Media Meltdown and also Media Bias 101

[LaceyLou]

I should probably stop watching WWII documentaries for a while.... the parallels between then and now are too much. Even the trench coats worn by Nazis like Himmler are making an appearance.

[Tigerbomb13]

 

[CMRivdogs]

 

[CMRivdogs]

Same guy as above

 

[Tigerbomb13]

Sounds like a sweetheart 

[chasfh]

On 1/22/2026 at 5:19 PM, romad1 said:

Actually no.  Mine is a pretty feisty brew of anti-Trumpism.  

Same here. You make your own feed with your associates. 

[chasfh]

13 hours ago, Tigerbomb13 said:

Sounds like a sweetheart 

His job is to harden the hearts of the 30% or so of people who will survive to live under the regime. 

[romad1]

So, next time someone sends a 'hilarious babylon bee' article ask them about the first amendment right of free assembly.  Or just tell them this guy says Ashli Babbitt was a suicide. 

[chasfh]

7 hours ago, romad1 said:

So, next time someone sends a 'hilarious babylon bee' article ask them about the first amendment right of free assembly.  Or just tell them this guy says Ashli Babbitt was a suicide. 

To Joel Berry’s point, a feral red hat’s suicide by cop does test the limits of Christian compassion. 

[CMRivdogs]

It's still gonna end up as smoke and mirrors at Faux..

 

[chasfh]

1 hour ago, CMRivdogs said:

It's still gonna end up as smoke and mirrors at Faux..

 

This is Exhibit A of what a complete tool Trump is, and I mean that literally.

[pfife]

so tick tock is now the administrations spy toy?   Sweet 

[pfife]

Have fun with that.   Theres a reason these winger billionaires are buying social media companies and you can be damn sure it isnt because they want you to have a digital free marketplace of ideas... lmao 

**** all these people and their algorithms

[chasfh]

13 hours ago, pfife said:

Have fun with that.   Theres a reason these winger billionaires are buying social media companies and you can be damn sure it isnt because they want you to have a digital free marketplace of ideas... lmao 

**** all these people and their algorithms

Eighty percent of my social media, at least 80%, is this website right here. I never post at X or Bluesky, and I have stopped commenting on others’ posts; I post only travel stuff and comments on FB; and I have no presence on anything else.

Even so, once they start pairing up our posts here with our PII—and it wouldn’t take much for them to do so, if they haven’t already—then you, I, and a lot of others here are done for.

[romad1]

1 minute ago, chasfh said:

Eighty percent of my social media, at least 80%, is this website right here. I never post at X or Bluesky, and I have stopped commenting on others’ posts; I post only travel stuff and comments on FB; and I have no presence on anything else.

Even so, once they start pairing up our posts here with our PII—and it wouldn’t take much for them to do so, if they haven’t already—then you, I, and a lot of others here are done for.

The only solace you have is to flood the zone.  They couldn't kill everyone on the street with Renee Good and Alex Pretti.  Tucking tail and being the fastest guy when the zombies are chasing your group only works so well.   I am enjoying the FB experience now that me and my fellow Nevertrumpers are being fed a non-stop feed of outrage.   I also enjoy Bsky driving out the bots and trolls.  My philosophy right now is this. 

 

[chasfh]

1 minute ago, romad1 said:

The only solace you have is to flood the zone.  They couldn't kill everyone on the street with Renee Good and Alex Pretti.  Tucking tail and being the fastest guy when the zombies are chasing your group only works so well.   I am enjoying the FB experience now that me and my fellow Nevertrumpers are being fed a non-stop feed of outrage.   I also enjoy Bsky driving out the bots and trolls.  My philosophy right now is this. 

 

Being a citizen who has never been armed, I’m pretty sure I’m gone in the first wave of ordinary citizens. My only hope to go out on my own terms, such as it would be, is to obtain a single pistol and single bullet, and drill with it to make sure it works as intended when it’s time. And when they come for it, and me, that’s when it’s time.

I’m pretty sure my loved one won’t want a bullet for herself.

[oblong]

My special needs son often uses my accounts for searching stuff.... really important things like highway billboards and personalities he sees on TV and maps.  I wonder what that does to my algorithm and what they know about me.  I also like to do just random searches, just gibberish that will lead to something.  Then I start clicking on things that it assumed I meant. I don't worry about it myself.  

