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Ocelot II

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1. Fox makes its viewers angry, and anger is perversely pleasurable.

Fri Oct 11, 2024, 10:52 AM

Oct 11

Anger can be understood as a reaction to what feels threatening or unfair to you. In such instances, you feel unjustifiably attacked, taken advantage of, betrayed, violated, or powerless. And your anger, essentially retaliatory in nature, agreeably serves the function of restoring to you a sense of righteousness and control, even dignity and respect. Added to this, the energizing surge of adrenaline accompanying your eruption further accentuates your sense of “wronged virtue.” So naturally, you feel morally superior to whoever or whatever provoked you in the first place.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/evolution-the-self/201811/why-you-secretly-enjoy-getting-angry

Fox incites its viewers to anger leading to a sense of victimization, and being a victim means they are the innocent, wronged person; and whoever made them the victim is necessarily the bad guy - and therefore they can feel superior to the bad people who victimized them. This is what Trump does and Fox just amplifies it. So what you are seeing is a bunch of people feeding on the thrill that Fox/Trump-induced anger and victimhood gives them. It's their meth and coke and crack and it feels so good they can't tear themselves away from it.

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Confirmation of something I've often observed [View all] Orrex Oct 11 OP

Fox makes its viewers angry, and anger is perversely pleasurable. Ocelot II Oct 11 #1

Dopes on dopamine C_U_L8R Oct 11 #2

It doesn't help... littlemissmartypants Oct 11 #9

Also, an enraged person has less reasoning ability and their beliefs can be more easily manipulated. Hermit-The-Prog Oct 11 #18

I also think that being a "victim" can be generalized. That's why no promotion. That's why your wife (or husband) left. JoetheShow Oct 11 #19

Have long noticed certain types of 'Christians' claim persecution over everything Attilatheblond Oct 12 #45

I noticed for a long time during the abortion debate that not being allowed to impose their religious beliefs on others JoetheShow Oct 12 #48

As a young adult, anger was my go to emotion Farmer-Rick Oct 12 #44

FOX is a cog in the toxic right-wing propaganda machine RAB910 Oct 11 #3

Don't leave Russia out of propaganda creation YessirAtsaFact Oct 11 #42

Thinking back to my grandfather, listening to AM talk radio ALL THE TIME in the 60s Attilatheblond Oct 12 #47

In my senior move management job one place we used to move people in frequently used to have Fox on kimbutgar Oct 11 #4

It radicalized a couple of my relatives who had been moderate Dems. progressoid Oct 12 #43

It started years ago D_Master81 Oct 11 #5

Despise FAUX as well, but their viewership is still relatively small. 3 million or so might Silent Type Oct 11 #6

They're like Ellen Burstyn's character in Requiem For A Dream swong19104 Oct 11 #7

Propaganda functions as an addiction cycle. Ford_Prefect Oct 11 #8

About 5% of the adult population watches Fox News Kaleva Oct 11 #10

That's fine. Locally it's about 80% Orrex Oct 11 #13

What are the ratings for the Fox News network in your area? Kaleva Oct 11 #15

I couldn't possibly care less. Orrex Oct 11 #30

People who care about an issue will do the research Kaleva Oct 11 #38

I wasn't aware that you are in authority to police people's engagement with issues Orrex Oct 11 #41

I doubt it's 80% anywhere. Elessar Zappa Oct 11 #20

That is, admittedly, a sample base on the homes I enter for my job Orrex Oct 11 #29

You work for the unemployed? Kaleva Oct 11 #39

Sometimes, yes. Does that trouble you? Orrex Oct 11 #40

My research says that's just wrong. dchill Oct 11 #21

Look at the networks ratings Kaleva Oct 11 #22

That's good data. But I wonder how many links and shares... dchill Oct 11 #24

I agree with your point. Kaleva Oct 11 #27

IMO, social media is a much greater factor than Fox News/RW radio. orange jar Oct 11 #34

They've hooked their empty skulls up to the bullshit nozzle and are happily taking in as much as they can get GreenWave Oct 11 #11

Competing with and replacing reality is a much bigger job than reporting news. nt hay rick Oct 11 #12

This has been happening for decades. I was an interior designer in the 90s and Figarosmom Oct 11 #14

I like that, but if I tried that I'd get fired Orrex Oct 11 #31

Yeah theres thst. Figarosmom Oct 11 #32

I get a weekly in-home infusion therapy misanthrope Oct 11 #36

Well i almost always have Figarosmom Oct 11 #37

"Looking Out 4U"? czarjak Oct 11 #16

The Fascist Oligarch eXtremists' propaganda network is a cancer on the body politic. Hermit-The-Prog Oct 11 #17

I thought Fox News was pass. They all like Newsmax. By the way over 50% of Americans don't have cable nor satellite any HagathaCrispy Oct 11 #23

My BIL marinated in it mountain grammy Oct 11 #25

Pretty sad and goes just to point out how lazy they are, to believe in this nonstop junk. No wonder they don't SWBTATTReg Oct 11 #26

Hey! I see Trump out the window... lame54 Oct 11 #28

Willing suspension of disbelief...... SupportSanity Oct 11 #33

we've lost an entire generation to Fox News Coexist Oct 11 #35

I think we have real divisions in this country TBF Oct 12 #46