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TeamPooka

(24,221 posts)
Mon Dec 17, 2018, 07:25 PM Dec 2018

This SmartNews app thing is on my list of bullshit that can go away too.

Sick of these TV commercials.

"Oh, I was just getting my news from one source but this app lets me get "BOTH SIDES."

Fuck you fuck you fuck you SmartNews
Fuck you and you're pushing of Fox News on your app and in the commercial.

Fuck you and your false equivalence of the validity of both sides of an issue.
Just go fuck yourselves and die the death of all failed apps.

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This SmartNews app thing is on my list of bullshit that can go away too. (Original Post) TeamPooka Dec 2018 OP
I never checked out the app. BigmanPigman Dec 2018 #1
Yes you can see the Fox News screen during the ad. TeamPooka Dec 2018 #4
Exactly! angrychair Dec 2018 #10
Right on Pepsidog Dec 2018 #2
If one side are Russian syncophants, traitors and idiots, why should I give them equal weight? TheBlackAdder Dec 2018 #13
Exactly, the both-siders are infuriating and exhausting. Enough of pretending Team Treason and their Pepsidog Dec 2018 #14
Bothsiderism is wrong B Stieg Dec 2018 #3
I hate apps. House of Roberts Dec 2018 #5
they're trying to sneak into people's phones TeamPooka Dec 2018 #6
I Didn't Look, But I Had a Sneaky Suspicion This Was the Case. DoctorJoJo Dec 2018 #7
sounds like third way and problem solvers for fake news programming nt msongs Dec 2018 #8
One Side Is Nazis PaulX2 Dec 2018 #9
I was watching 2naSalit Dec 2018 #11
I posted this shit last month and one defending it surprised me. TheBlackAdder Dec 2018 #12
That's been my reaction, too! Rhiannon12866 Dec 2018 #15
We don't have cable. Just the Big 3, since Faux Snooze is akraven Dec 2018 #16
When I heard both sides that ended it for me katmondoo Dec 2018 #17

BigmanPigman

(51,584 posts)
1. I never checked out the app.
Mon Dec 17, 2018, 09:41 PM
Dec 2018

Do they push Fux Ruse on it? I wouldn't surprised a bit. The commercial pissed me off too. There are the facts. Period. No "both sides" BS.

Pepsidog

(6,254 posts)
14. Exactly, the both-siders are infuriating and exhausting. Enough of pretending Team Treason and their
Mon Dec 17, 2018, 10:44 PM
Dec 2018

cheerleaders derserve any weight. Chuck Todd makes me want to vomit. Elise Jordan, a both-sider, should be banned from MSNBC along with the other apologists. Hugh’s gotta go. I mean we get one channel against the Fox frenzy and I just don’t want to see the other side cause I know their arguments are garbage. Sorry got little off topic but gotta vent somewhere.

B Stieg

(2,410 posts)
3. Bothsiderism is wrong
Mon Dec 17, 2018, 09:53 PM
Dec 2018

Both sides get an initial hearing, but after that, we get to shut out the batshit crazy ones, right?
After all, some arguments are better than others.
Eff Smartnews!

2naSalit

(86,559 posts)
11. I was watching
Mon Dec 17, 2018, 10:21 PM
Dec 2018

a live stream a little while ago and there was a new ad for them that I hadn't seen before. I noticed that at least once there seemed to be some indication of a MSN logo, at least that's what I thought when I saw the "flash" of a rainbow wafting through the scene somehow. So I wonder if its one of their products or apple... whomever uses a rainbow image.

Rhiannon12866

(205,235 posts)
15. That's been my reaction, too!
Tue Dec 18, 2018, 04:00 AM
Dec 2018

It's not like we haven't heard the term "both sides" elsewhere recently! And when these damn commercials come on, I say the same thing to the TV that you posted.

akraven

(1,975 posts)
16. We don't have cable. Just the Big 3, since Faux Snooze is
Tue Dec 18, 2018, 08:40 AM
Dec 2018

permanently blocked.

I hadn't heard about SmartNews till yesterday when my stepson and his beautiful wife called and asked about it. I said BLOCK. They did.

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