Same reason they put a guy at CBS as a "bias monitor":
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-fcc-cbs-ne...
They want their guy to make sure things go their way / people say the "right" things.
Same reason they put a guy at CBS as a "bias monitor":
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-fcc-cbs-ne...
They want their guy to make sure things go their way / people say the "right" things.
> a guy at CBS as a "bias monitor"
Kenneth Weinstein.
"Mr. Weinstein has had a long career in right-leaning and neoconservative public policy circles. He is a firm and vocal champion of Israel." (NyTimes)
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_R._Weinstein
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We still have (hopefully) a democratic choice how this plays out, so the distinction between left/right is meaningful regarding political overreach (beyond the stereotypes propagandists like to attach).
If you are arguing that the left is identical to the right in that regard, you truly deserve your downvotes. I mean ... leftist censorship-cancelation for no good reason.
You are not understanding that the whole left/right distinction you see is just you seeing what is put before you so you will be engaged in a meaningless feud that is just as meaningless as the sport you watch and that team you really care about. It was long ago figured out that "democracy" is a far more effective tool for managing the mindless masses through "choice" and participation ... in choices they are provided, both more or less being acceptable to the ruling cabal. Trump was clearly a kind of upset of that system for reasons and causes that are too big to go into right now, but it is precisely why the same left/right leaders were perfectly fine with uniting in their opposition to Trump, demonstrating momentarily how fake and meaningless their opposition to each other is.
I could not care less what peasants vote on some website simply because they don't like hearing the truth and it conflicts with their programming. That sounds like a you problem that you get some kind of impotent satisfaction from seeing the peasant mob down voting my comment as if that would change anything about reality.
How do you know my perception of politics? Have i put some pronouns somewhere in my bio?
> left/right distinction you see, as meaningless as sport
> managing the mindless through "choice" and participation
I dont really know where to start to tackle this mess. To me, it appears to be a wild mix of delusion and cluelesness ... so, what to adress first.
Lets start with the basics. A left leaning ideology revolves around wealth distribution and not some identity politics (IP) of LGBTQ-whatev. The IP part on both sides is what you rightfully call political theater, but again, only caring about some minority does not make one a leftist. Reducing the left to only that is dumb but necessary for the right. This IP label is the propaganda vehicle used to distract from very important, system shaking, actual political issues. Gullible people get caught by emotions to hook them on simple answers. Like the "degenerates" teaching kids or "gangs" migrating to the US. Its always the same fascistic playbook, construct a dislikable enemy -- bc disgust is a strong emotion and source of bias to blur your reasoning, exclude all contradicting complexities -- like migrants being statistically less criminal, agitate the masses based on that and then take out any (reasonable) opposition by crying around that you are the actual victim here, to obscure your retaliation. Does this sound like trump to you?
When soft power (propaganda) fails, you can turn to any history book how much uncle sam disagrees with you about the "meaningless left", because leftist wealth distribution challenges power structures beyond the political stage, where the players reside, that had been corrupting US politics for longer then the US fucked up latin america. You can see it in real time today, how the democrats turn on NY mayor candidate Mamdani because of his "communist" NY rent freeze. Calling such leftist central, decades old, factual and non-IP ambition meaningless is a strong indicator of political cluelessness and i bet, the right will use some form of force to stop the islamo-communist (please tell me you got the IP-labeling here). Trump already talked about cooperating with democrats and even deporting Mamdani but i think that openly fascistic demasking is reserved for the trump 2028 campaign.
Besides actual political ideals beyond IP, there is also the existing power structures, you called cabal, that you didnt get.
> the same left/right leaders were perfectly fine with uniting in their opposition to Trump
How many right wingers turned on trump exactly? If id compare them side by side, i think there are more conservatives that called trump hitler/alike but boot licked their way back into the cabal later (vance, RFK!) then there are conservatives that turned on trump today. This indicator of opportunistic politicians is also a good sign for political shallowness, aka political theater performed by well paid actors.
The power structure you somehow missed is where the F that money comes from, that corrupts politics and is needed to keep the gullible pondering about their forced uppon pronouns (also IP, just in case you missed that too).
The very first thing trump did in both terms where tax cuts esp. for the wealthy, which is a strong signal for the parasites to throw more monet at him but a big nono from a leftist position bc the system favored the rich and sucked on the working class for even longer than US politics got corrupted by big capital and even longer then the US fucked up latin america. The results of all that societal development is a shrinking and increasingly desperate middle class and billionares buying big media to cure the "woke mind virus". For these dipshits, thats the biggest concern while ordinary people cannot live off of two jobs, let alone support a family.
And here you are, calling the left meaningless bc you cant think outside of / see through the IP.
> I could not care less what peasants vote on
is a very fitting intro to conclude your bullshit ... until you realize that working peasants are the ones keeping us all afloat.
Maybe the reason you turn away from the right too is, that you developed a tolerance for the current, digust driven out-group the tribalistic right also revolves around -- you had been disappointed by shallow right leaning politics too often. But dont worry, theyll push out an update eventually and it all begins anew, bc you might be turned off by the right atm, but you are propably turned away even further from anything meaningful.
I've been wondering if enough people would be single issue voters on the Israel question that we could actually get some sort of candidate who attracts a ton of voters from both traditional parties.
It's ironic because (IMO) people like Ben Shapiro and other pro-Israel people deliberately divide us to prevent us from uniting against them, but the genocide has actually united us[1]. Just the other day I saw a Twitter post from one Cenk Ugyur reaching across the aisle and saying "good job" to right wingers who objected to hate speech laws against people who celebrated Kirk's assassination.
Admittedly, if 68% of Americans are opposed to Israel that doesn't necessarily mean all of them are single issue voters... but I think this is the first issue I've seen in my lifetime that gets this close to uniting Americans.
[1] https://news.gallup.com/poll/692948/u.s.-back-israel-militar...
Cenk Ugyur agreeing with right wing talking points is not "reaching across the aisle." Not even a little bit.
The US political party system has no "right" and "left" -- it has "right" and "righter right."
At the grassroots level there is a bit of a "left" in the Democratic party, but it has no power anywhere.
EDIT: this is why it's twice as jarring to see Trump and the GOP ranting about the "radical left" in US politics. WTF? Where? Tepid neo-liberalism funded by Soros is... "left wing?" Wow.
So at least 5 accounts not only do see the value in dividing people into “left” and “right”, but they also were compelled to vote it down?
Or was it just abuse of the system?
Didn't expect to see the USA employing press censors in my lifetime but here we are.
In Brazil during the dictatorship it was common for newspapers to print cooking recipes in place of censored articles, now I'm waiting to see if media in the USA has the balls to play the malicious compliance game... I guess I won't see it since money is basically God in America.
One could argue they're not the same, but there has been TV broadcast censors for decades in the US. They were still least following somewhat defined laws though.
> They were still least following somewhat defined laws though.
I expect them to continue to do so, except that uncle Donald is the law now.