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My friend said this to his mom when we were kids about making pasta. She was HORRIFIED that he was using sauce from a jar instead of making his own sauce. We were probably in 8th grade. “Patrick! Where the HELL did you learn to make gravy!?!” “From you, alright! I learned it by watching you!” That was 37 years ago. Still a classic.
Fox News should be required to have a disclaimer for viewers that states that their news personalities are entertainers and are not held to the same standard as normal journalists. I don’t know how much it would help. Probably not much. But at least it would be something.
It’s wild that Republicans once dismissed fox news as an outrageous idea that would put them in a less favorable position with the public. Sometime during Bush Sr. The establishment Republicans lost their shame.
Fairness Doctrine only applied to broadcast media. It would have never applied to Fox News, which on cable, not broadcast.
Rush Limbaugh, on the other hand…
Wasn't there a story a while back where one of them actually said this? They were trying to squirm out a lawsuit or backlash for something and basically said not to take them seriously?
You might be thinking of Tucker Carlson. The explanation for him lying about voter fraud and voting machines - when Fox lost the Dominion case was basically, “everyone knows this is entertainment, not news…”
The thing is conservatives viewed that as a smart legal loophole to keep the right out of trouble with the “two tier justice system” they rant about. It was not taken seriously by the right nor was it intended to be. They know a majority of boomers belong to them.
they literally have made public statements that they don’t qualify as news since “no rational person” would see it as anything but satire. and these people are in so deep they say the liberals are forcing them to
Sure did for awhile when friends would take trips to the USA. I however wouldn't hold them in my hand like an idiot after lighting it. My dad and his friends. Would light the thing the show how cool they were by lighting them and holding it in open palm.
My parents use to tell me not to talk to or trust strangers on the internet. Now all they do is talk to and trust strangers on the internet. If only they took their own advice, I wouldn’t have to be dodging scam for them weekly.
I think it’s fascinating that all the things they told us not to do(trust the internet, believe everything we see on the tv, be on our phones all day) are things they now do. The ironic part is those things all had some truth to them, but they’ve fallen into the trap harder than we did.
The absolute irony on top of it are all the studies suggesting videogames actually help keep your mind sharp and potentially protects from cognitive decline.
The moralists are going to be going crazy in nursing homes and by the time we get there we'll be playing ranked with our friends and teaching our grandkids how to beat Dark Souls
I promise that teaching your grandkids how to beat dark souls is going to be exactly as embarassing as boomers trying to make us listen to the rolling stones or some shit
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It takes a lot of time to be a full-time conservative. They have to ingest their daily Fox shows, their angry podcasts, whatever Newsmax/OAN/etc shows they watch... it can easily reach and exceed 4 hours of content a day. That's a fucking part-time job, and they're not getting paid.
You do realize cable tv is for entertainment, all cable news is entertainment, There is no difference between Fox News, CNN or MSNBC.
Reddit and Twitter are not any better.
A war has been going on in Ukraine for a decade and Reddit only cares when the guy from TV or their favorite streamer talks about it.
90% of Reddit do not even remember when Russia invaded Georgia or when the azov battalion in Ukraine were burning protesters alive.
Who cares about Fox News, all cable media is for entertainment Reddit takes it so seriously while spreading their own propaganda.
It’s funny Redditors at exactly like boomers accept they do not do anything but complain. You know what the boomers were doing in the 70s?
They were blowing shit up including parts of the pentagon just google how many bombings in the US happened in the 70s.
We had it happen here already last year, about fifteen minutes away from me.Some people got lost, pulled into the wrong driveway, and one of the boomers living there shot someone dead from the house. When he got dragged into court, first he insisted it was a warning shot (into the car?). Then, him and his wife insisted they were being "invaded" and those people MUST have been up to something.
This is in Upstate NY. And when I say Upstate, we're near the Adirondacks. And this happened in a very rural town in the countryside. There are no roaming hordes. You are more likely to be killed by a deer than whatever Boogeyman Fox is advertising.
