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<blockquote data-quote="Rez Exelon" data-source="post: 3376623" data-attributes="member: 5800"><p>/sigh/ I knew a post along these lines was coming and yet I wasted my time and find myself pot-committed to responding. I'll bullet point like the last time in this thread.</p><p></p><p>* Again, and for the record, I don't have cable. I had it when I went to TU (because it was part of the room and board), and then didn't get it again until around 2009 --- kept it till my contract was up in 2011 and haven't had it since then. I have a TV with Netflix so we can put on cartoons for my daughter.</p><p>* I don't give a flying **** about Rachael Maddow. I really don't give a flying **** about many of the talking heads. I couldn't pick them out of a line up with a gun to my head for the most part --- typically I only see them if I watch a clip that someone is posting in a debate.</p><p>* Using the <strong>amazing power of the internet that we have in 2020</strong> it is possible to get many different sources of information. And also it is possible <strong>to read information without it coming from a talking head</strong>. That is by far my preferred method of getting information. I find most of the time it's more neutral than talking head information as well.</p><p>* I don't know about the bus thing or where it came from --- I saw people here talking about it (it might have been you posting in fact, I don't remember) and never investigated because honestly it didn't affect me and I wasn't going to show up to any sort of counter protest. Perhaps if it came across your feed and not mine, that could indicate your connections are sharing bad intel. </p><p>* I am not sure if you're aware but there are endless ways around paywalls. I've made my living on technology for 20 years so maybe I just don't think about it. For every site that has a paywall there also exists a way around said paywall.</p><p></p><p>Again, not that I think much of that matters as I'm relatively sure that if you've read this far, then by now you're already working to think of ways to argue and discredit the above text because the whole . That shows a good deal of your character to try to underswing that one with:</p><p></p><p></p><p>"Just an inquiring mind" huh? One that wants to go on and try to make assumptions about who I am and what I'm about? What shows I watch or don't watch or what facebook posts I see? And then one that closes on with an assignment of smugness to someone else. This is the exact style post I figured was coming. </p><p></p><p>Finally, I'll quote the message that started this whole string...</p><p></p><p>...and for the second time point out the subtext was that OP seems to have posted an article whose content disagreed with his post, and the implied sarcasm of my assessment was that if the post and article were going to be slanted a certain way, maybe it would have at least been worth it to find an article that correlated to the post rather than using a source that disagreed with it, because as others have said --- for every story there are many ways to tell it.</p><p></p><p>You take care now.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rez Exelon, post: 3376623, member: 5800"] /sigh/ I knew a post along these lines was coming and yet I wasted my time and find myself pot-committed to responding. I'll bullet point like the last time in this thread. * Again, and for the record, I don't have cable. I had it when I went to TU (because it was part of the room and board), and then didn't get it again until around 2009 --- kept it till my contract was up in 2011 and haven't had it since then. I have a TV with Netflix so we can put on cartoons for my daughter. * I don't give a flying **** about Rachael Maddow. I really don't give a flying **** about many of the talking heads. I couldn't pick them out of a line up with a gun to my head for the most part --- typically I only see them if I watch a clip that someone is posting in a debate. * Using the [B]amazing power of the internet that we have in 2020[/B] it is possible to get many different sources of information. And also it is possible [B]to read information without it coming from a talking head[/B]. That is by far my preferred method of getting information. I find most of the time it's more neutral than talking head information as well. * I don't know about the bus thing or where it came from --- I saw people here talking about it (it might have been you posting in fact, I don't remember) and never investigated because honestly it didn't affect me and I wasn't going to show up to any sort of counter protest. Perhaps if it came across your feed and not mine, that could indicate your connections are sharing bad intel. * I am not sure if you're aware but there are endless ways around paywalls. I've made my living on technology for 20 years so maybe I just don't think about it. For every site that has a paywall there also exists a way around said paywall. Again, not that I think much of that matters as I'm relatively sure that if you've read this far, then by now you're already working to think of ways to argue and discredit the above text because the whole . That shows a good deal of your character to try to underswing that one with: "Just an inquiring mind" huh? One that wants to go on and try to make assumptions about who I am and what I'm about? What shows I watch or don't watch or what facebook posts I see? And then one that closes on with an assignment of smugness to someone else. This is the exact style post I figured was coming. Finally, I'll quote the message that started this whole string... ...and for the second time point out the subtext was that OP seems to have posted an article whose content disagreed with his post, and the implied sarcasm of my assessment was that if the post and article were going to be slanted a certain way, maybe it would have at least been worth it to find an article that correlated to the post rather than using a source that disagreed with it, because as others have said --- for every story there are many ways to tell it. You take care now. [/QUOTE]
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