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I'd love to hear an example or this happening.
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Government shutdown. Wall stuff. Multiple things related to COVID. "Liberate <state>." Those just to start, really.
To be fair, there's a lot more in the way of feedback loop between Trump and Fox than anything adversarial - especially when it comes to the relationship between Trump and Hannity, who's been known at times as basically a
shadow chief of staff. Still, to be clear, are you actually seriously not aware of how influenced by Fox News Trump is? The sheer number of tweets reacting to one thing or another that was on Fox, alone, should clue you in a bit on the influence there.
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I also hope things keep getting better. Will the long-term damage be in 30 years the history books saying "Trump was actually a Russian agent who infiltrated the White House to end the sanctions on Russia."?
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If the damage was limited to just something of that level, it would be lovely.
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That's nonsense, because it was testing for people of equal wealth. That'd be even better if it showed equal happiness controlled for differences in depression and other mental illnesses. lol
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Hmm? So, shall I assume that all you were actually doing was trying to cherry pick, then, rather than reading what was said for understanding and comprehension?
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Being happy under ******** life circumstances makes you more mentally healthy, than someone that bases their mood on externals.
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I disagree. Facing reality is more a sign of good mental health than running away from the truth with self-delusion. It's when you can
handle reality well with as little self-delusion as possible (it's effectively impossible to get rid of all self-delusion, regardless) that you can be said to be mentally healthy and if you add facing tough circumstances to that, then you can truly be said to be mentally strong. Running away is certainly easier, though.
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I thought you had me, but the situation is actually more sad. Most liberals, similar to hippy-types act as if they are happy in front of other people but are miserable on the inside. They go out and smile and act friendly but underneath the skin tells a darker story. It's a similar story for my mother.
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Got actual evidence to back up your claim? Or are you just trying to dismiss evidence simply because it conflicts with a belief that you are attached to?
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I'm not really sure what your argument is, all I heard is that you beat your Dad in a debate and he refused to acquiesce. You've done that before, right?
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I suppose that's a fair reaction. Those examples were end result, rather than how things work.
I suppose I feel like directing you towards
Tobin Smith, then, for ease's sake.
To take an excerpt from that link -
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And what about those designated liberals aka “libtards” on my shows?
I can tell you (with very few exceptions) that a big part of the Fox News “fair and balanced” scam was also built from this reality: articulate, principled, worldly liberals — especially women — don’t exist in Roger’s Fox News world.
The designated liberals job was simple: make the viewer so enraged from their recitation of hated liberal/progressive ideological heresy (theology that the Fox viewer, of course, had been taught to hate from decades of listening to thousands of hours of conservative talk radio) that the viewer literally felt like “throwing a brick through my TV screen.”
Key Point: the viewer’s rage set their brain’s pleasure-giving dopamine delivery system into high gear...and when their fellow conservative protagonist/tribal hero (aka me the hitman) turned the liberal’s own words against them and vanquished the sniveling apostate into living hell on live TV…WOW…the pleasure chemical rushed through the Fox viewer's brain like a deep hit of crack cocaine (btw its the dopamine system in the brain that cocaine stimulates and makes it so addictive).
The other reality of Fox opinion programming is even more diabolical than simply fooling old people into believing they are watching a “fair fight”:
The goal at Fox News is explicit: Produce outrage inducing partisan performance art insufficient emotional intensity to produce enough pleasure/dopamine to get their dopamine addicted viewer the high the need until the NEXT Fox News opinion program.
Neuroscience has known for years that “news junkies” or “political junkies” were in fact addicts…junkies…who got their addictive dopamine hit from the emotional roller coaster of unbridled outrage followed by the dopamine-releasing experience derived from the thrill of watching the victory/denouement of the ideological apostate.
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We know there will be a bit of unavoidable overlap with the recent death and selection of the next supreme judge but as much as possible please keep discussions of that topic to its own thread.