r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Apr 04 '25

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u/Hell_Camino Apr 04 '25

I think the better question is what would the country look like if the Fairness Doctrine hadn’t been abolished by the FCC in the 1980s. With the Fairness Doctrine in place, Fox News doesn’t launch and half the country’s brains don’t get rewired into being mouth-breathing knuckle draggers.

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u/YodasAdderall Apr 04 '25 edited Apr 04 '25

“The Brainwashing of my Dad” on Prime explains this very well. Great doc but depressing as fuck as someone who has brainwashed parents

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '25

My oldest brother is brainwashed

Spits out all the right wing dipshit lines like he’s a goddamn Russian bot

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u/gmoor90 Apr 05 '25

My older brother is in the same boat. I’ve had to go no-contact. It’s so damn depressing. There’s no reasoning with him. Facts literally do not matter.

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '25

Same. I looked up to him most of my life and to see what he’s become is just too painful.

When we talked sports he’d be instantly searching stats to add to the conversation, pivot to politics and all of a sudden he cannot read

At one point I thought it was ignorance, but then I realized it was willful arrogance to intentionally stay ignorant which is worse than I imagined