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do you know of any neutral politics community in either the fediverse or reddit? (linux.community)

submitted 4 months ago by vestmoria@linux.community to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I used to read the r/politics channel, genuinely thinking it was unbiased.

How naive of me.

After Biden's disastrous performance debating Trump, each post there doubles down on how Trump is a unique threat to democracy, is a dictator in waiting, and don't forget SCOTUS is corrupt, so we should pack it...

You cannot claim American democracy is on the line and then put an octogenarian who forgets what's he saying in the middle of a sentence and can only talk decently with a teleprompter as a candidate to 'save' democracy from republicans. It does not compute. It's ludicrous and so old already and only your base listens to you. Elections are won in the middle, your fans alone are never enough, for neither party.

That channel's answer? doubling down, everything's good. democrats are gonna win!

Note that I'm not looking for a republican channel of trumpian morons claiming the election in 2020 was stolen.

I tend to vote democratic, but today it seems our side is as stupid and tribal as theirs.

ETA: if not politics communities, what about media that's more or less unbiased?

I'd also appreciate website suggestions about pages dedicated to make predictions about the outcome of the election, as unbiased as possible...

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[–] Bldck 1 points 4 months ago

For unbiased forecasting, you really can’t go wrong with Nate Silver, formerly of 538. His Silver Bulletin newsletter is the best source for an accurate prediction. Some content is paywalled ($10/mo).

Finding truly unbiased sources in today’s media landscape is quite hard. What you can do is become a critical reader. For tactical, political news I read the Washington Post, but understand that they’ve very good at reporting news in DC, but they sometimes struggle with reporting other markets.

You might want to start with Improve the News or Ground News to help you parse multiple sides of a given story