dermdoc said:
barbacoa taco said:
dermdoc said:
I find it fascinating that libs seem not to realize how biased the media they follow is. Or how left leaning the policies they support are.
I will freely admit the media I follow (which is rare) is right leaning. This thread is a great example of that. It seems only lefties can define what are liberal thoughts and media. Very predictable.
I'm sorry but who do you think is saying this? Cable news is largely a bunch of garbage. CNN is a joke, MSNBC is a propaganda arm of the Democratic Party, and Fox is the same for the GOP. While bias has always existed, it's like these networks don't even try to sound objective anymore and I think everyone acknowledges this at this point.
It's not even the bias I have a problem with. Every news program and talk show has a bias and many are marketed as opinion shows. The problem I have with cable news is they are there to push the agenda of the billionaires who fund these media platforms and talking heads on them.
Have you read the thread?
And from my reading of your posts (please correct me if I am wrong), your main beef is with income inequality.
The problem is that historically the only way to accomplish that is by government force, which puts all the money and power in an even smaller number of people.
And no opportunity to become wealthy. I also have a real problem with me, or anybody, saying someone has too much money.
Not really, we had ways of dealing with this before. We just abandoned them. Marginal tax rates aren't going to lead us to communism.
The model we have now, that you support, is what puts all the money and power in a select group of people. Yeah, I'm sure these people we speak of "worked hard." But I don't want to hear about how they literally made billions through hard work alone. Throw in a little exploitation of workers, exploitation of tax loopholes, hiring of lawyers to do the previous two things, finding creative ways to avoid paying taxes, and of course, a little bit of luck.
And said people have this power and use it to make sure the status quo never changes, and all policy first and foremost benefits the elite, almost always at the expense of the middle and lower class. They aren't interested in helping other people get to their level.
I think people who really think there's no such thing as someone with too much money have their head in the sand. The story of billionaires getting richer isn't inspiring at all. Did you know that the world's richest people (e.g. Musk, Bezos) more than DOUBLED their wealth during Covid? Did the same happen to middle and lower class people? of course not.
Having people with a net worth in the hundreds of billions while millions of others constantly wonder where their next meal will come from isn't a good thing.
