Media/Journalism Cringe Megathread - Hot off the Presses

[GoldRanger]

Vox Dropping Economic TRUTHS!

The problem isn’t inflation. It’s prices.

What goes up may not come down. Like, ever.

www.vox.com

Written by Vox's Senior Business and Economics Writer.

I hope her job is safe, I'd hate to see another Ginger replaced.

The problem is not prices. It's money.
The problem is not money, it's currency.
The problem is not currency, it's the amount of universally agreed upon medium of exchange needed to acquire products and services.

That title should be a meme.

 

[ParadiseLost]

Vox Dropping Economic TRUTHS!

The problem isn’t inflation. It’s prices.

What goes up may not come down. Like, ever.

www.vox.com

Written by Vox's Senior Business and Economics Writer.

I hope her job is safe, I'd hate to see another Ginger replaced.

The actual talking point here is that most price increases aren't being driven by actual increases in demand for product, but by increases in demand for ROI (thus putting pressure on companies to increase profits by increasing prices).

This idea is popular among anti-corporate people.

The title is probably intentionally obtuse to get attention.

 

[Husky_Khan]

Whelp... there goes that vacation idea.

I thought a paper called The Independent would've had some unique insight on the best out of mainstream vacation spots.



Back to planning to my cross country sightseeing trip across the Sahel of Western and Northern Africa instead. Just like Mansa Musa!

 

[Jormungandr]

Whelp... there goes that vacation idea.

I thought a paper called The Independent would've had some unique insight on the best out of mainstream vacation spots.



Back to planning to my cross country sightseeing trip across the Sahel of Western and Northern Africa instead. Just like Mansa Musa!

Didn't the Washington Post have an article saying that certain Middle-Eastern countries were perfectly safe for Western, female backpackers and travellers?

I remember two people posting a deadpan response to it.

Are you serious [Washington Post]? Who wrote this?

Human trafficking.

 

[Bacle]

Looks like Google got a heads up about something, and is now updating it's ToS with new 'Sensitive Event' rules for monetization/promotion of services/posts about the content.

 

[Cherico]

Looks like Google got a heads up about something, and is now updating it's ToS with new 'Sensitive Event' rules for monetization/promotion of services/posts about the content.

you know they have pretty much made themselves a natural target of any backlash against a lot of this shit, and with people getting more and more pissed off and with investiment drying up do to global aging their going to be in for some pain.

 

[Rocinante]

you know they have pretty much made themselves a natural target of any backlash against a lot of this shit, and with people getting more and more pissed off and with investiment drying up do to global aging their going to be in for some pain.

No they aren't.

They'll be fine.

Nothing is going to happen to them.

Yes I know in 20-80 years something vague might happen. Something about modernity, blah blah blah.

But right now, in any meaningful time frame? No. A couple right wingers will whine, and things will go on as usual.

Just like with all the other times Google censored shit.

 

[Cherico]

No they aren't.

They'll be fine.

Nothing is going to happen to them.

Yes I know in 20-80 years something vague might happen. Something about modernity, blah blah blah.

But right now, in any meaningful time frame? No. A couple right wingers will whine, and things will go on as usual.

Just like with all the other times Google censored shit.

In the short term there is plenty that can be done to them, fines, breaking them up, mass lawsuits, building up alternatives really there are all sorts of ways the right can put a squeez on them and all they require is for enough of the leadership to stop giving them a pass.

Hell they have been called to congress a bunch of times and lied under oath, so simply prosicuting them for that can put them in jail for a few years. All you requires is just enough of a sea change were the weak squishy types are not given a choice but to actually fucking do something.

Considering how the last speaker was ousted that sea change is possible.

 

[Rocinante]

In the short term there is plenty that can be done to them, fines, breaking them up, mass lawsuits, building up alternatives really there are all sorts of ways the right can put a squeez on them and all they require is for enough of the leadership to stop giving them a pass.

Hell they have been called to congress a bunch of times and lied under oath, so simply prosicuting them for that can put them in jail for a few years. All you requires is just enough of a sea change were the weak squishy types are not given a choice but to actually fucking do something.

Considering how the last speaker was ousted that sea change is possible.

Absolutely none of this is going to happen. Not one tiny little bit.

