• HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      5 hours ago

      Traditionally an ellipsis or em dash would be used to signify a pause like that, but casual writing has evolved to the point where it’s not uncommon for a comma to be used instead.

      • rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee
        1·
        7 hours ago

        The reason, the media sometimes portrays M.A.G.A.'s, as deranged anti-American idiots is: because; they are.

  • Ephoron@lemmy.kde.social
    325·
    14 hours ago

    by selection of topics, by distribution of concerns, by emphasis and framing of issues, by filtering of information, by bounding of debate within certain limits. They determine, they select, they shape, they control, they restrict — in order to serve the interests of dominant, elite groups in the society.

    • Chomsky 1988

    … By 2024

    everything the newspapers tells us is just true…

    Good to know how far we’ve come.

    • Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world
      1·
      3 hours ago

      “First response is that it is none of your business. Or anyone’s. Second is that I knew him and we met occasionally.”

      -also Noam Chomsky, but this time about why he was moving so much money for Epstein

      • Ephoron@lemmy.kde.social
        110·
        13 hours ago

        It’s written very, very small in the bottom right, in one of the bald old man’s liver spots.

    • Wogi@lemmy.world
      13·
      13 hours ago

      dO yOuR oWn ReSeArCh!1

      Proceeds to Google until desirable result is found, then screech in to the void about it

      • Ephoron@lemmy.kde.social
        28·
        11 hours ago

        I’ll be sure to heed your lesson. But, just to be clear… is it that I should do somebody else’s research, or that I should get somebody else to to mine…?

        And, one more clarification… Is it that I should hold an opinion but not go on to Google until I find the result supporting it, or that I should not hold an opinion and then not go on to Google to form it, or not hold an opinion and then go on to Google to confirm it… No, wait, that isn’t going to work… Perhaps, hold an opinion and then go on to Google to deny it… Sounds wrong… I know, go on to Google to hold an opinion and then deny it myself… No. Have myself as an opinion and then deny Google… Get Google to give me an opinion and then hold it?

        • Nunar@lemmy.world
          2·
          5 hours ago

          You should listen to your dip shit uncle who says “mainstream media is lying to you, also listen to this flat earth dude”

        • TheDoozer@lemmy.world
          31·
          9 hours ago

          Perhaps, hold an opinion and then go on to Google to deny it… Sounds wrong…

          No, that’s about right. If you have an opinion, you should be challenging it with additional information. The key is not tossing anything anything that doesn’t already agree with your opinion. Going in with the understanding that you are looking for information that proves you wrong is a good approach, though.

        • Wogi@lemmy.world
          51·
          11 hours ago

          It’s ok to read someone else’s research. But if you automatically dismiss anything that disagrees with a previously held belief, you aren’t researching, you’re looking for confirmation. You can find confirmation for just about anything.

          It’s one thing to be critical and say “maybe the specific scenario presented here doesn’t really apply to me.” It’s quite another to say “this can’t be true because I read something before that said the opposite.”

          Most people “doing their own research” fall in to the latter category.