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don’t forget the small hands
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He’s also the next president, don’t forget that part
It’s more than Fox News, my source inside the MAGAsphere informs me most people rarely watch it anymore.
It’s about NYT and WaPo, NBC, CBS, et. al., who constantly couch everything in bland “normal” terms for various reasons - none of which outweigh the fact that the GQP has nominated a traitorous, rapist fraud for President.
And they should stop getting a pass on that shit.
They’re all the same people. Like the same owners, and the same wants. Profits over people. News stopped being about information when advertising took the wheel.
The Internet blew up the division in the 4th estate. There is only profit and attention economy now.
Fox News is too liberal for the true believers; Newsmax at least.
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IF it did happen it was antifa anyway.
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Repub Congress on Jan. 6th: [cowering in terror, fleeing for their lives]
Repub Congress today: just a rowdy tour, what is the big deal?
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remember guys, january 6th was a peaceful protest, there was no violence, all of the footage of people fighting with police and breaking things doesn’t count as violence, because we ignore it.
I was told that the J6ers were double-super-secret Far Left Antifa who wanted to make Trump look bad.
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“And so, I will spend every waking hour ensuring he’s #1 in the news cycle, then act surprised when he wins again!”
Where is the political meme?
We wanna do this again?
That just means that the ‘national media’ that promotes him, just isn’t actual media but fox entertainment. It’s nothing more then a clown and pony show to brainwash inbreds
It’s more that the media is not equipped to deal with Trump.
They’ve always depended on balance for credibility, and that doesn’t work when one side is blatantly disingenuous. The media will still try to appear balanced, and even that’s not enough because accurate reporting of someone like Trump comes off as accusatory because he’s just that corrupt and incompetent.
The result is that the media attention whitewashes and minimizes his transgressions and inflates his opponents’ in an attempt to appear balanced. It also gives his odious ideas oxygen and thusly the appearance of approval and credibility.
That’s why the current Democratic strategy of mocking him and calling him “weird” is working, because it’s explicitly not normalizing his behaviour or giving his message a platform.
They’ve had decades to adapt to Republicans being blatantly disingenuous. At what point does it stop being “not equipped to deal with” and does it start being “chooses not to deal with”?
Private media are owned by shareholders that want as many unfair advantages as possible. They want to be slightly left of center to appeal to the “reasonable centrist” crowd, but they want the center to be as far to the right as possible so their taxes are low and their assets unregulated. Moreover, they want the presidential election to be as close to 50-50 as possible so both candidates are desperate for bribe money and and willing to pay further favors.
If the Democrats win by a landslide, what is next? What is the new political center, and what does that mean for the stock market? Even in the face of fascism, corporations and shareholders keep playing both sides, because if Volkswagen and BMW and Ford and Siemens and Kodak and IBM and Bayer and the Associated Press and Hugo Boss and Fanta/Coca-Cola and all the unnamed German millionaires that hid their cash and pillaged Jewish artifacts in Switzerland and politely surrendered to the western forces made it through being Nazis with a profit, why expect worse from Trump?
Well cause all US media outlets are full of bull shit and only care about their bottom line, views and $$$
Since when does the US have national media. Isn’t it all private companies?
Im guessing it means media companies broadcasting nationally instead of just in local states.
The first beast
I mean… we know WHY they are. I think that’s the real conversation people need to have
Manufacture of consent
He can be both, hopefully he won’t be elected again, but he was elected once and it isn’t completely inprobable that he gets elected again.
He can be both
So you think a traitorous person can be a legitimate candidate?
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Valid sentence, yes.
I’d still like an answer though.
The answer is yes, if the peoples want to destroy democracy
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Unfortunately, the US is not a pure democracy. It’s not even a democracy, arguably.
Multivariate analysis indicates that economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on U.S. government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence. The results provide substantial support for theories of Economic-Elite Domination and for theories of Biased Pluralism, but not for theories of Majoritarian Electoral Democracy or Majoritarian Pluralism.
The point here is that democratic nations can have imposed reasonable limits on who is and who isn’t a legitimate candidate. Arnold Schwarzenegger wasn’t a legitimate candidate, because he wasn’t born in the US.
The Constitution lists only three qualifications for the Presidency — the President must be at least 35 years of age, be a natural born citizen, and must have lived in the United States for at least 14 years.
Other countries have different requirements. Usually there’s a bit more, but still vague, like “be of good standing” or something like that.
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You said
in a pure democracy, you can elect anybody
Just one comment above this.
Here:
And we clearly were discussing the US. And whether a treasonous person would be a legitimate choice for president.
I’ve no idea what the rest of your comment means. How could I be stalking you if you replied to my comment? And why would I be stalking some random?
Edit also a “democratic Republic” is a democracy, and that study specifically says there’s no evidence of democracy, but a ton for oligarchy
There are maybe one or two tha pretend to so as to avoid any legal issues that his criminalminded attornies might dream up
Who cares. Don’t vote and be happy.
That’s exceedingly unlikely
Stop caring about nonsense and its very much a possibility.
Allowing trump back in will absolutely guarantee the climate catastrophe will be maximized. Women will lose even more legal control of their bodies. Dysfunction will disrupt every government operation from mail to armed services.
But if that makes you happy, then yes. Don’t vote and it shall be so.
Allowing trump back in will absolutely guarantee the climate catastrophe will be maximized.
Climate change does not exist bro.
Women will lose even more legal control of their bodies.
Huh? Do you mean woman cannot kill their babies? So unborn children will be safer under Trump perhaps? Truth is I doubt Trump will do more to protect unborn children.
Dysfunction will disrupt every government operation from mail to armed services.
No. Goverments dysfunctional because its a government.
But if that makes you happy, then yes. Don’t vote and it shall be so.
If voting turnout is low, the goverment will realize nobody buys the theatre anymore and that is when real change can happen. Voting your way out in 2024 is so beta.
Oh.
I’m sick and tired of lemmy turning into American shit hole.
lemmynsfw
perfectly happy to drool over 10/10 Stacked Texas Hotties
suddenly very upset at Americaposting
Curious
Wut?
Hah?
