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> I'll will end my life before ever supporting Fox News.

Subjecting a Filipino call center operator who is just doing her job to such melodramatic threats is not the flex you think it is.

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Fox is offensive, racist propagandistic garbage though. I get that part.
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Dont forget the lying. They love to lie.
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Sounds like you watch too much Fox News?
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When I got my house, I needed to set up internet, and Verizon FIOS was what I went for.

I called them to get it set up, and when I suggested the internet dude on the line kept trying to upsell me TV packages. I was polite at first but eventually I said something like "listen, I don't want your 'Movie Lovers' package. I don't want your 'Sports Fan' package. I don't want your 'Family Entertainment' package. I don't want your 'Comedy Lover' package. I just want internet. I do not want anything but internet. If you pitch more more packages I will still only want internet".

Admittedly a little rude, but the guy did get the point after that and he was perfectly helpful getting everything set up.

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I'm sure they're forced to do that and graded on how many upgrades they sell. Their bosses will even listen on calls and if they don't make all those pitches, they'll get written up or fired. Source: seen it first-person.
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Yeah, I wasn't really upset with the guy for reading his script. I'm sure he was doing what he was trained to do. I figured that if I gave the little diatribe then I kind of figured that he wouldn't get in trouble for just moving on.
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I'm impressed that you were able to cancel SiriusXM. I thought that it was set up to cling to people for life, and possibly continue billing their estate after death.
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I think they actually got in trouble with a lawsuit over that?

FWIW I canceled my SiriusXM like a year ago and it wasn't too hard. Just a web form.

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All they do now is hound you incessantly until the end of time with a rock-bottom price for 6 months.
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What's extreme about trying to live your values?
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I don't see politics as left and right. To me they are in the shape of a Radar chart or Radial Column chart or Sunburst diagram.

People in real life are multi-facet not singularly polar. People with agendas and grifters are polar. Polarization is also for those that want to be self-defined by a party.

I also do not support news or other agencies that reject STEMM or use questions to mask direct lying.

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If you are saying that being against giving FOX News money is some wild example of the left-wing equivalent to the extreme right-wing extremism... You might want to take the clown paint off and reconsider.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43168530 lol. Just lol.

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This divide will never heal. I have no idea of how to get either side interested in the idea. I don't see a path to victory from any direction.
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