Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy. (Politics General)

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Our own media’s got a problem with “sane-washing” Trump to make him not look…well, like what he really is.
It’s not surprising how much reach he has when all mainstream news is playing gatekeeper with information about him. It’s why I hesitate to call his supporters lost causes when they literally don’t and can’t know better. Not to say there aren’t many of them that prove to be that by being just as crazy, but I digress.
Edit:
See this is what I mean. Many Trump supporters are just fed a diet of Fox News. Like my dad. It’s not surprising he thinks Trump is good when he’s being lied to 24/7.
But this goes beyond just “I watch cable news” and is just straight up klan shit.
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No, it’s specific to Donald Trump. There hasn’t ever been a personality, at least in politics, that abuses fake tanning spray as much as Trump, so his “skin colour” gets highlighted a lot. And he’s a turd.
This, for example, is not an edited or colour-corrected photo
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New York Times ran a story about Harris campaigners working to get white women voting for her.
Nicole Stone experienced this firsthand as she knocked on doors in Trouper, Pa. After leaving a townhouse where a man had declined to make his wife available, she heard him yell out: “My wife is going to vote for whoever her husband says she’s going to vote for.”
I’d been seeing on Bluesky the post-it notes that female volunteers are leaving in women’s restrooms. These notes reassure the reader that although whether you have voted is public, who you voted for is not, and nobody will find out without you telling them.
One volunteer responded to the above article with:
I want to echo this. When phonebanking, each time my call list included a woman but a man picked up the phone, they aggressively informed me “this is a REPUBLICAN household,” refusing to let me speak with the woman on the call list. I wondered if it was a coincidence and am now certain it was not.
To think some people have the gall to say men are the ones being oppressed in Current Year.
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You know, I sometimes wonder if he suffers from a serious skin health condition based on just seeing this picture of him. I’m not a doctor, but seeing this image just makes it concerning; although he isn’t known to have a healthy lifestyle, much less eating a lot of fast food which he is known for, including diet soda.
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MAGA is now running around with garbage bag costumes for Halloween. Don jr even taped a bunch of trash to himself while wearing a Trump flag as a cape. So yeah, he was wearing trash.
I mean, good on the weirdos for being honest about what they are I guess.
marinus18

Our own media’s got a problem with “sane-washing” Trump to make him not look…well, like what he really is.
It’s not surprising how much reach he has when all mainstream news is playing gatekeeper with information about him. It’s why I hesitate to call his supporters lost causes when they literally don’t and can’t know better. Not to say there aren’t many of them that prove to be that by being just as crazy, but I digress.
It’s one of the problems of corporate media. They want to maintain as large an audiance as possible so their main concern is not to alienate anyone. They want to maintain credibility for both democrats and republicans so they have to have a rough balance of positive and negative coverage of both. There aren’t large commercial left leaning channels but there are large commercial right leaning ones.
In centrist corporate media neutrality matters more than truth.
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@Meanlucario
Of course they will. But their incentives are slightly different so combined with corporate media and ‘independent’ media they can paint a more accurate picture. Freedom of the press is very important but in a capitalist system you should also have media outside direct capitalist influence.
That being said looking at the BBC and NOS the idea that it’s used for propaganda doesn’t seem all that major. If you have laws about freedom of the press then the government’s ability to dictate public news is limited. The government might pay for public news but they don’t dictate what it says. Of course in reality it is more complicated and public news is not likely to attack the government directly but that’s what corporate news is for.
Our world is a capitalist republic so we should have news from each. The capitalists and the republic.
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Russia seems to have reactivated its bioweapons program: https://archive.ph/fAemI
The Russian regime is very dangerous and paranoid, and now it seems to be redoing all of the Soviet Union’s past mistakes. I can only hope they end up the same way the Soviet Union did. The US and Europe remain deeply concerned, as always.
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Um, Russia already is at the point where it was when the Soviet-Union ended which is a military dictatorship supported by a shadowy oligarchy. It’s what modern Russia became after the fall of the USSR and it’s never been anything else.
I don’t see how a military coup like the one Yeltsin did will make things any better at this point.
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MAGA has been trying to claim the comment was “out of context” saying he was talking about Cheney’s lack of military service and how she would send troops to endless wars.
Which is weird because that’s exactly who Trump is.
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