- Top Democrat politicians tried nothing to stop a Trump win on the Presidential Election and were all out of ideas.
- Democrats naturally Lost to Trump
- Top Democrat politicians sent their minions and useful idiots around to blame people who didn't vote for them because they tried nothing to appeal to them (as part of the grand strategy of trying nothing to stop a Trump win).
- Top Democrat politicians carried on doing nothing to stop Trump <- We are here
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Leaders is a strong word. A bunch of dudes mollycoddled by their privilege and standing. Kill your idols. I love the Onion.
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Voters' vision is based on movement.
This is as close to factual reporting as we're likely to see for a minute. This isn't satire; it's sociopolitical commentary.
Always has been
Don't shit on journalists. If the media is your enemy then you're no better than MAGA.
I have no issue with journalists, but you're not going to find them on an entertainment channel. The Washington Post was rubber stamping war profiteering before Bozos bought them.
The majority of outlets are owned by an ever concentrating number of billionaires. Blind trust is the last thing you want to give them.
Random counterexample, John Oliver probably agrees more with you than me and he runs a comedy news show on HBO. There are tons of people just like him.
The fact that Washington Posts' Harris endorsement which Bezos prevented from printing was immediately leaked means the editors and owners do not have complete control of the narrative.
Bro... John Oliver is a comedian and doesn't consider himself a journalist: https://www.npr.org/2016/02/12/466569047/is-john-olivers-show-journalism-he-says-the-answer-is-simple-no
He's also not a billionaire nor own the show or the network it's on.
Like you're agreeing that the media outlet is under orders to shape the narrative... But then somehow take the individual journalists leaking things they were ordered not to as some perverse reason to still trust the outlet?
I'm not even sure what you're trying to say as your defense of the American press is a British comedian and an admission a billionaire shapes WaPo's narratives.
You are all over the map.
The actual Journalists have mostly been fired from most mainstream media in the US.
It's now mostly Propagandists and Click-bait Enhancing Specialists.
You can blame Liberals as much as the MAGA crowd for moving newspapers away from Journalism and into Propaganda.
We still hear about Trump dismantling government offices with interviews from employees, we still hear about hospitals shutting down, we still hear about environmental disasters, we still hear about the ICE in military gear going door to door.
You might not like whats in the news, but Journalists are working for your benefit.
The shocking obvious superficial shit that brings in lots of clicks will always be published.
That's what gave Trump lots of proeminence from the very start - say something outrageous -> have the Click Enhancers put your face and your words in front of everybody.
The actual real Journalism (especially Investigative Journalism that dig down into the details and dug out things like closed-door agreements to tilt things just so in favour of a few) has long moved out of the big news media, as has actual Journalistic Ethics ever since newspapers started to be expected to do things like side with a candidate in Presidential elections.
You're confusing companies owned by billionaires which historically, decades ago, did have actual Journalists on the payroll, with present day makers of Journalism.
Just note how little Corruption or at the very least Conflicts of Interest of people in positions of power is mentioned in the big newsmedia publications.
When corporate media is primarily concerned with profit. That's not free press.
Which isn't to say journalists don't have a right to earn a living. But rather that shareholder profits have way more influence in what gets published then they should.
What you fail to realize is accruement of capital of many opposing businesses isn't the enemy at this juncture.
The unchecked power of an elected fascist dismantling democracy is.
There is no all consuming hivemind that connects to people more as their wealth increases, they're all competing against one another.
Elon Musk's media machine and unchecked wealth is a large part of why we are even having this conversation.
And in 2016 it was Fox News.
And while you are correct, that businesses are competing against each other and there is no overarching hive mind. They also have an incentive to compete against the working class. And in that regard, many corporations are aligned.
Folks can compete with each other and still have common interest. And in a capitalist society, the common interest of capitalists is to suppress and oppress the working class.
Edit: also, I didn't down vote you for your opinion. I down voted you for presuming to know what I realize and what I don't. Because frankly, it felt rude.
The way I see it is they've got more incentive as rational actors to promote security and equality. What is interfering with that is irrational primal instincts that make some of them want to hoard wealth and attack those who are physically or culturally different from them.
More billionaires supported a candidate who promised to tax their unrealized gains than they sided with Trump. Trumps billionaires just happened to capture enough social media to tilt things his way.