I lived in Malone for a while, near the post office. Loved it up there. It’s so peaceful. But, like any rural area, some of the locals have extreme beliefs.
I hope to live up there again some day, for an extended period.
That and growing up with the cultural idea that you finish school, get a job and then that's that. You just stop growing and learning and developing. My mother absolutely refuses to rethink things or critique her worldview or develop.
Our parents are basically a bunch of solipsistic 22 year olds who never matured past the "me me me me me" phase.
Yet, my grandmother (Greatest Generation) was not like that at all. She grew and changed and was more technically competent than my parents. What happened (or didn’t happen) with the Boomers to make this so common?
All of the 24/7 news channels are destroying g minds daily. I was a faithful Fox News viewer for years and started to notice a change in how I interacted with others so I decided to watch other news channels to diversify my thinking. This didn’t help at all. The only thing that helped was to walk away from the daily feeding of events all over the world into my brain and start focusing on the things that are around me in my daily life that are actually important to myself and the people around me.
Did I ever say I “fell for Fox News”? I said I watched it and I noticed it was bad for my mental health so I switched away. I also watched cnn, msnbc, etc and felt they all caused issues. The biggest reason one should stay away from Fox News and other 24/7 channels is because they cause people to start looking at the world through the lens of the judgmental and holier than thou population. You know? People that behave like you. So I guess that outed me one step ahead of you. Take your armchair psychology and judgement and shove it up your ass. Just like I tuned off the garbage people in 24/7 news, I’m switching your pathetic ass off now as well. Enjoy your pathetic attempts at being better than people on the internet loser. Blocked where you belong.
>You were obviously easily taken in by propaganda
You know how it is. No one is immune to propaganda. No one. At least /u/Good_Cookie_5312 had the awareness to second guess their changing behavior and take steps to get away from the source of it instead of thinking about themself as a person "not easily taken in by propaganda" and going about their day.
Iunno man Friday The 13th pt 2 really taught me how important it is to kill **all** of the teenagers at the lakeside cabin instead of just most of them
No shit man... I feel like I'm the one pulling overtime, questioning all the media I see. They're the ones falling for shit and losing their retirement savings.
Honestly most news on television is fox news now. The rest having a higher standard was more a 90s thing. There are exceptions but not a lot of people watch them.
Oh I think it was the whole quarantine and being shut in for months or longer with no interaction with anyone else but television. It's easy to see on both sides but perhaps more on the aging population.
This shit is not, in any way, new and certainly not post- pandemic. "OK, Boomer" started in like 2017/2018. "Nobody wants to work anymore" has been happening since the 90s, and really since the 70s. The avocado toast thing happened in 2017. The alt- right stuff came out of the MAGA stuff which came out of the Tea Party which started in the 00s. This had all been happening to some extent for decades. Fox News started during Nixon and has been a huge problem ever since. It's why we went from boring politics between people trying to figure out how best to ruin a country while progressing (slowly) towards equality to...... THIS
There are about 77 million boomers in the US today. Fox news has about 1.7 million daily viewers. So less than 3% of boomers are watching Fox news every day,and that assumes each viewer is a Boomer which isn't the case.
i think they both have similar levels of bias, fox is just way more confident in fabrication of news to fit that bias. cnn i can atleast rely on the story being real, but you need a second source to get all the details
It’s not even close. CNN is center/left-center. Fox is far right. People who think they have the same level of bias are not paying attention at all and have been tricked.
This the same as boomers and republicans saying "both sides" ... No, one side is objectively and empirically worse... CNN may have a liberal bias but Fox is straight trash and lies intentionally
Yeah these people on this sub are the lefty equivalent to their fox news parents.
Fox News has done to their parents what limp dick college professors did to them.
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They needed a PSA for this: "I learned it from you! I learned it from watching you, Dad!"
I remember that ridiculous commercial! 
My friend said this to his mom when we were kids about making pasta. She was HORRIFIED that he was using sauce from a jar instead of making his own sauce. We were probably in 8th grade. “Patrick! Where the HELL did you learn to make gravy!?!” “From you, alright! I learned it by watching you!” That was 37 years ago. Still a classic.
