Tell me what is truthful about obscuring negative associations with an ideology?

It isn't "bad mouthing" an ideology to clearly indicate the consistent ideological association of that ideology with state-sponsored genocide.

That's kind of a big thing.

"Cancer is the rapid growth of cells, just like when you're young and growing strong!" is how most advocates paint socialism. It's dishonest.

Absolutely! He’s simply incoherent and angry! I am sure you’ll forgive me for repeating myself, so here, again, is definitive proof that the Truth has a well-known left bias. It’s a Biden-era fact check guide that was carefully constructed by the finest left wing minds to debunk far right media:

* The inflation is minimal and, regardless, is “temporary”.
* The border is secure, and cannot be closed any further without new congressional legislation.
* Judging by identity instead of character is democratic. (The Atlantic has a particularly insightful article about this.)
* Decriminalizing crime and defunding policing are wonderful ideas.
* Violent crime rates haven’t spiked.
* The working class is doing well economically. Low paid non-citizens weren’t responsible for the vast majority of job gains.
* The laptop is a Russian plant and the Steele Report is gospel.
* Smollet was attacked by MAGA.
* The lab leak theory is not at all credible.
* The GF riots were “peaceful”.
* Extremely adult books in grades schools are appropriate.
* Hormonal and surgical transitions for children are scientific and moral.
* The Afghanistan withdrawal was a success.
* Restarting Nord Stream 2 and stopping PennEast are helpful actions.
* Refusing to arm Ukrainians is a great idea.
* Funding Hamas and Iran is smart.
* The Houthis should be removed from terrorist watch lists.
* Biden is fully mentally competent.
* The majority of Black Americans: support defunding, oppose school choice, oppose VoterID, or support illegal immigration.
* It is “fake news” that Kamala was a border czar, donated to free GF rioters, and was rated the most liberal Senator.
* The government isn’t telling social media to suppress dissenting empirically backed information.
* Mississippi is fascist, and isn’t measurably doing a far better job teaching Black American children than progressive California

Now, also, we must be very careful. These far right folks are sneaky. I’ve seen misinformation from far right folks that classically liberal right leaning ideals like blind justice, free speech, decentralized governance, property rights, capitalism, free agency, rule of law, empiricism, falsifiability, judgement by merit, and the sanctity of individual life are NOT actually causes of fascist bigotry, but are empirically proven necessary for a flourishing humane government. Do NOT listen to them! Reality has a left wing bias!

at 100A ? No idea, I don't claim any expertise in the specifics. I heard they run a lot of DC too. Sounds wild.

Take your blinders off. Stop obsessing with “cope”, “X”, “Russia”, “republicans”, “democrats”, and “Reddit” - do your own research. All of the items I listed are easily proven false. Understanding this is key to making the world a better place. Here’s just a small sample of what’s actually true:

Gallup shows that approximately 75-80 percent of Black Americans actually support Voter ID, support school choice, and oppose defunding their local police.

And Black American Mississippi fourth graders are more than twice as likely as their California counterparts to be reading proficient. Also, per https://oxfordeagle.com/2025/0... :

“Notably, African American, Hispanic and economically disadvantaged Mississippi 4th graders outperform their peers nationally. African American students rank No. 3 in the nation for reading and math scores, Hispanic students rank No. 1 for reading and No. 2 for math, and economically disadvantaged fourth graders rank No. 1 in reading and No. 2 for math.”

Yes. And they got a Pulitzer for hiding the Holodomor.

It’s a hundred year pattern. The NYT was also pretty happy early on with Lenin, Trotsky, Mussolini, Stalin, Spanish Republicans, Mao, Ho Chin Min, Pol Pot (!), Khomenei, Ortega, Chavez, and Putin. Give the NYT a leftist narrative and odds are high that it’ll glaze it.

They’re the “paper of record” after all.

Congrats on 15 year old propaganda. Today they can build better quality cars faster and cheaper. And before you open your yap about safety, these vehicles pass EU safety standards which are more stringent than what the USA requires.

I could be persuaded to your line of thinking but it's easy for me as someone that doesn't do social media, unless you count /. of course.

