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PBS isn't a rag, but rather a news source. News sources should be objective. You can find endless commentary online about how shitty these people are.

This doesn't hold any water, logically.

If you're selling insulin and I cure/prevent diabetes with a single treatment t, you no longer have a market and I have literally every human being on the planet.

Medical science is an arms race, and cures are nukes. You make the best cure, you win. Full stop.

This is the most boomer shit and it is so sad to see people still saying it

less aware, less intelligent, than older generations.

This is true, but not generationally. Rather, the younger someone is, the less they generally know, and the more.opinions can be shaped.

There's a reason all radical movements throughout history have been driven by the young, and it isn't because the young thought up the ideas. Younger people generally have a different view on new information, especially information that points to problems they perceive, than older people.

If you're trying to have a social media presence you are de facto targeting a younger audience

Wages are already massively above minimum wage for the overwhelming majority of workers, so the market is currently setting the price for labor.

Minimum wage is an absolute necessity because Capitalists would abuse their power to pay as little as possible otherwise.

This is wrong for several reasons:

1: even a worker-owned co-op would seek to limit new hires, because the pool of revenue is only so big. This is no different from wanting to pay someone as little as possible, ethically.

2: if minimum wage was an absolute necessity and markets didn't drive wages, vastly more people would be paid at minimum wage.

Almost no small businesses pay minimum wage, though.

Right now, discussions about minimum wage are generally meaningless, because such a small portion of Americans makes minimum wage.

This is neither an argument for or against minimum wage, either. It's just that minimum wage doesn't really have the impact it's touted to have.

Manufacturing company I work for starts at a minimum of $20/hr for the lowest role, and that's our nationwide lowest pay.

We are constantly hiring

Social media sites hurt marvel and Star Wars, they didn't help. The groupthink and popularity of meme-tier criticism directly costs Disney money.

Wow. Corporations are tagging younger generations as dumb shits.

I mean, I wouldn't use that language, but yeah of course. They don't have firm beliefs yet, in most cases, and their worldviews are more likely to be shaped by memes, whereas the older generations adopt the memes that appeal to their worldview.

If you want to shape people, you want to ideally target young adults.

No, Hamas is the abuser in his scenario.

multiple hard right views

I haven't seen any hard-right views from Fetterman.

Instead you concocted some kind of scenario where I am “making my case” and you need to get sarcastic with me and assign me strawman views and argue against them all condescendingly.

You're talking about conspiracy theories. Your personal fictitious interpretation of events is not equal to the facts of the matter.

Here's an actual thing you wrote (only, linking to more conspiracy theories you believe within):

Honestly, I think I’m probably misremembering, and I’m mixing her up with some other person that powerful people actually did have killed. Not because the note was handwritten; I just think there would be places on the internet that were pretty readily findable where would be published the original stories I read back at the time.

Yes, I am similarly dismissive of conspiracy theories in real life. When my boss said "I won't get the vaccine because Bill Gates put in microchips" I didn't acknowledge that as a serious discussion.

If you want to be treated as if the things you're saying have value, you shouldn't pop off arrogantly about how the US government regularly has people killed. They don't.

Secrets aren't good at staying secrets.

Edit: more to the point, this comment section is full of people spouting conspiracy theories. None of their theories are plausible or make any degree of sense when dug into. That they are so widespread here is because of the mindset people have - a toxic mindset that makes their brains ripe for the rot of conspiracy thinking. That should not be encouraged in any public forum, because it is contagious.

What?

there were some pretty unprobable shit happening around his death unless I’ve been misled hard

This is definitely true. But then, 9/11 was pretty improbable too, and was definitely not an inside job.

He was taken off suicide watch shortly before his suicide.

Correct.

Yes the first bullet passed through his cheek and it is not difficult to fire a gun.

So said the CIA

So said his wife.

No, doctors and nurses don't have to be Catholic, and the hospital is just a normal hospital. They even have religiously neutral "meditation chapels" instead of like, a small Catholic shrine.

I've been to this specific hospital. It's bog-standard health care.

"everyone who disagrees with me is a shill, and if they're right they're an extra double shill"

Come back to this post in October and let me know how the Gaza debate is blowing up the news cycle

Your approach in this discussion is very much one of shutting down thinking that opposes yours.

Conspiracy theory thought is mental poison and should be shut down. Not all thinking is equal.

I wouldn't engage a "flat earther" in a meaningful dialogue, and I would caution you against it as well. It's chess with a pigeon, at best

Also, here's the comment I received directly before yours, lest you think I was just making that part up

https://lemmy.world/comment/6146666