Board 8 > How does one break their parents' addiction to Fox News?

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Lolo_Guru
10/08/20 8:48:51 PM
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Anyone dealt with this before?
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BetrayedTangy
10/08/20 8:52:58 PM
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Pull a South Park and use the parental controls lol

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red13n
10/08/20 8:58:04 PM
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Well, using logic is out of the question.

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KamikazePotato
10/08/20 8:59:40 PM
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You can't.

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Menji
10/08/20 9:00:52 PM
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KamikazePotato posted...
You can't.


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colliding
10/08/20 9:01:24 PM
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Just let them have it. How do your parents stop you from watching John Oliver and hating capitalism?

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Lolo_Guru
10/08/20 9:05:40 PM
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... who's John Oliver?

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colliding
10/08/20 9:14:40 PM
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I'm not actually saying I know what you watch, I was just giving an example of a polar extreme of Fox News

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LordoftheMorons
10/08/20 9:18:32 PM
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Maybe try to do it indirectly by getting them into some new hobbies so they watch less tv generally?

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AdmittedFelon
10/08/20 9:19:56 PM
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Explain that Fox is bias, and introduce them to a neutral network like CNN.

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Paratroopa1
10/08/20 9:21:37 PM
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colliding posted...
I'm not actually saying I know what you watch, I was just giving an example of a polar extreme of Fox News
yikes
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colliding
10/08/20 9:27:08 PM
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ok. let me clarify FROM THEIR PERSPECTIVE

I don't believe that John Oliver is biased like Fox News. I'm just saying trying to convince parents is as hard as them trying to convince you

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red13n
10/08/20 9:27:10 PM
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I mean, make an elaborate fake website that convinces them the Fox News anchors are all in a satanic pedophile sex cult?

idk. No good answer here.

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ChaosTonyV4
10/08/20 9:28:45 PM
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BetrayedTangy posted...
Pull a South Park and use the parental controls lol

No literally this. They just need to go a few weeks without it to break the habit, and act genuinely stumped when they call you to fix it.

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Pokewars
10/08/20 9:34:10 PM
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AdmittedFelon posted...
Explain that Fox is bias, and introduce them to a neutral network like CNN.

I chuckled.

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Anagram
10/08/20 9:49:42 PM
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I know this pain better than anyone else. Just accept that you cant, and move on.

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turbopuns3
10/08/20 9:53:30 PM
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As someone else suggested I think replacement is the only route with any real hope of working
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Uglyface2
10/08/20 9:54:07 PM
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Watch other stuff. Break their addiction along with your own by purposely avoiding all national and cable news. Its how my left leaning brother and I get along in my apartment.
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Paratroopa1
10/08/20 9:57:59 PM
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colliding posted...
ok. let me clarify FROM THEIR PERSPECTIVE

I don't believe that John Oliver is biased like Fox News. I'm just saying trying to convince parents is as hard as them trying to convince you
ah ok, understandable
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Paratroopa1
10/08/20 9:58:18 PM
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Paratroopa1 posted...
ah ok, understandable
sorry for my insinuation that you were doing a yikes
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RaidenGarai
10/08/20 10:04:19 PM
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If you find out, let me know. My mother in law has a real problem

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turbopuns3
10/08/20 10:09:01 PM
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My parents are in this peculiar state where they don't believe most of what FOX says and constantly criticize it but they always watch it
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foolm0r0n
10/08/20 10:11:39 PM
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You can only replace it with another addiction. Qanon and such is effective. If they're secretly racist then something overtly racist should be attractive.

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PrivateBiscuit1
10/08/20 10:12:34 PM
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I'm there too brother. Even when I educate my parents and they literally tell me that I'm a lot more educated than them on the topics they still believe what's on right-wing sources unequivocally.

Like my mother said that Bernie Sanders scared her. What the fuck? Lol

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LazyKenny
10/08/20 10:14:43 PM
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Parental controls.

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Jakyl25
10/08/20 10:33:11 PM
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PrivateBiscuit1 posted...
I'm there too brother. Even when I educate my parents and they literally tell me that I'm a lot more educated than them on the topics they still believe what's on right-wing sources unequivocally.

Like my mother said that Bernie Sanders scared her. What the fuck? Lol


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Lolo_Guru
10/10/20 1:50:38 AM
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I guess it's just hopeless. =(

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TheRock1525
10/10/20 1:57:51 AM
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Go into their cable package and cancel it.

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LOLIAmAnAlt
10/10/20 2:00:31 AM
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colliding posted...
I don't believe that John Oliver is biased like Fox News.
Wait what.

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TheRock1525
10/10/20 2:03:23 AM
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To be fair, bias usually means it's unfair or without merit.

I'd say John does a great job of backing up his points with evidence.

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StealThisSheen
10/10/20 2:05:53 AM
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John Oliver is "biased" in that he definitely leans one way, but he still presents actual facts.

