politics

Car use wouldn't be a good metric in the US (maybe more so in other countries). It's too necessary in most places. But otherwise I agree.

Talk radio is a bastion of old white men. Trying to sway it is a lost cause. The only hope is out lasting their deaths.

If Harris wins I think we have good shot of things moving back towards sanity, especially if she lasts two terms.

And Clinton put the final nail in the coffin with the telecom Reform Act.

Hold my beer!

-The Telecommunications Act of 1996

Rush Limbaugh and his gross career owes its entire existence to that. He is someone who believes that drug dealers and smugglers need to be shot without trial... and he himself was a drug dealer when he was hard for cash.

Tells you a good deal of what kind of person we're dealing with here.

Speaking of regulation, their hateful opinions getting such a far reach is a direct result of the telocommunications act of '96

Anything presented as news should be kept separate from opinion. If it's news, you should be able to defend it like it was said under oath.

Personally, I would love it if news channels had to distinguish opinion content from news by removing the word news from the screen and replacing it with the word opinion. That or some other clear and unmistakable signal to the audience should be there to establish whether the station is going on record and asserting facts or whether this is some talking head spewing bullshit.

Isn’t that how we got the national treasure that is Rachel Maddow?

It needed better talent. Thom Hartmann was the sole survivor because he's actually listenable. Randi Rhodes and Ron Reagan were just shit. But progressive talk can be done well. Stephanie Miller is hilarious when she has the right crew, but she has a penchant for self-owning. She gave us John Fugelsang, who is just brilliant.

Podcasting is the better space to get going.

Joe Rogan and other right-wing cranks.

Also tictoc.

A significant part of the rise of fascism in Europe among young people.

Anyway I do like podcasts, and it's full of good content (and so is tiktok presumably) but neither are lacking right-wing content.

Getting young folks off the incel pipeline is going to be really tough in today's environment.

Incel is the new fat. Most of society immediately treats them like scum that did it to themselves. In a lot of cases both fat people and incels are at fault, but trashing them isn't going to fix the issues.

Your need to understand them and how they got there to try and change them or at least reduce new ones from being created. Not just hate them.