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      Conservatives keep talking about media manipulation from the left while this kind of thing goes on.

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      Any time (so, all the time) conservatives talk about the dangers of misinformation from left wing media, this clip should be played.

      Haven’t even clicked the link yet, I know what clip it is…

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    If only we enforced anti-trust laws…

    Back in the day wed split up monopolies with those laws.

    DOJ went after Sinclair like 5 years ago, but it was about price fixing with other stations because they were colluding to raise ad prices for billion dollar corporations.

    And they just had to pay a settlement.

    It’s sucks the government acts to defend corporations but not people.

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      Until 1997 there were fairly strict limits over who could own what broadcast stations in given markets. Then the neoliberal bug bit everyone’s ass in Congress and they passed a bipartisan bill that would let people own as many radio stations as they wanted, and way more TV stations than they should.

      Suddenly every radio station became the same, and now most local news is owned by one batshit corporation.

      Maybe trusting companies is a bad fucking idea.

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    I especially love how these stations, along with Fox will make these assertions of how, “lights are on but no one’s home”, then follow it immediately with how he’s the mastermind behind political prosecutions, controlling the DoJ and executing a coordinated anti-republican regime.

    Schrödinger’s Biden

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      Fascist societies rhetorically cast their enemies as “at the same time too strong and too weak”. On the one hand, fascists play up the power of certain disfavored elites to encourage in their followers a sense of grievance and humiliation. On the other hand, fascist leaders point to the decadence of those elites as proof of their ultimate feebleness in the face of an overwhelming popular will.

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    Iirc, either the Colbert report or John Oliver did a story on Sinclair owned stations and how anchors were forced to read prepared stories that were obviously right leaning propaganda.

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    I noticed an uptick in anti Biden articles across my feeds today. I thought maybe there was an event, but just before I clicked a link, I saw it was Fox News and noped the fuck out. Now I’ve at least got confirmation it’s been a targeted attack.

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    I’m not voting Trump, but I wish there was a cap of 65 to run for office.

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    At what point do these kind of lies, SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED TO CURTAIL HIS FURTHER EMPLOYMENT begin to count as illegal?

    When does it meet the New York Times v. Sullivan requirement for “actual malice”?

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    Sinclair is a piece of shit org.

    That said, is there really any doubt that Biden is not very sharp? Countless videos of him trailing off in the middle of a sentence or whatever. Trump too, both are messes mentally and should retire imo.

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      Both are bumbling masses but on e of them isn’t talking about murdering his political opponents, one doesn’t have a plan laid out to take the us to become a theological dictatorship

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        I didn’t ask what the lesser of two evils is. I’m not blind.

        My point is, saying that Biden is losing it mentally isn’t exactly a hot take.