Post by jamelle / Redsky

I feel like I would go a little further and say that the mainstream press has a broad reluctance to actively come to a conclusion or tell people "this specific thing is true" when they can just report the "opinions" of "important people" instead.

apr 12, 2025, 6:12 pm • 1 0 • view

This kind of blends with my increasing conviction that the main thing that's going wrong with non-right-wing institutions right now is that the people with all the power are absolutely fucking terrified of taking responsibility for any outcomes.

apr 12, 2025, 6:12 pm • 2 0 • view

telling people the truth would also reduce overall ad engagement impressions

apr 12, 2025, 6:07 pm • 193 9 • view

It’s frightening how successful the racist faction of this country, comprised of government officials & community leaders, abetted by the media, have normalized this false & pernicious notion of “reverse racism,” somehow making the idea that white Americans, particularly men, are really the …

apr 12, 2025, 5:24 pm • 6 2 • view

Persecuted group in America.

apr 12, 2025, 5:24 pm • 3 0 • view

Yep. People would start accusing the media of being aware of their surroundings. We all know that’s not true.

apr 12, 2025, 6:19 pm • 2 0 • view

I'm not watching that clip, but do they say anything at all about rightwing religion?

apr 12, 2025, 6:08 pm • 2 0 • view

it is better to be woke then asleep they can go get fucked

apr 12, 2025, 5:50 pm • 2 0 • view

Agreed. But also because the right-wing’s beliefs are genuinely insane. Anyone explaining these views out of the control of our current predicament would be labeled insane- no one wants to believe they actually believe this crap.

apr 12, 2025, 5:18 pm • 1 1 • view

Besides, how do you explain thug rule as an ideology?

apr 12, 2025, 5:53 pm • 0 0 • view

damn, man, that is such a righteous application of sarcasm please keep on making your eloquent complaints

apr 12, 2025, 5:28 pm • 0 0 • view

I wonder if it’s bc they are afraid of completing the syllogism: these folks are white nationalists, white nationalism does bad stuff, therefore these folks are bad. Weirdly it’s the last part they are so averse to, when that should be the easy part. I guess because it violates news “neutrality”

apr 12, 2025, 5:24 pm • 5 0 • view

Gasp!

apr 12, 2025, 5:20 pm • 1 0 • view

They don't even ask the question about why anyone thinks we need higher fertility when our regime is also trying to remove millions of people from the country (and decrease women's access to birth control and reproductive health care).

apr 12, 2025, 5:18 pm • 17 1 • view

But that’s implied: we’re getting rid of the mud people; we need more good, white stock.

apr 12, 2025, 5:20 pm • 2 0 • view

Because it’s all about creating a “white” nation here. They’re afraid of being a minority. And your job as a woman in this context is to look pretty, take care of your man, and keep your many children quiet. Women who support this world view baffle me.

apr 12, 2025, 5:37 pm • 10 1 • view

There are millions of women who aren't feminist. Religion is a big factor, as well as lack of education.

apr 12, 2025, 6:09 pm • 3 0 • view

Oh I get that. Still, why would you want that? This is the question of every woman I know who left religious, agrarian societies.

apr 12, 2025, 7:30 pm • 4 0 • view

They have been raised to believe that's the natural way of things - the way God wants their life to be.

apr 12, 2025, 7:40 pm • 0 0 • view

Yeah. I know.

apr 12, 2025, 7:42 pm • 0 0 • view

If you call bad things bad, the people who like bad things get upset. If you call good things not so good, who cares what the people who like good things think, you're being edgy and provocative.

apr 12, 2025, 5:25 pm • 8 0 • view

The implicit assumption of MSM is that the general reader is white. They don't want to risk "accusing" their reader of racism. I teach college writing and argument. My students of color already know this but for many white students, this is new and useful information

apr 12, 2025, 7:22 pm • 25 5 • view

I hear Will Ferrell’s character Mugatu saying , “ooh cults are so hot right now..”

apr 12, 2025, 6:51 pm • 1 0 • view

I would offer that part of the problem is the US has a deeply Calvinist sensibility in its cultural DNA; everything is about your personal relationship with God (or ethics in this case) which means that racism can only be a personal moral failing as opposed to a systemic problem.

apr 12, 2025, 5:46 pm • 1 0 • view

and for once it would reflect appropriate usage of the word, as it would require engaging with the nature of systemic racism

apr 12, 2025, 5:20 pm • 1 0 • view

The American media are afraid to point out fascism hiding out in the wholesome for fear that they themselves will be deemed unwholesome. Nevertheless, fascism always uses the most wholesome sounding slogans for the most obscene of programmes. See also en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinder%...

apr 12, 2025, 5:39 pm • 8 1 • view

Ironically, it’s exactly what we all need to be woke to.

apr 12, 2025, 5:20 pm • 4 0 • view

So let's get down to brass tacks here: It's ok to call everything even slightly progressive "dangerous radical leftism" because the system is set up such that people in power sympathize with white supremacist fascism, is that pretty much it?

apr 12, 2025, 5:24 pm • 2 0 • view

Yes, in the land of all views must be respectfully considered and covered unless they are left-wing, in which case intelligence and common sense demands hauteur and ridicule.

apr 12, 2025, 5:39 pm • 1 0 • view