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11 points by JumpCrisscross 11 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments


Paywalled


Tldr: Trump bad, Progressives like me wise


I'm a far lefty, and I'm also so sick of seeing every article/issue wrapped around the cheato.

I've already deployed a little CSS that blocks images of him based on alt-text. Do website publishers really think there are people who don't know what he looks like?

To, probably, disagree with you, I think he's pretty frikin bad. Horrible even. But every flippin issue doesn't have to be angst baited by putting CHEATO DID BAD in the headline, or first line of the article.

It just seems like the current wave of click baiting...

p.s. by "far lefty" I mean by US standards. I'm very middle of the road in the rest of the first world: Public healthcare, public education, ability to retire. Instead the US is more of a third world social model, i.e. the wealthy have individual little Filipino women buffing each toenail (yes, its racist), the rest of the population dies in a cardboard box on the sidewalk...


We may or may not have similar political views, but we are in agreement on disdain for the clickbaiting.


if you don't pay for news what choice do they have?




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