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Econ 101

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"Liberalism is arbitrarily selective in its choice of whose dignity to champion." Adrian Vermeule

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I'd love to see more of that.

I love their sad serious faces and dreary music when they report on tragedy immediately followed by happy faces and cheery music with a new story right after the commercial break. Manipulative twatz.
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News is treated as a product, here, with the point not being accuracy or factual content, but ratings.

It's an entertainment business, when it really shouldn't be.
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Edit: double post
My cousin is a redheaded german-mexican, we call him a beanerschnitzel

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Testiclaw wrote:News is treated as a product, here, with the point not being accuracy or factual content, but ratings.

It's an entertainment business, when it really shouldn't be.
That's why I get my news pretty-much exclusively ftom Al-Jazeera, now.


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HERR DOKTOR LUSTPIG wrote:
Testiclaw wrote:News is treated as a product, here, with the point not being accuracy or factual content, but ratings.

It's an entertainment business, when it really shouldn't be.
That's why I get my news pretty-much exclusively ftom Al-Jazeera, now.
That probably would have been a joke a few years ago but they put out quality stuff.
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