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How NPR lost America's trust

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  • MikM Offline
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    I think you're a confusist. Which is not to say Confucian, just confused.

    “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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      It helps when you realize that social/political issues are infinitely complex, and most of what we end up arguing about and taking sides over are not reasonably provable one way or the other. We each have our gut instinct and we choose talking points which support it. Those talking points are mostly true, for any given side of any given issue. If two sides of a political issue are mutually exclusive, then only one can be true, but all the talking points that support each side can still be true.

      Education is extremely important.

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      • HoraceH Horace

        It helps when you realize that social/political issues are infinitely complex, and most of what we end up arguing about and taking sides over are not reasonably provable one way or the other. We each have our gut instinct and we choose talking points which support it. Those talking points are mostly true, for any given side of any given issue. If two sides of a political issue are mutually exclusive, then only one can be true, but all the talking points that support each side can still be true.

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        @Horace said in How NPR lost America's trust:

        If two sides of a political issue are mutually exclusive, then only one can be true

        Or both can be false (Confusious say)

        I was only joking

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        • George KG Offline
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          #73

          (tinfoil hat on?)

          The 41 year old CEO of NPR:

          "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

          The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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            #74

            I guess my interest in conspiracy theories like this end with my realization that if she's a plant, then her handlers are as stupid as she seems to be anyway. Of what value is a conspiracy to explain the world when people self-organize based on the same principles in a free market as they do in a clandestine conspiracy?

            Education is extremely important.

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              #75

              "Only 41 years old"

              Only?

              Maybe he's having a mid-life crisis and realising that people who are his age are way more successful than he is.

              I was only joking

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              • Doctor PhibesD Doctor Phibes

                "Only 41 years old"

                Only?

                Maybe he's having a mid-life crisis and realising that people who are his age are way more successful than he is.

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                @Doctor-Phibes said in How NPR lost America's trust:

                "Only 41 years old"

                Only?

                Yeah,

                I think about where I was in my career at age 41.

                "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                • George KG George K

                  @Doctor-Phibes said in How NPR lost America's trust:

                  "Only 41 years old"

                  Only?

                  Yeah,

                  I think about where I was in my career at age 41.

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                  @George-K said in How NPR lost America's trust:

                  I think about where I was in my career at age 41.

                  I was in the same place I'm in now 😫

                  I was only joking

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                  • HoraceH Offline
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                    #78

                    At 41 I had developed only a small handful of hundreds of groundbreaking theories of the human experience and the meaning of life. An embarrassingly low output compared to my current pace.

                    Education is extremely important.

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                      I'm 41. And also very glad I didn't do the shit she did.

                      Please love yourself.

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                      • MikM Offline
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                        At 41 she couldn't have put a great deal of time into any one of those activities and organizations.

                        “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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