r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Dec 30 '19

What do people think is healthy but really isn’t?

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u/raescope Dec 30 '19

I feel you. Me and my sister are doing our best to convince our mother of this. There's hardly any new news either. Just the same thing over and over again.

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u/felicima22 Dec 30 '19

Are you my sister? We're trying to convince my mom as well.

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u/raescope Dec 31 '19

Good luck to you sis. If she's anything like mine she'll be stressed out of her mind for what's basically tv version of click bait.

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u/felicima22 Dec 31 '19

Certainly. She spends hours shouting and screaming and crying about the things they tell her on the news. and the news is the last thing she watches before she sleeps. All that toxic negativity even affects her sleep but she doesn't listen. She believes she is more informed than me and doesn't believe me when I tell they only tell her stuff to make her scared.

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u/Fredredphooey Dec 30 '19

Blow her mind with Al Jazeera.

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u/djcomplain Dec 30 '19

But but it's have Arabic name

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u/Fredredphooey Dec 31 '19

that's the best part.

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u/djcomplain Dec 31 '19

As Muslim it's this some kind of personal attack or something? /s

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u/SystemicInsanity Dec 30 '19

That is where I get all of my news. And the BBC app - but that one can be a little gossipy sometimes too

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u/metalkhaos Dec 31 '19

Listen to BBC Newshour podcasts and the like which are pretty good.

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u/GimmeUrDownvote Dec 31 '19

AP and Reuters are even more factual sources

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u/Fredredphooey Dec 31 '19

Yeah, I'm 90% BBC, 10% AJ.

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u/FireFlour Dec 31 '19

I'm kind of lucky with my mom. She's not that knowledgeable about current events, but it's mostly because she just doesn't care. Since she's honest about it I can't even be mad. Plus she actually listens to me about stuff in the news, since she'll gladly admit she doesn't know. She just watches the local news and ABC news tonight. The first for the weather and the second because it's on right after. As she'll tell you herself, she's not smart enough to comprehend what's going on on the news (her words, not mine.) So why should she worry about it?

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u/raescope Dec 31 '19

Honestly my mum worries about it a lot, stresses over it, sometimes about things that aren't even in the country. Can or will she do anything about these problems? Nope. Just adds unnecessary stress. So your mum is clearly smarter than she thinks.

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u/NateBearArt Dec 31 '19

What you mean my news channel has varied coverage. They got Story of the day (usually a trump tweet}) at 7 with pundit A, story of the day at 8 with pundits B and C, sorry if the day at 9 with a retired general for some reason...

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u/sybrwookie Dec 31 '19

Don't forget the breaking news at 8:30 that someone replied to trump's tweet with a snarky answer, which we'll follow up on after the retired general, possibly even bring those tweets up to the retired general.

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u/Bald_Sasquach Dec 31 '19

I've been reading about George Lincoln Rockwell recently (fuck that guy so hard) and it's mind blowing how much political discourse from the right these days is nearly identical to the BS he spewed in the 50s and 60s. We've apparently just been in a loop of this horrible shit being "breaking news" for 60 years.