• yip-bonk@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Anyone can be charged with any violation. He’s a billionaire who - specific to this scenario - gained much of his billions by using the press as a cudgel to get the political system to yield to him. He will never be held to account in his lifetime.

    As a side note, it’s more clear every single day that media literacy and critical thinking must be core competencies for everyone. We’ve skated on this for a hundred years and the planet is almost dead.

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      1 year ago

      People too busy pumping music into their heads to have any time to actually silently think.

      Critical thinking is such a rare commodity.

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        1 year ago

        People too busy working multiple jobs because they’re drowning in debt I think is a lot more common of an issues. The way things have become allow very little time for critical thinking not.

        Plus the whole issues of schools being underfunded. A lot of kids probably aren’t even learning critical thinking skills or even being taught the importance of them. Anytime pre-workforce or secondary education is spent enjoying life while they still can (at least that’s what I was told at that age to do).

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          1 year ago

          I doubt people are busy 24x7. There is always time to think, unconditionally.

          I agree that it is not taught. The smart ones are the ones that rise because of critical thinking. This is where the whole diversity of thought stems from.