I definitely wouldn’t say that reporting on the lead candidate being a jackass is criminal, but you do you.
I'd say giving equal airtime to an insurrectionist fraudster and rapist is pretty borderline. The only time the word Trump is mentioned it should be prefaced by "Proven Criminal and Liar"
edit: here's a non-paywalled version it's a pretty thin article from 3 years ago when Cheeto was still pres. If anything it proves my point, they're still covering all the bullshit he says 3 years later. Stop giving him a platform so his sycophants have to seek out what he says.
I suppose, though I'm not sure a lone article in Rolling Stone amounts to much.
I don't hear the media call him on his lies at all, or when they do it's in the same breath as reporting some other lie. It's a huge fucking problem. The media very much plays the game because it gets clicks and views and that = money. Election season has already started, they love it.
That they're still giving him airtime, reporting on his various trials and statements daily. Voicing his responses to the rulings and accusations, amplifying his messaging. It's criminal in itself, the rabid rightwing have one thing right, the "mainstream media" is not our friend. They're corporate owned and are mostly mouthpieces for those corporations.
No need to keep track, just say whatever you want to say in the moment. Your followers don't care and the media certainly isn't going to call you on it.
The left in the U.S. is made up of dilettantes and academics unwilling to put in the work required for real change. They only know handwringing and criticism.
There'll be protests that are swiftly crushed and the vast majority of Americans will tune out and go back to voting for The Next Top Whatever and waiting for the next big movie.
How to tell everyone you live a sheltered, privileged life protected from starvation and strife. If you imagine a "global reset" as some nice, equality-bringing thing you're incredibly naive.
They've got a little pipeline with The Heritage Foundation and the Federalist Society and all the other little billionaire-funded think tanks designed to fuck over the common person and funnel ever more money to the very richest of society while the world burns.
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Have you been around lemmy much? That wouldn't be the wildest take I've seen.