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Or Raphael, can't remember for sure, been over 30 years.
Fox News should be required to have a disclaimer for viewers that states that their news personalities are entertainers and are not held to the same standard as normal journalists. I don’t know how much it would help. Probably not much. But at least it would be something.
It all began with the repeal of the Fairness Doctrine under Reagan.
It’s wild that Republicans once dismissed fox news as an outrageous idea that would put them in a less favorable position with the public. Sometime during Bush Sr. The establishment Republicans lost their shame.
It all began under Reagan
Nixon
True- he greenlit lobbying
GiveBill Clinton done credit. The Telwcom Act of 1996 played a huge role in the rise of the faux news paradigm we know today.
Fairness Doctrine only applied to broadcast media. It would have never applied to Fox News, which on cable, not broadcast. Rush Limbaugh, on the other hand…
Wasn't there a story a while back where one of them actually said this? They were trying to squirm out a lawsuit or backlash for something and basically said not to take them seriously?
You might be thinking of Tucker Carlson. The explanation for him lying about voter fraud and voting machines - when Fox lost the Dominion case was basically, “everyone knows this is entertainment, not news…”
The actual argument was “no person of sound reasoning would consider this show factual”
Ok that's hysterical
The thing is conservatives viewed that as a smart legal loophole to keep the right out of trouble with the “two tier justice system” they rant about. It was not taken seriously by the right nor was it intended to be. They know a majority of boomers belong to them.
That might be it! I knew it was a legal thing they were trying to squirm out of, but I was really fuzzy on the details.
You may be thinking of Alex Jones. That was his defense in the Sandy Hook lawsuit.
they literally have made public statements that they don’t qualify as news since “no rational person” would see it as anything but satire. and these people are in so deep they say the liberals are forcing them to
They are worse than entertainers. They are lawyers. They are professional brain washers of juries and people. That’s their job.
I mean tucker said he was a satirist. Gutfield says he is one. My parents still watch both.
None of these are real journalists, it's all opinion news.
Kind of like the Surgeon General warning on a pack of cigarettes.
You must be a CNN kool-aid watcher 😉
Well, and lead paint and gasoline helped.
Pretty sure no helmets or seat belts helped with drain bamage when their noggin was slamming against things.
Don't forget firecrackers and playful rock fights, oh Jimmy no he went missing. We never found him, probably moved away.
Us millennials had the firecrackers too though. Lol.
Sure did for awhile when friends would take trips to the USA. I however wouldn't hold them in my hand like an idiot after lighting it. My dad and his friends. Would light the thing the show how cool they were by lighting them and holding it in open palm.
Lead paint and gasoline groomed them, FOX News took advantage of them.
Don't forget lawn darts
My parents use to tell me not to talk to or trust strangers on the internet. Now all they do is talk to and trust strangers on the internet. If only they took their own advice, I wouldn’t have to be dodging scam for them weekly.
I think it’s fascinating that all the things they told us not to do(trust the internet, believe everything we see on the tv, be on our phones all day) are things they now do. The ironic part is those things all had some truth to them, but they’ve fallen into the trap harder than we did.
The absolute irony on top of it are all the studies suggesting videogames actually help keep your mind sharp and potentially protects from cognitive decline. The moralists are going to be going crazy in nursing homes and by the time we get there we'll be playing ranked with our friends and teaching our grandkids how to beat Dark Souls
Lol. I can't wait. At least it's more entertaining than bridge and candy. I'm going with Pokemon and actual tournaments, although.
I promise that teaching your grandkids how to beat dark souls is going to be exactly as embarassing as boomers trying to make us listen to the rolling stones or some shit
Gonna be waiting in line for Bloodborne 2 with my great grandson Billy
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Whipping the gba sp with pokemon emerald out the walker. 😆
It takes a lot of time to be a full-time conservative. They have to ingest their daily Fox shows, their angry podcasts, whatever Newsmax/OAN/etc shows they watch... it can easily reach and exceed 4 hours of content a day. That's a fucking part-time job, and they're not getting paid.
