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Apple CEO Tim Cook Tackles Truth in the Digital Age (cnbc.com)
Apple CEO Tim Cook visited the University of Glasgow yesterday to be awarded an honorary doctorate. During the Q&A session, one audience member asked Cook to tell what the future looks like. Following is Cook's response: "The world is going through an enormous change. We used to watch three or four people tell us the news, and generally speaking most of us trusted that ... now you are growing up in an environment where everyone is telling you the news and everyone is trying to influence your opinion on something," Cook said. "Generally society hasn't moved as fast as technology has ... so all of us have been put in a position to make sure that when we hear something we automatically take it as our opinion that we think through the different views on it and unfortunately make sure it is accurate as well."
And Apple has been a great influencer itself.
Steve appears to me every night, surrounded by a bluish glow and tells me The Truth.
Umm...does anyone else think he's really not focused on running Apple like Steve did?
Everyone the left disagrees with is a Nazi. If you took the word Nazi out of the lexicon, the left would be reduced to tears and blank stares..
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Correct Mr. Cook "Generally society hasn't moved as fast as technology has". Some of us are still engaged in practices like keeping corporate cash holdings in off shore tax shelters and claiming that there is a tech worker shortage when in reality it's just greed driving corporate profits in the form of hiring cheaper H-1B visas that are willing to put up with unreasonable working conditions so they can make more money. Some things never change.
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Fortunately the alt-right has shown up the solution. A relatively small number of people working to spread disinformation worked very effectively. To counter that, we need a similar number of people willing to use subversion tactics to promote the truth.
30 years of the media in the US alone being partisan towards democrats, but it's suddenly a small number of "alt-right" spreading disinformation. Okie there. I'm sure that the mainstream media pumping out a bunch of articles in the last few months that were fake wasn't anything. Or how many times has it been now that sites like WAPO have had to publicly retract stories because of that fake news? Hate to tell you this, but the media tried to pull the fake news crap, and got their face rolled into it. It's the same reason why for over a decade that the trust in the media in the US is under 20% and even here in Canada it's under 25%
But let's look at some disinformation. Would that be like the migrant that was arrested in Edmonton, Alberta the other day. And the CBC uses the word "touched" when the person in question aggressively committed sexual assaulted a 14 year old? Under the definition of the law as sexual assault level 3, because they threatened and caused physical injury. Or is that simply massaging the truth because it paints them in a bad light. Or would that be like the underage refugees in NFLD, who physically assaulted a 15 year old girl, and the response from the media was bending over backwards to claim "cultural issues" and the two people "not knowing that assault was wrong." We don't even have to start from there, we can just look over the media like the letter networks and see how much garbage they've been pumping out over the last 15 years.
I know that the "alt-right" is some great invisible bogeyman for you. But you guys over in Europe have far more to worry about with the government engaging in active censorship, and trying to hide information from the public in order to ensure their political power remains intact.
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"Truth" is when someone tells you a thing is so, and then invites you to verify it for yourself, using sources of your own choosing. Refusing to believe the truth is when you are told something is so, and you reject it out of hand or use sources you know will tell you what you want to hear. In other words, truth cannot be handed down. If you really want it, you will have to go out and find it for yourself.
Reality has a well known left-wing bias.
This is because conservatism is the politics of nostalgia and ignoring things that only affect other people. Trump wants things to be like the 1950s again. It's even in his campaign slogan: Make American Great Again, as in it used to be great and should go back to that state.
The alt-right like this, because after all it is a movement that started with white supremacists. In the 1950s, white people had more rights and power than others. Of course it sucked if you were not white, but... meh, it's those people's own fault or something. Whatever makes you comfortable.
And that's what the new alt-right media offers: comfort. If all those people who are losing out are bad people, and Trump keeps reminding you that they are, then you don't need to feel bad for them. In fact, you should be happy about it, because bad people got what they deserved.