Fox News has crap like Tucker Carlson who lies so much that they literally had to defend his show in court by saying that because he lies so much, no reasonable person would believe him about anything and thus his show is satire, no matter how it's actually presented.

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StartTheMachine
10/10/20 2:35:30 AM
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My dad and stepmom are apparently proudly white supremacists now thanks to Fox News so you should probably give up hope now

Also my dad told my stepmom to stop acting like a "worthless n word" in the last argument I heard them have so seriously give up all hope in humanity

E: I am 30 years old and my dad was never remotely like this growing up. He has become rapidly more hateful over the years since consuming a right-wing media diet

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ChaosTonyV4
10/10/20 4:35:27 AM
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Im not kidding, parental controls

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XIII_rocks
10/10/20 5:09:36 AM
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Jakyl25 posted...
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Shaduln
10/10/20 9:50:36 AM
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This topic makes me so happy that my parents just watch local news. And my inlaws, while being very conservative in general, don't watch FOX News.
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turbopuns3
10/10/20 1:02:14 PM
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StealThisSheen posted...
Tucker Carlson who lies so much that they literally had to defend his show in court by saying that because he lies so much, no reasonable person would believe him about anything and thus his show is satire, no matter how it's actually presented.

Wait what
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Jakyl25
10/10/20 1:04:55 PM
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turbopuns3 posted...


Wait what


There was a court case against him where the defense was that his show is entertainment and shouldnt be taken seriously

https://www.businessinsider.com/fox-news-karen-mcdougal-case-tucker-carlson-2020-9
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Tom Bombadil
10/10/20 3:28:46 PM
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I thought that was Alex Jones

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Grimlyn
10/10/20 3:31:59 PM
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Alex Jones made the same arguments in his child custody battle, yes

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/not-fake-news-infowars-alex-jones-performance-artist-n747491

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Aecioo
10/10/20 3:33:20 PM
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NFUN
10/10/20 3:39:46 PM
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colliding posted...
ok. let me clarify FROM THEIR PERSPECTIVE

I don't believe that John Oliver is biased like Fox News. I'm just saying trying to convince parents is as hard as them trying to convince you
that's like saying from a creationist's perspective, convincing you that the Earth is young is frustratingly difficult.

the perspective is the same between sides. only one side is actually, y'know, right

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colliding
10/10/20 3:43:03 PM
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NFUN posted...
that's like saying from a creationist's perspective, convincing you that the Earth is young is frustratingly difficult.

the perspective is the same between sides. only one side is actually, y'know, right

yeah duh. rightness isn't what's being debated here, it's the ability to actually convince people who are ingrained in their positions. my whole point is that many fox news watchers/trumpers are just as convinced of the "rightness" of their side than us leftist/liberal types are. debates between us are always going to end in loggerheads, and no amount of logic/reason/rhetoric will convince them. they're not going to convince me to watch Fox News, and I'm not going to convince them to not watch.

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PerfectChaosZ
10/10/20 3:43:14 PM
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Its literally a cult. You can look up how to get someone out of a cult, but its probably not gonna happen. My dad is ten times worse a person now.
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colliding
10/10/20 3:44:51 PM
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PerfectChaosZ posted...
Its literally a cult. You can look up how to get someone out of a cult, but its probably not gonna happen. My dad is ten times worse a person now.

and for some people on the right, liberalism is a cult. I've literally read/heard that before from them.

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NFUN
10/10/20 3:49:10 PM
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colliding posted...
yeah duh. rightness isn't what's being debated here, it's the ability to actually convince people who are ingrained in their positions. my whole point is that many fox news watchers/trumpers are just as convinced of the "rightness" of their side than us leftist/liberal types are. debates between us are always going to end in loggerheads, and no amount of logic/reason/rhetoric will convince them. they're not going to convince me to watch Fox News, and I'm not going to convince them to not watch.
I resent the implication that I hold all my positions because of biases rather than facts

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colliding
10/10/20 3:55:47 PM
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NFUN posted...
I resent the implication that I hold all my positions because of biases rather than facts

i'm not meaning to imply that.

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Shaduln
10/10/20 3:56:14 PM
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colliding posted...
and for some people on the right, liberalism is a cult. I've literally read/heard that before from them.
You're one of those people, aren't you?

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colliding
10/10/20 3:58:42 PM
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Shaduln posted...
You're one of those people, aren't you?

don't shoot the messenger, man. I'm just saying people have their echo chambers.

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NFUN
10/10/20 3:59:19 PM
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colliding posted...
i'm not meaning to imply that.
You're equating being obstinate in options because you're biased with being obstinate because you're right. They're different. Don't conflate them

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colliding
10/10/20 4:02:50 PM
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NFUN posted...
You're equating being obstinate in options because you're biased with being obstinate because you're right. They're different. Don't conflate them

Do you think that you con convince someone "obstinate due to bias" with the rightness of your opinions?

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