This is what every journalist in America needs to be doing right now.
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I would argue it's what every journalist in America should have been doing 8 FUCKING YEARS AGO, but no, they helped create this monster so they could report on it. They are a human/media centipede crossed with an Ouroboros eating it's own shit. Support independent media, not partisan sources in either direction, they're ALL compromised by capital.
OK, but this is also what every journalist needs to be doing right now.
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Pretty terrifying honestly.
I'm kind of astonished that even republicans can't see anything wrong with everything happening. Like conservative ideals are one thing but dismantling the rule of law is a whole other thing.
I've lived in several countries and watched conservatives in all of them over half a century. Nothing I have seen has ever changed my view that conservatism is pathological selfishness disguised as a political philosophy. While other political movements agree on making life better for people in general but disagree on how to do it, conservatives indulge their personality disorder, call it politics, and demand to be taken as seriously as those who actually try.
The only reason why Trump’s approval rating has sunk a bit amongst conservatives is that tariffs are directly affecting them. As you said, they are selfishness incarnate.
Well said
And it’s so overwhelmingly male and (usually) white. Though that can sway depending on country. Seems they want to go back to owning slaves. And feel equality is oppression somehow.
Though there is a growing amount of white ladies now I want to see rot in prison.
Uh... What did you think conservatives stood for again? Conservatism has always been about putting wealth in the hands of the few and scapegoating vulnerable people to distract the masses; everything else is camouflage.
I don't think the majority of conservatives actually want that.
The majority of Republicans are fucking morons that have no idea what is going on in the world and have no desire to so long as they have identified which group they are supposed to hate.
They claim they don't want that, but every single one of their positions feeds into one or both of these two results.
If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you. ― Lyndon B. Johnson
What would you say they want, then?
I do suspect there's a pretty decent sized chunk who bought into that "Republicans are good for the economy" line of bullshit DECADES ago and have just spent the intervening time hell bent on not giving anything political even the tiniest iota of thought. These people still fucking suck, as that basically involves waking up every day and choosing to be a completely uninformed moron rather than spend 5 fucking seconds thinking about something they find uninteresting. So some are hateful bigots and some are just so fucking stupid it's a minor miracle they've survived this long without someone to follow them around covering the outlets and safety pinning mittens to their sleeves. Fuck em both.
I do suspect there’s a pretty decent sized chunk who bought into that “Republicans are good for the economy” line of bullshit DECADES ago and have just spent the intervening time hell bent on not giving anything political even the tiniest iota of thought.
"I've been a conservative because I believe the Regan trickle down economics works."
My old coworker. I literally said "my guy we've had fifty goddamn years to show that is complete bullshit. How many more decades do we need to try it for you to realize it doesn't work?"
As you said, he just spent 0 time thinking about it.
But to be honest, it does work for him in a way... His parents were wealthy and so he has lived his life as a janitor and a doorman and will still be able to retire into a nice house with a ton of inheritance money...
Yeah, it trickles down from rich parents to their kids. That's good enough for him I guess.
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Capitalism is the entropy lottery, and the more you remove the graphite the more the reaction runs away toward total meltdown
Conservatism is the belief that we should ban pencils because how dare you limit my chances even a little before everything breaks
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Make no mistake, the only reason we're seeing this in the media now is because big business is getting hit. Mostly a shot in the foot with tariffs but let's keep those boycotts up!
I assume the big boys lost more money from the tariff insanity than they made from getting their next tax cut. Losing money is the only thing they do not tolerate because it hurts them in their inhouse pissing contest on who can be the biggest societal parasite.
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Jesus Christ. What subject, other than abject flattery, is Trump not sensitive about? No matter what they do, any story that's based remotely on fact is gonna piss that fragile little man off, so why not just have at him?
so why not just have at him?
Money, it's always money. I'm not sure if it is capitalism in general or American culture specifically but our system rewards greedy people so much that they are essentially all we have left in positions of power. Principled leaders barely exist, just craven pretenders who view power as another means to enrich themselves.
It's insane, because it's not some sassy or hyperbolic report. It's perfectly measured and...logical. A well made report.
Only nine years too late.
Still, hope this marks the start of a trend.
This is real journalism, which has become increasingly rare these days. Everything else is just PR.
I love this. It's kind of a rule of the internet that if you tell it to stop doing something it'll just make everyone more determined. I want to see every group that interacts with the administration be so resolute to give them shit.
It’s called the Streisand effect
Nah thats not really the same thing. Streisand effect is when people learn about something they wouldnt have otherwise known about.
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My only hope at this point is that, by firing most of NOAA, they somehow miss or are otherwise unprepared for a freak hurricane that blows right through DC while congress is in session and Trump is doing a photo op while signing a new bullshit order.
Anyone have a link to th video?
That pesky first amendment comes back to bite again!
Extortion of law firms. What the fucking hell scared these businesses so much? Just stopping federal contracts with them?
And with that threat looming overhead, how do they not have the motivation to quietly resist? You want to talk about respecting the law and fighting back - that's who needs to do it.
Except they bent the knee anyway. We know they're just as complicit in the Regimes acts now.
And that's just one issue.
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So i imagine there are lose window frames and a Boeing executor somewhere near by this bloke from now on
Glad legacy media still has a few balls left
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