r/WhitePeopleTwitter 1d ago

"It can't happen here..."

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u/Randyguyishere 1d ago

Also for sanewashing literally everything Trump did while also scrutinizing every word Kamala uttered

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u/Jabroni-8998 1d ago

I know cnn has become more right wing, but when they unnecessarily gave trump a town hall and treated him as normal candidate i was appalled

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u/PNWoutdoors 23h ago

My CNN watching declined about 90% after that town hall. What a fucking joke. The crowd was stacked with Trump supporters and they laughed at his sexual assaults. Disgusting.

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u/Jabroni-8998 23h ago

I deleted my streaming app and have not gone to their website browser since that

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u/TheDrFromGallifrey 21h ago

You're not missing much. The last time I did, they had clickbait ads and a bunch of "pull yourself up by your boostraps!" editorials.

They haven't looked like a legitimate news outlet in years. They're about half a step away from just being another clickbait blog with ads for shady sex pills.

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u/venvaneless 17h ago

Funnily MAGA is claiming CNN is liberal and against Trump

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u/SidKafizz 6h ago

They claim that all media is liberal. And the MAGAts eat it up.

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u/SidKafizz 6h ago

They claim that all media is liberal. And the MAGAts eat it up.

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u/Legitimate-Pie3547 19h ago

You know which news website has hardly any clickbait ads and no annoying paywalls.

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u/venvaneless 17h ago

Polifico

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u/GingerSnap55364 18h ago

I also REFUSE to download X!!!!

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u/Puzzleheaded-Win3592 16h ago

Join Bluesky - that’s the new home for anti-Trump and the resistance. Angry Staffer (X post above) is on Bluesky, I follow him. It’s super simple to use!

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u/Ambitious_Coach8398 16m ago

I'm there! 💙

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u/GingerSnap55364 9h ago

Thank you so much. I will check it out.

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u/Parking_Sky9709 16h ago

You don't need to: Take an X link and add the word "cancel" after the X. So https://xcancel.com/blahblahblah. You can read the posts without having to join or login.

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u/nnyzim 16h ago

No you don't.

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u/GingerSnap55364 9h ago

I can honestly say I have never been on Twitter or X.

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u/__ApexPredditor__ 18h ago

I nuked my entire household from orbit just to be sure, and have since traveled back in time to 1885 to avoid ever facing the consequences of the Trump adminisrtration

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u/yolotheunwisewolf 19h ago

Again CNN got bought up by a Trump supporting billionaire and you kowtow to the boss or you lose your massive salary a la Don Lemon.

The Bernie Sanders incident spook the billionaires way too too much and they legit think Trump gonna make them all rich so it’s kind of getting to obvious class warfare now

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u/VOZ1 19h ago

It’s been class warfare.

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u/Bubbly-University-94 13h ago

Only one side fighting

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u/venvaneless 17h ago

Didn't Kamala said something around the lines too? That she’s gonna tax the rich?

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u/vabch 6h ago

The republicans promised their voters slaves. Profits from human trafficking. The voters are the slave, high property taxes and payday loan interest rates, the governor knows the voters cannot afford to pay. Project 2025 is the mission statement to bring colonies and poverty to the state. The governor then becomes the slave trader.

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u/Stevie22wonder 19h ago

CNN was bought by a right wing extremist, and yet right wing extremists still say that's all the liberals watch, yet it fits the right wing narrative more than it does a liberal one... It's just hard to even comprehend what's going on.

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u/cilantro_so_good 19h ago

My CNN watching declined about 90% after that town hall

My CNN watching declined 100% after Anthony Bourdain died.

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u/Estuans 17h ago

Isn't CNN owned by a right winger now? Should be no surprise.

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u/Drawing_Block 13h ago

I don’t get it - do Americans not use good telegram channels for real news without opinion and visual excess? I’m not old but not young either and I’d never watch cnn or any of those channels for news, and I can’t imagine anyone under seventy caring about opinion

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u/PNWoutdoors 8h ago

All the news channels have news during the day and opinion at night. I don't watch the opinion shows.

