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think positive
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Joined: 30 Jun 2005 Location: somewhere
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Channel 9 hourly news update. Grandmother mowed down in hit and run.
OMG you think. Then they show footage of her bashing the car with a long solid object, like a block of wood. I mean did they kidnap her child or dog? Did they cut her off? I’m not victim blaming, but if someone came at my car like that, if I was worried for my life, I’d flatten it, I’d probably try to avoid the person, and I’d definitely drive straight to the police station.
I’m thinking more grandmother hurt in road rage incident,
As an aside, It needs to be highlighted. The woman last month who got ran over when she remonstrated with a truck. A friend had a gun pulled on him in sunshine years ago after an angry reaction to being cut off.
Yes I’m guilty of tooting and cracking it, but I’m not jumping in front of a truck or smashing someone’s windscreen.
I just think headlines can be very inflammatory for the wrong reasons. _________________ You cant fix stupid, turns out you cant quarantine it either! |
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stui magpie
Prepare for the worst, hope for the best.
Joined: 03 May 2005 Location: In flagrante delicto
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Headlines are purposely designed to get you to click on the article. Yes, often they're misleading.
Another trick I've noticed is that some media will re-brand an article with a different headline over a few days, which also updates the publication date, so you see a headline and date, think it's a new article and once you click on it you realise you read this 3 days ago. _________________ Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down. |
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pietillidie
Joined: 07 Jan 2005
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It's the lowlife world in which we live. The vilest amoral narcissists dominate both politics and the media, bringing out the worst in everyone and making it impossible for a very large proportion of the population to think straight.
On its own, each instance seems trivial. But flood people's lives with such rot, and entire thought fields become warped and dissociated from reality.
I think the extent and overall impact is far more dire than people grasp, because sophisticated information collection, reasoning and decision making are quite literally the what separates us from other apes. The result is an inability to solve complex problems.
When people's judgement is so bad they vote for a compulsive liar, rapist and deranged conman like Trump, justifying and normalising such a vile, capricious creep, you know they've lost their grip on judgement en masse. It really is like talking to zombies. And other countries are now only marginally better than the US. _________________ In the end the rain comes down, washes clean the streets of a blue sky town.
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think positive
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Joined: 30 Jun 2005 Location: somewhere
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Yeah I totally agree! _________________ You cant fix stupid, turns out you cant quarantine it either! |
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