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By Professor Marc Murphy of the Brandeis School of Law

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[–] SSNs4evr@leminal.space 1 points 2 days ago

Resubmit the cartoon?

[–] wabafee@lemmy.world 21 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Cheetos can't melt steel beams.

[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Cheetos shit themselves

[–] jenny_ball@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] General_Effort@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

He did not point the finger at any particular paper. At least not where I saw the cartoon.

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

I bet most any publication would have rejected it at the time.

[–] yesman@lemmy.world 239 points 1 week ago (6 children)

2016 was worse for America than 9/11.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 169 points 1 week ago (15 children)

Yes. Trump's failure during Covid was killing a 9/11's worth of Americans weekly.

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[–] griff@lemmings.world 60 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Jr Bush/ Cheney laid an awful lot of the groundwork for Trunk One’s malevolence

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[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 148 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Mr. President, a second presidency just hit the south tower.

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[–] gazby@lemmy.dbzer0.com 143 points 1 week ago (7 children)

The pathway to authoritarianism is lined with people telling you to stop overreacting

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[–] Snowclone@lemmy.world 107 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

I've never seen anything in the US more complicit towards fascism and autocracy than the US media. They reported NOTHING negative about Trump for months? Why? Fairness? But Kamala got fucked every headline ''Job Numbers trending up, but are the numbers too soft because of Harris? " type of bullshit.

[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

Why? Because right wingers own 98% of the mainstream media and push bullshit constantly while telling you and I that the left is controlling media and the government when they control neither in any substantial way.

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Always has been. Have you ever checked out how the imperial media covers genocide?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_model

[–] BitOneZero@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I’ve never seen anything in the US more complicit towards fascism and autocracy than the US media.

yes, including social media. People think adopting Donald Trump methods of dehumanizing those you disagree with, Donald Trump Twitter-think and Tweet-length mental attitudes is actually addressing the problem... in reality, it is joining in with the bonfires of goodness. Instead of a "we are under siege mentality" of posting a thread to the top of every social media platform every 6 hours since 2015 when it was clear Donald Trump and Putin wanted to fulfill their "Conservative International 2013" politician aims, people have just mocked and gone along with the total mockery media values of MAGA / Donald Trump Twitter-tweeting thinking.

I’ve never seen anything in the US more complicit towards fascism and autocracy than the US media.

People are entirely unable to defend and resist absurd comedy, surreal humor, surreal absurd "jokes', they all end up joining in / jumping on the bandwagon with the mocking and mockery.

Neil Postman was correct in 1985: “When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an audience, and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk; culture-death is a clear possibility.” ― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, 1985

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 65 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Almost as if the rich and powerful have WAY too much control. Break out yer guillotines!

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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 90 points 1 week ago

Needs an update:

Now of course the "Rule of Law" is already destroyed and the plane should be headed for the 2nd one...

[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 50 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Wazowski@lemmy.world 49 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Just need a 2nd plane labelled "republican traitor filth".

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