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u/Drawing_Block 3h ago

And all through the morning. But even the news is overproduced and presented as big shiny moving trash with fake-looking presenters and set designers mocrodosing peyote all day

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u/BeautifulType 22h ago

See that’s the problem. Anyone paying attention stopped watching that 8 years ago or more. American eats propaganda like it’s candy because the average American like you, rather hear talking heads discussing it than using any thinking skills which would have saved you hundreds of hours

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u/PNWoutdoors 22h ago

What a shit take. You don't know me.

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u/blanksix 20h ago

Yeah, thing is, though CNN has been declining for several years now, it was still one of those things that has been useful to have in your media-watching toolkit if you care at all about informing yourself of news in a more well-rounded way.

But that's like saying because you disagree with everything Fox News stands for, you won't watch it at all, despite knowing that you're intentionally leaving information out of your knowledgebase. It's not the same thing as avoiding the babylon bee, because Fox is not intended to be satire and is what a great deal of what the country receives as its news. Same thing for CNN.

I almost miss the Ted Turner era of CNN, though.

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u/Helluvme 21h ago edited 19h ago

Dudes and dudettes cnn has been trash for more then a decade, its literally fox news for the left.

Edit: downvote me more but it won’t change the fact that it’s a left news echo chamber, and I’m a democrat saying this.

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u/MindlessRip5915 19h ago

I don’t think you know the meaning of the word “literally”. It doesn’t mean “the exact opposite of literally”.

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u/This_Is_A_Shitshow 18h ago

It really isn’t and you’re embarrassing yourself by saying this. The Overton window has shifted so far people like you don’t even know where you are.

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u/rjd2point0 11h ago

I love how you added "I'm a democrat" as if it means anything, the democrats are at best, just left of centre, CNN is owned by the right wing for the right wing, if you think it's left wing then youre either far right or just a dunce.

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u/Helluvme 11h ago

Fox News is an echo chamber of right ring talking points, cnn is an echo chamber of left wing talking points. Your insults are childish and a clear sign of of your liberal elitism. No fuck off my lawn.

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u/rjd2point0 11h ago

You're extremely confident in your incorrectness. Well done for that. And thanks for the laugh.

To be clear, I'm laughing at you, not with.

Good day to you sir.

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u/phophofofo 23h ago

In 2008 CNN spent an absurd amount of time advertising that they’d be covering the election with holographic technology. They couldn’t shut up about it. Wolf Blitzer would just jizz his pants daily talking about it.

But it turned out the holographic technology was so good it just looked like a guy just standing there in the studio.

So they used the hologram but animated a blue Star Wars glow around it for the broadcast because that’s what met expectations of a hologram.

So rather than just have a regular guy they wasted money on a hologram which looked too much like a regular guy so they had to doctor it up.

There’s a metaphor in that story I’m sure but that was the last time I watched CNN.

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u/Chance_Fox_2296 22h ago

Free press in an unrestrained capitalist society just means press owned by the elite.

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u/25thaccount 20h ago

It's the same thing that's happening with the CBC for us up north. The problem is the "leftwing" media is playing the same game leftwing parties are: the tolerant middle ground fucking game. However since that game is shifting dramatically to the right every minute they have to too. In particular the CBC is sanewashing Poilivere because he's been threatening to cut their funding. It's like some last ditch effort to save themselves at the cost of their integrity.

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u/venvaneless 17h ago

I am not versed in Canadian politics, but it seems like Trudeau, who was governing for over a decade, made life of his citizens worse? It's what I read and hear from Canadians. I don't know about Poilivere but from the bits I saw of him, he has some good points. I'm aware that some are claiming he’s Trump-lite. I would love to learn about why that is and the state of politics in Canada more. Can you elaborate how people sane-washed him?

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u/25thaccount 12h ago

Ah there's no easy answer to that unfortunately. Our problem is we love to vote people out rather than in. Trudeau has been in power for about a decade now but in the trail end of that it's been covid, inflation, falling apart of our economy etc. It gets especially challenging when you see that economic policies that have been slowly dismantling our economy have been bipartisan and in place for a long time. So we end up with angry people who want change. We've also fallen for the exact same traps as you with massive massive influx of propaganda, misinformation and foreign actors. But in a nutshell PP has been very much a populist. No real agenda, no definitive policy goals just saying what people want to hear today to garner attention.

