A little?!? It directly points the finger where it belongs this time. Would love to know the behind the scenes machinations at NPR regarding how headlines get chosen & then edited.
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There's a significant difference in all the extra ways we have to distract ourselves from reality now. Back then they had little choice but to see what was going on, but nowadays so many people are burying their heads into gaming, social media, streaming video, etc. that they (often deliberately) aren't even aware of the horrors happening next door. I can't say as I entirely blame them because it's depressing and overwhelming AF - especially when it's your own fellow countrymen behind it all.
Is that paper 100% untouched by machines? Is it manually counted by multiple people of opposing parties?
If no to either, then it's untrustworthy.
I could see pay and gender affecting mental state (i.e. Happiness), maybe. Definitely not SSN, tho.
I usually only plug in SD cards, so I finally just grabbed my SSD to check - same thing happened. What kind of storage devices were you thinking it wouldn't happen to?
I'm sure they only do that when they think they can use it to market themselves later. Given the number of complaints he seems to have received, they may just avoid the whole thing for fear of drawing more attention to all the ways they're failing their base.
Conservative bullies believe they'll almost always win in the end if they just keep at it and force their way through to their end goal. For most business & personal goals where they have significant control over most variables, this unfortunately tends to work out well for them. So they believe they can apply it to everything.
Social & societal issues are areas where they have significantly less direct control (unless you have control over most everything that society is exposed to from practically the day they're born), which is why they rely upon lies and manipulation so much. The complexity of managing things you have less direct control over makes being successful at it much more unpredictable, however.
Since bullying their way through is their instinctive modus operandi, they'll still try to do it with these issues no matter what feedback they get. So while it may feel satisfying to put them on the spot, they're unlikely to take the feedback seriously - even from their own base.
It's blatant arrogance that has been the hallmark of the MAGA world, and which ultimately will be their undoing. Unfortunately, we still have to sit through the process even though it's so easy to see where it's going. Kinda like watching a show with your kids that's predictable AF, but that they're loving because they think they've never seen anything like it before even though the basic storyline has been done a million times in their other shows.
Maybe when the right-wing media stop.
I just want to tell you how much I appreciate you having written out the "one" - it's the chef's kiss!
That is why I specified "less extreme," but yeah, that's fair.
No, it's the year of the Linux handheld.