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keycocker
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Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 5:28 pm Post subject: |
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This last bunch of posts on health and heat show some interesting US social issues. The "politics trumps science" idea is largely American.
Global warming is not a political issue to big German companies or beach dwellers in Asia.
Only in the US are folks divided on this issue along political lines because Big GOP guys think global warming will cost them money, so we need to pretend it away.
The other big issue is fake news like Bard is posting.When I was a kid talk radio was respectable opinions of the announcer, generally a reasonable educated guy who often mentioned this was just an opinion.
Big GOP money figured out you can pay these guys to read BS in a news format and blue collars would believe it, if you only mentioned at 4AM that it was all "entertainment"
National Enquirer became the biggest selling paper in the US after that. Now we have the internet to post fake AP stories and the lies start to blend with the politics.
If American companies like Bards make decisions about money that ignore science and use politics to predict the weather, then American business will silently sink without a whimper.
We could wind up in a depression if the GOP takes charge and thinks in this fashion. Oh Yeah -that has already begun with Bush driving us under and a big hope that saying O is a Muslim and spending a fortune to get guys to post BS can bring back these same geniuses into power.
Other countries don't suffer this burden, including big German insurance companies.
To all who circulate fake news in America for short term political points
I ask you
'Thought about how important it is not to do this to your ignorant fellow Americans if you love your country?"
The dumbing down of America for profit is not really a joke. |
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