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What are some good places to start getting acquainted with American politics in as unbiased a manner as possible? (kbin.run)

submitted 4 months ago by all-knight-party@kbin.run to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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What with the recent development in the supreme courts I'm feeling a necessity to do what I can with the time left, politically.

However, aside from the most rudimentary basic terms I am basically completely ignorant to all politics on a state and federal level, and while I'd love to sit here and self loathe for my idiocy of not learning before it was important I need to start catching up and figuring out what I should be voting on and why.

Of course I'm deathly afraid that indiscriminately googling will lead to me learning biased and compromised knowledge from sites that I don't even know are biased, ending up with a skewed and inaccurate understanding.

While I know I could still be led astray by you guys, I figured it better to ask somewhere like here than to just wander off into the internet, so can anybody help me and people like me to start getting equipped?

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[–] all-knight-party@kbin.run 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I just mean fundamentally understanding the way the law works from the bottom up, and trying to get a handle on the ramifications that may not be obvious when it comes to the things I can vote for, especially different government positions in local and federal.

I would hate to learn about this from a biased site that omits certain information or something so that I'm crippled in my understanding

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

To really do that you'd have to get a law degree. And every information source has some sort of bias. The way to go is look at stuff from a variety of sources.

[–] all-knight-party@kbin.run 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I can understand that. So it seems I can find a subject that may be important, read articles from each side and be able to discern the truth from the differences between them all

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

The "truth" is often elusive. Of course there are objective facts that can be ascertained by empirical study. But many issues, especially in politics, are based in value judgements, so there isn't really an objective truth. However, if you go by the empirical facts, it's usually easy to see who is arguing in good faith and who isn't.