Oh yeah I agree there.
And I admit the original comment that started mine in your conversation was too broad. There are enlightened business interests who understand that security and equity is good for business in the long term. I did undergraduate business administration studies, and they teach DEI. Not because it's the ethical thing to do, but because it is good for the bottom line in the long run. Especially in a diverse globalized economy.
But I also get their knee jerk reaction about the media. Billionaires operating on those primal instincts have captured a lot of it, and it is frustrating.
People should be realizing it's all been bullshit. They don't care about us.
It's all the same game, left, right, business, drug dealing, street life and mainstream life... It's all the same game, getting "mine" and fucking all other lives over until you do.
They are never going to help you and if they say they will it's not genuine.
Except Bernie.
They literally
cannot
do
anything
because we voted them out of power, you colossal morons.
The Democrats and Republicans only purpose is to protect the capitalist class. The GOP is going too hard in the wrong direction will will hopefully upset the working class to invoke real change. Any day now......
People should, but you'll still see die-hard shitlibs in comments sections on .world defending the Democratic party, defending the Harris/Walz campaign, and blaming anyone to their left for their defeat. 45% of the Democratic party think the problem is that they haven't moved far right enough, and the concept of a third party is still met with constant derision.
I honestly no longer think Americans will ever get out of this. I don't think most of them even want to. It seems like the average American doesn't want democracy.
Lots of people have been brainwashed to not want democracy. They want a 2 team system because it gives them the good feelings of 'im better than the other guys" regardless of how factually true that is. And when there is an other guy that they explicitly aren't better than, like a third party candidate, its all kinds of rationalization as to why actually its better to choose the shittier option because otherwise you might get the feally shitty option. As opposed to just not choosing a shitty option.
This is a rational choice in a first past the post voting system with two major parties.
The structure of our elections essentially guarantees this outcome regardless of the voters.
For real. It's dead.
It's wild from my perspective. It's dead as fuck.
The population really was indoctrinated to be passive servants of evil. Marketing... Capitalism...
It's wild. Even hip-hop went dogshit. It used to be a culture about the people and it nows it's been raped by the same old bullshit. It's either left, right, or street which isn't any different then left or right anymore., it's just bitch men raping lives sucking all they can out of innocent people like the ceos or politicians. No one is living for humanity.
It really is people who love humanity vs people that want to control humanity. And it's world wide. Nations and organizations or businesses can be disregarded in this war. It's far bigger than that. Even the dumb Nazi shit is just a blip on the map of the evil humanity is against. All these people get power from the same source... Their need of ego, power, influence, and money.
USA already has suicide bombers but they blame it on isis, or other groups. I saw someone put it right, "America is a third world with guchi belt."
Poor people and minorities already know what's up. Immortal technique had it right,
"I laugh at America's fears
Of a new world order controlin' the hemisphere,
Because my people have been livin' that
for the past 500 years."
This war isn't new for many of us. It's everyday life.
A huge percentage of the problem is what people think is left.
https://politicalcompass.org/uselection2016
Hilary was right of Trump, just less authoritarian. The whole caravan spectacle was basically fallout of her time as secretary of state under Obama.
Liberalism coopted equality from socialism. Rainbow capitalism will underpay and shrinkflate all the poors equally in the name of the shareholders.
Conservatism coopted a man being entitled to the sweat of his brow. Profit is what's left over after reinvesting in the business and wages. Every cut corner of quality and penny of retirement savings denied is more riches for the ruling class. Workers eagerly defend their bosses entitlement to the sweat of their brow.
Media plays the masses that deserve both against itself.
You should check out some Adam Curtis Documentary.
The century of self; It's about frueds cousin understanding psychology and starting the type of marketing we see today and how it's gained traction in politics and government.
The Trap; I haven't finished it. But it seems on point. its been awhile but I believe this one is more about geopolitics. Proxy wars and stuff like that. Manipulating other countries for our (us) profiting.
Hyper normalization was good as well. i dont think it was the main plot or talking point but it mentions Trump's tactics in NYC in the 70s. Buying up the poor and selling to the rich.
There's a channel on YouTube that has all them for free. I think it's official.
“Did it work? I think we’re in the clear for now, but that was a close one. They could have talked to us, for crying out loud, or worse—demanded that we do something."
Egg-fucking-zactly
If the Schumer fits…
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