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[–] 60 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

Shocked. Yes shocked i am that she would use the immense power of CBS news to shill for MAGA fascism because she’s an enormous bag of shit.

Shocked, i say!

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  • [–] 27 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)
  • [–] 27 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Republicans will bitch and moan about "equal time" requirements...but, then turn around and literally buy entire networks, just to promote their side over the other. How is this even legal?

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  • [–] 9 points 3 weeks ago

    How is it legal? It’s not just legal, it’s paraded in front of you! They’re using your tax dollars to campaign! And they refused to stop on a judges order.

    This shit isn’t just legal, bud… it’s fucking celebrated. And will remain this way until America gets off their fat bloated asses, disengages from their sad little Facebook accounts and actually decides to do something about it.

    Because… abuse is always going to be the abusers fault… however, if one chooses to stick around after the 30th or 40th time, at a certain point, you’re just enabling it.

    Stop enabling this shit. You have the numbers.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss has been pushing reporters to use incendiary language and go on goose chases in attempt to attack Abdul El-Sayed and James Talarico.

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  • [–] 22 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

    If the consequences for all of this ends up being “they were voted out” I’m never fucking voting again.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 child)

    Look just don't worry about them, they were voted out so they can't do any more damage. There's a gentleman's agreement that we don't prosecute our opponents when in a position of power otherwise it makes it okay. Also it's not right to meddle in the affairs of the private sector. They can hire staff and direct them as they want. We really want to roll back all the work done by the last administration but lots of people made critical financial decisions based on the rules at the time so if we roll back anything those people will lose some money. Just sit back and be happy that the adults are back in charge ..

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  • [–] 5 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    Booo. But also who is watching network TV?

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  • [–] 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Most of the US over the age of 50.

    This also happens to be the largest voting bloc in the US. There is a lot of vested interest in controlling what this demographic sees.

    Not to say that they don't care about other age groups, hence why they also focus so much on the algorithm. But it's simpler to manipulate more voters by just saying the right things on the evening news.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago

    I’m shocked I tell you. Shocked!

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    [–] 110 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Thanks, I'll add this to the mountain of reasons I already hate her for being the fascist-supporting cancerous sellout scum she is.

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  • [–] 42 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

    We already had overly corporate and conservative friendly media, back in the 80s.

    But that wasn't enough for the cons; they had to make hate radio (thanks Ronnie Raygun! When you look around at how fucked this country is, so many things tie back to that grinning idiot) and Faux.

    Having Faux, hate radio, and sites like Breitbart and a billion hateful douchebros on the manosphere was not enough either, they had to cancel Colbert and take over CBS.

    Same for CNN, Paramount, Warner Brothers...

    Why, it's almost like the conservatives hate free speech and the actual marketplace of ideas and all the accusations of them being fascist were true....

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  • [–] 18 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    This is the Nazi strategy. The Nazis had full control of all media in Germany including doing cutting edge stuff like television even.

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  • [–] 30 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 child)

    Fuck her and Jan Crawford

    https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/oct/18/cbs-reporter-apologizes-abdul-el-sayed-post

    This is bullshit, a right wing punk "Tommy" goes on and asks Abdul to renounce the Muslim Brotherhood. Abdul does but goes deeper into the racism in that question and the constitution and standing up for it. Crawford deleted her post claiming that Abdul quietly denounced them and that you could barely hear it over his other stuff. Which if you WATCHED it was ALL about this point, fuck her "spinning".

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  • [–] 25 points 3 weeks ago

    The article frames her as an "anti woke crusader" but if you look at her actual life history its 5x5 straight down the middle zionism from an early age. Anti-woke is just the current most optimal mechanism for that, but she used to call herself a centrist too.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bari_Weiss

    Not anti woke-- pro zionist. Misdirection around her motivations is bad journalism and a betrayal. Get it right, TNR. Grow some effing balls to call out pro israel bias or get out of the media business.

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  • [–] 57 points 3 weeks ago (39 children)

    Doesn't she claim to be a centrist democrat?

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  • [–] 45 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

    UK-based Palestinian-Lebanese researcher Elia Ayoub has defined the term [reactionary centrists] as "centrists who often validate perceived concerns of the right and far right while blaming the left for the failures of centrist politics... those who are convinced that the way to do politics is to effectively treat the far right as ‘the people’, the default, the silent majority. They don’t view themselves as right wingers, but act as though right wing politics are always more popular with ‘the people.’"

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  • [–] 26 points 3 weeks ago

    100%. This explains why the Overton window of political thought in the West has moved so much to the right. In the UK, far right, black shirted masked agitators are referred to by the centrist Labour Party as people with ‘legitimate concerns’

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  • [–] [S] 91 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    Well Tim Pool also claims to be a centrist and Kim Jong Un also claims to be the leader of a Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

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  • [–] 31 points 3 weeks ago*

    The Nazis claimed to be socialists so the farmers and working class supported them, and when they took power the actual socialists were among the first to be slaughtered. Crazy how it just keeps happening that fascists act like they’re inclusive, progressive but in fact align with the bigots, corporate class and wealthy.

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  • [–] 24 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

    She says she supports neither party but is a “left of center liberal.” However she doesn’t seem to know what those words mean, and spends most of her time complaining about “wokeness” and how people are mean to Israel. If you’ve got 30 minutes, John Oliver did a thing last year when she took over, predicting this headline https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gieTx_P6INQ

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  • [–] 6 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

    Key word: Liberal.

    Liberal doesn't mean Leftist. If she's left-of-center for the Liberal bloc, she's in the same company with Schumer, Pelosi, or Jeffries. Right-of-center Libs are people like Fetterman.

    The Democratic Party these days is just the Republican party but with better messaging for marginalized humans.

