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Originally Posted by Luckbox Inc
That you think there is such a thing as a nonideological media is the cause for your confusion and your inconsistency. CNN will cheerlead for war just like any of the other networks. This isn't to allege that there aren't a variety of different viewpoints expressed but when it comes time to rally the troops behind the flag don't think cnn and msnbc and your local paper won't be right there. You basically are disqualifying yourself as a bona-fide leftist for not believing in a war-mongering media and any objective look at history shows this.
Yeah man you voted for the guy who hugs the flag at rallies and is apparently gonna pardon war criminals, how about you simmer down on this ****?
I get the appeal of being a Independent Guy Who Sees Through the Bull**** like this, but if your clear eyed cynicism means that you can't tell the difference between Anderson Cooper and Tucker Carlson, that just makes you uninformed.
I never said I didn't believe in a war-mongering media, by the way, you skipped a step in that trap. (the rah rah flag waving ****, of course, is neatly explained by the vulgar Marxist explanation I gave for the racist ****... war is great for ratings. There are other explanations for it, as well, but that's a subject for another day).
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The thesis hasn't changed: that a lot of what we see regarding Trump and immigration is theater designed to feed people on both sides of the political spectrum back into the left-right divide, amongst other things.
First off, Both Sidesing **** is a classic beltway insider move. Second, there is a left-right divide! People disagree about ****! It happens. You disagree with me about a lot of ****, right?
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We both agree that there is a right-wing media creating "white-supremacy narratives. Only you don't accept that the media that Kelhus et al would call the left-wing media--cnn, msnbc, the Atlantic, etc--are there spinning the counter white-supremacist-take-over-narrative. That is the tougher pill.
Sit down for this one: sometimes the media reports about things because those things are true. And if those true things are bad, people with actual ****ing principles might get mad.
Not you, I understand that. But some people do actually give a **** about other people. I can't explain why, I don't have any real hope of convincing you to have that empathy if you don't have it yet, but you need to absolutely shut the **** up about doubting the sincerity of people who disapprove of concentration camps for children. Not everyone is a piece of ****.