Wednesday, July 24, 2024

Social Media vs Facts (the facts are boring)

 The way people get info from media (CNN, MSNBC etc) on line and social media shatters everything to little bite size thing that you react to. Fox News is full of the clips that "prove" illegals are doing awful things.

The problem with all that is that you are not getting actual facts. Crime is down, fewer migrants crossed the border in 2024 than 2023. Some thing have not changed. Police still treat black people badly and are likely to shoot those that ask for help.

Where do you get real data then? Pinker wrote this book that shows the picture that Trump is painting is completly wrong.

The book is full of data, even graphs and tables. The world (well, the USA) is not more dangerous now. Government is not after you. Science is not out to get you.

The migrants are not invading. Rapist migrants are not hiding behind every tree in the park. There probably are more migrants housed somewhere in NY City now than under Trump. But we had a pandemic then.

This may be of some use to people that do not follow news or read anything of this sort (people do not read books anymore, they are too busy poking their phone). The MAGA people will not respond to this either. They have made up their mind and anything that does not back the MAGA dogma must be a conspiracy.

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