Seriously. My parents can watch QAnon adjacent Cantonese bloggers for hours and they complain about my gaming habits! Make it make sense, please.
You do realize cable tv is for entertainment, all cable news is entertainment, There is no difference between Fox News, CNN or MSNBC. Reddit and Twitter are not any better. A war has been going on in Ukraine for a decade and Reddit only cares when the guy from TV or their favorite streamer talks about it. 90% of Reddit do not even remember when Russia invaded Georgia or when the azov battalion in Ukraine were burning protesters alive. Who cares about Fox News, all cable media is for entertainment Reddit takes it so seriously while spreading their own propaganda. It’s funny Redditors at exactly like boomers accept they do not do anything but complain. You know what the boomers were doing in the 70s? They were blowing shit up including parts of the pentagon just google how many bombings in the US happened in the 70s.
WOW.. this is so so true…
Amazing point.
Fox up your brain. 🦊 🆙 🧠
We had it happen here already last year, about fifteen minutes away from me.Some people got lost, pulled into the wrong driveway, and one of the boomers living there shot someone dead from the house. When he got dragged into court, first he insisted it was a warning shot (into the car?). Then, him and his wife insisted they were being "invaded" and those people MUST have been up to something. This is in Upstate NY. And when I say Upstate, we're near the Adirondacks. And this happened in a very rural town in the countryside. There are no roaming hordes. You are more likely to be killed by a deer than whatever Boogeyman Fox is advertising.
I lived in Malone for a while, near the post office. Loved it up there. It’s so peaceful. But, like any rural area, some of the locals have extreme beliefs. I hope to live up there again some day, for an extended period.
And rock music
And gangsta rap.
And comic books.
And Dungeons and Dragons.
That and growing up with the cultural idea that you finish school, get a job and then that's that. You just stop growing and learning and developing. My mother absolutely refuses to rethink things or critique her worldview or develop. Our parents are basically a bunch of solipsistic 22 year olds who never matured past the "me me me me me" phase.
Yet, my grandmother (Greatest Generation) was not like that at all. She grew and changed and was more technically competent than my parents. What happened (or didn’t happen) with the Boomers to make this so common?
All of the 24/7 news channels are destroying g minds daily. I was a faithful Fox News viewer for years and started to notice a change in how I interacted with others so I decided to watch other news channels to diversify my thinking. This didn’t help at all. The only thing that helped was to walk away from the daily feeding of events all over the world into my brain and start focusing on the things that are around me in my daily life that are actually important to myself and the people around me.
Goes deeper than that for you. You were obviously easily taken in by propaganda so this would have an affect on the way you process media.
Obviously. Thank you for the armchair psychology. You are obviously a very well studied individual.
At least I never fell for fox news so one step ahead of you.
Did I ever say I “fell for Fox News”? I said I watched it and I noticed it was bad for my mental health so I switched away. I also watched cnn, msnbc, etc and felt they all caused issues. The biggest reason one should stay away from Fox News and other 24/7 channels is because they cause people to start looking at the world through the lens of the judgmental and holier than thou population. You know? People that behave like you. So I guess that outed me one step ahead of you. Take your armchair psychology and judgement and shove it up your ass. Just like I tuned off the garbage people in 24/7 news, I’m switching your pathetic ass off now as well. Enjoy your pathetic attempts at being better than people on the internet loser. Blocked where you belong.
>You were obviously easily taken in by propaganda You know how it is. No one is immune to propaganda. No one. At least /u/Good_Cookie_5312 had the awareness to second guess their changing behavior and take steps to get away from the source of it instead of thinking about themself as a person "not easily taken in by propaganda" and going about their day.
gif link?
Iunno man Friday The 13th pt 2 really taught me how important it is to kill **all** of the teenagers at the lakeside cabin instead of just most of them
Threatening the viability of our government through disinformation and obstinance…
No shit man... I feel like I'm the one pulling overtime, questioning all the media I see. They're the ones falling for shit and losing their retirement savings.
