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  • My MIL is this kind of extrovert. She assumes that if someone isn’t constantly talking to her that they hate her.

    Look lady: I love your daughter to death! I love you to death! I DON’T HAVE ANY NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN MY LIFE!! And you KNOW that!! Trust me, when I do, I WILL LET YOU KNOW!! In the meantime, business as usual and I don’t have any opinions on anything outside of my purview!

    I swear, if ever she was forced to sit in front of a group of people in silence, her head might explode.


  • Awesomo85@sh.itjust.worksOPtoMemes@lemmy.mlWhat media bias?
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    I find it important to call out any media bias no matter how “tepid” you may find it.

    It’s the deluge of “tepid” examples of bias that makes us complacent when what you might consider “real bias” comes up and goes unnoticed and/or unquestioned.


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    To all of the “neutral” folks:

    Wouldn’t “neutral” mean you could swap headlines and photos and still have the same emotional response (because that is the aim of propaganda, to illicit an emotional response)?

    I don’t think this would garner the same response if it was switched.

    It is subtle propaganda (apparently), but biased propaganda none the less.


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    Not necessarily. One snip gives an example of a positive quality of the person in question paired with a positive leaning photo. The other gives no such example of quality (and in fact uses authoritarian language as a way of swaying opinion) paired with a photo doctored to (at least in my mind) resemble historically negative figureheads.

    This is a form of bias and propaganda.







  • “So in short eat vegan like a poor vegan not like a rich person who thinks veganism is trendy”

    But in the context of this conversation, wouldn’t eating like a poor vegan rely heavily on buying products that also have a heavy impact on the environment?

    You would have to buy cheaper products which come from mass produced farms that use TONS and TONS of water! And generate TONS and TONS of carbon emissions during production of those products.

    To be vegan AND advocate for conservation(you can advocate for something no matter your own behavior. That’s the wrong word to use) to claim that your lifestyle is better for the environment than your non-vegan counterparts, you have to have money.