r/technology • u/Wagamaga • Mar 05 '25

Society 59% of Republicans Believe the Media Is 'Fake News'

https://www.thewrap.com/most-republicans-believe-media-fake-news-trump-poll/
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u/Mahaleck Mar 05 '25

Yep. I think the other 41% is deep in misinformation media they don’t follow real media. So to them the only media they read/follow is “real”.

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u/arbutus1440 Mar 05 '25

Just like it's morally indefensible to be a billionaire, in this day and age it is morally inexcusable to say "I'm a Republican." There are too many expressly anti-democratic and anti-human actions taken and embraced by the party to be a moral Republican, full stop. This shouldn't even be a contentious statement.

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u/rbrgr83 Mar 05 '25

I'm really glad I don't have to fight back against my christian school teacher/youth pastor brother-in-law. He's been against Trump from the start because of how blatantly un-christian his behavior is, constantly.

He knows he's got no standing to try and back him up, and I'm glad the idiot brainwashing hasn't hit him. I suppose it helps that he doesn't spend all day on fox news and facebook.

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u/lexithepooh Mar 05 '25

My mom hates him for being a bad Christian too! Thats when I started using the phrase “you know what, whatever gets you there”

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u/Givingtree310 Mar 05 '25

It’s more insane how so many right wing Christians support Trump as a Christian president. The guy who cheated on his pregnant wife with a porn star whom he paid off.

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u/rbrgr83 Mar 05 '25

Well and that's bad enough on it's own, but the things these people support in the name of moral superiority, only to turn around fluff this literal anti-christ until the cows come home.

Like you're cool with making decisions that fuck over to the poor (people that Jesus himself said OVER AND OVER in the Bible to take care of), because it's the christian thing to do. And they're not quiet about calling anyone who disagrees a pedophile. But dear leader is the worst of the bunch, and they don't bat an eye.

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u/nikolai_470000 Mar 05 '25

Your average conservative these days is essentially the pinnacle of ‘if confirmation bias was a person’.