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micnd90 [he/him,any]

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  • EPA is dead (1970-2026)

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  • Yeah I'm just saying EPA came to life despite of Nixon, not because of Nixon.

  • EPA is dead (1970-2026)

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  • Brought to life by Ralph Nader yelling at people about seat belts and environmental pollution. Ralph managed to lobby and pass 3 out of 3 of the most significant livesaving policies of our lifetime, seatbelt, Clean Water Act and Clean Air Act all under Nixon presidency. Ralph is an annoying lib, but no one can argue that he is the greatest policymaker in US history.

  • Upcoming Bicycle Tech: Indicators

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  • What's wrong with just using your arm, you need to shoulder check before lane change anyway

  • news @hexbear.net
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    Bring back arbeit macht frei

  • Is it wrong to like Chomsky's "Manufacturing Consent"?

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  • I would argue that network news (NBC, CBS, ABC) are not as relevant as they are in shaping public opinion, their viewership have been tanking compared to the 80/90s. People don't watch network news for news, except for really old boomers in retirement homes. A one-on-one interview with the sitting President back in the 80s or 90s would give the network news show big scoop and translate to big ratings, these days not so much. Most working people these days get their news online from social media, from a very fragmented media landscape. People want to watch a short "take" on interview with the President from someone they trust, not the whole interview itself.

    The "manufacturing consent" in fragmented media landscapes these days in my opinion are largely done via class-based exclusion, mainly in primary (written) news, e.g., NYT, AP, Reuters, Politico, WaPo. The clearest example here is that a famous White House Correspondent in the past was maybe Dan Rather. He was a son of manual laborer and both of his parents were highschool dropouts. Now the NYT White House Correspondent is Maggie Haberman, her dad Clyde Haberman was already a big shot NYT writer, and her father-in-law ran Carnegie Corporation. These days journalism is a white collar job and there's barely any class representation in mainstream news media.

  • Slop. @hexbear.net
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    Peter Thiel says Greta Thunberg is the antichrist

  • Is it wrong to like Chomsky's "Manufacturing Consent"?

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  • My point was that the book is relevant as a piece of history if you want to understand US media landscape at the time, but now it is outdated.

  • Is it wrong to like Chomsky's "Manufacturing Consent"?

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  • It's not wrong, but I think the thesis itself has lost relevance. The main thesis of Manufacturing Consent is that corporate owned media trade favorable pieces and filter out dissenting voice through sets of soft incentives, mainly for access. Being in a Whitehouse Press Corps is one of the main example. This thesis might be relevant in the 80s or 90s, back when being journalist was still a working class job, but it is not relevant now.

    Manufacturing Consent fail to address the class dynamics of post-internet journalism. From 2000 onward, access is not that relevant. What is relevant is that journalism stopped being a working class job. People don't do the gauntlet of covering local news such as local baseball league in smalltown USA to be an Editor of national newspaper anymore. Local news is mostly dead. Instead, all major journalists are coastal nepo-babies, they now come from the same class, i.e., bourgeoisie as the people they cover. They go to the same Ivy League schools as congressional staffers. Even without trading access, the journalists themselves already grew up and believe the propaganda of the ruling class and US hegemony.

    Next time you read some NYT or Washington reporting piece from a no name journalist, not even opinion piece writers like Ezra Klein or Tom Friedman - just try to google their names and see if they come from working class background, very likely they're not. For example Sydney Ember was a lowly campaign reporter for NYT (she famously covered Bernie 2020) - her dad is a Hollywood producer and screenwriter. Alexander Aciman does a lowly job of being Wirecutter reviewer for NYT, completely apolitical, he's reviewing shit like T-shirts, socks, alarm clocks etc. and he's a son of NYU professor.

  • Mikhaila Peterson: 'My family's brutal health crises—Jordan paralyzed, baby turning blue—feel like the work of the Devil.'

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  • Mikhaila Peterson: 'My family's brutal health crises—Jordan paralyzed, baby turning blue—feel like the work of the Devil.'

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  • Wait I thought JP is turning blue, which is whatever. Her baby is turning blue? Someone call CPS

  • Mikhaila Peterson: 'My family's brutal health crises—Jordan paralyzed, baby turning blue—feel like the work of the Devil.'

