cross-posted from: https://fedia.io/m/[email protected]/t/2006492

Fox News appears to have removed their DOW ticker in a pattern for the company, choosing to block out the steep drop in DOW points after Trump’s tariff announcement

  • Bytemeister@lemmy.world
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    Absolutely.

    I don’t think the qualifications for voting should be “white wealthly land-owning men”, but there has to be a filter we can use to validate that the person voting as at least 2 brain cells.

    I’d like to have a basic test with blanket true/false statements around recent political talk… Maybe things like…

    The 2020 election was conducted fairly without significant evidence of fraud that could have changed the result.

    Vaccines have a direct and undeniable link to autism and long term damage.

    Tariffs are an export tax paid by the country sending the product to another country.

    Individuals with visas and green cards are not illegal immigrants.

    Just a quick test like that, and then weight the vote based on how many statements they identififed correctly as True or false.

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      You need a way to prevent this from being corrupted. Conservatives would love to use this to prevent black folks from voting. They’re single minded and will chip away at it for decades.

      Perhaps honey pots? Set up fake meetings to discuss how to prevent “those people” from voting, and everyone who attends is barred from working in government for life.

      • Bytemeister@lemmy.world
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        Ideally, this would filter out most if not all of the support for those conservatives who’s entire platform is based on lies and fear. MTG, Boebert, etc… They only exist as public figures because they went along with Qanon conspiracies.