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[–] TheJesusaurus@piefed.ca 88 points 1 month 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.

[–] RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world 35 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] normanwall@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Can you please explain this? I don't understand

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[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 month ago

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

[–] EntheoNaut@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 month ago

Media owned by the oligarchy empowered

Duh

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month 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 6 points 1 month ago

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

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

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

[–] nelly_man@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Hence the scare quotes in their comment.

[–] Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago

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

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.

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 8 points 1 month 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 1 month ago

Poor, fictional peni. 🥲

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Maybe Jake Tapper can write a book about it.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago

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

[–] LuxSpark@lemmy.cafe 8 points 1 month ago

Because it’s captured.

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 month ago

Would it change anything?

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month 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 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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

[–] BigTuffAl@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 month ago

who is out here dusting Robert Reich from 2024

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] 0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Having shit politics can happen at any age or mental condition

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

Alice: "I have not seen X."

Bob: "Well, I have seen X."

You: "What is your point?"

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

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

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Isn't that when we proved it wasn't a good idea?

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

We didn't prove it so much as we didn't try it because the folks in charge assumed it was a bad idea.

[–] BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I guess that "gave it a think" would be a bit better. Though I'm not positive how much then really knew about radiation.

[–] SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

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

[–] alekwithak@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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

[–] NoForwadSlashS@piefed.social 2 points 1 month ago

I don't see no content

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

Anyone have a "no dark pattern" link?

Why bother... It would just end up being a distraction from the reality that whole game is a sham. It'll give people the illusion of making freedom history of picking the next new fake.

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