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[–] 119 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Trump is just the symptom, he is not the disease.

When he leaves office (by hook or by crook) the disease will remain; they have purchased replacements already.

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    We had them. USA used to bust up companies and revoke business licenses with regularity

    Unfortunately, we also had "campaign donations" and then we had "corporations are people" and "money is free speech" and after 60 years here we are.

    Our political system can't be fixed by laws at this point, those receiving all of those "donations" will not willingly legislate their wealth away. Look at them. Pelosi has never turned down a check in her life. McConnell got rich for over FORTY YEARS. and so on

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    [–] 44 points 8 months ago (21 children)

    That’s a long list of companies I’m not going to fuck with anymore. They can produce whatever they want, doesn’t mean we have to consume it.

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  • [–] 20 points 8 months ago (12 children)

    We are absolutely NOT obligated to consume ANY of that corporatist shit.

    Best thing I did was get rid of my TV when I cut the cable back in 1999.

    My current TV is a 50" budget "special needs" 4k Hisense I use for gaming. That's it.

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago (6 children)

    I mean, animal crossing and tetris exist.

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    Fox News watchers think CNN is the Clinton News Network

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    I'm 100% certain this account has been compromised. I've been in many heated discussions with this account but they've never gone this far over the edge

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    It won't be hard to avoid. Most of it is going to be lame propaganda that you wouldn't want to watch anyway.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    They're also going to go full-on into AI slop, which you likewise won't want to watch.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    The slop is INSANE!

    I've been "Do not recommend channel"-ing my youtube feed for the last few weeks., it went off the rails when my brother sent me a link to some "HFY" sci-fi short story.

    I had no idea those were all AI content and once I watched part of one.. holy cats, that was it.

    Say goodbye to my carefully curated home page.

    FUUUUCCK!

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  • [–] 15 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    So refreshing to see another person who realizes this didn't happen overnight and has been an incremental and bipartisan project.

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  • [–] [S] 8 points 8 months ago

    Unfortunately, the US education system teaches that everything is compartmentalized and not interconnected to other actions by government. A cut here, a clip there, before we know it, the entire tree has been taken down.

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  • [–] 26 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 child)

    We really dont talk enough about how Trump and the modern right was made possible by 90s politicians. Those dumbass "new democrats" who basically decided to be Reagan Lite and the Republicans who happily turned the wheel even further right in response.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    The American "Left" calls it "Lesser Evil" while screeching "Vote blue no matter who" on TikToks and Youtubes to a braindead audience.

    We've heard Trump "fighting" for peace during the election campaign, and now his circle of friends has free reign to murder and bomb at will. We've seen Bernie and Hillary denying the genocide in Gaza while the genocide was happening in front of our eyes. They are all grifters. They come out of their holes when their respective party needs promotion and donation money for another election that won't change shit.

    Meanwhile their MAGA and "vote blue no matter who" underlings slide further right without noticing...

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  • [–] 16 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.

    Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago

    On the plus side, half of those are effectively dead.

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  • [–] 19 points 8 months ago* (6 children)

    Pretty remarkable that they control that much and still can't meaningfully control culture.

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  • [–] 32 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

    Have you not noticed the global rise of fascism fueled by billionaire owned media companies controlling the narrative?

    Over here in Europe, it's extremely obvious. Everything a left-wing party does is scrutinized, every new right-wing scandal is barely worth mentioning.

    Lemmy is just a left-wing bubble. Lots of people watch TV and simply believe most things they see.

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  • [–] -5 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    And which of the listed companies did that come from?

    None of them. It came from fox news and right wing YouTube. And it's a minority that's shrinking and increasingly isolated from everyone else, who are all growing more and more disdainful of the right.

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    He openly stated he is in Europe. We have no Fox News here and YouTube is barely used by the right wing.

    I am so tired of American Lemmy users like you who cannot think outside of their crumbling nation.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago* (1 child)

    Murdoch owned media, then. Pardon me for focusing on America in the comments of a post by an American senator about an American billionaire family buying up mostly American media networks and largely failing to influence wider American culture with them.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    As I already pointed out, imagining you would try this comeback, you answered a specific comment, USian.

    And Murdoch owns none of the state-run or private channels that are the main source of news in all the major EU economies at the very least.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago

    NOT CARTOON NETWORK!!!!

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Bust that shit up. I can't believe we just let this sort of monopoly happen. Further proof that both parties are corporate-owned and always have been.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    Perhaps we should stop blindly believe what’s presented to you in the media, especially if it aligns with your views.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    And again, because he's a Zionist, Bernie leaves out the elephant in the room: Israel.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    I'm more glad for ditching cable than ever.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Arrr mateys, it be smooth sailing on these here high seas.

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    [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    Just in time for cable to become completely irrelevant.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Well do something about it other than post on social media. You are the politician in DC.

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

    Bills don't get the kind of popularity social media posts do.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    True. That would also mean a politician in DC would have to introduce something instead of just posting on social media, or maybe getting on tv for 12 seconds to say how had something is. Which they then proceed to open their bank account to check the balance.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    They also are often used as performance pieces. A politician introducing a bill that is doomed to failure is not helpful, nor does it accomplish anything.

    "Oh but it's important that they introduce them so that when congressmen vote no we have a record and-"

    Shut. The. Fuck. Up. If I have to hear the "important to have a record" argument again I'm gonna scream. It is not important to have a record because the record doesn't mean shit. We've had records going back decades, it doesn't sway people in any meaningful way and it's foolish to pretend it does.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    Cool, I've just stopped watching all of these because they mostly suck, seems to be an easy boycott

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon?!

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    Only one can hope a Trump descendant will realize how messed up their family has been to this generation and do the right thing by ridding the fortune.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (2 children)

    Oh no, not Cartoon Network -- where will I get my news?

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

    What do they have to do with news?

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    That's me, joking, because I didn't think it needed an /s?

    After all, they're controlling the news media and running propaganda to push us right. That said. I know hitting kids media is its own brand of evil, though we've yet to see what that looks like or if it'll even happen on those cartoon channels.

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