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Seriously blaming the tankies again? How bourgeoisie of you lol
If you want to blame something, blame the media. Both news and social media have completely sold out for profit. You CANNOT have a democracy if vast parts of your population is being misinformed. And this started with talk radio in rural areas many decades ago. And the democrats did nothing - because they are not left. Thanks for all the empty "Hope and Change" Obama!
So yeah, blame socialists all you want but their critique was valid.
You need a revolution or reformation. A massive change in who owns the means of communication to have a free press again that is not purely profit driven. Can you even imagine that? Is that something you would say? No. You'd rather blame and denigrate socialists and call them tankies. Look at the mass protests, it seems the libs aren't even calling for Trump to step down and demand new election lol. People would rather bow to unjust laws and simplistic principles than believe in democracy. Of course they are all being stage managed.
But this is just pathetic.
It wasn't pursuit of profit that killed media scrutiny. It's that so much of the media is owned by the very same Oligarchs that want the GOP to be in power.
Most of the mainstream media is owned by a few rich fucks, corporations who strive to make money. Corporations love fascism because that gives them more power and less regulations, so ofc they do everything in their power to enable fascism.
The biggest lie I was told in school was that the market is thriving in competition, it doesn't. Corporations always want monopolies, so competitors are usurped and driven out by any means necessary.
The people win when there is competition. Corporations win when the people have no choice but to hand over their money.
It's true US media has let us down... but defending Tankies? Nah, dawg, that's a negatory.
I'll say what I already said during the Brexit campaign - if a politician is caught on provably lying to the public, they should be fined, put in prison and prevented from making ANY public appearances or taking public offices for life.
This.
There has to be some accountability, especially for those is positions of power and authority. They should not be allowed to blatantly, and obviously lie their asses off, then claim "I don't recall...," or "I was mistaken...," or throw a subordinate under the bus for providing "Erroneous information."
You know what you did.