The state of the world makes me sick sometimes

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Broadcast media no longer has a mandate to inform; it’s all mindless entertainment, dictated by the so-called “news consultants”

The latest casualty of COVID 19 that I have heard of is that the University of Iowa is discontinuing a few of their sports programs because of lost revenue. Even before hearing about this, I have been been feeling more bothered by, well, all things 2020 and what the coming years may be like because of this f***ing nonsense. We had 9/11 and 19 years later we have a pandemic. What kind of crap is gonna happen 19 years from now?

As many of you already know from another thread, I don’t fully understand why people still support the president despite him having a role in the pandemic. Recently, I have had enough of keeping quiet about political stuff, so I’ve been posting stuff on Facebook and retweeting a bunch of Joe Biden’s tweets on Twitter(example: “imagine where we would be right now if we had a president who listened to scientists”). Yesterday, my uncle who supports Trump responded to both of my Facebook posts that many people/news sources are trying to make Trump look bad. I’ve always loved me uncle. He’s always given me good advice and helped me feel better about myself over the years, so it sucks that we have a huge difference in political belief especially when it pertains to an issue in which I believe the president has made things so much worse and many other people would agree with me. I feel very perplexed between family and speaking out about things that bother me so much.

My Uncle had said that he had cut off travel to China in late January and that Biden had called him xenophobic for it. I’ve also heard that people called Trump racists when he finally did s**t down all borders in March. It seems as if the left wingers got their beliefs mixed up there.

CNN is biased toward the left and Fox News is even more biased towards the right, which I think is a major reason why politics are so divided. I just wish all the news we got was more accurate and politicians all over the globe are real leaders and have a damn heart.

The COVID vaccine can’t come soon enough. The pandemic and the continued affects of it often makes me feel existential dread.

The major news outlets ignored the derecho in Iowa because if doesn’t fit a political agenda. That’s unforgivable.

Sorry dyeing to ask but what haopened to petrol station girl?

so, was there ever a “mandate to inform” until that was no longer the case at some point? If so, when did that change happen?

Uhh I hate to come off like an ass...but err is it maybe possible it would be better to inquire about that, in the thread where that is the topic. I mean I am sorry its just this post is specifically about feelings about the state of the world and the O.P does have a specific thread to discuss the girl at the gas-station. So well why is it necessary to ask them in this thread what happened with the petrol station girl? Like as in why couldn't you have asked in the thread they specifically posted about that. I mean you even quoted them talking about a derecho in Iowa not getting proper news coverage to respond with 'yeah sorry, but what about that chick'.

Like I guess its just why are you trying to derail a thread about the state of the world by bringing up a different post by the O.P that's not related to the topic of this particular post of theirs? Does seem kind of rude...just my opinion.

It reads kinda like 'well who cares how you feel about the state of the world...lets talk about a different topic entirely.' Maybe I am overreacting but well for some reason I felt the need to say it.

No your heart's in the right place - I was meaning to get him to post in his own thread rather than here