Some conservatives will whine until the next thing happens, everyone will move on. The end.

 

[Lord Sovereign]

Absolutely none of this is going to happen. Not one tiny little bit.

Some conservatives will whine until the next thing happens, everyone will move on. The end.

Life and soul of the party, aren’t you?

 

[Rocinante]

Life and soul of the party, aren’t you?

It's not like I'm black pilled.

I think we can do a lot, I think there's a good chance we turn things around.

But we are not at a point where big tech is going to face ANY consequences for anything they do.

Google is going to go on censoring things, and the alternatives like DDG and Brave will do the same, just like last time.

Only thing different is next big tech censorship sweep, Musk owns twitter. So things will be a little interesting.

But they're not going to face literally any consequences for the shit they've done and this new wave of shit they're prepping to do.

I hate to sound like a party pooper, but it's true. Big tech does this shit because they know they can get away with it. it's the very government that would need to punish them that's asking them to do it.

 

[Abhorsen]

I hate to sound like a party pooper, but it's true. Big tech does this shit because they know they can get away with it. it's the very government that would need to punish them that's asking them to do it.

Bad people facing consequences is a rarity, but things getting better isn't a rarity. Usually a victory comes with an effective forgiveness to stop future fighting. By letting everyone pretend they were all on the good side, it kills the bad idea instead of allowing the idea war to continue.

Look at what happened with racism. Racism quickly died after the civil rights act. By the 90s, we had the least racist society every. Then by re fighting racism, it's now a thing again, and might actually do something.

 

[Jormungandr]

Bad people facing consequences is a rarity, but things getting better isn't a rarity. Usually a victory comes with an effective forgiveness to stop future fighting. By letting everyone pretend they were all on the good side, it kills the bad idea instead of allowing the idea war to continue.

Look at what happened with racism. Racism quickly died after the civil rights act. By the 90s, we had the least racist society every. Then by re fighting racism, it's now a thing again, and might actually do something.

Unfortunately, Black people in the last ten have basically undone most of the progress done in the last twenty, thirty years.

We always knew that Black racism was a thing (especially when it came to interracial couples and marriages), but because they're pretty much a protected class now/are being used by the elites, they've pulled the mask off fully and have collectively gone full bore (and not just in America) racist asshole because they think they can use it to their advantage.

A Black person injured or murdered? It's plastered on MSM, which in itself is another manipulation tactic people swallow.

Meanwhile, White people, even children, are raped, murdered, and attacked by gangs of Blacks pretty much every day in America, and it's not reported on. At all. Because it doesn't fit the narrative. Hell, you have to go to places that aren't afraid of posting these attacks up like Quora (of all fucking places!) to learn about them. And this isn't even mentioning petty crimes, like theft and break ins, being committed by, you guessed it, primarily Black people (I think it was Chicago that stopped posting their crime numbers on bike theft because they were afraid it would cause a racist backlash... since Black people were the ones fucking stealing all the time!).

In Europe (especially Sweden, Norway, Germany, and France) and the southern US states? You've got African migrant hordes, not just muslims, going to town and bringing the third-world here to the West.

Petty crime. Rape. Murder. Bombings. It's all there.

In South Africa, the whole nation is collapsing because of anti-White racism (on a national level), and Blacks are attacking and murdering Whites every single day.

It's ironic: Whites, especially Americans, have been teaching our kids for the last few generations not to judge people by their ethnicity/race/religion, and others (such as Black Americans/Blacks on the whole, muslims, Pakistanis in the UK, et cetera) have basically done the opposite by teaching their children that, essentially, Whites are the Devil. And now we're paying for it.

Unfortunately for them though, they're just redigging the whole that was being filled in the 80's, 90's, and early 00's -- Whites on the whole are becoming more and more racist as a reaction now, and I honestly wouldn't be surprised if in another decade or two the casual racism seen in the 40's and 50's basically becomes the norm again.

 

[LordsFire]

Unfortunately, Black people in the last ten have basically undone most of the progress done in the last twenty, thirty years.

We always knew that Black racism was a thing (especially when it came to interracial couples and marriages), but because they're pretty much a protected class now/are being used by the elites, they've pulled the mask off fully and have collectively gone full bore (and not just in America) racist asshole because they think they can use it to their advantage.

