This place seems really off right now. The conversations are whacked.
Anyone else who has been here for a while also noticing this.
I just noticed you haven't been posting as much. I appreciate you and hope you are doing well.
I may or may not be on something some time in the future.
I want the clearest cases. Things where you bring them up you will see the studies are clearly faulty.
Last thing I want is to start arguing about whether a study is faulty or not. I want clearly faulty ones where the conversation can then move to why are they faulty. What was the motive to make them faulty?
I don't know if any of you all read comic books, but Department of Truth is probably the greatest conspiracy entertainment I've experienced in any format.
Check it out if you want a good entertaining read dealing with a lot of the traditional conspiracies.
Just the basic premise. It's a world where what people believe is real, so the Department of Truth tries to squelch conspiracies to keep the world stable.
I've seen this too often. Government spying over digital conversations. Conspiracy theory! Yet when it is revealed they are for it.
I'm sure there are more issues like this.
I like to know who owns the news I read.
Let's look at the New York Times, MSNBC, Washington Post, and CNN.
The Vanguard Group and Blackrock are the two biggest institutional holders of the New York Times.
NBC Universal (MSNBC and NBC News) is owned by Comcast whose two highest institutional holders are Vanguard Group and Blackrock.
Now, the Washington Post is owned by Jeff Bezos who is the guy who started Amazon, so they're different, right? Amazon's two largest institutional holders are...wait for it...I bet you can't guess what's coming...the Vanguard Group and Blackrock.
And CNN is owned by AT&T. Their two largest institutional holders are also the Vanguard Group and Blackrock.
I surmise that those who own the news control the news. Who are these groups? They do a great job of staying out of the news (well, they own them) and remaining like the wizard in Oz.
And that is one bubble of the news. Completely owned and influenced by the same institutional holders. They are really all part of the same bigger company.
I send them to this CNN page and tell them to look at the image in the story with the RV at the house. They like CNN.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/28/us/nashville-bomb-christmas-monday/index.html
Then I send them to this story to show the RV at the bombing site.
I ask them to look at the second side window. It is lower and smaller than the one at the site.
It works better, in my opinion, than sharing a meme because there is always the feeling that the meme was altered in some way. It also uses sites they like.
