You Tube used to be a good source for original news...

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15. It doesn't help here, either...

… when members here pollute the threads with the same clickbait trash. We need to maintain critical thinking standards and pause before posting without asking “what’s the benefit and who is benefitting” from such clips.

I’ve used this community as a sober news aggregator since 2004, after Kerry’s loss, when I realized what a clickbait doom spiral of a wasteland HuffPost and Daily Kos had become. Stepping back from relentless triggering was the best thing for my political and personal sanity.

Now, more than ever, we need DemUnderground to remain a bulwark against lib/progressive fight or flight sensationalism that just exhausts and distracts us from real work and achieving real results.