at the time when I supported the guy. I'd still be ok with him as POTUS.

Speaking of fitness..

Nearly everybody in this is doing a Kettlebell swing incorrectly.  And what's funny about Pete is he's being limpwristed about it. This is embarassingly bad.  It's the first thing you learn when you pick one of those up