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Jimmy Dore welcome to the resistance.

Breaking news: NYT is more leftwing and factual than TrueAnon. Podcast enjoyers malding.

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This chart brought to you by the Pew Research Center.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

Pew Research Centre study finds that the Pew Research Centre is strongly correlated with the Chad Wojak, while all other sources are associated with the Soy or Virgin Wojaks.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago (1 children)

CNN is just as leftwing as TrueAnon thinking-about-it

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

Anderson Cooper solidarity brace-dark-cowboy

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

Our centrist king centrist

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (1 children)

so-true Yup, all media can be split into left and right leaning. And golly gee the left and right are just about evenly distributed, because both sides are equally extreme and need to be avoided! But not quite. The left is, of course, more extreme.

Oh, and all that crisis actor stuff that alex-karma just got successfully sued into oblivion for isn't inaccurate or fabricated info. It's just misleading blob-no-thoughts

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

i find it miraculous that alex-oopsie received any kind of punishment for his actions

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago

very-smart

"Of course the center is the most reliable, facts are what WE say they are. If we didn't report on it, it's obviously not a fact, tankie."

smuglord

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I can't believe that the new TrueAnon CEO, Rachel Jake, has taken the pod so far to the right. I guess that softball AOC interview should have been a bigger warning sign. They didn't ask her any tough questions whatsoever!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's always been a center left podcast. You tankies need to stop trying to claim media as your own.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

We gotta use all these T-34s we got lying around somehow.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

This isn't even fun to dunk on anymore it's just sad. Joe Rogan being centrist? Union busting barstool sports being LEFT of Rogan? This is basically just someone vomiting pictures of random media outlets onto a canvas and calling it research. I wonder if I could get an AI art generator to do better. I think I'll try

Edit: I tried, I couldn't. It did generate some funny stuff but it clearly has never seen this chart. Sad.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This isn't even fun to dunk on anymore it's just sad

I'm feeling this way about more and more lib shit. They never have any new bits these days.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Union busting barstool sports...

I always found barstool to be obnoxious AF whenever one of my friends would share something from it. Thanks for validating my dislike of them.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago

You heard it here first, folks - Ad Fontes says Maoism is center-left. We're gonna remove the landlords any day now, everybody!

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago

noted centre-left podcast TrueAnon

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank goodness I now have a media bias rating for my favorite news outlet, Neil deGrasse Tyson's Startalk podcast.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Is this ethics in game journalism?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

I don't like woke in my games, but I still play them anyways.

I am a centrist g@mer.

smuglord

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago

There's so many stupid things in this infographic, it's hard to know where to start. Maybe at the famously moderate centrist, Joe Rogan

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)

TYT is to the left of TrueAnon. I want MSNBC to give brace-dark-cowboy a show like they did with Cenk.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'd actually watch MSNBC if they gave brace a 30 min spot

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Give Liz the host role, and then every guest is just another one of Brace's personas.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

With a weekly coindexter report on finance

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

And today we bring on a local restaurateur known for his appetite known simply as "The Gourmand"

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

TYT is to the left of WSWS!

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I hate the whole 'centrist', 'left leaning', 'right leaning' crap.

You either enable the left, or the right.

Pro capitalist, billionaire owned CNN isn't centrist or left-leaning and it's stupid to pretend otherwise.

Politics isn't some spectrum and you can't be a moderate racist

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

but you can, somehow, be a moderate rebel dorner

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

Labeling RBN and JD as hyper-partisan leftists is inaccurate. They are both anti-vax, RFK stans who most recently believe the fascist Donald Trump is preferable to Joe Biden. As much as I am against neoliberals, that take is not one of the "left"

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This is the funniest chart they've put out yet

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

i hope they never stop

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I would have bet my life on the TrueAnon icon placement being a bit...

Edit: This confirms it...we're all libs sad-boi

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oh my fucking god these dweebs used scrorecards and wrote up a whole ass formula for this didn't they.

Okay so they dunk on both the Democrats and Republicans? +1 Left Bias, +1 Right Bias. Uh oh, they just used reasoning to make a conclusion instead of just "stating the facts" tsk tsk -1 Truthiness. If we divide the factual content density by the fallacy tendency coefficient, and take the derivative of the political bias slope...well obviously Trueanon is to the right of CNN and less factual than the NY Post!

Dorks who are impressed by this shit are just Advanced Stats nerds except they're using their vapid understanding of media criticism rather than sports to be smug about how smart and objective they are.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Love how Jimmy Dore is left of literal Trotskyists.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I only consume unbiased, centrist news like the True Anon podcast

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Reliable sources: us-foreign-policy

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Black Agenda Report being the furthest left

Settlers right yet again. But seriously, they're the real deal. They platform a lot of Black organizers of the Black Radical Tradition, which makes the almost-certainly white people in charge of these shitty "media bias" sites awfully uncomfortable. And I really want to see how they feel about something like Hood Communist, another great website where you can hear what Black radicals and communists actually think instead of what paternal white losers believe is best for Black people.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

No ‘Dear White People’ Articles

The editoral staff of Hood Communist challenges all writers and organizers to center African people, the African diaspora, and the African continent in your analysis in all of your submissions to our blog.

We will no longer be publishing articles we like to call “Dear White People” posts. If the focus of your analysis is breaking down the chicanery and fuckshit of Europeans to Europeans, we encourage you to journal about that instead or alternatively join a political organization led by African and colonized people that is not dominated by crackers.

We once again want to reiterate that the Hood Communist blog is a revolutionary African nationalist political organ created with the express intent of advancing the struggle for African liberation by providing independent anti-colonial and anti-capitalist revolutionary political analysis by and for African people. “Dear White People” articles are incompatible with that object – as they center Europeans and European fuckshit – and as such are not a good fit for this blog.

lol, a great blog. Read settlers.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Ah yes famously neutral and non political UK state media

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I love that they took the time to rate IGN. That's so funny.

This graph is mostly unreadable, but at a glance I don't see any other video game sites on there.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I need to go check out this Black Agenda Report because if Infowars isn't "most extreme" material for the right wing media I need to see what "most extreme" for left wing media looks like. My best guess is they must be calling for 200 years of white chattel enslavement by black descendants of enslaved people.

Like, is the contention of this graph that it's possible to be even more extreme right wing than Infowars?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Even looking at this from the perspective of a lib it's wrong. They put CNN to the left of Al Jazeera?

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