Where do you get your news?

[formeruser12]

I would like to ask your opinion, @Flannel_Jesus.

For me, certain topics on the board have a “flavour”, for example this one:

We watch the collapse of late stage capitalism in real time

In this thread we watch the collapse of terminal late stage economic capitalism in real time, we watch all the capitalists or libertarians cry out their lungs in collective unison saying to themselves, “But, real economic capitalism has never been tried before!” [1000003317] [1000003315] [1000003316] [1000003318]

It has mostly turned into opinionated banter (sometimes perhaps irrelevant or silly) about current events, but I personally think it is quite important as it represents a record of what is happening, both in the markets and geopolitically. Of course we’re not experts, but hey, sometimes the only way to learn is to dive into the water and try to swim.

Then there’s this thread, where I had the honest intention of discovering new sources of news relating to current events, but I got a bit frustrated and started posting a flood of links to songs, I figured at least there might be something someone liked. Now I’m using it to post links to sources of information that I found relevant, but little personal commentary is provided, do you think there should be more commentary?

Then there’s this thread:

Transcript of Carney's WEF address

This is a transcript of Canadian PM Mark Carney’s speech at the World Economic Forum on Tuesday 20/01/2026, (or 01/20/2026 if you don’t know how ascending or descending order works). I watched his speech, very well delivered. What a contrast he is to the wacky game-show host that was Trudeau huh? A sudden bastion of common sense, how do people like that always know when to show up? Captain Canada to the rescue. I know one thing for certain, Carney is a dyed-in-the-wool Globalist, so it will be…

I got into a discussion with @Peter_Kropotkin, which I enjoyed, but then I posted a link to an irrelevant video, and he pointed out that he didn’t think it belonged there. I thought, you know, you’re right, so I removed the video and also an image that I had posted in response to @Ichthus77, as I started to wonder whether that was also irrelevant too. I can see why too much media without commentary is counterproductive.

So I guess my question is, do you think that it’s acceptable for some threads to contain a lot of linked media, where perhaps others should not? My plan for the future is to try to avoid linking to media in threads that are discussion heavy, but then post links in threads where that’s more the “flavour” of things.

What do you think?