I think a lot of people would be rather upset with that outcome and would definitely push back on the idea.

It's not that your outline for how social media should work is bad (I think it's good actually) but given how society is already structured, it will be difficult to change this. Maybe all the lawsuits happening will help. We might get a tiny bit of what you suggest, though I don't see ads ever going away (which sucks, I hate them).

That use to be true but now it requires two incomes where as 50 years ago, it required one income. This is not isolated to just USA either.

Also, depending on how you prioritize your earnings from your 8 hour a day job, of course you will have enough to cover food. Possibly not a car or vacations or anything that makes life actual worth living but that's up to how you prioritize your earnings.

I know if you work any kind of job that's bring down less then the average, you are asking for economic hardship by adding kids to the equation. Sad but that's where we are.

Europe doesn't have ANY of those problems though, right? Y'all have affordable housing, free childcare, free food, free education (though I don't see WHY people come to USA university if your Euro colleges are free). Did I miss anything or is that stuff not actually free their either?

Exactly right brother! Need proof? Just take a look at these Biden era left-approved fact checks:

* The inflation is minimal and, regardless, is “temporary”.
* The border is secure, and cannot be closed any further without new congressional legislation.
* Judging by identity instead of character is democratic. (The Atlantic has a particular insightful article about this.)
* Decriminalizing crime and defunding policing are wonderful ideas.
* Violent crime rates haven’t spiked.
* The working class is doing well economically. Low paid non-citizens weren’t responsible for the vast majority of job gains.
* The laptop is a Russian plant and the Steele Report is gospel.
* Smollet was attacked by MAGA.
* The lab leak theory is not at all credible.
* The GF riots were “peaceful”.
* Extremely adult books in grades schools are appropriate.
* Hormonal and surgical transitions for children are scientific and moral.
* The Afghanistan withdrawal was a success.
* Restarting Nord Stream 2 and stopping PennEast are helpful actions.
* Refusing to arm Ukrainians is a great idea.
* Funding Hamas and Iran is smart.
* The Houthis should be removed from terrorist watch lists.
* Biden is fully mentally competent.
* The majority of Black Americans: support defunding, oppose school choice, oppose VoterID, or support illegal immigration.
* It is “fake news” that Kamala was a border czar, donated to free GF rioters, and was rated the most liberal Senator.
* The government isn’t telling social media to suppress dissenting empirically backed information.
* Mississippi is fascist, and isn’t measurably doing a far better job teaching Black American children than progressive California.

Brilliant!

The only "voting" that happens in a union is when they present you with the contract that they negotiated on your behalf. The union will literally tell the workers, "Okay, this is a good deal and we should accept it." Most people will blindly do whatever the union suggest. My favorite part of the contract negotiations is how both sides try so hard to look like they are "winning" when anyone with half a clue realized that 99% of that contract is already figured out and we're really just posturing to look good to the shareholders and the union members.

Don't get me wrong, a lot of industries do well with a union. I know my union job is definitely better then the exact same job that is not union, though not by a great deal.

The real job of the union leadership is to continue to provide income for union leadership. Ideally, this lines up with providing the best deal they can get for their members, but not necessarily. If an okay deal is all they can muster, that's still better for union leadership then no deal at all.

I still ultimately think union membership is an overall good thing but there are of course pluses and minuses. They are good for worker class jobs but actual professional middle class jobs, I don't know that I would agree. Then again, nurses seem to be doing just fine, so maybe they are good for "real" jobs as well.

Wow, now society owes you a job because that's a human right now also? Guess that "right" is being violated regularly across the globe, even in Europe, that golden city on a hill.

If this is all the Republicans fault, then why didn't the fucking Democrats handle shit when they had the necessary majorities to pass stuff? It's a serious question. If team blue is so fucking noble, then why haven't they setup paradise where they have super-majorities?

Turns out, politicians don't actually give a fuck about the people. What they say is absolutely irrelevant when after all these years, they are still promising to fix the same problems we had decades ago.

But yes, it's ALL the Republicans fault. Keep letting them divide you and pitting you against your neighbor. New flash, you have more in common with a typical Republican then you ever will with the politicians you vote for.