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  • PSA: Listen kids, eat your brocs 🥦 and salad 🥗

  • electoralism @hexbear.net
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    What the hell is wrong with Imperial Asia?

  • Everyone outside the US is facing repercussions over ties with Epstein

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  • Just send the cops to raid and prosecute Mandelson, it's not that hard

  • news @hexbear.net
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    Everyone outside the US is facing repercussions over ties with Epstein

  • Professional sport should be abolished

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  • Why not just abolish the stupid rule about skintight suit and go full on flying squirrel, I'd watch the competition

  • The latest Epstien files show just how deep the connection with Chomsky was, they were basically best friends.

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  • Noam "Manufacturing Consent" Chomsky hits different now

  • Chapotraphouse @hexbear.net
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    I thought Pam Bondi is the country's top hog, I guess she fell off

  • news @hexbear.net
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    How it started vs. How it's going - Friday Jan 30th 2026 - Monday February 2nd 2026

  • It sure looks like JK Rowling was a personal friend of Jeffrey Epstein, AFTER he was already convicted

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  • I don't see it that way, but it is up to interpretation of course. It is more of an anti imperialist, anti war story, and having teenagers going through horrors of wars and losing innocence. I can't speak fully for them because I'm not trans, but I know many trans influencers have claimed that a subplot of a character in Animorphs who enjoyed being in animal body moreso than his human body as a trans allegory.

    The antiwar message especially rang true considering the series ended during the peak of US War on Terror in 2001. Some fans have argued that Applegate drove the ending into the ditch out of spite because she disagreed with the war (kinda based in hindsight lol). Here's a quote from the author

    So, you don’t like the way our little fictional war came out? You don’t like SPOILERS You don’t like that one war simply led to another? Fine. Pretty soon you’ll all be of voting age, and of draft age. So when someone proposes a war, remember that even the most necessary wars, even the rare wars where the lines of good and evil are clear and clean, end with a lot of people dead, a lot of people crippled, and a lot of orphans, widows and grieving parents.

  • It sure looks like JK Rowling was a personal friend of Jeffrey Epstein, AFTER he was already convicted

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  • Animorphs chads stay winning

  • Anyone else watching A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms?

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  • I'm patiently waiting until they finish the season to binge watch. I'm not into the weekly <40 min episode format.

  • Good news everyone, you don't have to eat meat. I made enough gazpacho for all!

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  • The only reply I need

  • food @hexbear.net
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    Good news everyone, you don't have to eat meat. I made enough gazpacho for all!

  • news @hexbear.net
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    Have you considered that Hamas is using a human shield, or the kid and baby could literally be Hamas?

  • Games @hexbear.net
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    Hell yeah

  • I'm finally getting the urge to change my distro from Mint to something else. When distro hopping do you basically have to start from scratch again?

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  • Games @hexbear.net
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    My favorite Souls youtuber made a great long form video essay comparing Horsent genocide in the Shadow of Erdtree DLC with the ongoing genocide in Gaza

  • U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM PhDs since Trump took office, which is equivalent to 106,636 years worth of experience and institutional knowledge

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  • Uncs with PhDs working for the Forest Service ain't exactly STEMlords either

  • Damn... this sucks

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  • Rashida is the best (D), but yeah I don't have high expectations, their party mascot is literally an ass

  • electoralism @hexbear.net
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    Damn... this sucks

  • Science @hexbear.net
    micnd90 [he/him,any] @hexbear.net

    U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM PhDs since Trump took office, which is equivalent to 106,636 years worth of experience and institutional knowledge

  • Slop. @hexbear.net
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    WHY WOULD YOU PUT THE CREAMY CHICKEN ON THE HEADLINE!? FOR WHAT LITERAL PURPOSE NYT?

  • sports @hexbear.net
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    BBC Sport seething that Pep Guardiola attended charity event and spoke for people of Gaza instead of doing mandatory pre/post match interview that is a waste of everyone's time

  • Chapotraphouse @hexbear.net
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    Let's check on how Bari Weiss' free-speech Chud-U is doing

  • Slop. @hexbear.net
    micnd90 [he/him,any] @hexbear.net

    I heard y'all talking about ICE?

  • politics @hexbear.net
    micnd90 [he/him,any] @hexbear.net

    AlJazeera spitting 🔥🔥🔥🔥[yoga fire] 🔥🔥🔥🔥 like Dhalsim