News
Welcome to the News community!
Rules:
1. Be civil
Attack the argument, not the person. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Good faith argumentation only. This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban. Do not respond to rule-breaking content; report it and move on.
2. All posts should contain a source (url) that is as reliable and unbiased as possible and must only contain one link.
Obvious biased sources will be removed at the mods’ discretion. Supporting links can be added in comments or posted separately but not to the post body. Sources may be checked for reliability using Wikipedia, MBFC, AdFontes, GroundNews, etc.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
4. Post titles should be the same as the article used as source. Clickbait titles may be removed.
Posts which titles don’t match the source may be removed. If the site changed their headline, we may ask you to update the post title. Clickbait titles use hyperbolic language and do not accurately describe the article content. When necessary, post titles may be edited, clearly marked with [brackets], but may never be used to editorialize or comment on the content.
5. Only recent news is allowed.
Posts must be news from the most recent 30 days.
6. All posts must be news articles.
No opinion pieces, Listicles, editorials, videos, blogs, press releases, or celebrity gossip will be allowed. All posts will be judged on a case-by-case basis. Mods may use discretion to pre-approve videos or press releases from highly credible sources that provide unique, newsworthy content not available or possible in another format.
7. No duplicate posts.
If an article has already been posted, it will be removed. Different articles reporting on the same subject are permitted. If the post that matches your post is very old, we refer you to rule 5.
8. Misinformation is prohibited.
Misinformation / propaganda is strictly prohibited. Any comment or post containing or linking to misinformation will be removed. If you feel that your post has been removed in error, credible sources must be provided.
9. No link shorteners or news aggregators.
All posts must link to original article sources. You may include archival links in the post description. News aggregators such as Yahoo, Google, Hacker News, etc. should be avoided in favor of the original source link. Newswire services such as AP, Reuters, or AFP, are frequently republished and may be shared from other credible sources.
10. Don't copy entire article in your post body
For copyright reasons, you are not allowed to copy an entire article into your post body. This is an instance wide rule, that is strictly enforced in this community.
view the rest of the comments
This is insane??!?!
No, this is insane:
Yes the lie and greivance filled address.
Nobody I know watched it. It would not surprise me to learn this poll filtered on 'people who watched the address', which is likely only people who were largely going to agree with him. Given that, only 69% (nice) having a positive reaction is a fucking indictment.
I usually stay informed on "what people in the seat of power actually say and do," but I can't even watch that fucker's stupid face or listen to his stupid voice anymore.
This is a good point. I don't personally know anyone who watched it, as I am solidly in the anti-Trumpism camp. It's already too stressful without rubbing our noses in his defiant stupidity and flaunting his unwarranted hubris.
And we appreciated your sacrifice
Wait what? You want to know what people who didn't watch the address thought of it?
I saw one place that seemed to say that the address approval poll was among those who watched it. Could be that those who were likely to disapprove didn't watch it in the first place.
We couldn't watch it. We usually watch parts or all of the State of the Union and are pretty politically inclined, but we just could not listen to him say more than one sentence without wanting to break our TV. I haven't heard anyone at the office talking about it, either.
I'm guessing only his fans watched it, so of course it had high approval from those who watched it.
Yep.
And putin wins with 130% of the vote.
Uh, sure sounds like only/overwhelmingly his supporters watched it and were polled. It's almost impossible to find anything that 76% percent of all Americans approve of.
Edit: if I would have read even a little, I'd have seen that others made this point. Apologies.
What the fuck. Did I watch the same address as other Americans? That was awful. I can't believe it had that high of an approval rating
It doesn't, they only polled people who watched, and most of the people watching were Trumpers.
The American populace is comprised of a lot of very stupid, cowardly people. It's been molded by decades of propaganda to make them into this. I am not surprised and I do not expect Americans to be able to get themselves out of this descent spiral.
Or, actually, it's sampling bias.
Probably both tbh. The pessimistic view is being born out in practice right now.
"Poll by cnn"
May as well be a poll by South Park.
I watched that thing. The only thing i managed to agree with was that men should not be able to compete as women in womens sports. It destroys the entire sport and makes it impossible for woman to compete. I laughed at South Park episodes about this but the reality is far from funny for the women competing.
The rest was just a narc talking. Blaming everyone else and thinking his own decisions are flawless. The guy is using the same rhetoric as Hitler and Americans dont seem to recognize it, probably because they dont read german history.
More Kool-Aid enthusiasts
Nah, it's not Kool-Aid, it's orange juice.
Apparently OJ is going for like $11 a gallon in some places.
But is it laced with poison?
It's probably laced with brain worms..
People like dictators more than they will admit.
Did his first term ever have positive approval?