A Black person injured or murdered? It's plastered on MSM, which in itself is another manipulation tactic people swallow.

Meanwhile, White people, even children, are raped, murdered, and attacked by gangs of Blacks pretty much every day in America, and it's not reported on. At all. Because it doesn't fit the narrative. Hell, you have to go to places that aren't afraid of posting these attacks up like Quora (of all fucking places!) to learn about them. And this isn't even mentioning petty crimes, like theft and break ins, being committed by, you guessed it, primarily Black people (I think it was Chicago that stopped posting their crime numbers on bike theft because they were afraid it would cause a racist backlash... since Black people were the ones fucking stealing all the time!).

In Europe (especially Sweden, Norway, Germany, and France) and the southern US states? You've got African migrant hordes, not just muslims, going to town and bringing the third-world here to the West.

Petty crime. Rape. Murder. Bombings. It's all there.

In South Africa, the whole nation is collapsing because of anti-White racism (on a national level), and Blacks are attacking and murdering Whites every single day.

It's ironic: Whites, especially Americans, have been teaching our kids for the last few generations not to judge people by their ethnicity/race/religion, and others (such as Black Americans/Blacks on the whole, muslims, Pakistanis in the UK, et cetera) have basically done the opposite by teaching their children that, essentially, Whites are the Devil. And now we're paying for it.

Unfortunately for them though, they're just redigging the whole that was being filled in the 80's, 90's, and early 00's -- Whites on the whole are becoming more and more racist as a reaction now, and I honestly wouldn't be surprised if in another decade or two the casual racism seen in the 40's and 50's basically becomes the norm again.

This perspective is dangerously immersed in the perspective of internet and 'liberal high society' social circles.

None of what you've said is completely wrong, but it is hyper-focusing on three specific types of communities; social media, leftist elite circles, and high-crime neighborhoods in Democrat cities.

Literally everywhere else I have been in America, there's no racial strife or tension. Some of this is going to be sampling bias, but when I can be in Michigan, Wisconsin, or Iowa (living), or visit small-town Pennslyvania and Florida, and there are no such issues, that's also relevant.

There are significant chunks of the black populace in the US that have been successfully indoctrinated to hate whitey. That is not all, or even close to all of them. It may be an absolute majority, but there is at least a significant minority who rejects the dogma.

I don't think we're going to go to the same level of casual anti-black racism as in the early and mid-20th century, but I think your prediction is accurate in that we're going to go from 'almost nonexistant' to 'significant minority.'

And I'd be willing to bet a decent chunk of money that some decades down the road, the Democrats will be openly anti-black racist again too.

 

[S'task]

And I'd be willing to bet a decent chunk of money that some decades down the road, the Democrats will be openly anti-black racist again too.

As soon as there is any significant shift in Black voting patterns the Democrat's mask will come right off... it could come as early as THIS YEAR if Trump wins via the Black vote shifting to him.

 

[Zachowon]

As soon as there is any significant shift in Black voting patterns the Democrat's mask will come right off... it could come as early as THIS YEAR if Trump wins via the Black vote shifting to him.

I want to see it happen

 

[Bacle]

Unfortunately, Black people in the last ten have basically undone most of the progress done in the last twenty, thirty years.

We always knew that Black racism was a thing (especially when it came to interracial couples and marriages), but because they're pretty much a protected class now/are being used by the elites, they've pulled the mask off fully and have collectively gone full bore (and not just in America) racist asshole because they think they can use it to their advantage.

A Black person injured or murdered? It's plastered on MSM, which in itself is another manipulation tactic people swallow.

Meanwhile, White people, even children, are raped, murdered, and attacked by gangs of Blacks pretty much every day in America, and it's not reported on. At all. Because it doesn't fit the narrative. Hell, you have to go to places that aren't afraid of posting these attacks up like Quora (of all fucking places!) to learn about them. And this isn't even mentioning petty crimes, like theft and break ins, being committed by, you guessed it, primarily Black people (I think it was Chicago that stopped posting their crime numbers on bike theft because they were afraid it would cause a racist backlash... since Black people were the ones fucking stealing all the time!).

In Europe (especially Sweden, Norway, Germany, and France) and the southern US states? You've got African migrant hordes, not just muslims, going to town and bringing the third-world here to the West.

