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  • The Democratic party refused to understand that courting the right doesn't work, and now it's cost them the election

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  • They don't want to give up their share of rich donors and insider trading privileges.

  • Writing contest

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  • It's called Tractorbeam Earth because it's a quarterly publication run as a sweepstakes by Tractor Beverages, Inc.

    Tractor Beverages is a corporation in Coeur d’Alene, ID that sells canned beverages through Amazon and Walmart, correct?

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    Trump rally at Madison Square Garden follows a long tradition in politics

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  • Let's be clear that I am anti-Putin and anti-Kim.

    Ad-hominem means "to the man" -- that is, instead of attacking the message, one attacks the credibility of the messenger. This also includes when instead of defending the credibility of a message, one defends the credibility of the messenger. Ad-hominem is exactly the purpose of the MBFC bot. Instead of fact-checking the individual article, it tells you if the article is credible or not based on its clearly biased assessment of the article outlet.

    You are correct in that ad-hominem is generally a terrible way of judging credibility. I am not making an ad-hominem fallacy. I am responding to an ad-hominem fallacy that has been spammed in every thread in this community.

  • Israel says it's conducting 'precise strikes on military targets' in Iran

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  • Groups like MBFC use their position as gatekeepers of the political spectrum to disguise radical ideas as centrist positions, and it’s ironic that !world using such a biased propaganda platform to tell its readers what is credible.

    Bias is not the same thing as propaganda, propaganda is not the same thing as misinformation. Articles should be evaluated on how factual they are, and there are plenty of platforms that are doing the hard work of verifying information without putting their political ideology above their credibility. This bot is a mistake.

    Before removing the bot, !news mods removed comments critical of the bot, and ignored the overwhelming negative feedback and the consensus that the bot should be removed when they opened the discussion up to the community.

    !politics and !world now appear to be willing to change course. The vote to "Kill" -- stop their bot from advertising MBFC in all of their posts -- appears to be leading in both communities.

    If you upvote the Kill comment so that this lead becomes a landslide, you can make it even more embarrassing and difficult for them to claim 'bots' or backtrack.

  • Elon Musk’s super PAC awards $1 million prizes to 2 registered voters, despite DOJ warning

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  • MBFC is claiming CNN is Left-Center, when it is owned by conservative billionaire John Malone. This is an example of MBFC's intentional distortion of the political spectrum by falsely representing it as dominated by a left-wing bias.

    An example of CNN's actual right-wing bias is when they put an obvious Trump Supporter on their televised panel of 'undecided voters'. According to Parker Molloy from The New Republic, this isn't "an isolated case of questionable representation in CNN’s voter panels. In fact, it appears to be part of a troubling pattern stretching back years." She suggests it could be "a potential willingness to mislead viewers for the sake of compelling television." - media ownership and their profit motive, and complicity of the media elite are sources of bias that MBFC does not adequately account for.

    !politics and !world now appear to be willing to consider backing away from MBFC. The vote to "Kill" -- stop their bot from advertising MBFC in all of community posts -- appears to be leading in both communities.

    If you upvote the Kill comment so that this lead becomes a landslide, you can make it even more embarrassing and difficult for them to claim 'bots' or backtrack.

  • Chinese hackers believed to have targeted Trump, Vance cellphones: Sources

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  • ABC News is a brand of Disney Advertising. It is lead by a conservative billionaire, and is not a left-biased organization.

    Fact-checking is an essential tool in fighting the waves of fake news polluting the public discourse. But if that fact-checking is partisan, then it only acerbates the problem of people divided on the basics of a shared reality. Dave Van Zandt has admitted to a US-centric bias in MBFC's ratings. It's fairly easy to notice an American conservative lean in MBFC's bias ratings, as well as their credibility ratings.

    A consortium of fact-checking institutions have joined together to form the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN), and laid out a code of principles. You can find a list of signatories as well as vetted organizations on their website. MBFC is not a signatory to the IFCN code of principles. As a partisan organization, it violates the standards that journalists have recognized as essential to restoring trust in the veracity of the news. Partisan fact-checking sites are worse than no fact-checking at all. Just like how the proliferation of fake news undermines the authority of journalism, the growing popularity of a fact-checking site by a political hack like Dave M. Van Zandt undermines the authority of non-partisan fact-checking institutions in the public consciousness.

    Please choose "Kill" -- to stop giving free advertising to MBFC on Lemmy.

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  • Voice of America (VOA) is a state media network funded by the United States of America, whose purpose is to project soft power through journalism. In 1948, Voice of America was forbidden to broadcast directly to American citizens to protect the public from propaganda by its own government. The restriction was removed in 2013 to to adapt to the Internet age.

    In 2005, the Washington Post reported that suspected Al-qaeda operatives were flown into Thailand to be detained and tortured. VOA's remote relay radio station in Udon Thani province has been widely suspected to be the torture site.

    Most people do not believe that propaganda is anything that disagrees with the United States Government's foreign policy, and find the idea that the VOA is less biased than the New York Times laughable. Lemmy.World endorses these absurdities by advertising Media Bias Fact Check in every post in their community. You have a limited time to let !politics and !world know what you think.

  • The double standard for Harris and Trump has reached a breaking point | One candidate can rant about gibberish while the other has to be perfect.

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  • For the first time in decades, The Washington Post will not endorse a candidate in this year’s presidential election, the newspaper’s publisher announced Friday, a decision that sparked widespread outrage among the paper’s staffers.

    “The Washington Post will not be making an endorsement of a presidential candidate in this election. Nor in any future presidential election,” Post publisher Will Lewis said in a statement. “We are returning to our roots of not endorsing presidential candidates.”

