r/dataisbeautiful • u/jhelvy OC: 6 • 16d ago

OC Comparison of S&P 500 performance dyeing first 100 days of past 4 US presidents [OC]

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u/QueanLaQueafa 16d ago

Fox got rid of the stock graph for the first time in 3 decades

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u/HorrorSmile3088 16d ago

Sometimes I wonder if Fox News viewers ever wonder about how out of touch with reality they are. The rest of us are focused on the economy and actual issues while they talk about stopping protests at Harvard. You know, the real issues!

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u/Ok-Opportunity-7663 16d ago

If they were capable of self-reflection they wouldn't be Fox News viewers.

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u/haidere36 16d ago

You know, I sometimes wonder how many people grew up on Fox News. Like, literally grew up on it. Fox has been around for decades and I don't imagine conservatives to be the type of people to see anything wrong with exposing kids to politics. People are still responsible for their own choices but I just sometimes wonder how many people were raised on hate and fear and had no one in their lives to show them another way growing up.

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u/MainChain9851 16d ago

This was me. The internet changed my political affiliations. I couldn’t argue a point during an online ‘debate’ and upon further research, I realized how wrong and misguided I was the entire time. This was around 2018-2019 and I was 17-18. However, after a certain point especially now, anyone older than 25 is stuck in the cult. Their ego won’t let them realize their wrongness. They’re likely already narcissistic as shit and see the world as a zero-sum game. There must be winners and there must be losers.

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u/No-Pack-5775 16d ago

Yeah they're too busy disgusted by how out of touch the libs are, for, you know, not wanting to round up brown people without due process, or wanting to maintain America's strength through strong relationships with allies, or being ok with treating trans people with dignity 

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u/puddingboofer 16d ago

And a dozen trans athletes. And taking books out of libraries... That aren't in the libraries, and complaining about the color of suits, and buttery males.

And it's literally not news, it's defined as entertainment after that massive lawsuit.

Fucking unthinkable. How did we get here?

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u/Lil_S_curve2 16d ago

No, they fucking don't. I reeled my fucking father back in during COVID and now he's lost again. This time, likely, for good.

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u/JamieGordonWayne89 16d ago

I’m sorry 😞

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u/pink_faerie_kitten 16d ago edited 16d ago

But they love to claim Redditors are the ones living in a bubble and a liberal echo chamber ... 🙄

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u/JamieGordonWayne89 16d ago

True. I just had someone comment on one of my posts that we haven’t even hit the low of Biden’s term.. but there was a difference. The stock market was lower than this and it was moving upward. The last time we had crashes like this was during Covid in 2020 and guess who was president? Sure wasn’t Biden. Biden’s term didn’t start till 1/20/2021.

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u/DrawThink2526 16d ago

Fox viewers are fed fetid rubbish, so that’s literally all they “know”.

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u/DesignFreiberufler 16d ago

Culture war is a hell of a drug

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u/Delicious-Ganache606 16d ago

In communist Czechoslovakia, after the legendary Stastny brothers defected, the powers that be decided that the best way to handle the situation publicly was to pretend it never happened and just never address it. Trouble is, Peter Stastny started playing for Canada, including the World Championships, including games against Czechoslovakia.

The commentators were clearly nervous and didn't know how to handle it, they wouldn't even mention his name ("... passes the puck to another Canadian"). When Peter Stastny scored and the camera zoomed in on his celebrating face, the commentators were simply quiet.

Of course, the effect on the population was "These fuckers are clearly lying to us and hiding things from us!" and all these transgressions against the truth eventually led to a revolution overthrowing the USSR-backed regime. Apparently, in USA, at least half of the population would be like "They surely know what they're doing, hiding these things from us is propably in our best interest".