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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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[-] null@slrpnk.net -1 points 2 weeks ago

I feel like it's a very Fox News-y suggestion to ban select groups of people from voting.

[-] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I agree to a certain extent, but what's become clear to me as I get older, is that democracy represents the will of the electorate, and when your democracy is setup to give the dumbest 50% of the electorate the most representation, shit falls apart.

If we want a progressive, effective, and beneficial government, then we need an electorate that will vote for it. For a while, we've tried providing education and mostly free information access to the populace so they can make informed decisions, but it's evident that the voters don't care for that. The only other way to get past that information apathy is to eliminate their representation.

I don't expect this to be a morally defensible position, but more "if we want to survive as a nation, we need to do something about people living in an alternate reality formed by regressive hate propaganda".

[-] null@slrpnk.net -1 points 2 weeks ago

Sounds more like we need to more heavily regulate sources of misinformation, rather than deeming some people too stupid to participate in the system.

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