• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    No one cared about the color of his suit…

    They just picked stuff and claimed that was the problem, because it wasn’t acceptable to say what their real problem was.

    Continuing to not understand that, or “play dumb to point out their hypocrisy” is a waste of time and only helps them.

    • Some media got bought up by right wing figures. Then Trump did the classic authoritarian move to pressure anyone who had criticism by barring from press conferences and mess with access to for example the Pentagon, stack the FCC with a flunky and threaten media. Of course large media act like cowards and salute the new ruler.

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      10 days ago

      gullible broke uneducated maga voters would cut off their own arm if it meant that black people would suffer

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        New mission: make them think that cutting off their own arms will make black people suffer.

      • givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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        10 days ago

        No, it’s because the human mind wants a hierarchy just like the mind of literally every social animal.

        That’s why almost every civilization has had to deal with racism, religious persecution, or some other form of caste system.

        We fight that by erasing the lines, not reducing and insulting the people on the other side of the line the oligarchs drew.

        That’s literally what they wanted when they drew the line, and why they drew it about something they didn’t care about.

        Their happy to let us fight, because they don’t care who wins.

        If we’re gonna win, we need to draw our own singular line where we know we have the numbers to win: fighting wealth inequality.

        And that has to be done with zero means testing. If something is a human right, we all get it and not even Bill Gates should have to pay for it.

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          Racism was invented post american slavery as an excuse to why these people are somehow worth less than the people who owned them.

          Prior to that, it was typically stuff like “the Germankc tribes must be erradicated” or the classic poor vs rich dynamic we’re circling back to now

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            10 days ago

            Racism was invented post american slavery

            Do people legitimately believe that shit now?

            I remember when it was an obvious over exaggeration like “birds aren’t real”…

  • nao@sh.itjust.works
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    10 days ago

    it would be 24/7 coverage for weeks.

    Back then there was one issue and you could cover it for weeks. Or there wasn’t anything serious so you cover tan suits. Now there are so many issues you could cover a new one every day.

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      This is honestly what blows my mind. Sure, this should be first page matter under any other president. But so would so many other things that it doesn’t mean anything anymore

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        10 days ago

        Bannon’s “Flood the zone with shit” strategy is the one thing MAGA has managed to succeed at.

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          The press should shrink the articles accordingly to their number.

          We would basically get a first page of large phrases.

  • Man they put out an anti-terrorism thing where they straight up said, “We will find you, and we will kill you.” About Americans with a marginalized political identity (Anarchism, in this case), and it straight up wasn’t in NYT AT ALL.

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    Yes he’s a paedophile gangster but he serves Israel and the Epstein class so he gets a pass.

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    10 days ago

    The Media has accepted that there is no “busting Trump”, they’ve given up trying to give him scandals… They know they “don’t have him this time”, his fanbase will never care.

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      9 days ago

      Exactly. The media DID run lots of segments about Trump’s illegal activities - in 2015, in 2020, in 2024. Fucking Americans voted for him anyway - god-damned 79 million amoral imbeciles. Another 85 million pieces of shit sat on their asses and did nothing while he got re-elected. Now he is persecuting his critics. Can you blame the press? Why report on Trump’s crimes if you can be jailed or murdered by one of his goons just so millions of cretinous Americans vote for him anyway?

      When the people elect a criminal to do criminal things, the press has no responsibility to catalogue his crimes. Trump’s crimes aren’t news - they are his public record as president. America asked for this - for the first time in 250 years, the USA has the president it truly deserves. People say Trump is a liar - what a fucking laugh! He is maybe the most honest politician I have ever seen. “Vote for me and you will never have to vote again.” He told you exactly what to expect. Don’t act outraged now.

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    I take it as a sign that things won’t last much longer.

    When the thing that’s supposed to help keep the government in check is instead running cover for them, the top will start wobbling

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      That’s very optimistic. History shows that once a regime is established, power is consolidated, the media is in line and protests are repressed, ousting the regime and rebuilding democracy can take a long time.

      Russia had this level of obvious corruption and pillaging of state resources in the 90s, and where are they now?

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      The media hasn’t been interested in holding government accountable in my lifetime. It was less overtly partisan pre 9/11, but that’s about it.

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      Still managing to hold onto the illusion that the magic legal fairy will come save everyone? Laws don’t exist in nature, someone has to enforce them. Still people are persisting with the fairy tale that the law will automatically stop this

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    10 days ago

    that was just the dodge ball for the real reason, which involves a little extra melanin