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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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

    • TwoBeeSan@lemmy.worldEnglish
      53·
      22 hours ago

      Gave a book club with elderly. Chose 1984 for January.

      A woman literally said after we had discussed this that the salute wasn’t the salute.

      The Jewish woman next to hers fingernails were about to grip through her own wrist.

      Shocking to see the dissonance in real time like this and then.

    • Empricorn@feddit.nlEnglish
      4·
      14 hours ago

      I think the other famous one applies even more:

      The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

      —George Orwell, 1984.

    • Augustiner@lemmy.worldEnglish
      84·
      1 day ago

      I feel like the original quote applies here pretty well, no real need to change it…

      War is peace

      Freedom is slavery

      Ignorance is strength

      • derpgon@programming.devEnglish
        12·
        1 day ago

        I feel like, as a non American, ignorance is bliss.

        But I’d realize all of this is insane shit even if I didn’t hear about it daily.

        • idiomaddict@lemmy.worldEnglish
          7·
          23 hours ago

          Well feigned ignorance can totally be a strength, but actual ignorance is only worth your luck or others’ protective instinct

        • Augustiner@lemmy.worldEnglish
          7·
          1 day ago

          It is so much easier and comfortable to just close your eyes to the troubles of the world, but it also means that you won’t see what’s coming and will not be able to act. So this sort of sensory overload with negativity and craziness is kinda the point. The more people are tuned out and overwhelmed, the easier it is for assholes like Musk and Trump to push their agenda through. It’s also talked about in 1984, where the quote comes from

      • GoodLuckToFriends@lemmy.todayEnglish
        1·
        14 hours ago

        The worst part? There is no need for it. 1984 can only happen in places other than america, after all. America is a shining beacon of beautiful democracy that is #1 in everything, ever. Anyone saying otherwise is just a whiny bitch social communist.

        The maga idiots are not in their position from logic, but from following the cult, and the cult is the current president.