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We should add: wanna know how much better Trek is than Wars nowadays? The answer is that awhile go, Disney bought Wars.

While searching for a great "The more you know" Star Trek meme, I found this little gem, that I couldn't pass up the opportunity to share:

IKR - I feel like such a traitor, but... the memes never lie...

Man-splaining level: achieved. :-)

I don't understand this - can you mansplain this to me?

/s btw, please do not do that:-P

Not always, sometimes it's chemical:-D.

True, though haven't studies shown that it is the major one, currently? So if the goal were to reduce even if not eliminate all crime, it might be a great place to start.

Counterpoint: is it better to put the TB-grade taco into the car than into a human body? Nvm, that seems to get into a whole "exactly what type of emissions are we talking about here?" side-track:-).

I mean... at a certain point though, can you blame them? The system is so heavily corrupt that even criminals walk free, so ofc a high-ranking police officer will too. Like if the governor, mayor, and chief of police are all active members of the actual KKK, is a noobie's job to overturn all of society to make it more just, or can they do at least some good if they keep their heads down and focus on what they can affect?

Most Americans (I am one) are lazy AF, always wanting others to do work for us. Trash collectors: "just make my garbage go away" (rather than work towards a more sustainable lifestyle). Doctors: "make a pill for that" (rather than eat healthy and exercise, but accepting that death eventually comes for us all). Police: "just make crime go away" (rather than work to address the systemic imbalances in the system that cause it.

Ultimately it is not only the job of police to police the police, but also the Mayor and thus the voters to choose what we want done. And if one side refuses to function - which sometimes but isn't always the police - then it is lazy to place all the blame onto them.

Also, since when did the job of police ever include "changing" anything? Their whole thing is to "maintain the status quo", which is like the polar opposite of change? Oh... now I get it:-P.

I mean... literally everyone is biased in some way so I would be dishonest if I said that he lacks any and all biases, right? But he did present multiple POVs surrounding the issue, which is about the best that could ever be hoped for, practically speaking. Ofc it's less than 15 minutes long and has jokes mixed in along with the information so the information density is even less than that... so there's only so much detail that he is going to be able to cover there.

Off the top of my head, I would think that his chif bias would be away from violence - most of us in the Western world would share that, but it is a bias nonetheless, that not everyone today and certainly not everyone in the past and future will share.

In most ways I consider one of the least biased "journalists" still active today (that word should probably have a pseudo- in front of it, b/c he's more of an aggregator and deliverer than a finder-outer, but still, him + his team have done quite well in the past). He was already retired, having stepped back into the fray only temporarily during this next USA Presidential election season for his own fun and b/c I think he genuinely cares about people and realizes how lost most of us feel right now, so he is offering and we (his audience) are glad to accept. So unlike most media personalities, he doesn't give a crap about building up his "fame" or having to toe the corporate line - I imagine that if he says something that "they" don't like, he will just walk away, and it will be their loss far more than his for him to do so. :-P That said, he still would like his videos to be aired, and there is just common decency and politeness too, so he probably toes the line a little bit, i.e. he still has biases it is just that they are greatly reduced compared to most in his line of work.

Edit: I am just going to add this little gem here too:

“The bias of the mainstream media is toward sensationalism, conflict, and laziness.”

― Jon Stewart (quote)

Hands-down the best summary that I have ever heard: Jon Stewart's recent episode.

Hrm, maybe billionaires buying up all of the sources of media MIGHT have some sort of... what was that word again?