[a character sits at their desk, in front of their computers, and complains angrily]
Mainstream media? Unreliable, biased, full of fake news, they keep lying…
You can't trust them!

[changing to a point of view beind the character allows us to see that their screen is filled with other angry characters that look like the main character]
That's why I get all my news from angry dudes on social media and men's right activism podcasts

https://thebad.website/comic/unbiased_sources

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[–] 32 points 9 months ago (13 children)

Hey look, it’s my dad… 😑

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  • [–] 14 points 9 months ago (8 children)

    Mine would have fallen for the same shit if he had lived to see it - makes me glad i don't have to deal with that, i'm sorry for you and your family, wish you all the best

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    On paper mine could have. Instead he spent his last years dying, cutting out all his friends that echoed the sentiment of the men his own father flew to Germany to unalive, in disbelief. And he "wasn't political." Just common sense. Worked 7 days a week until the end when he went out under water from medical bills, and about to lose the house. No sarcasm, my father was a working class American hero.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (2 children)

    Oh mine was no hero. He was spewing hate and voting far right for decades. Was a drunkard to boot. Went out stumbling in his flat and hitting his head. No heroics here, only wasted years and a broken home.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    That sucks. Mine was far from perfect but you got a shit situation dealt and I'm sorry. Hope you grow up a better adult than him

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    He taught me nothing, but i learnt a few lessons: to stay away from alcohol, to be more empathetic and to put a dampener on the choleric traits i inherited. Also to be left wing and to avoid rash judgment - i definitely broke the cycle.

    Sadly it also means living with psychological issues like recurring depression, social anxiety and a personality disorder. But all in all i'm a better human being than he ever was.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (2 children)

    Kill. Murder. Execute. Shoot. Decapitate. Dismember. Disembowel.

    These are words you can use on the Fediverse. You don’t need to self-censor with words like ‘unalive’ because there’s no corporate algorithm, no shadowbanning and no de-prioritising content based on language. There’s no need to import TikTok/Instagram newspeak.

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  • [+] -13 points 9 months ago* (2 children)

    Uh... Take away the ironic "men's rights" part and you are your dad. Unless you're actively ensuring your feeds are not algorithm content and the parts of the internet you're hanging out in aren't socially reinforcing...

    Otherwise, we call these "echo chambers". And funny enough is that those in them create the most "me vs them" content, all the while constantly reassuring "the audienice" that they're not in one.

    But, yeah. I'm sure I'm wrong and helping your dad to navigate through the ongoing onslaught of media is something you've tried.

    Edit: GOD DAMN I'm so self- righteous and sassy tonight. Ignore the sass. Get the vibe. A apologise for the sass, but I won't delete because the vibe.

    Point is, you and your dad have two opposing feeds. Recognise that they are feeds and move on from that.

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  • [–] 21 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

    I had to stop being friends with a guy because he doesn't trust in a lot of news.

    But he would constantly go, "Asmongold said..."

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  • [–] 20 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    But I would constantly go, “Asmongold said…”

    Must be hard to break off a friendship with yourself, lol

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  • [–] 19 points 9 months ago

    So I had the misfortune of hearing a joe rogan podcast the other day. It was quite insufferable before I even knew who it was. They were talking about some cool science stuff for a couple minutes, then spent the next half hour bashing the scientific community and making ad hominem arguments about them. Sponsored by a gambling app. For fucks sake, talk about the science thing more damnit!

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  • [–] 12 points 9 months ago

    Alot of those Podcaster dudes target the vulnerable and disenfranchised to get clicks. Also they are part of the reason for young men getting into the alt-right pipeline

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    Its all been lies as long as Ive been alive. True integrity in journalism has always been rare and an uphill battle. As soon as you come to terms with the fact that monied interests are never going to stop manipulating media, its easier to not take any of it too seriously.

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago

    Turns out the world is ruled by a secret cabal of people that decide its fate during weird highly immoral sex ceremonies... And it was that cabal that decided to give visibility to those people.

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago

    Mainstream media owned by billionaires is wank tho

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Who are funded by the same pedofile Zionist billionaires who own the mainstream media

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    they are mainstream media. joe rogan is one of the most popular media franchises. it doesn't matter he's in a newer format than fox news, it matters that he's part of the same mechanism and cultural delivery system

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    Someone at work listens to JRE. What recommendations do people have for an alternative?
    I suspect that behind the bastards is 'too political'. I was thinking pehaps Marc Maron or similar.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    Does anyone have that image of matt Walsh and like 5 other "independent thinkers" that all posted almost identical responses on Twitter? Theyre not even listening to real people's opinions lol

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago

    All sources are biased. The ones that say they aren't are trying to trick you. Understanding the bias of what you consume allows sifting through to get the information.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago*

    Yeah but it's true about mainstream media - they all sold and owned by someone.

    There is 0 coverage of Gaza genocide or many other issues - it's absolutely untrustworthy.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    Mainstream media? Unreliable, biased, full of fake news, they keep lying…

    Angry dudes on social media

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  • [+] -14 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    Left wing people on lemmy do the same thing.... so many links posted on news and world news communities is just left wing blogs...

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    I haven't found this. In my experience I've only gotten articles. Some articles of dubious veracity yet, articles from sources at least making an effort to appear reputable.

    Then again I've only been using Lemmy on one account so far.

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  • [–] -1 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Some articles of dubious veracity yet, articles from sources at least making an effort to appear reputable.

    well thats what i'm talking about. Not literal blogs, but opinion websites masquerading as news sites. I dont see how that's any better than the right wing manosphere trash the comic is criticizing

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (2 children)

    If those blogs are "unreliable, bias, full of fake news" then, yeah I guess. Again, I haven't run into those problems with articles on Lemmy.

    Could you point me to an example of your experience?

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Just go to one of the biggest news communities on lemmy....

    If you cant tell the difference between bbc, reuters, the guardian.... and publicwitness.wordandway.com (a very highly upvoted link over the last day) then there's no point in me scouring the whole fediverse trying to prove my point.

    And you can all downvote me to hell just to stay in your echo chamber... but you're no better than the right ring idiots we mock in this comic

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    Too many times, when an article posted on lemmy shits on the Democrats as a "controlled opposition party" over a recently passed bill, the roll call shows the vast majority of Democrats voted against it. Funny how news articles practically never link to the official congressional page on a bill or its roll call votes.

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    [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    Hey, mens rights has nothing to do with the Andew Tate style mysoginy podcasts. Different world entirely.

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    Same thing goes when you flip the sexes too

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