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Groceries are expensive and they're too busy talking about culture war (discuss.online)
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[–] 98 points 2 months ago (8 children)

the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Michigan, has raised eyebrows after asking Fox News’ Jesse Watters if he is circumcised during a combative prime-time interview.

Man fuck right off, that wasn't at all a weird question to ask in response to a fucking weird obsession Jesse has with children's "dingilings"

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  • [–] 82 points 2 months ago

    Jesse Watters is the one who brought it up, after all.

    El-Sayed (a medical doctor, by the way) only responded in kind, and Watters - having brought it up as some kind of battle mark, some line that should never be crossed - immediately reversed course at brakeneck speed and attempted to dismiss it as if it were nothing, framing El-Sayed as an absurdist for even mentioning the subject that Watters himself raised in feigned outrage, despite El-Sayed’s repeated warnings that Watters would regret addressing the subject

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  • [–] 29 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    If you ever believed that the manipulation stream media was on the right side of history. Then this whole interview plus the one Welker did with Angie Nixon should tell you that they never were.

    These companies act like assholes to Progressives and DSA while throwing cotton candy at Pedophiles and Rapists.

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  • [–] -4 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    ....and this article agrees with you. Wh....why are you telling them to fuck off........?

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

    On the surface the article comes off as rather neutral in tone but the headline, the line about "raising eyebrows", and really just the existence of this article at all is so standard for "left" leaning news corporations. Mamdani's El-Sayed's response didn't "raise eyebrows" from anyone except the fox viewers who would have already been fired up before the camera even started rolling and all this article is doing is validating them.

    It's always the same thing, politicians on the right are allowed to say or do anything they want freely without any scrutiny and those who are left of centre are held under a microscope.

    As a (Godwin's Law proving) example: imagine if what Mamdani El-Sayed had said was "I actually think Hitler was a bad person" and then we got articles about that statement raising eyebrows. It wouldn't be false but the only people it'd be referring to would be Nazis and why the fuck would you validate or acknowledge their opinions?

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