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Something to understand what nurses think about re the Current News and their opinions!

So I heard the Dems are going to get Cyber Ninjas to audit the Congressional Baseball Game because the republicans won by one run? 

Are the panda bears going to be there too???????

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"ABC News left out a remark from former President Barack Obama describing "open borders" as "unsustainable" from the televised portion of his interview on ABC's "Good Morning America."

https://www.foxnews.com/media/abc-excludes-obama-criticism-open-borders-televised-portion-interview

 

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4 hours ago, Beerman said:

"ABC News left out a remark from former President Barack Obama describing "open borders" as "unsustainable" from the televised portion of his interview on ABC's "Good Morning America."

https://www.foxnews.com/media/abc-excludes-obama-criticism-open-borders-televised-portion-interview

 

Meh....that is the Democrat stance, not to have open borders.  Obama deported a lot of people himself.   Conservatives are so often pointing out that Democrats want and open border and that's just not true.  Obama reiterates that.

 But it's not a controversial statement, it was a statement in support of what we are doing in keeping it closed and trying to fix the problems.

He also said ""As big-hearted as he is, nobody understands that better than Joe Biden," and he is a huge supporter of the Biden agenda. 

It was covered by other news outlets considered liberal like Yahoo News so it's odd but not earth shattering bias that ABC would eliminate it.  

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Just wondering how are people enjoying the free trade of the unregulated food industry in their grocery costs, especially the meat industry? 

Isn't that what republicans want? Freedom from govt? 

Personally I just love it when big business sticks it to the consumers, because I know that a lot of republicans go paycheck to paycheck, so keep voting for them because big business really empathize and love you little people. When they price gouge, it's only because they love you so much! When they dump toxic chemicals in your backyard, it's really a free Chemistry lesson. 

Don't tell me what to do or say, freedom. No regulation! 

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9 hours ago, Beerman said:

"ABC News left out a remark from former President Barack Obama describing "open borders" as "unsustainable" from the televised portion of his interview on ABC's "Good Morning America."

https://www.foxnews.com/media/abc-excludes-obama-criticism-open-borders-televised-portion-interview

 

So the evidence to support the conservative claim that democrats support "open borders" is that they don't support open borders?  huh.

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17 minutes ago, MunoRN said:

So the evidence to support the conservative claim that democrats support "open borders" is that they don't support open borders?  huh.

Fake news ???. I demand a recount! Where's Cyber Ninjas to sort this out ????

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Data were collected over 6 months in 2019 and reflect Americans’ beliefs about hundreds of political topics. The topics were selected on the basis of social media engagement, suggesting that these are the very issues that Americans were most likely to encounter online. Analyses suggest that conservatism is associated with a lesser ability to distinguish between true and false claims across a wide range of political issues and with a tendency to believe that all claims are true.

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The study also shows that conservatives’ propensity to hold misperceptions is partly explained by the political implications of this widely shared news. Socially engaging truthful claims tended to favor the left, while engaging falsehoods disproportionately favored the right. In such an environment, the belief accuracy of liberals and conservatives would be expected to diverge even if ideological bias is symmetrical. 

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These results are not as simple as prior theory might suggest. It is not the case that conservatives are uniformly more responsive to ingroup threats. Liberals responded more strongly than conservatives to harmful truths, although they became better at discriminating between truths and falsehoods. We do see evidence that liberals are more prone to accept claims that benefit the ingroup, although the strength of the relationship is modest. Liberals’ sensitivity decreased in the face of politically beneficial falsehoods, resulting in performance comparable to that of conservatives in the most extreme cases. What is unambiguous here is that Americans’ response to the composition of the political information environment is dependent on their ideology.

It's interesting to me that this phenomenon is obvious enough that the social scientists are seeking to understand and explain it.  I think that it has to do with media consumption. 

Conservatives’ susceptibility to political misperceptions

 

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5 minutes ago, toomuchbaloney said:

It's interesting to me that this phenomenon is obvious enough that the social scientists are seeking to understand and explain it.  I think that it has to do with media consumption. 

Conservatives’ susceptibility to political misperceptions

 

The definition of liberalism is being open to reason so it makes sense that a liberal would be less likely to fall for a conspiracy theory since that would be unreasonable.  IMHO, we are more practical and less likely to rail against creative thinking because of rigid ideology.  Dogma is the enemy of progress.  Progress is anathema to conservatives because they want to live in the 60's instead of evolving to accomodate the realities of the present.  That is not to say that I am comfortable with the Democratic party's uber progressive wing and comfortable with spending the money to start programs that I think will become entitlements very quickly.  

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23 minutes ago, toomuchbaloney said:

It's interesting to me that this phenomenon is obvious enough that the social scientists are seeking to understand and explain it.  I think that it has to do with media consumption. 

Conservatives’ susceptibility to political misperceptions

 

I think liberals are more open in general and therefore more likely to seek education for explanations. This becomes part of our nature and extends to all areas of our lives. 

Republicans are closed off evidenced by their embrace of religion and hypocrisy to bolster the irregularities that conflict with their beliefs. 

Therefore if one is willing to believe in the God of the Bible, then logically you are susceptible to any number of outrageous claims. Nothing against the religious but you can't be religious and open to opinions. 

I have something against hypocrites though. I don't trust them! Period! 

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6 minutes ago, Curious1997 said:

I think liberals are more open in general and therefore more likely to seek education for explanations. This becomes part of our nature and extends to all areas of our lives. 

Republicans are closed off evidenced by their embrace of religion and hypocrisy to bolster the irregularities that conflict with their beliefs. 

Therefore if one is willing to believe in the God of the Bible, then logically you are susceptible to any number of outrageous claims. Nothing against the religious but you can't be religious and open to opinions. 

I have something against hypocrites though. I don't trust them! Period! 

I am a believer in the God of the religious texts. I am a follower of the Christ.

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13 minutes ago, toomuchbaloney said:

I am a believer in the God of the religious texts. I am a follower of the Christ.

And nothing is wrong with that. I was generalizing because I certainly can't speak for everyone. But I am speaking against all hypocrites. 

It's obvious that you read extensively and is open to other ideas. 

I'm an evolutionist and believe in science. Mostly, however I believe that it's important to input the right things, especially re knowledge. You only get out what you put in. Even the Bible emphasized that. Commandments, Jesus's teachings etc, are very empathetic and considerate which can only be achieved through understanding, meaning education. To see a big picture, you have to be standing back and be capable of understanding the picture being presented to you and that always implies knowing. 

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4 hours ago, toomuchbaloney said:

I am a believer in the God of the religious texts. I am a follower of the Christ.

How do you resolve the issue of all the translations of the Bible and also how fractured the faith is with all the different versions and philosophies? 

I found it bemusing re Aramaic to Greek to German to King James and who knows how many other versions? We all know about the experiment re twelve people in a circle with a whisper to one, which by the time it reached the last person had changed somewhat considerably. Now imagine how many cultures and over seventeen hundred years, which version is accurate and why didn't God intervene to ensure that his word wasn't diluted or changed? 

It couldn't have been important enough to him? Or maybe it was his intent? 

Religion is an interesting subject! 

 

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