cross-posted from: https://fedia.io/m/news@lemmy.world/t/2006492

Fox News appears to have removed their DOW ticker in a pattern for the company, choosing to block out the steep drop in DOW points after Trump's tariff announcement

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[–] 151 points 1 year ago (5 children)
  • [–] 85 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I feel like the original quote applies here pretty well, no real need to change it…

    War is peace

    Freedom is slavery

    Ignorance is strength

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  • [–] 50 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Should be updated to include "empathy is sin".

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I feel like, as a non American, ignorance is bliss.

    But I'd realize all of this is insane shit even if I didn't hear about it daily.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    It is so much easier and comfortable to just close your eyes to the troubles of the world, but it also means that you won’t see what’s coming and will not be able to act. So this sort of sensory overload with negativity and craziness is kinda the point. The more people are tuned out and overwhelmed, the easier it is for assholes like Musk and Trump to push their agenda through. It’s also talked about in 1984, where the quote comes from

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  • [–] 56 points 1 year ago

    Gave a book club with elderly. Chose 1984 for January.

    A woman literally said after we had discussed this that the salute wasn't the salute.

    The Jewish woman next to hers fingernails were about to grip through her own wrist.

    Shocking to see the dissonance in real time like this and then.

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    Next, 1984 will be banned in US

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    The worst part? There is no need for it. 1984 can only happen in places other than america, after all. America is a shining beacon of beautiful democracy that is #1 in everything, ever. Anyone saying otherwise is just a whiny bitch social communist.

    The maga idiots are not in their position from logic, but from following the cult, and the cult is the current president.

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