cross-posted from: https://fedia.io/m/[email protected]/t/2006492
Fox News appears to have removed their DOW ticker in a pattern for the company, choosing to block out the steep drop in DOW points after Trump’s tariff announcement
Somehow this is the most dystopian thing I’ve witnessed recently. Just straight up disappearing reality once it doesn’t fit the regime’s narrative. Chilling.
The US is what Americans think China is.
… and they’re not wrong. Now we have two authoritarian world powers, yay!
Trump and Xi both want unlimited terms. Xi got his and Trump is jealous.
War is peace. Truth is lies.
I feel like the original quote applies here pretty well, no real need to change it…
War is peace
Freedom is slavery
Ignorance is strength
Should be updated to include “empathy is sin”.
Empathy is weakness
Racism is virtue.
Let’s add: Poverty is wealth
I feel like, as a non American, ignorance is bliss.
But I’d realize all of this is insane shit even if I didn’t hear about it daily.
It is so much easier and comfortable to just close your eyes to the troubles of the world, but it also means that you won’t see what’s coming and will not be able to act. So this sort of sensory overload with negativity and craziness is kinda the point. The more people are tuned out and overwhelmed, the easier it is for assholes like Musk and Trump to push their agenda through. It’s also talked about in 1984, where the quote comes from
Well feigned ignorance can totally be a strength, but actual ignorance is only worth your luck or others’ protective instinct
Gave a book club with elderly. Chose 1984 for January.
A woman literally said after we had discussed this that the salute wasn’t the salute.
The Jewish woman next to hers fingernails were about to grip through her own wrist.
Shocking to see the dissonance in real time like this and then.
I think the other famous one applies even more:
The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.
—George Orwell, 1984.
Next, 1984 will be banned in US
The worst part? There is no need for it. 1984 can only happen in places other than america, after all. America is a shining beacon of beautiful democracy that is #1 in everything, ever. Anyone saying otherwise is just a whiny bitch social communist.
The maga idiots are not in their position from logic, but from following the cult, and the cult is the current president.
and now Wealth is Poverty
Beans are eggs
France is bacon
Knowledge is power
“If we stopped testing we wouldn’t have so many positive cases”
This is hardly new.
Sorry not related, but why do all conservative American news women have this over done make up and fake looking hair? It really moves them into creepy territory. Like sort of evil clown creepy.
Many conservative American women strive to look like this, not just the news anchors. Among the women in orbit around Trump there are several with this same look. It’s all very artificial, with lots of makeup and plastic surgery, but apparently it’s an ideal in Republican circles.
The other day we were watching a clip of that Goldigging Whore Press Secretary walking up to deliver an outdoor press conference, and she had two blonde clones trailing behind her. We all commented on how weird it was.
thats her replacement, incase trump wants to oust her.
Just the way God made them.
This is actually a very big thing in conservative areas. It’s like they all want to be that princess that they were told they were at 3 years old.
They are trained at an early age to dress up at beauty pageants. Where guys like trump “grab em by the pussy”
And without the stock ticker they do look fatter, don’t you think?
Some have suggested it’s because of puritanical upbringing. Girls learn how to do their makeup and the like by experimenting etc, but many puritanical families may act like a teen doing so is “dressing like a whore” or something. So they grow up it having the experience,and don’t know what to do so just imitate what they think they should look like instead of finding the look that looks good on them.
This is such classic Fox bullshit. I’m reminded of FOX News changing the Party ID of Republicans they don’t like to “Democrat”.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mistake-fox-news-identifi_n_85656
it seems to me like the people should have no problem coordinating an attack on fox news that would take them off the air. i feel like that’s an easy one to do that doesn’t require a leader, just anonymously post maps detailing the infrastructure of their studios, where security guards are posted, any known passkeys, etc.
If this hypothetical were to come to pass I personally wouldn’t call it an attack, so much as a day of love where nothing was done wrong.
no offense, but can we please stop with the goose and gander comparisons? it just feels like trying to slam dunk for internet points. we all know they’re hypocrites. let’s just focus on solutions rather than finger pointing.
that would take them off the air.
Not sure how hard that would be. Their disaster recovery plan would have to be pretty bad not to be able to switch to another geographic location in a hot minute. And if they’re still in Rockefeller, you’d probably have a hell getting past the elevators without them shutting it down. They probably have backup satellite uplink so you can’t just knock out their fiber.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for another Max Headroom, but I think we need to shut them down with fairness in broadcasting laws, or, gallows, just sayin’
well good luck with the regulations part. i’ve lost all faith in lawful good actions.
Ostrich mode, activate!
Trust in the Trump! His Orange Grace, for He is playing 47-D chess!
If his supporters believe in chem-trails, vaccines causing autism and maybe a flat earth then I’m not going to waste any energy looking to them for any sign of self awareness and to reconsider their choices.
Yeah. I see some people trying to talk down to those of us who just call them fucking idiots. “Well, is that any way to get them to see your point of view? How does that help any?”
My brother in Christ, we’ve tried doing that for the LAST 8 YEARS. If they haven’t gotten any more wise since then, and in fact doubled down for round 2, what the fuck else can you do but call the dumbass duck a dumbass duck?!
A British owned tabloid posing as an Irish paper reporting on American news. There aren’t many worse sources.
Citing fox “news” as trusted media source ought to disqualify you from voting. Prove me wrong.
My local fox news is actually pretty good at reporting basic local news, it is the national programs that are foaming at the mouth propaganda.
I feel like it’s a very Fox News-y suggestion to ban select groups of people from voting.
I agree to a certain extent, but what’s become clear to me as I get older, is that democracy represents the will of the electorate, and when your democracy is setup to give the dumbest 50% of the electorate the most representation, shit falls apart.
If we want a progressive, effective, and beneficial government, then we need an electorate that will vote for it. For a while, we’ve tried providing education and mostly free information access to the populace so they can make informed decisions, but it’s evident that the voters don’t care for that. The only other way to get past that information apathy is to eliminate their representation.
I don’t expect this to be a morally defensible position, but more “if we want to survive as a nation, we need to do something about people living in an alternate reality formed by regressive hate propaganda”.
Sounds more like we need to more heavily regulate sources of misinformation, rather than deeming some people too stupid to participate in the system.
The same Constitution that upholds the right to vote is the same one that protects freedom of speech. I consider both options equally damaging to the underlying fabric of this country. The point being that republicans are already eroding the foundations of this nation to poison our water and air, shift wealth from the poorest people up to the richest, steal the money we’ve put aside for social services, and implement a Christian theocracy. It’s happening, so we might as well throw out the constitution as well, but use that gap to build a society where people are protected from discrimination because of immutable characteristics, and that builds for the long-term health, wellness and safety of it’s citizens.
Preventing corporate entities from presenting falsehoods as facts is not a meaningful infringement on free speech.
If it is, then it’s clear that truly free, totally unrestricted in any way speech isn’t a good idea.
That wouldn’t stop the market crashing.
If a stock falls in the market when there’s no ticker watching, does it go red?
*and your fan base doesn’t have tangible investments
Well, if you don’t look at the problem, it goes away. It’s not rocket surgery!
“If we don’t record COVID numbers, there will be nothing to report!”
“If we don’t track the number of people dying by gun violence, there will be nothing to report.”
“If we don’t count the number of people dying in our overheated prisons, there will be nothing to report.”
We Europeans are sooo sory for taking advantage of you.
Can you now fuck off and leave?
