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[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 75 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

What's really terrible is that the media was not even liberal to begin with. The RWAs have been pissing their pants about how the "MSM" is so very liberal for decades when they are anything but.

[–] Lucky_777@lemmy.world 51 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

100% right here. Propaganda has taken MAGA so easily. Humans in the future will wonder why they were so easily hooked.

[–] devolution@lemmy.world 5 points 3 hours ago

You'd think so but what did we used to say about Nazi Germany and now where are we at?

[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 17 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

We wonder the same about Germans in the 30's, but I think I can better understand why they did. I have no idea why we did.

[–] Pricklesthemagicfish@reddthat.com 5 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Its almost like the same parasite that infected the germans has slowly taken root in the usa.

[–] devolution@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

Have a black man as president broke the national brain. It would be like a Uyghur chairman in China. See how fast the Han chin se would break... Further.

[–] tempest@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 hours ago

Eh the US had cancer long before Obama. Nixon, Reagan, Gingrich, W (or Chaney if you like) were all slow walking things to where the US is now.

[–] Gates9@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 hours ago

When the death certificate on American empire is written, the cause of death will read: “Opulence, ignorance, corruption”, or simply “capitalism”.

[–] Xaphanos@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

Well alas we've seen it all before Knights in armour, days of yore The same old fears and the same old crimes We haven't changed since ancient times

[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 4 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

While we all have and know so much information in our modern age, the average peasant during the rebound age of the 21st century knew less in total then you can find on a single digiread today.

[–] SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml 6 points 5 hours ago

We are starved for true knowledge while drowning in information.

College = expensive, advertising = free.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 9 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

the media was not even liberal to begin with

Liberals have been eager for regime change in Iran for as long as their conservative peers.

Bombing Tehran is one of the few things Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump can agree on.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago

I'm using the typical definition of the term liberal, not the online leftist version, though. I know what you are going for, but probably about 5% of the population even grasps the way the online leftists talk about liberals ("shitlibs") and so on.

We are talking about a population that hears the beginning part of "Libertarian" and assumes that means the equivalent to liberal. Same thing when it comes to neoliberal policies. I bet the number of Americans that understand what neoliberal entails is vanishingly small.

Hillary does not seem all that liberal to me in any case, despite what the far right claims about people like her and her husband and Biden and Obama and Kamala...

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 6 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

The difference though is liberals never went to war with Iran for the regime change and that’s a big one.

[–] frisbird@lemmy.ml 6 points 5 hours ago

Yeah, they went to war with Libya for it instead

[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Maybe not Iran. Every US president in recent history has started or escalated bullshit wars for regime change.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 1 points 9 minutes ago

I like how you say "or escalated" to "both sides" it and avoid admitting Republicans started all the wars.

[–] AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.social 21 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

If you are surprised because a fascist fuck is doing the fascist things he said he would do after being voted... I have something to tell you. And you won't like it.

This is what happens when a considerable part of a society has the critical thinking skills of an amoeba.

[–] Ghostie@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 hour ago

That’s not very fair to amoebas.

[–] JackDark@lemmy.world 24 points 6 hours ago

Donald Trump over the weekend posted a graphic that alarmed numerous political observers.

Trump took to his own social media site, Truth Social, to post the graphic, which is called, "President Trump is reshaping the media." The image celebrates that NPR, Stephen Colbert, Jim Acosta, and others in the media are "gone," while noting that CNN and the FCC have both been "reformed" by the president.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 12 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Wow, this is exactly what ~~Neoconservatives dating back to the Nixon Administration~~ Vladimir Putin has always wanted

[–] frisbird@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

America does very American thing

What are we, a bunch of Russians?!

[–] takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 5 hours ago

Distraction from Iran war that appears to distract from Trumpstein Files

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 7 points 4 hours ago

What else would you expect from Putin's bitch?

[–] Hayduke@lemmy.world 7 points 5 hours ago

Not just Donald the dotard, Republicans.

[–] Foofighter@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 4 hours ago

I'm actually surprised. I didn't expect that he'd straight up copy Putin. I expected more. Don't ask me why, but I did

[–] vivalapivo@lemmy.today 2 points 5 hours ago

No, the ugliest part is that the opposition makes the same mistakes