It was good! Kids got a lot of great stuff from my parents and siblings. Chatted with a relative I haven’t had a long conversation with in over a year. Wish we had more time to chat. He’s a progressive liberal so our politics chats are always fun. Its never abrasive. All in good fun. I had to laugh though. I told him about the instance I operate (were also both tech nerds) and my goals with it. He asked me at some point “Don’t you want to read news that challenges your world view?” And this is something you hear online from liberals but the first anyone has said it to me in person. I simply told him “Funny you say that because I had the same world view for most of my life, and over the last decade I have been reading stuff that challenged my world view enough that I changed it.” We were then roped into a board game so the conversation ended. Then we had to leave since it was getting to late for the kids.
I have to try and make time to see him more this year.
He asked me at some point “Don’t you want to read news that challenges your world view?”
The funny thing is, we actually post more articles from mainstream media sources here, both liberal and conservative, than we do communist ones.
We have a clear ideological orientation, but the news sources we draw from are incredibly varied. You see articles from American mainstream media, British, German, French MSM, Russian media, Chinese media, and that’s on top of whatever “alternative” media we also look at.
I don’t think we reject any source as long as there is something of value to be gained from reading it, even if it’s just to see how our ideological enemies think.
Right that’s very true! The Economist, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, all mixed in amongst the other sources. Even still, many of the ‘alternative’ sources are synthesizing those sources to paint a broader picture not being discussed by the individual publications. Geopolitical Economic Report is a prime example here. You almost have to in order to see the parts being left out.
It was good! Kids got a lot of great stuff from my parents and siblings. Chatted with a relative I haven’t had a long conversation with in over a year. Wish we had more time to chat. He’s a progressive liberal so our politics chats are always fun. Its never abrasive. All in good fun. I had to laugh though. I told him about the instance I operate (were also both tech nerds) and my goals with it. He asked me at some point “Don’t you want to read news that challenges your world view?” And this is something you hear online from liberals but the first anyone has said it to me in person. I simply told him “Funny you say that because I had the same world view for most of my life, and over the last decade I have been reading stuff that challenged my world view enough that I changed it.” We were then roped into a board game so the conversation ended. Then we had to leave since it was getting to late for the kids.
I have to try and make time to see him more this year.
The funny thing is, we actually post more articles from mainstream media sources here, both liberal and conservative, than we do communist ones.
We have a clear ideological orientation, but the news sources we draw from are incredibly varied. You see articles from American mainstream media, British, German, French MSM, Russian media, Chinese media, and that’s on top of whatever “alternative” media we also look at.
I don’t think we reject any source as long as there is something of value to be gained from reading it, even if it’s just to see how our ideological enemies think.
Right that’s very true! The Economist, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, all mixed in amongst the other sources. Even still, many of the ‘alternative’ sources are synthesizing those sources to paint a broader picture not being discussed by the individual publications. Geopolitical Economic Report is a prime example here. You almost have to in order to see the parts being left out.