Petty crime. Rape. Murder. Bombings. It's all there.

In South Africa, the whole nation is collapsing because of anti-White racism (on a national level), and Blacks are attacking and murdering Whites every single day.

It's ironic: Whites, especially Americans, have been teaching our kids for the last few generations not to judge people by their ethnicity/race/religion, and others (such as Black Americans/Blacks on the whole, muslims, Pakistanis in the UK, et cetera) have basically done the opposite by teaching their children that, essentially, Whites are the Devil. And now we're paying for it.

Unfortunately for them though, they're just redigging the whole that was being filled in the 80's, 90's, and early 00's -- Whites on the whole are becoming more and more racist as a reaction now, and I honestly wouldn't be surprised if in another decade or two the casual racism seen in the 40's and 50's basically becomes the norm again.

This perspective is dangerously immersed in the perspective of internet and 'liberal high society' social circles.

None of what you've said is completely wrong, but it is hyper-focusing on three specific types of communities; social media, leftist elite circles, and high-crime neighborhoods in Democrat cities.

Literally everywhere else I have been in America, there's no racial strife or tension. Some of this is going to be sampling bias, but when I can be in Michigan, Wisconsin, or Iowa (living), or visit small-town Pennslyvania and Florida, and there are no such issues, that's also relevant.

There are significant chunks of the black populace in the US that have been successfully indoctrinated to hate whitey. That is not all, or even close to all of them. It may be an absolute majority, but there is at least a significant minority who rejects the dogma.

I don't think we're going to go to the same level of casual anti-black racism as in the early and mid-20th century, but I think your prediction is accurate in that we're going to go from 'almost nonexistant' to 'significant minority.'

And I'd be willing to bet a decent chunk of money that some decades down the road, the Democrats will be openly anti-black racist again too.

See, the problem here is one of you thinks that because the other is immersed in social media and the 'perspective' of blue cities circles, they have a skewed perspective which is 'dangerously immersed' in the realities of the places of power.

That's not really the case, though I think it is a massive reach to think 50's era open racism would ever be allowed again.

Racism is existent in blue cities, but usually the racism of low expectations, and out in the rural areas...there can be less, or more, racists in those parts, depending on which rural area you are speaking about.

Because if you want to hear some openly racist shit, go to a Indian Reservation, and listen to how a lot of them talk about the other minorities in the US, or listen to how Asian-Americans in small town think of African Americans and vis versa.

I mean Roof-Top Koreans is a meme for a reason.

 

[Abhorsen]

Unfortunately, Black people in the last ten have basically undone most of the progress done in the last twenty, thirty years.

We always knew that Black racism was a thing (especially when it came to interracial couples and marriages), but because they're pretty much a protected class now/are being used by the elites, they've pulled the mask off fully and have collectively gone full bore (and not just in America) racist asshole because they think they can use it to their advantage.

This was my exact point. Basically, not punishing defeated enemies isn't something you do because they don't deserve punishment (they frequently do), but because it cements a win.

Meanwhile, deciding to go and punish enemies can cause one to lose victories.

The guilty going unpunished is normal. Because instead of punishment, what is achieved is a solid victory.

 

[Cherico]

This was my exact point. Basically, not punishing defeated enemies isn't something you do because they don't deserve punishment (they frequently do), but because it cements a win.

Meanwhile, deciding to go and punish enemies can cause one to lose victories.

The guilty going unpunished is normal. Because instead of punishment, what is achieved is a solid victory.

That assumes a rational enemy, that is not always the case and some times things are bad enough that your forced to go full animal to end the conflict.

 

[Abhorsen]

That assumes a rational enemy, that is not always the case and some times things are bad enough that your forced to go full animal to end the conflict.

Not really. It's about social control more. Basically peer pressure. It's something that can be done once cultural dominance is attained as a way for an idea to maintain cultural dominance.

It's not a method to win, btw. It's a strategy to secure a win. Think of it like taking a knee to run out the clock: obviously a stupid idea even in the third quarter, but once you've won, it's how you secure it.

To win, you need to be taking scalps as a threat. Bud Light is a great example. And honestly, the right is beginning to win the culture war. It has all the momentum, regardless of if Trump wins or loses. Just make sure to use it wisely and not stupidly.