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[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Fox News poll, right after the debate.

Boomertown.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Fox is conservative STATE propaganda. No different to Russian or North Korean state propaganda. Regardless of the blatant bias, there is literally nothing stopping them from manufacturing this "poll" out of thin air.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Fox isn’t state media. I dislike the mendacious fuckers as much as the next guy but let’s try and stick to facts.

The US has very few state media organizations. Voice of America is one. Radio Free Europe is another.

Fox is an independent organization, if they were state media the Biden admin would have control of their news. That obviously isn’t the case.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

I know this is about Fox, but I want to continue to share that neither is NPR. It is an independent nonprofit that operates independently of the government and gets less than 1% of it's operaiting budget from federal sources.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

OP didn't say it was US state media

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Yeah most of our state media is aimed at foreign countries. Not even npr is state media anymore

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The US is a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie and Fox is one of its propaganda arms.

It's not state propaganda because the state, itself, is subordinate.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You mean oligarchy, not a dictatorship, because a group of people hold power instead of one individual.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

A dictatorship isn't always ruled by a single leader, it can be ruled by a group of leaders. In fact, in practice, every stable dictatorship is ruled by a clique rather than just a single dictator.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Good news is 8% managed to get their head out of their ass. Who is answering that poll besides hardcore conservatives?

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago

The comment about Haitian immigrants eating cats definitely clenched it for me.

My ass cheeks that is. As I was dying laughing.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The labels are wrong on this graph.

The question was: Are you a racist piece of shit?

Yes

No

I don't know

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Looks like 25 people voted, one of them is sane and one is in a coma.