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[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 6 points 7 hours ago

Would it change anything?

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 17 points 12 hours ago

We don't really have much "media" any longer... Just lots of propaganda peddling nonsense networks owned by rich shitheads.

[–] TheJesusaurus@piefed.ca 80 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Most corporate media has a financial interest in not doing that

They've always had a financial interest in Trump being president because he's so volatile of a person that he draws traffic with everything he does. People fall for it all the time. I've stopped caring much about what "Trump says" and more of what Trump DOES.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 8 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

Fox won't and the "left" normal media won't unless it's diagnosed because they are beholden to journalistic integrity. This is the disparity we're stuck with.

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 hours ago

The "left wing media" is only as left as their conservative owners will allow them to be

[–] Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 hours ago

You should probably put quotes around "beholden to journalistic integrity". That only seems to be the case when it suits the network heads.

[–] GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Is this "left media" in the room with us right now..?

[–] nelly_man@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

Hence the scare quotes in their comment.

[–] RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world 32 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
[–] normanwall@lemmy.world 5 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Can you please explain this? I don't understand

[–] EntheoNaut@lemmy.ml 18 points 20 hours ago

Media owned by the oligarchy empowered

Duh

Because he does a slap lawsuit every time he gets his diaper in a bunch?

That, and he has ok'd his rich friends buying up all of the media.

[–] LuxSpark@lemmy.cafe 8 points 19 hours ago

Because it’s captured.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

I've been hearing "Trump Dementia" stories since his first term.

[–] GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Fucker wanted to nuke hurricanes. That. Is. Demented.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

It's part of Project Plowshare from the 1950s

Meteorologist Jack Reed took inspiration from the 1952 Ivy Mike nuclear test and drew up plans to disrupt hurricanes with nuclear bombs.[13] Reed, an early hurricane hunter,[14] had worked in the U.S. nuclear test program and studied the atmospheric effects of nuclear explosions.[13] He authored the paper "Some Speculations on the Effects of Nuclear Explosions on Hurricanes", containing two proposals: Plan A and Plan B. Plan A envisioned using one or two 20-megaton nuclear bombs to destroy a hurricane's symmetry, weakening it and redirecting it back towards the ocean. Plan B envisioned using a single 20-megaton nuclear bomb, or many smaller bombs, to blow the eye of the storm into the stratosphere, which would slow or halt the hurricane. He was amenable to both dropping the bomb from an airplane or launching it from a submarine. He argued that radiation would have minimal effects and did not address potential harm to marine life. He presented these proposals to the 1959 symposium on Project Plowshare and an American Meteorological Society conference,[13] and unsuccessfully sought its inclusion in the International Geophysical Year.

[–] 0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

What's your point? Is that not consistent with dementia?

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

Having shit politics can happen at any age or mental condition

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 hours ago

Alice: "I have not seen X."

Bob: "Well, I have seen X."

You: "What is your point?"

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 8 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I wonder just how many pictures of this guy people will share modified with penises after he's no longer in power.

[–] wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 19 hours ago

Poor, fictional peni. 🥲

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 7 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Maybe Jake Tapper can write a book about it.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 12 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

The day after Trump is out of office, you're going to get a tsunami of "We knew all along" gossip books. Just like last term.

[–] Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

The same sycophants who licked his tiny mushroom dick for 4 years will suddenly turncoat but quietly still support

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

They'll move on to the next pickable dick. That's just part of the job.

[–] NoForwadSlashS@piefed.social 2 points 15 hours ago

I don't see no content

[–] BigTuffAl@lemmy.zip 4 points 18 hours ago

who is out here dusting Robert Reich from 2024

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 5 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

More to the point: why can’t this be posted in the politics comm? Because it violates their rules.

Because the news is dead and we don’t know what to do about it.

[–] wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Oh, may I interest you in, perhaps, a little slice, a tiny morsel, un amous bouch so wafer thin it could not exist in any moment but this, a well-earned first course: anarchy! 🤷🏼‍♂️

no idea where the cartoon revolutionary came from

[–] alekwithak@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago

Same reason they fabricated gaffes to report in for Biden, because 'the media' is just billionaire propaganda.

[–] bitwolf@sh.itjust.works 1 points 15 hours ago

Anyone have a "no dark pattern" link?

[–] SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml 3 points 19 hours ago

I've known about it for decades. Old news.

[–] TachyonTele_Esq@piefed.social -5 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Why isn’t the media reporting on Trump’s growing dementia?

...is the articles title, since OP is allergic to them.

[–] Sharkticon@lemmy.zip 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)
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