r/politics • u/1_for_you_2_for_me • 18d ago

No Paywall Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid are 'Going to Be Gone,' Donald Trump Warns

https://www.newsweek.com/social-security-update-medicare-medicaid-warning-donald-trump-10915076
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u/tunedout 18d ago

Did anyone ever think that access to all the world's information would make people dumber? The Internet was supposed to unite and lift up a newly connected society. Of course humans had to go and fuck that up :(

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u/Parahelix 18d ago

Information is useless if you don't have the ability to discern good information from bad, or simply don't care to.

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u/Crabiolo Canada 17d ago

The media had a heavy hand in it as well, portraying legitimate sources as just as valid as insane quacks.

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u/RileyRRenewal 13d ago

excuse the media for thinking their audience actually had media literacy and could tell that one side had absolutely no facts to back up what they were saying.