• NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    What? No…say it isn’t so. Fox News is a propaganda mouthpiece? I am just shocked I tell you, absolutely gobsmack shocked.

    In other news…the sky is blue, for reasons that the Trump administration have deemed, illegal.

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    2 months ago

    Before you get too excited, this was an interview with OAN, and that she thinks people should be paying more attention to OAN

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      2 months ago

      I prefer “stopped clock,” since broken clocks can often continue ticking, albeit at the wrong speed.

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          She probably gets a couple softball questions right from time to time :

          🗣 " Today is Thursday, right?"

          🧟‍♀️ “Yessssssss!”

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        2 months ago

        A broken clock, whether it ticks too fast or too slow, is still right at least once every 24 hours, I think.

        The only exception would be one that ticks correctly but is not set to the right time (does this count as broken?)

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          If it ticks faster than time than it would be right more than once (24hr time) a day, the faster it ticks the more times it will incidentally be correct (perhaps there is an allegory here…)

          A clock that ticks slower than time would be right less than once a day, but it can never…

          I feel like I need a simulator to understand this relationship actually…

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            2 months ago

            I was thinking of analog 12hr clock with no distinction between AM and PM

            I wonder if your 24hr clock example would be more intuitive as frequencies and phases?

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              I was also visualizing the round analogue clock face, but didn’t want to muddy the water by saying “twice” when I guess it’s technically only once, just no am/pm delineation.

              I am puzzling over this at work now. I guess a fast clock could be right almost infinite times a day if it ran fast enough, but a slow clock can only be as slow as a whisper faster than stopped, which would mean it could be right alllllllllllllmost twice a day, but never twice a day.

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            2 months ago

            Where in my comment did I ever suggest that I don’t understand this?

            I was just reflecting on the comment that I was responding to, which was specifying that a broken clock may be running fast or slow, instead of being stopped.

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      Kinda. MTG is ragging on Fox News, sure, but she’s also both-sides’ing media outlets on the left with her full quote:

      We have propaganda news on our side just as the left does

      She’s fishing for people to agree with her which legitimizes her claim that left-leaning news networks are just as untrustworthy as Fox News, which is an untrustworthy news outlet, but she doesn’t say shit about Breitbart or OANN or any of the other right-wing superspreaders of misinformation.

      So, she is a broken clock that’s currently pointing at the correct time, but she did it in a way to sneak in an untruth or two in there hoping that people would pick up on that and amplify the message.

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        I have not looked at the American mainstream press for a few months, but honestly cannot remember any broadcasters or papers who are decently covering all news

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        Putting the new York times and fox news in the same category is correct as far as I can tell. I don’t oppose her calling NYT republican either.

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        Look, fuck this racist asshole Marjory. But liberal news sources are also largely garbage. The NYT, for example (well respected by liberals) is constantly giving voice to reactionaries, lying by omission, supporting US imperialism and just generally upholding the status quo, even when it means normalizing/legitimizing fresh horrors from republicans.

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    You know, I was pretty adapted to this whole “dumbest reality” thing. I thought I had a good handle on it.

    Now I’m agreeing with Bimbo Spacelasers on a political stance… I’m literally having an existential crisis to that.

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      She’s not actually a space laser, that’s just something she’d like you to believe, she’s actually one of those blinky lights that nobody knows what it’s for, you just don’t know what youd do if it ever went out.

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      Yeah that’s the thing, shes broadcasting to people that need to hear this, that would never see this in their feeds otherwise. Bannon and Carlson are too.

      But if Trump pulls the trigger? Well, let’s see how they’ll cross him.

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    I have no idea if she’s just that stupid and only sees one move in front of her, or if she always knew but it’s only now suitable for her to say the truth. (It’s also possible it’s both with these people.)

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    You know things are really fucked when you find yourself saying “hell yeah” to statements by mtg and tucker