I agree with you. This is where I just throw my hands up and concede that this is the will of the people. Our democratic form of government affords people the freedom to choose to be sheep. Isn’t it beautiful?

Gotcha. I am not sharing the same reality or maybe not discussing the same story as you. Understood.

He was simply introducing the next speaker. What “far-reaching consequences” might this have?

I certainly don’t care. What I do care about is the dimwits who think this means anything at all. You’re so distressed over nothing that everything becomes headline news. This is what news organizations and social media outlets are using to manipulate the narrative and show you more ads. Because you’re gullible.

I can not think of anything that means nothing more than this.

He’s there to read some words, the words disappeared, he was unable to read them. How in the world are you imagining this to be anything at all?

It shouldn’t be news if this happens to anyone, including the president. This is not news. This is a tech malfunction.

The actual interesting bit in this story is all the mounting evidence that Carlson himself is very likely closeted.

It’s incredible to me how journalists bloggers turn so much nothing into a news story and then people feel the need to share it.

I hope you vote for the candidate whom you feel best represents you and the interests you prioritize. I hope your interests and your morals come from a place of clarity that isn’t clouded by biased content designed to manipulate you.

I guess I need to learn more about the relationship between the party committees, state’s laws for getting someone on the ballot, primary elections, the ballot box, and the electoral college. Why have a primary election in each state if the party can just put whomever they want on the general election ballot? Could the DNC literally just do a switcheroo and put Hilary (for example) on the ballot in November?

Edit: Found this which answered most of my questions.

the choice of a nominee is party business — not state law, not federal law, and not constitutional law.

https://www.factcheck.org/2024/07/qa-how-biden-can-be-replaced-as-the-democratic-nominee/

I don’t have any doubts. I have grave concerns that anyone, literally anyone, would argue that DT is a better option than Biden in any regard. That’s not to say I’m happy to have an old white dude as the nominee but he’s been exceptionally productive and has near infinite less baggage than the alternative.

I’ve yet to be presented with a legit legal way Biden could drop out and allow voters to choose another candidate. Lots of opinions that he should do it but no experts weighing in on how. I could have missed a lot of coverage so I ask people to respectfully share this policy with me.

Political ads on social media The Internet rife with misinformation and scams, new research finds.

FTFY

I downvoted it because I watched the video and it’s irrelevant to politics. There’s far better sources to share and have a decent discussion over. Maybe try sharing articles of substance.

No. You can’t run a corpse as a nominee. That’s what the DNC is running one of the most, if not the most, productive presidents in modern times. And if this candidate, who also happens to be the oldest person ever elected president dies in office, there’s a vice president to take over.

I genuinely don’t understand the call to replace the person who has already been nominated as the democratic candidate. The dude was old as shit in 2016 and shouldn’t have been nominated then. If anything, he’s convinced me he’s better at the job than I had imagined.

Evidently, you can also nominate a rapist, twice impeached, insurrectionist, fascist, verifiable narcissistic who has no desire to help anyone but himself, and the other person who’d still hold the record for the oldest person ever elected president too; and for a growing number of Americans that’s better. Frankly, I honestly would vote for a literal corpse, given the option.

That’s why we have a vice president.

Wanting a bot to promote verifiably false information is fucked up. Wanting a bot to conflate multiple separate stories into one narrative is fucked up.

You and I may be fine with easily observing falsities but it has become readily apparent over the past 20+ years that literal fake news is having a measurable and long term impact on our society and planet. I fully agree that having access to multiple perspectives is fantastic and we should all want that. The issue is that this particular platform goes well beyond that.

Most humans are not intelligent enough to understand what they’re reading even when they are told what they’re reading is inaccurate https://lemmy.ml/post/17790884/12168067

https://www.newsweek.com/honduran-illegal-immigrant-sentenced-child-sexual-abuse-1922463

A man from Honduras who raped a 13-year-old girl he met online in Virginia and then assaulted an immigration officer attempting to arrest him has been sentenced to prison, federal prosecutors announced on Monday.

https://www.masslive.com/news/2024/07/ice-arrests-ecuadoran-man-wanted-on-child-rape-charge-in-northampton.html

Deportation officers have arrested an Ecuadorian man wanted on a child rape charge in his home country who was hiding out in Northampton, according to U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

https://www-origo-hu.translate.goog/888/2024/07/illegalis-migrans-gyerek-eroszak

Francisco Lopez-Ramirez, a 42-year-old Mexican citizen living in the United States illegally, was arrested in Provo, Utah, on July 4th around 3:00 p.m.

It is not a decent source and this now makes me question the legitimacy of MBFC. In this post, there are at least three entirely different stories https://ground.news/article/illegal-migrant-convicted-after-raping-child-assaulting-ice-officer_05781e

For anyone with reading comprehension issues…

https://www.newsweek.com/honduran-illegal-immigrant-sentenced-child-sexual-abuse-1922463

A man from Honduras who raped a 13-year-old girl he met online in Virginia and then assaulted an immigration officer attempting to arrest him has been sentenced to prison, federal prosecutors announced on Monday.

https://www.masslive.com/news/2024/07/ice-arrests-ecuadoran-man-wanted-on-child-rape-charge-in-northampton.html

Deportation officers have arrested an Ecuadorian man wanted on a child rape charge in his home country who was hiding out in Northampton, according to U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

https://www-origo-hu.translate.goog/888/2024/07/illegalis-migrans-gyerek-eroszak

Francisco Lopez-Ramirez, a 42-year-old Mexican citizen living in the United States illegally, was arrested in Provo, Utah, on July 4th around 3:00 p.m.

See my last edit.

I could not disagree more with everything you have said.

It’s an advertising portal disguised as an aggregator. It promotes articles that are the most click / rage baity to maintain your engagement. It is not a source of journalism. Linking to the general headline it “aggregates” is not proving source. It should be banned from this platform. If the quality of the content they aggregated was reasonable, I would have a slightly more forgiving opinion.

Edit: For instance, while it does include AP as one of the sources, even though it is the actual ONLY source for this report, it’s the eleventh article linked on the page; with the first link going to a right-leaning website based Argentina.

Edit 2: They also evidently “aggregate” using an algorithm which can be wrong. There are at least two different stories found here about a migrant raping a minor. One is about an Ecuadorian and the other is about a Honduran. The first link from a right-leaning Hungarian language site, doesn’t appear to be about either of these separate instances.

The matter that anyone would think otherwise is a bit surprising. Seems to me that a lot of people are believing what they’re reading on social media, or allowing social media to influence their assumptions, before they take a moment to step outside their echo chamber and consider what reality may look like.

This headline alone is fueled by social media. Of course, Biden is old AF. But if anyone has actually watched him, within context - not in short edited vides to promote an agenda or generate click revenue, it’s apparent the dude is in fantastic shape for his age (better than me at nearly half his age). It’s also apparent if you give a crap about actual policy and our government, that he’s been one of the most successful, though certainly not without flaws, presidents in modern times. I don’t want to defend the guy - I’ve never been a fan - but reality is reality. Frankly, I would not be surprised if he doesn’t make it, alive, to the election. Moreover, if you’re unsure who you want to vote for this coming election, you sincerely are not thinking straight at all. Frustratingly, there is no choice. A mentally and physically deficient Biden is still inarguably better than a fit and acute Trump. I would encourage people to simply reject all election politics until November.