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@NeuroTypical

Don’t you have a Koala to feed down there? 😛

It’s complicated. Much more so than both sides want to admit. NPR knows who their audience is, and so does Fox. Neither side is going to go out of their way to show stories their audience doesn’t want to hear. NPR has a liberal bias in their reporting, but since we have 10,000 news sources, their power is virtually nil. So it’s not worth getting fussy over. Bernard Goldberg, himself no leftist, said it best. “Some conservatives think Al Roker is out to get them if he forecasts rain on the 4th of July.” If you are way far right wing (and yes, way far leftwing) you’ll make things up in your head or misread them to satisfy your own confirmation bias and reassure yourself that you are correct. It saves you from having to think or ask uncomfortable questions.

Two of my closest friends are women, and I totally agree. My wife is friends with them as well and we just had dinner with one of them and her brother on Sunday. I’m NEVER alone with a girl. It’s a combination of paranoia, common sense, and an understanding of our current climate.

Our side doesn’t do that either. Self critique is impossible when dealing with true believers.

This won’t satisfy every one of course, but it’s a good indicator of bias in the news.

The technology at the time really was impressive.

I was waiting for you to post my friend. The two comic book fans on the forum have to stick together!

Hahahahahahahahahaha

GI Joe was my thing and I still collect the comics. I don’t like the “Now I know” socially responsible stuff either. I found it silly, even as a kid.

They’ve always been pretty shady.

Very cool!

Is there a reason why Adam-God is of such great importance to you or am I missing something? Totally curious. I’m a convert and I don’t think I even heard about this doctrine until I joined TH. Never heard about it in church either.

We were listening to Destroyer on the way to Gainesville today!

LMBO!!!! priceless.

Lol!

And, to top it off, Big Brother starts in the summer and I’m glued to that show. Been a fan since 2001!

That’s right up my alley. Thank. There was a whistleblower for Madof that tried calling the SEC several times as well. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Markopolos

To be fair, I’m sure some people probably did see it coming, but it’s like a historic college football game-more people say they were there then actually were there.

When it comes to economic predictions, everyone became a prophet in 2009. I met so many people who “knew the economy would crash” and say they saw it coming. Oddly, their prophecies didn’t stop them from losing everything. Or warning the rest of us.

Agree. I think that predicting the future of the economy is a fool’s game. If I wake up every day and say “today is the day the economy will crash.” I’ll eventually be right. If I also say “Today is the day I’m going to die.” every day, eventually I’ll be right about that too. Neither statement makes me a prophet.

While I basically agree with you, I think we’re in the minority. At the end of the day voters care about guns, LGBT issues, and abortion rights-but they care much deeper about feeding their families and retirement. If the economy is lousy in November, it generally means the voters are going to “throw the bums out.”

that, and from what little I know Israel is a secular state with a large non-Jewish or “Jewish in name only” population. The citizens probably care more about not getting blown up or shot more than not fighting back on the sabbath.

I think this discussion has been interesting. Hope you stick around.

Thanks.