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Why is the fairness meter of the article "unfair left leaning", when it just reports on something someone said?
I don't see any opinion piece there, but pretty much just direct quoting
How can this be even left or right leaning? Oo
In the US, reporting on simple facts makes you “radical left” while obvious propaganda makes you “right leaning”.
Reality has a liberal bias.
We Americans have a serious problem labeling anything we disagree with as "those other guys". I might even say it's our main problem. We wouldn't be where we're at today without the divisiveness and team mentality.
Sadly it's not just Americans...
Seeing the same we-they pattern here in Austrian right wing communities/parties
Sometimes I go look at r/conservative just to take temperature, and on returning to political communities on lemmy I find the same ad hominem insults and dehumanizing efforts as over there, certainly less of it and less virulent, but just as spiteful and aggressive.
I'm all for being upset when it's appropriate, but I am afraid that political affiliations are no guarantee of sanity or reasoning.
I'm just fed up with the constant sensational shock fake news (usually of right wing parties), which only aim for fear, anger and hatred
Yeah, we all have problems and we need to work on that. That's pretty much life - especially social life and much more (geo-) political life.
But I can't stand the rhetoric anymore. From highschool bullies playbook to imitating Hitler's rhetoric. I'm just too fed up with it.
I want fact based politics and crowd sourced solutions - from the people that are actually affected.
And not some idiot calling a whole group of people degenerates and worth shit.
In the late 90s with the "real" Internet still alive and all of the people starting to face global problems, I was really optimistic, that this would bring us all together.
To work on a global solution.
But nah, we need to have populistic simple "solutions" for complex problems, where seemingly every time it's just the fault of some minority group or some foreigners.
This now just isn't the world I wanted to live in and I naively hoped for so much better and more...
Edit: to make extend on that:
Society doesn't need a rigid framework of rules to live in. So fuck social control - doesn't matter if it comes from religion or from state.
The laws we live in should reflect the society we currently are. And not try to pressure society into some form of ideological picture.
And with that, fuck ideology as well.
Society is always changing and our rules to live by need to be as flexible as that.
But somehow people still long for a wannabe strongman leader, who only cares for himself.
We could just build our own society, with basic democracy, no real leaders, but maybe just elected representatives.
We don't need anyone to tell us, how we should behave.
We hopefully are grown up enough to see the ethical correct way.
But people seem to prefer to be childs and just hand over responsibility...
That's why I advocate for anarchism.
Take the power away to coerce people.
Yeah, I'm an Anarchist as well
So that's what I basically described here ;-)
Or at least a form of it
Unfortunately, ideology is like halitosis: it’s always someone else’s problem. Showing how a position is “allowing you to participate in your own oppression” (my definition of ideology) can seem impossible or require great skill.
Emotionally, a lot of people seem to need a leader not a representative. I wonder how much is culture and ideology, and how much is evolutionary.
We like sweets, too, and learn to do without. I believe we can do the same by suppressing leaders and thus managing the Sociopath in Power problem.
I just don't know how a grown up and educated human can still look for a leader in its life
I'm in favour of a primus inter pares concept, so I do get, that I give off responsibility in some parts of my life to people, who just do it better.
Like, I'm not really good with mechanical stuff, others are. So it's better that they do it.
But I'm rather good with computer stuff, so we help each other out.
I just don't see the need for a kindergartner in a society of grown ups.
Problem is, that we're currently lacking education in quite some parts, so many people never really get to actually grow up and need to rely on other people, because they never knew better.
This sounds a bit derogatory, but that's the only way I can image, why people want to have a "strong" leader above them - they just don't want to take responsibility.
But they're the best at it. Tremendous at it. Everyone says it. People say it. You know it
It isn't; that article is rated neutral/fair. You need to vote on the fairness rating yourself first, then it'll show you the average score
Ah, ok!
Thanks!
Still a weird thing to show for an unvoted state
Yeah, I don't know why it just doesn't show the needle at all until you vote
It's supposed to be for the publication as a whole, not the specific article. No idea what metric they're using, though.
Edit: Never mind, was talking about something else.
Nah, it's article by article.
Oh, so they crowd-sourced it and it's being brigaded by Trump morons. Got it.
Ah, I thought they were talking about the bot that is or was on here that rated sources.
You're supposed to click where you think it should go. It's a voting mechanism.
Yeah, I thought it's showing me the current voting already.
In another comment someone explained to me, that this is just the default position before the vote - which I find pretty ~~intuitive~~ unintuitive.
But maybe that's just me...
Did you mean "unintuitive?"
Intuitive means it feels right.
Ah, yeah, thanks.
Auto correct fucked me over...
Because many people in the US (and elsewhere, sadly) are not media-literate enough to understand the difference between the veracity of an article and their opinion about it.