• 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it
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    1 month ago

    If you go back, I guess they haven’t had a conservative on in years or something, somebody said.

    So, he basically read some ragebait on Facebook

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      Just watch how 51% of voters will vote for him again, because the opposing party’s candidate isn’t a saint actually and might have some flaws.
      Hahaha, who am I kidding, there will be no next free election, nobody will need to vote anymore.

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        yeah, after reading your comment, I realize I meant something slightly different than I wrote. So to clarify… a lot of people are on-board with the “policies” he’s pursuing since the policy is always some variation of “crime with impunity” for people on his side. There are hordes of people who want to get in on that. Nevertheless, they don’t like him, don’t trust him, don’t believe anything he says; and they wouldn’t hesitate to stick a knife in his back if a better option emerged.

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      Not everybody, apparently a lot of americans are ok with all this.
      I mean, if they weren’t ok with it there’d be a visibly decent amount of push back about it all. Yet all they’ve done is post memes, and went out and had a walkabout with some signs a few months ago.

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        That’s because a lot of this hasn’t really started to affect them yet. Sure he has his merry band of loyal supporters but there’s also a lot of people who are just not really very politically aware and aren’t paying attention.

        Think about your grandparents or if you’re old enough just your parents. They sit around watching fox news and seeing posts on Facebook and they assume that those are viable sources of trustworthy information. Which obviously they are not.

        At some point in the next few years they will start to wonder why the shelves are always empty now, and why are the products they do have so expensive? Also why are so many businesses closing, I was told the economy was doing well.

        Getting the media to lie for you only works for so long.

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          Getting the media to lie for you only works for so long.

          For Hitler, it worked until the Russians were literally on top of him and he was putting a bullet in his own head. And this was after years of his cities being bombed into rubble.

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          they will start to wonder why the shelves are always empty now, and why are the products they do have so expensive?

          And fox/oan/whatever will convince them it’s because of the illegal trans immigrants and they’ll vote for whichever fascist shows up after Trump dies.

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          The people saying that shit want us to just shoot everyone while they don’t have to face any of the potential consequences and are safe.

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            “First they came for the Communists, and I did not speak out because I was not a Communist. Then they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak for me.”

            Martin Niemöller, a German Lutheran pastor and anti-Nazi dissident. 1945 after being imprisoned for opposing Hitler.

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    Imagine if he didn’t do these interviews on his plane. Might be a less uncohesive interview if he didn’t.

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    Classic government censorship. Just the threat qualifies. Kimmel and Colbert should be using their networks and the Trump Administration for censorship and violating their 1st Amendment Rights.

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      They probably don’t have standing to sue. The First Amendment is a restriction on government and not the networks, and the Trump administration’s assault on the First Amendment is against the networks and not the hosts.

      The fascists are being more careful about who and how they target their enemies than people realize.

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        It has come out that most of the execs at ABC were against the Kimmel “suspension,” but the few top decision makers were concerned about Trump pulling their broadcast license.

        So this was a decision to censor based on pressure from the administration. That is classic censorship, and a violation of the 1st Amendment.

        It was the same for Colbert. If CBS wanted government approval for their sale, they had to shut him up. Again, classic censorship.

        Each of those hosts makes millions each year, and probably had another 20 years on their careers. Then there are all the crew members out of work. It would be a great class action lawsuit.

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    If donny taught us anything it’s that we can insult whoever we want - Jimmy only reacted to and followed donny’s own playbook.

    donny should be flattered.