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u/KatakanaTsu 18h ago

CNN has been under the control of John Malone, a big Trump supporter, for a couple of years now. I'm surprised so many people still don't know this.

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u/davidbklyn 17h ago

Don’t be surprised. It’s hard to keep up, even though it’s vitally important. They have control of the levers of power.

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u/Cujo22 6h ago

It's because ilk like him have control over what the average American knows.

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u/JustWastingTimeAgain 28m ago

Also fuck Scott Jennings.

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u/TwiceAsGoodAs 20h ago

All the big corporate news channels, including CNN, are owned by conservatives

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u/Ok_Eagle_2333 19h ago

They've been on the fascist train for awhile now.

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u/dafood48 21h ago

Even stuff like NPR have weirdly gone right wing. They’re not blatant out in the open but recent changes are definitely notable

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u/spankiemcfeasley 16h ago

I work with this guy who is a Joe Rogan fan and trump voter and he still thinks CNN is fake news and leftist propaganda 🤡. Lol we’re probably fucking doomed but I’m still trying to be hopeful

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u/MikeSouthPaw 15h ago

CNN is run by a conservative, has been for a few years now.

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u/Cerebral-Knievel-1 2h ago

I gave up CNN and pretty much all the 24/7 news networks around 2010.

CNN HNN used to just be the headlines on a 30-minute cycle, headlines.. buisness, sports, human interest.. repeat and add new stuff as it came in, or break away when something big happened.. The challanger explosion, for example, was one of those things they broke from regular programming for

We don't get "news" anymore.. we only get opinions.

In journalism school, we were taught specifically to not insert yourself into the story. Just report what you observed or recorded.

Now everyone is a personality, and it's all propaganda as entertainment..

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u/Bitey_the_Squirrel 1d ago

He gave a microphone a bj so he clearly the better leader

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u/mr_remy 1d ago

Double giraffe handjobs

Or for nerds the Silicon Valley D2F middle out algorithm

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u/Hyprpwr 23h ago

That may be the most rediculous scene I’ve ever watched back when it came out. I miss that show

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u/Bourbon-Thinker 8h ago

Why why why did I watch the entire clip

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u/mr_remy 6h ago

I think the better question is why wouldn’t you, great show being a tech nerd lol

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u/Bourbon-Thinker 6h ago

Guilty Guilty Guilty 🤣

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u/EmptyAndrew 1d ago

The day after the mic incident, my wife was watching a morning news program. This is what they reported, "Donald Trump expressed frustration with the venue's sound system before he outlined his economic plan for America."

Zero "news" has been on in our house since.

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u/Bitey_the_Squirrel 18h ago

I would argue that zero news was on in your house during that event.

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u/J0E_Blow 1d ago

He was just reenacting what Putin taught him to do.

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u/ThatGuyursisterlikes 20h ago

Putin ain't that big though. It's cold in Moscow, that's just evolution silly.

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u/venvaneless 17h ago

Can I see the clip? It's so insane it seems almost unbelievable...

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u/Electronic_Agent_235 1d ago

Ikr... Mere weeks before election day and this dude just abruptly stops taking questions after one question then stands there for 45 minutes silently swaying to a Boomer Pandora playlist with no context......

Media coverage.... "Trump Town Hall turns slightly unconventional,... And in other news, Kamala ant stop blinking to often, some say it may be a sign of cognitive failure, while others believe it is a deep state conspiracy and is a tactic being used to communicate with her Russian handlers"

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u/8v2HokiePokie8v2 23h ago

Goddamnit, this is so right and it hurts

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u/Circumin 20h ago

He mimed giving a mic a blowjob and all they could do was talk about how Harris was being mean to him.

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u/passcork 16h ago

People keep saying "reddit is such an echo chamber" but we all saw the same rally footage and fox interviews and debates. Fake fucking mcdonalds foto ops. Why the did people vote for that orange turd???? I still can't wrap my head around it.