    We need to collectively learn that Liberal does not mean Leftist.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    Is she even a liberal though? She's a puppet of fascists. I don't see how she's left of center by any measure.

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  • [–] 19 points 3 weeks ago (9 children)

    Anybody that calls themselves centrist or independent immediately has my skepticism. Article below has a quote from an independent vote in TN that made me laugh out loud. A maga independent.

    https://wpln.org/post/nashville-voter-turnout-15-times-higher-than-last-midterm-so-far/

    Independent voter … wasn’t excited about any of the candidates.

    “But being a believer in Christ, I’m going to vote … for representatives that represent my beliefs,” Allen said. “I’ve got to vote for people that are going to uphold our security … We have an administration in D.C. right now that’s actually looking after those interests.”

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  • [–] [S] 11 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

    Don't even get me started on the whole "independent" voter bullshit.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 weeks ago* (1 child)

    Do you think “independent” voter is synonymous with “swing” or “undecided” voters? Because they are most certainly not always. I’m registered independent but I have very principled leftist stances, but I also vote for harm reduction. I just prefer not to label myself with a political party. That doesn’t mean I vote for grifters like Jill Stein either, or that I have ever, or will ever vote for some pig-ass Republican fascist. The primary is the only chance I get to be excited about a candidate.

    We are in bad shape if we think we have to pick a team to be considered an important voice. I can root for a team every single time, that doesn’t mean I have to buy the jersey. If you think for me to root for your team I have to be wearing the same colors as you, you’re not a fan. You only care about being in a group. This is how we get a team that doesn’t care about winning anymore. I don’t just mean winning elections, I mean pushing forth an agenda that helps people, and makes the country better. Make people see we deserve to win.

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

    And I hope that you have open primaries where you're at then, otherwise I would consider you as a independent, which clearly you're not and neither are most "independents" when you're acting in a obviously partisan fashion as part of the problem. And if you are in a open primary state and voting in the primary, then hey, cool, keep on keeping on with the Independent label then but let's not pretend that you're not acting in a partisan fashion.

    When you live in a state where there's no open primary then identifying as a independent then registering to a party and participating in the primary is not treating politics as a sport or buying the jersey as you say. Registering and voting in the primary to get better candidates that deserve to win is that attempt at harm reduction and a much better form of harm reduction than just being a "independent" and hoping that you get a better candidate.

    My two cents on the whole Independent sitaution.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 weeks ago* (3 children)

    Here in Washington state, "Independent" has always been code for "Republican but that's not as popular in this state so covering it with Independent"

    Their policies are somehow almost always lockstep with the Republican party.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago

    Yep. We discovered a whole bunch of them right after W's fantastic flameout after the Eight Year Debacle.

    Weird how that works. I'm bracing for a whole lot more this time around. A bunch of "independents" that probably throw in with whatever bullshit the cons cook up for them as a lifeboat.

    Last time the lifeboats were the Teabagger Party.

    Burn the lifeboats.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 weeks ago

    I'm an independent voter. I just happen to basically always pick Democrats because I'm an informed voter and conservatives have been bat shit for a long ass time now, since well before I could vote.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    Doesn’t she claim to be a centrist democrat?

    So do male trump voters that are single after they keep getting rejected romantically when they reveal they're MAGA.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Many women don't want to involve themselves with men who reject the idea of their bodily autonomy, possibly even the right to vote, or have a bank account or a credit card or equal pay, or a no-fault divorce.

    The amount of ink spilled on that, even to the point of a moral panic ("women don't even want to date Republicans any more, how is that even fair?"), was and is just so crazy to me.

    The idea of Popper's Paradox of tolerance seems to have been so thoroughly rejected by the reactionary centrists gnashing their teeth and rending their garments over this that they seem to believe women should honor the Tone Police on their "civility" nonsense that they should literally sleep with their enemies.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

    this is why the right is mulling over a push to take womens votes away. Womens votes are a sleeping giant. They were merely somewhat angry but resigned/scared for a lot of their lives, but now they are really effing angry all the time, and not just at republicans. They are also now increasingly just as angry at idiot centrist dems as they are at maga, and its making women in general a risk to the status quo. So maybe the centrist leaders will fail to fight for them as well. Its kind of the centrists whole brand, as they continually lurch rightward year after year.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago (6 children)

    I'm pissed off people like her are giving liberals like me a bad name.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    How dare she tarnish the distinguished reputation of Satan's Maggoty Cum Fart?

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Lordy I've worked long and hard for my reputation.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago

    Yeah and if I was disingenuously trying to get my controversial right wing beliefs normalized in the party I'd call myself that too. Her main issues are zionism and transphobia, but she's generally extremely anti woke so you can assume there's plenty of other bigotry in there too.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 weeks ago

    The viewership should essentially drop to 0. Its the only message they will understand.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 weeks ago*

    I entered CBS and related companies into uBlock Origin so I don't accidentally click on them and give them click income.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 weeks ago

    wut???? no way! :O

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    On one hand, it's like fox news doing the same, and it's a private news org, and they can. On the other hand, it's further proof that the 4th estate has collapsed and eroded peoples trust in mainstream news outlets

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  • [–] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    On the other hand, rich people buying a respected media company primarily to change its journalistic slant is immensely destructive to democracy and there should be a means of preventing it

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  • [–] 6 points 3 weeks ago

    Journalistic integrity lmao.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

    She's a Netanyahu/Elison toady.

    If you don't know the reference, the dumb c*nt had accused someone of being an "Assad toady" on Joe Rogan's show, but didn't know what "toady" meant.

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  • The republican ads in NC have been classic, Willie Horton-esque, fear mongering. They really dug deep into their gutter playbook this year. c'est magnifique!

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