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SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
Cook is way too optimistic. If all of us stopped for a minute to think things through, we wouldn't have been in the mess we are in. Can't blame him though. A large part of the man's job is to think, so he thinks (pun intended) it comes natural for everyone. It's the reverse Dunning–Kruger effect.
Someone told Democrat presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson in the 1950s, “You are doing great. All thinking men are with you.” “No,” Stevenson replied. “I need a majority.”
He most certainly did *not* say that you should trust the mainstream media.
He said that's what happened in the past and that's what we trusted. There's no "should" or "this was correct" about it.
He's merely saying that there are many more people (hyperbolically "everyone") that are trying to influence your opinion. ie. it's coming at you from all sides. So take extra care and try to learn the accuracy of what you're being told.
You mean that "left-wing bias" which gives rise to things like 20 years of screaming "the nazis/white supremacists are coming." Or "it's okay to punch nazis/etc" or "everyone is a racist/sexist/homophobes if you don't agree with us" type of bias? Or "pepe is a racist hate symbol" type of left-wing bias. We can keep going down this form of reality you're pushing, but that doesn't make it true. And if anything, it simply paints the left very unhinged. How about the "kkk are on the rise again" type of bias? You know when their actual membership is so tiny, that they're smaller in organizational size then that group of leftists at UC Berkeley stood along side.
Yep, I know, it's very comforting for you to think that there's this mythical "alt-right" that's lurking behind everything on the right side of politics these days. But then again, considering that Trump's message resonated with every sector of the electorate and he did better then the last candidates. Seems like it's not a "1950's idea. It's a 1980's idea, where people weren't having their jobs outsourced to 3rd world labor.
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Actually, the 'alt-right' is real, but not in the way that Leftist clowns like to depict it. It's a genuine fissure on the Right
Traditional Conservatism - of the type that the Bushes and the GOP establishment loved - was the international, free trade, open borders & immigration, service Wall Street policies across the board. Also, they were stuck in the Cold War era, and Russia simply succeeded the Soviet Union as the #1 enemy. For those who think it's a personality issue w/ Putin, they were not supportive of Yeltsin either. But even though Communism was dead - at least in terms of losing the Soviet Union and all of Eastern Europe, they pretended that Communism was still the major ideological enemy. Granted, it's making a strong showing in the US w/ Sen Warren and in the UK w/ Jeremy Corbin, but it's not the threat to the rest of the world the way it was during the Cold War. Islam has replaced it in that aspect, but the traditional Conservatives are still cozy w/ the likes of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Islamic countries.
The Alt Right has for the first time put a lot of these sacred cows to the slaughter (being a Hindu, I don't like this analogy, but it's all I can think of at the moment). They recognize that Islam is the biggest threat to the West, which is why they're not obsessed w/ Russia in the way that the Republican establishment is. They recognize that trade deals like NAFTA haven't worked for the US, and are happy to revisit it. They are the only ones looking at H1B abuse: the traditional Conservatives want to service the businesses that want them, while the Liberals want the future votes of the new citizens. They are the ones questioning whether NATO is still relevant, given its inclusion of Turkey, which is on the Islamic side of this conflict.
While Trump may have moved this a bit, and Bannon is key in getting a lot of alt right policies in, the party as a whole hasn't yet shifted that way, except maybe in the Rust Belt states that Trump won this time around. Hopefully, by the next elections, they succeed in taking over the GOP, and purging the likes of McCain, Graham, Collins and so on.
Maybe it's because today's republicans are fucking nuts?
People who are ok with much higher death rates of mothers because of Planned Parenthood.
People who are ok with companies being allowed to poison the water & air for tax breaks
People who are ok with destroying American education because it's not perfect today
People who are ok with bribery for tax breaks
People who are ok with racists being in charge of just about everything
People who are ok with fucking over the less well off for tax breaks
Fuck off with your pretentious idiocy. The press tone hasn't changed, it's just that the republicans have moved from conservative to fascist.