    The Post reported the decision not to endorse was made by the newspaper’s billionaire owner, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, citing two sources briefed on the matter.

    -- CNN

    Media Bias Fact Check is a right-wing propaganda tool to repeat the laughable lie that the media has a left-wing bias.

  • A Wind Power Crisis Is Holding Back the World’s Green Energy Goal

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  • PTFE and chemicals used in its production are some of the best-known and widely applied PFAS, which are persistent organic pollutants. PTFE occupies more than half of all fluoropolymer production, followed by polyvinylidene fluoride (PVdF).

    -- Polytetrafluoroethylene on Wikipedia

  • 300 protesters block the road outside the MoJ demanding Labour ‘Free Political Prisoners’

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  • Great singing, coordination, and choreography.

  • Afghan Taliban vow to implement media ban on images of living things

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  • Voice of America (VOA) is a state media network funded by the United States of America, whose purpose is to project soft power through journalism. In 1948, Voice of America was forbidden to broadcast directly to American citizens to protect the public from propaganda by its own government. The restriction was removed in 2013 to to adapt to the Internet age.

    In 2005, the Washington Post reported that suspected Al-qaeda operatives were flown into Thailand to be detained and tortured. VOA's remote relay radio station in Udon Thani province has been widely suspected to be the torture site. VOA has been conspicuously silent on the charges. Their reporters have unparalleled access to the details of the case, but none of them appear to have done any investigation.

    According to David Van Zandt in MBFC's methodology:

    It’s crucial to note that our bias scale is calibrated to the political spectrum of the United States

    To better understand this statement, it should be noted that MBFC regards VOA as "least biased" despite its uncontroversial status as the United States' official propaganda outlet.

  • Clean energy workers are desperately needed, but many don't know these jobs exist

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  • Clean energy infrastructure is desperately needed, but capitalists don't want to pay labor a fair wage.

    The stories I hear from tradespeople in clean energy work is that entry level positions are paying less, and the bonuses they were seeing when they started are drying up. Many are looking to move away from clean-energy specific labor and into electrical or construction where unions are better established.

    Improperly installed solar panels short out and fail early, carelessly sealed roof mountings leak and damage the dwelling, and most importantly, pressured novice workers make often fatal mistakes while working with electricity or at significant heights. To those with the experience of prison labor as a baseline, the risks and rewards of this kind of labor may be attractive. But most tradespeople know these jobs exist, and choose not to take them.

    Instead of support for labor, you see state, provincial, and national incentives to recruit new workers into these fields, as well as articles like this one touting the potential of employment in the clean energy economy. But noticeably absent from the article is any mention of labor organization or workers protections for the people doing this work. If the state was serious about building this infrastructure, they would make these fields union jobs. That's the only way to get quality renewable energy infrastructure built at scale.

  • Eric Adams Allegedly Took Bribes to Erase the Genocide That Killed My Ancestors

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  • I think David Van Zandt has a vendetta against Philip Weiss. Racists tend to be unfeeling or feel contempt for 'lesser' racial groups, and are merely indifferent to their suffering. The most intense 'hate' in hate groups comes from the intensity of feeling racists have toward other people of their own race they perceive as 'race traitors' - who demonstrate that people who share their culture and heritage can afford empathy for the 'other' whom racists believe are unworthy of concern.

    Truthout is a reputable website, with good journalism and reporting. There's a number of other websites that report favorably on Palestinians, and don't toe Van Zandt's line that criticism of Israel and antisemitism are the same thing. They have higher 'Credibility' and 'Factual Reporting' scores than Truthout. But Truthout occasionally rehosts reporting from Mondoweiss, a site that Van Zandt has labelled as 'antisemitic,' and therefore Truthout must be punished for giving support to the most notorious enemy of Israel -- 'self-hating' Jews.

  • Trump false reply to question about keeping jobs in US: "I was honored as the man of the year. Maybe 20 years ago. The fake news heard about it and said, it never happened…"

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  • HuffPost was founded by four people, including Arianna Huffington, CEO of Thrive Global, and Andrew Breitbart, who also built the alt-right outlet Breitbart News. Breitbart was also instrumental in founding The Drudge Report, an early popular news site that promoted news and opinion favorable to the Republican Party, and was The Huffington Post's direct inspiration, with the focus instead on the Democratic party and 'progressive' values.

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    Just Stop Oil activists jailed for throwing soup over Van Gogh’s Sunflowers

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    Just Stop Oil activists jailed for throwing soup over Van Gogh’s Sunflowers

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  • Tom Nicholas is really great in this piece. SLRPNK link

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    Just Stop Oil activists jailed for throwing soup over Van Gogh’s Sunflowers

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  • People who get angry at Just Stop Oil tactics are just showing their ignorance of civil rights and protest history.

  • The AI Boom Is Raising Hopes of a Nuclear Comeback

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  • Alex de Vries predicted that current AI technology could be on track to annually consume as much electricity as the entire country of Ireland (29.3 terawatt-hours per year). For comparison, the Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index suggests Bitcoin uses 141-160 terawatt-hours (TWhs) of electricity annually. That’s ~0.7% of the world's consumed electricity in 2022. The process of minting cryptocurrency is a very public activity, so the numbers are difficult to fudge. The cost of bringing extremely expensive nuclear reactors back online and driving demand for environmentally destructive Uranium mining and processing suggests de Vries' guess was conservative.

    I'm reminded of Jevon's Paradox as applied to energy generation. I hope the AI bubble pops before much more investment goes into nuclear energy.