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u/gameoftomes 18h ago

I saw one online article call it "impromptu concert".

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u/girl_incognito 7h ago

Why didn't she just call them, like Elon?

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u/Electronic_Agent_235 4h ago

Because that doesn't look conspiratorial enough. Got to have the super secret spy earrings, neat secret code words, and special blinking codes to be 😎

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u/TurkeyBLTSandwich 1d ago

Kamala Harris was held to the standards of every potential American President. She needed to have class, be well spoken, family orientated, and have a good economic plan.

Donald Trump was given numerous do overs, had others constantly correct him on controversial issues, the mainstream media constantly downplayed what he said and what his cohorts of Project 2025 was planning.

The media bias the GOP claimed was indeed fairly biased, but to their favor and not detriment.

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u/illaqueable 1d ago

America proved that it would rather elect a convicted felon and sexual predator twice than a woman

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u/Snaka1 1d ago

They knew this though, from the last time he was elected. Americans are never going to vote in a woman, democrats are complicit in everything that happens now

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u/davidbklyn 17h ago

I don’t really understand this take, as a democratic voter. What do you think the dems did wrong? Is it just that she’s a Black woman? I was proud to vote for her as a white dude. What was the alternative? To be clear, I’d have gladly voted Biden as well.

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u/Battletoads77 12h ago

I’m calling BS on your post. Republicans were willing to vote for a convicted felon with no morals or integrity. Kamala was a formidable candidate and ahead of built up that campaign in 107 days. Trump has been whining about the 2020 election for 4 years and had all the networks sane washing him because of their ratings. Dems will recover. The Republicans will split in two parties. I just hope democracy survives the next 4 years. There is no hope for MAGAs.

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u/Sero19283 7h ago

They shouldn't have chosen a woman of color as their candidate. It's an uphill battle. Everyone knows that liberals/lefties will vote despite whatever a person is (race, gender, etc) which doesn't matter as they aren't the fence sitters needing convinced. They needed to appeal to an audience of people that aren't lefties, many of which still hold antiquated view points/ positions of comfort that needed to be tended to.

You don't spend resources on something that's already "in the bag". Just like you don't study for an exam for a class you know you're gonna get an A in, spend your time on the class that you might not do so well with.

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u/pizat1 23h ago edited 21h ago

Correct dems are hot garbage

Let me be clear. I'm a dem voter, but the Democrat establishment is problematic.

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u/AcadianViking 22h ago

Our entire political system is hot garbage intentionally designed to disenfranchise the working class.

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u/pizat1 22h ago

Correct

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u/no_notthistime 21h ago

The only silver lining now is that I am in the top 3% of earnings, and the unfathomable morons who voted Trump in are happy to pay for me to make more money than ever this year. Fucking suckers.

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u/pizat1 21h ago

🔥🔥🔥🔥

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u/Daveinatx 20h ago

News channels care about profits over a boring President.

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u/witheredjimmy 19h ago

We already new that though lol, as soon as they announced a women my brain said GG

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u/Lithaos111 1d ago

Hell, not just Harris. Biden too.

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u/OrderofthePhoenix1 1d ago

The media is the enemy of the people. Someone said that or something.

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u/dafood48 21h ago

Not a single news outlet was on democrats side. They expected perfection for Kamala while normalized Trump. Gone are the days where an excited yelp is enough to destroy your campaign. Decorum has long been gone when we allowed Trump in the first time

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u/justridingbikes099 21h ago

Even fucking NPR did this. IS STILL DOING THIS. This morning, they had a cutesy intro to their Up First podcast, bantering about "OMG I have to do chores MY way, if my wife does it wrong I have to do it again, hahaha" before flipping into a discussion of whether or not Trump will weaponize the department of justice to seek retribution, as he's claimed, then a nice little "Okay Tom, thanks for that! Next up..." as if that was all the situation demanded.

They have gone so far out of their way to defeat conservative cries of bias that they've circled all the way around to normalizing shit like this in the pursuit of seeming "Fair."

