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Fox News Says Government Advising Good Thermostat Temperatures Is Akin to Communism (crooksandliars.com)

submitted 1 day ago by tonytins@pawb.social to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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Fox News and the entire GOP is so terrified of Mayor Zohran Mamdani's success that they are mocking him for asking New Yorkers to be careful with their thermostats during an extreme heat wave. This is the same advice Trump's Energy Department has suggested as well.

Not only do they look foolish, but they appear desperate in their efforts to smear and ridicule a popular political rival.

This morning on Fox and Friends, the three co-hosts were beside themselves that the mayor of New York City would ask residents to turn the thermostat higher to conserve energy so that there aren't any blackouts during this massive heat wave.

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[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 19 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Fox news logic is:

IF person who said is Mamdani THEN its communism

We can then extract from that communism isn't a set of actions and values to Fox News, its an adjective we apply to specific people to make them scary.

[–] bitwolf@sh.itjust.works 3 points 12 hours ago

Purposely conflating socialism and communism also reinforces this notion

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

But we also need to understand what they think is so scary about it: the government might give benefits to people that they hate.

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

As much as I agree that is the driving concern behind fox news as an institution imo its more them trying to piggyback off decades of anticommunist propaganda and direct it at people who threaten their many cash cows and corrupt bullshit because even modest reforms to incrrease market competition at this point threaten their extreme levels of corruption.

The level of thought you put into your reply is far more than they expect from most their viewers and probably most the hosts.