• ThatFuckingIdiot@sh.itjust.works
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    17 days ago

    The chilling effect will be slow, but with their visit to Mar-a-Lago and now this onscreen backtracking it’s already noticable. Negative coverage of will slow, get quieter, and ultimately fade from mainstream media as journalists increasingly fear repercussions.

    Shame on MSNBC for kissing the Tangerine Shit-Gibbon’s ring like this.

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      16 days ago

      Very unpopular opinion: it’s good that mainstream media is self censoring because this undermines their usefulness and authority, eventually allowing better media to gain more followers.

  • floofloof@lemmy.ca
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    17 days ago

    I do not write to scold anyone; I write because fear is infectious. Let it spread, and it will paralyze us all.

    The only antidote is courage. And that’s infectious, too.

    Well said.

  • AfricanExpansionist
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    17 days ago

    So when they told us Trump was the greatest threat to democracy, the call was actually coming from inside the house?