[romad1]

1 minute ago, oblong said:

My special needs son often uses my accounts for searching stuff.... really important things like highway billboards and personalities he sees on TV and maps.  I wonder what that does to my algorithm and what they know about me.  I also like to do just random searches, just gibberish that will lead to something.  Then I start clicking on things that it assumed I meant. I don't worry about it myself.  

I watched a neighbor get hauled off to jail with a Homeland Security Investigations van sending a bunch of guys into his house.  That was like a decade ago.  Back then my first instinct was...was he trafficking in stolen art?  Of course it turned out to be child pornography.   A sophisticated authoritarian regime would figure out how to plant that on people's devices.  Which is all to say...if they want YOU they can get you.   These clowns (the Noem/Lewandowski/Bovino crowd) lack that subtlety.

The DOGE crowd do not lack that subtlety.   

[romad1]

OH?

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/jan/26/washington-post-february-job-cuts-layoffs

Could it have to do with destroying the brand?  

[pfife]

Same jabronies spent 70m on a film about melania

Amazon is laying people off too.    I remember when UPS laid people off the argument from the pedo protection squad was because Amazon was doing its own logistics now... so everyone can bask in that latest intance of wrongness

[CMRivdogs]

3 hours ago, oblong said:

My special needs son often uses my accounts for searching stuff.... really important things like highway billboards and personalities he sees on TV and maps.  I wonder what that does to my algorithm and what they know about me.  I also like to do just random searches, just gibberish that will lead to something.  Then I start clicking on things that it assumed I meant. I don't worry about it myself.  

My random ChatGPT "conversation" should have them scratching their heads... 

[romad1]

5 hours ago, CMRivdogs said:

My random ChatGPT "conversation" should have them scratching their heads... 

Coworkers and I were going to ask the various AI tools tonight if manatee could be made to be a slave work force for humans and for instance can manatees be made to chop cotton.  Also, is that a good idea to use an aquatic beast incapable of rapid movement to be a land-based work force. 

[romad1]

Said it after the 2024 elections.  We need a whole new media.   The robber barons are going to control all channels and narratives.  

[gehringer_2]

43 minutes ago, romad1 said:

Said it after the 2024 elections.  We need a whole new media.   The robber barons are going to control all channels and narratives.  

Bezos is making the same mistake at the Post that he is making at Blue Origin, which is trying to run them like Amazon. At Amazon - the bulk of the workforce are commodity. Amazon doesn't need them for who they are, it really does only need their bodies. While that management system - as bad as it is, may work there,  isn't going to work for journalism or high tech manufacturing, because those are places where you do need people exactly for who they are - which means that while you can can get away with pitting workers against each other in a warehouse, you cannot in a fundamentally collegial place like a newsroom or a necessarily deeply cooperative one like cutting edge engineering (he has a forced attrition program in place at Blue Origin). Your develop process is going to grind to a halt when every engineer is trying to steal every other guys glory and no-one trusts or will share anything with anyone. Jacques Nasser pretty well proved this at FoMoCo years ago, but the guys like Bezos just don't want to believe it because their ego doesn't let them admit they don't have the only brain that matters.

[romad1]

1 hour ago, gehringer_2 said:

Bezos is making the same mistake at the Post that he is making at Blue Origin, which is trying to run them like Amazon. At Amazon - the bulk of the workforce are commodity. Amazon doesn't need them for who they are, it really does only need their bodies. While that management system - as bad as it is, may work there,  isn't going to work for journalism or high tech manufacturing, because those are places where you do need people exactly for who they are - which means that while you can can get away with pitting workers against each other in a warehouse, you cannot in a fundamentally collegial place like a newsroom or a necessarily deeply cooperative one like cutting edge engineering (he has a forced attrition program in place at Blue Origin). Your develop process is going to grind to a halt when every engineer is trying to steal every other guys glory and no-one trusts or will share anything with anyone. Jacques Nasser pretty well proved this at FoMoCo years ago, but the guys like Bezos just don't want to believe it because their ego doesn't let them admit they don't have the only brain that matters.

He's the Semaj Morgan of newspaper owners.  Until you prove to me he's not purposefully sabotaging things, i'm only left with the evidence at hand that he is trying to destroy something through his actions.