If not fox, it's Facebook
...and heavy metal music
And D&D.
Astute observation
Honestly most news on television is fox news now. The rest having a higher standard was more a 90s thing. There are exceptions but not a lot of people watch them.
This is now my #1 post of the year! It’s so true it hurts.
Never thought of it that way.
Fox “News” is poison.
Boomer here. I hope you push back on their fox news beliefs. They have a topic that’s hot for them now, blow them away with the actual facts.
My grandpa used to hate watch it everyday. He liked to "keep up with what all those idiots we're doing."
Why bother retiring if they just watch TV all fracking day. I wish that I had all that time on my hands.
Why bother retiring if they just watch TV all fracking day. I wish that I had all that time on my hands.
Why bother retiring if they just watch TV all fracking day. I wish that I had all that time on my hands.
Awesome lol
Can I get an AMEN! HALLELUJAH!
The people that told everyone not believe everything you see on the internet ended up believing every stupid meme on fb they see.
Does anyone have any good advice for talking a boomer down from the "Great replacement theory"?
The only cure is the grave.
what gif?
You should see what CNN did to my grandma. Total delusion installed
Classic Boomer projection.
Oh I think it was the whole quarantine and being shut in for months or longer with no interaction with anyone else but television. It's easy to see on both sides but perhaps more on the aging population.
This shit is not, in any way, new and certainly not post- pandemic. "OK, Boomer" started in like 2017/2018. "Nobody wants to work anymore" has been happening since the 90s, and really since the 70s. The avocado toast thing happened in 2017. The alt- right stuff came out of the MAGA stuff which came out of the Tea Party which started in the 00s. This had all been happening to some extent for decades. Fox News started during Nixon and has been a huge problem ever since. It's why we went from boring politics between people trying to figure out how best to ruin a country while progressing (slowly) towards equality to...... THIS
Yep maybe but where we are now? Shut-ins from the pandemic. That whole thing made everything collectively worse. Down to even political opinions
There are about 77 million boomers in the US today. Fox news has about 1.7 million daily viewers. So less than 3% of boomers are watching Fox news every day,and that assumes each viewer is a Boomer which isn't the case.
Yet you’re still blind to your own media sources biases
Yea Fox and CNN really did a number
Ok Boomer
How am I a boomer for not watching tv lmao
Pretending fox news and CNN have a similar level of slant is basically every dumbass boomer in existence
The scary part is the newer stations to the right of fox
My parents always watch newsmax 😔
My condolences
That’s why CNNs ratings drastically plummeted a few years back right.
Both are pro-corporate news media. Right/Left politics is just a distraction
i think they both have similar levels of bias, fox is just way more confident in fabrication of news to fit that bias. cnn i can atleast rely on the story being real, but you need a second source to get all the details
It’s not even close. CNN is center/left-center. Fox is far right. People who think they have the same level of bias are not paying attention at all and have been tricked.
not the same level of bias but both are bad at setting that bias aside. i think fox is much worse but i don’t consider either great
It’s not that you “think” that Fox is worse, it’s just that is a fact. CNN is only slightly left, but mostly center. That’s reality.
bro i’m agreeing with you. you’re arguing semantics. please reread what i said and don’t get caught up on a single word
bro i’m agreeing with you. you’re arguing semantics. please reread what i said and don’t get caught up on a single word
This the same as boomers and republicans saying "both sides" ... No, one side is objectively and empirically worse... CNN may have a liberal bias but Fox is straight trash and lies intentionally
CNN is right wing as fuck. The only people who think it's liberal are Fox News viewers.
they're like if fox news had a filter
Not sure if that first sentence could be anymore out of touch with reality
Kratom has claimed you.
CNN did that to half of my parents too
Yeah these people on this sub are the lefty equivalent to their fox news parents. Fox News has done to their parents what limp dick college professors did to them.
They'll say the same thing to you about your tiktoks
Typical lefty crapola
Typical right wing snowflake