Let's skip the crazy and go right to the insane.
The press tone hasn't changed, it's just that the republicans have moved from conservative to fascist.
Uh-huh. Republicans are fascist. Oh boy! Look at all those progressives and so on openly supporting actual fascism. What shall the world ever do in the face of such hypocrisy and failing self-realization that they're everything that they claim the opposition is.
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Only if you assume that Obama was the perfect embodiment of left wing bias.
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SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
I don't want to be rude or troll, I sincerely believe what I will reply to your comment
There is a huge fraction of the population (at least in my country, .mx) that do not want to be told what to think, but people are pragmatic, since it looks terribly complicated or even likely that the things will change for good, the simply let the world/humanity go on, that does not mean people are happy, or that they will accept much more crapy things from gobernment/media/etc
Let's go with something "new" as example: the fake news issue. In México we had in the recent months a lot of issues with fake news, in politics, violence, clown jokes, etc. People all over the place came telling the terrible things that were happening here and there, only to eventually see that they were fake, so, in the last 3-4 months we passed from 50% of the people believing a lot of fake news, to current maybe 10% of them believing only those fake news that are quite plausible.
Is not that they wanted to be told what to think, they were over confident on the sources, but that changed a lot in very few months, I think that is a probe in favor of most people.
Yes, even in México we have racism, classism, and some other -isms, but by far they are not the majority, you can see a lot of poor/uneducated/whatever-classifier people that actually understand the tricks of politics and economics, and they are pretty conscious on what the real problem is about all the difficulties we are facing, so it is really likely that the last paragraph you wrote will happen a lot in the next months years.
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Or maybe it's because the left changed the definitions of racism and fascism to suit themselves? When I was a kid I was taught to judge a man by the content of his character and not the color of skin. So, when a black man is shot by a white cop, I observe that in this instance the black man happened to be a violent criminal who was attacking the officer and the officer was defending himself, so I judge the content of this particular black guy's character as "dirtbag" and so I don't care about the shooting. Good for the officer. The left insists that no, I must judge the white cop by the color of his skin as white (and therefore bad and in the wrong) and the dirtbag by the color of skin as black (and therefore good and oppressed) and demand the head of the cop.
This isn't what racism used to be. You fuckers on the left changed the definition so you can call your political opponents racist. Doesn't make it so. The right didn't go insane. The left went off the goddamn deep end with their 47 genders and race riots for thugs and white privilege bullshit.
We don't have a state-run media we have a media-run state.
So you're saying a white kid playing with a toy gun is just as likely to get shot by a police officer as a black kid?
Because no, that insanity doesn't happen. If there was no problem with police violence and racism, then people would judge them by the color of their skin. You have cause and effect reversed.
The press tone hasn't changed, it's just that the republicans have moved from conservative to fascist.
Nope. It's that democrats and academia have gone so radically left, defending traditional liberal arguments has become a conservative position.
It is difficult for people with a political bias that requires they conform to a narrative to put that aside and examine the world though a scientific lens, like evolutionary biology or some such. They cannot be unfaithful to their party even if the facts directly contradict what they have been told by their leaders and cohorts. This is merely one example of why I consider people who label themselves according to other people's terms, especially political labels, as mentally compromised.
They will sell out the truth to defend a lie that furthers a cause that cares nothing for them. This behavior is completely illogical, self destructive, and fundamentally divisive and I cannot begin to fathom why someone would do this.
When the only tool you have is a claw hammer every problem starts to look like the back of someone's skull.
Do you have actual statistics on that?
I don't have statistics, but I've observed that a police officer can shoot an unarmed black child with no warning and no time taken to evaluate the situation and get away with nothing more than paid administrative leave. Last I heard, those police haven't had their cities burned down, their character committed suicide before it could be assassinated, and they're doing just fine.
Your facts would appear to be alternative.
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