Careful there. You can only propose such surveys when it serves the narrative and in certain places and not all, see southern/eastern regions of Ukraine.
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"Censorship is the child of fear, the father of ignorance, and the desperate weapon of fascists everywhere." Laurie Halse Anderson
"When you tear out a man’s tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you’re only telling the world that you fear what he might say." George R.R. Martin
"It's the old American Double Standard, ya know: Say one thing, do somethin' different." George Carlin
> I had OG C19 before vaccines came out and it was basically a mild cold.
> Then had J&J vaccine with no bad effects, except my arm hurt briefly.
> First mRNA booster was ok, but the second one crushed me.
Sure, in an utopian world that would work. But, here on planet Earth, that would massively increase the incentives of fraud. There are already huge issues with this. Increasing the payout by x100 would do more harm than good in this context.
> If you’ve ever worked for a big company, you know how many different people work there, all with different opinions, different goals, different everything. News agencies are no different.
> Multiply that by the sheer number of news agencies, and add in the tight and unforgiving deadlines and you can see how improbable a broad, coordinated agenda would be.
When interests converge you don’t need to gather around a table to set the agenda, as George Carlin used to say.
You can’t make this up. Then they wonder how/why the people lost the trust in the institutions.
For instance, my country is not involved in war crimes like the US is.
Most people do not accept that most Guantánamo detainees have been/are being held without ever being charged or tried. The terrorist in this case is the US as harsh as that sounds.
"I Would Rather Be Governed By the First 2,000 People in the Telephone Directory than by the Harvard University Faculty"
2021 was a weird period in history where one could make extraordinary claims without providing extraordinary evidence while those pointing this out were being ostracized.
> “We’re really not sure why some rural areas seemed to have what might be called a protective effect,” Richards-Steed says. “It’s certainly possible that parents and grandparents living in urban areas had different environmental exposures or experiences.”
> “What we can say, based on our findings, is what we are being exposed to now is probably not just affecting us or even our children but maybe even our children’s children.”
> “Evidence shows our environment has a deterministic effect on our growth and development, which includes the germline cells we carry for the next generation,” VanDerslice says.
tl;dr: a less toxic environment certainly helps
Americans seems to be doing an alright job at spotting misinformation/disinformation. There's always room for improvement.
10 episodes, ~1 hour each
Oliver Stone's re-examination of under-reported events in American history.
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We got your opinion on the messenger. What's your opinion on the message?