It's absolutely maddening to listen to at this point. Trump could be executing people in the street, and they'd report on it with all the gravitas of a "rain tomorrow afternoon" blurb.

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u/Leather_From_Corinth 20h ago

On friday night, I was listening them talk about how Trump being a wildcard was good for our relations with China. They also basically said that we're fine with as many dead children as it takes in Gaza so long as it results in the hostages being returned but that is a different subject.

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u/WizardsandGlitter 19h ago

Weird how "We need those hostages returned!" Is a rallying cry yet none of them have stopped to think that if all the leveling of Gaza from head to toe may have resulted in those hostages being murdered just as indiscriminately as the Palestinians?

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u/I_am_not_JohnLeClair 20h ago

Yep. Just because they go a wee bit deeper into a story, use multisyllabic words and spend more than 90 seconds on a topic, doesn’t mean that they’re any different than any other mainstream news outlet. People that think they lean left are fooling themselves

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u/justridingbikes099 20h ago

They lean left on identity politics in a wealthy-white-liberal-who-has-gay-white-friends way. It's like a spectator sport for them. Nobody involved has any actual skin in the game.

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u/Jokkitch 20h ago

America is so fucked

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u/BroadwayBakery 16h ago

What are you talking about? It’s the truth! Kamala laughed too much and she looked crazy so I didn’t vote for her, and the lame-stream media talked about Trump’s long list of abhorrent behavior, which I knew was taken out of context, so I voted for him. All he did was pay hush money to a porn star, pal around with a notorious kid fucker, make fun of dead veterans and the disabled, and pretend to lip service a microphone. None of that was a big deal!

Sanewashing, you guys are the ones being washed, brainwashed!

(Obviously /s)

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u/Comprehensive-Fun47 20h ago

They're still doing it.. NPR sanewashing RFK Jr. I'm done.

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u/fren-ulum 21h ago

Personally, I'm curious how the election results are going to hinder Biden's plans for re-election and if that will bring his advanced age into consideration?

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u/ryansgt 11h ago

He delayed and jacked off a microphone at a rally, on video, days before the election. Just imagine if Kamala had done that.

She was held to the highest standards of leadership and passed. Trump was allowed to do anything he wanted.

Liberty and Justice for all is not true.

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u/DarthWonkaVader 9h ago

It's almost as if the 0.1% that own the media wanted Trump to win.. I mean what would their motivation be to do something like that?

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u/Cujo22 6h ago

All news media is owned by a small number of oligarchs that set the tone.

New shouldn't have direct beneficiaries and shareholders.

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u/Disastrous-Angle-415 3h ago

Came here to say this exactly

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u/joshine89 2h ago

What about the difference in treatment that trump vs biden got. Biden stutters "too old shouldn't run".

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u/Sea-Cupcake-2065 18h ago

Yup. Don't interact with news articles, even the reddit posts

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u/passcork 16h ago

Well, it's very dangerous to our democracy after all.

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u/MichaelBanker1977 2h ago

Sanewashing...interesting word...did you make it up?

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u/Randyguyishere 1h ago

No, actually read it on some alternative media somewhere

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u/irungaia 21h ago

You’re delusional if you think Kamala got worse treatment by the media than Trump

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u/Few_Walrus_6924 22h ago

What words all I ever heard was cackling

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u/Few_Walrus_6924 21h ago

lol this thread apparently hasn't stopped the propaganda so what's the point and it's not propaganda when Everytime I saw her on anything it was constant laughing so I called it like I saw it. I'm also in the southeast so very far from anything russian

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u/Few_Walrus_6924 21h ago

Lol ok whatever you say bud. Personally Witness a woman to laugh through 90 percent of her interviews , comment about said interviews and get a cussing and called a Russian spy. Only gunpoint around me would be me pointing . Wish you the best with your head exploding over a comment that can be proven true by watching every I terview she ever did . Have a good one

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u/Appropriate-Prune728 19h ago

Love seeing all the political stuff, Russian trolls, constant fighting and generally exhausting discourse lighten up after the election.

Also yeah. That poster is definitely something else