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Generally, I think "the bbc" is centre-left (upper-middle-class flavoured).

Their positions on most issues conform to that faction.


I know what you mean but I think it's unhelpful to define it in terms of left/right. I'd describe them as having a bias towards the typical metropolitan liberal outlook.

The reason I'd describe it this way is that it's much more apparent on social issues and certain aspects of international relations, where they don't even seem to understand that other viewpoints might exist. On economics they seem to have at least some awareness that there are a spectrum of viewpoints and take a more consumerist view as often as they do a soft left view (although they still never really seem to consider libertarian or harder left viewpoints).


What about the rest of the organisation?


What about it? The non-current affairs content is often excellent, especially the BBC4 channel. The further from current affairs, the less the pressure to engage in both-sidesism.

"Both-sidesism" doesn't necessarily result in bias, but it does make the content worse; having leftwing nonsense and rightwing nonsense in the same show will result in an equal weight of complaints from both sides, but that doesn't mean the public has been well-informed.


That is not ironic.

How many other right wing guests did they invite?

This is typical la-di-da lefty nonsense, thinking you can deflect from your negative behaviour by presenting shallow statistics.

Hey, guys! isnt like so funny cuz...look at the number!

The BBC routinely imposes their favoured races onto representations of British history and culture. I suppose that is "right wing". Is that what you are getting at?


It is ironic, the person whose views are most represented on the programme is complaining his views are under-represented? That's ironic.

As for how many other guests did they invite? Go and look it up, they have a publicly disclosed formula for which views gets represented and it's based on prior election performance and current polling during election cycles. Which is why it's so funny - it's just a nonsense to complain about the number of right wing guests.


It is you and this other person that are making this claim.

Provide the evidence to support your claim.

Or, just for fun...name 10 other genuinely "right-wing" figures they have on.


Alternatively, the fact that the BBC is so bad at finding a broad selection of conservative voices to put on shows like Question Time that they keep on having to invite Nigel Farage back is a good demonstration of how their political leanings are causing them to fail at representing conservative views. I'm sure I've read a damning analysis of the BBC's process for finding conservatives to invite on and its failings along these lines.


2 cents...

I think you should call it QwertyQuill. Better suits the colour scheme, tone of the copy, product, market etc.

the logo should be a keyboard button with a quill on it.

(as you know) This is a very competitive market. You should lean into being the good-times-vibe-work-chat-app choice, be genuinely counter-culture, I don't mean put a gay flag on your social media profile. Get those eco-groups (the weird ones) using your app, get alt-right groups (not the ones that have killed people) using your app, fandoms, femdoms etc. Be proud of it, broadcast it, make sure you are the weird chat app people.


diagrams.io is taken..probably squatted..it was likely very expensive. diagrams.co seems to be $10,000. diagrams.com is $20,000 at least.

The hip domain is .so Somalia


A few weeks. This is an over-reaction.

The push for suppressing entire populations for months and years are coming from those that want to dis-empower these populations the rest of the time.

If by "normal" you mean the neo-liberal/neo-marxist agenda "progressing"... that is increasingly unlikely


Hardly an over-reaction with 100.000 expected deaths. Of course earlier actions might have prevented this tragedy.


No, that's still an open question.

We won't really know until much more analysis is done, but there's a ton of reasons to suspect an over-reaction now. See some of the daily update links here:

https://swprs.org/a-swiss-doctor-on-covid-19/

The basic problem is confused data e.g. 100,000 deaths expected from what? Given how often COVID-19 seems to give people a little push over an edge they were very close to anyway, it's extremely hard to even define what a C19 death means, let alone do so in a way that's comparable across countries.

Meanwhile healthcare systems have been scaling up a lot but actually the projected collapse isn't close to being here even in Italy, where many hospitals are still mostly empty outside the core hotspots (leading to a question of whether it's not ventilator capacity that's needed but patient transfer capacity). And where hospitals are under pressure it may be partly due to huge numbers of staff isolating themselves as they tested positive, sometimes with no symptoms (i.e. could be false positives?). Hospitals can be overwhelmed even by normal admissions if 30% of the staff are gone due to self-isolation.


If you disregard people dying from COVID-19 because they would have died anyway within a few years, then you may come to that conclusion.

I don't consider it ethical to do that. Quite the contrary.


Yes, earlier actions definitely should have been taken.

Interestingly, there seems to be a collective delusion developing about when the action could of/should of been taken. Late January...early February...really? That long?


What is the neo-liberal/neo-marxist agenda?

Also, the state of quarantine is happening at a global level, not just the US.


I'm not in the U.S. And I'm not interested in starting a flame-war. By all means, research these ideologies yourself.

I was answering the poster's question with my opinion. You do not have to like it.


> not interested in starting a flame-war.

Me neither - my intention was to pose a neutrally-worded question, which I think I did.


Ah, the tried and true method of bringing up an extremely controversial opinion and then gaslighting people who respond into thinking they're the ones starting a flame war.


> the neo-liberal/neo-marxist agenda ... And I'm not interested in starting a flame-war.

Non-sequitur.


“Liberal” and “marxist” in a single sentence... What gives.


At least 150 years of politics.


The neoliberals and neomarxiists want opposite things.


Wow a textbook example of dog whistling on HN of all places! I never thought I'd see the day...


The comment is not dog whistling...people need to stop misusing political terminology. It renders words meaningless. Considering that you depend upon hiding behind words, it is best not to deconstruct your own shield.


Conflating neoliberalism and neomarxism together is textbook dog whistling. I don't know of anyone on earth who even identifies as a "neomarxist" but we all know what using those terms interchangeably means for ones held political ideology...


Oh, what textbook are you reading?

You not being aware of something does not mean it does not exist.

What is this political ideology of mine you are identifying?


Geekbait


Why would you say that?


"In addition" This means in addition.

You are arguing in bad faith. You do not even need to argue.


OK, I suppose this is good reporting, but it is not the scandal you think it is.

Also, etoro does a lot more than cryptocurrency-trading.

Edit: This is a repost too. Interestingly the title of the other post "Brave Browser earning commissions promoting high risk blockchain platform" less click-baity got 2 points, 1 comment.


It is not good reporting, though. What new information is being brought to light? Brave makes it clear they generate revenue via ads, and this is an example of an ad.


I was being non-confrontational.


what etoro does doesn't matter.


Alcohol (tonic as well, i'm in the UK though)

:) I just posted a link showing search topic trends entitled "elderberry, ETFs, Zerohedge, Zoom" People also searched for aloe vera, Microsoft teams etc. https://explodingtopics.com/topics-this-month


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