r/WallStreetbetsELITE • u/davidmt1995 • Mar 07 '25

Shitpost Missing uncle Joe here

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You know what strengthens the stock market? Stability and predictability.

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u/TheLunaticCO Mar 07 '25

I want to say a combo of lead poisoning, lack of public education and propaganda. But it could just be the classic combo of Fear, selfishness and hate.

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u/det8924 Mar 07 '25

It’s truly astonishing how good conservative media is at just being shameless in poisoning discourse in this country. The conservative media machine will debt fear monger every single day of a Dem administration and talk about how terrible the economy is. Then when a Republican takes office the debt is never mentioned and they glaze the economy.

We truly live in a post truth world.

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u/TheLunaticCO Mar 07 '25

It's so frustrating. Unless I explicitly go looking for it, I don't see any of this sort of media not even my countries equivalents, yet some people are seemingly exclusively exposed to this sort of thing? It seems to intentional to be pure luck and makes me concerned both that such a power exists and that it seems to be aimed at breaking the current world order in favor of the war torn and stratified past humanity is only barely crawling beyond.

Is it really all for profits? Is that why we must all suffer under a great powers/spheres of influence world order? So that some peoples numbers can go up?

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u/det8924 Mar 07 '25

It’s honestly just a return to yellow journalism. We had a brief exception of media actually following some sort of journalistic standards from the post war years through the 70’s. But it started to erode in the 80’s but then in the 00’s online media just took it to another level and then in the 2010’s social media and in the 20’s AI has just destroyed any sense of there being some objective truth.

At least in the 80’s and 90’s major media outlets could be sued for making stuff up so they were very careful about how they reported stories and how their punditry presented things.

Now we are just back in the 1800’s in terms of journalism as you just have people making shit up all the time

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u/LowHangingWinnets Mar 08 '25

Not quite. It's because you have no independent media. They're all owned by billionaires who back the orange shit gibbon.

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u/det8924 29d ago

In the age of yellow journalism there was very little if any independent media thanks to zero anti trust laws. Now there’s so much more media and some of it is good independent media. Independent media is much more plentiful now (although there isn’t enough) what amount there is just gets so insanely drowned out all the time.