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Gabagoo44 t1_j4qyyjj wrote

Reply to comment by PurpleWhiteOut in Officials: Security officer shoots armed suspect outside of federal court building in Philadelphia by K1ngchip

It keeps people informed about things happening and even traffic, It’s pretty counter productive to put your head in the sand because bad things happen.

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PurpleWhiteOut t1_j4qzm0f wrote

It keeps people informed about things that already happened, and often inaccurately and if things that end up unfounded but you do you

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ColdJay64 t1_j4qzmgz wrote

Interesting article on how Citizen creates a culture of fear: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/08/it-creates-a-culture-of-fear-how-crime-tracking-apps-incite-unnecessary-panic/

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Gabagoo44 t1_j4qzzgf wrote

Motherjones is like posting a Fox News article.

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ColdJay64 t1_j4r0hga wrote

Valid, but this is an opinion piece I happen to agree with.

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Gabagoo44 t1_j4r0u0b wrote

Fair, I just stay away from opinion pieces.

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DavidLieberMintz t1_j4qztw5 wrote

Not using a junk app =/= ignoring the news. What planet are you from? Better yet, what "news" sources do you "read?"

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Gabagoo44 t1_j4r063y wrote

Only semi reliable news is probably local at this point, everything is super biased and not worth looking at. I don’t want opinion pieces or someone’s politics in news.

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DavidLieberMintz t1_j4remg7 wrote

So you've gone full defeatist. Instead of finding trustworthy news, you rely on social media? That's way worse than reading a fact checked, albeit opinionated, news story from a major outlet.

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Gabagoo44 t1_j4rfxgk wrote

Social media is probably the worst place, everyone is dying of the vaccine on Twitter. Just garbage opinions on every tweet, take the Damar Hamlin story for example. Everything at this point is trash at least with shitty as citizens, once in a while it’s true.

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jbphilly t1_j4s5ezi wrote

>everything is super biased and not worth looking at.

Except, apparently, unconfirmed info spreading around police scanners by people who haven't had time to vet the information at all. Real galaxy-brain level thinking here.

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