Yep, white people supporting it is awful but logical. They tend to benefit from it. Minorities who are targeted by it supporting it. Is notable and shameful.

An account of your actions is not an opinion. Please take the gaslighting somewhere else.

There isn’t Just One Source article. It’s been nearly 4 years worth of articles. Across many different publications. Look up anything where conservatives mention woke. They use it as a code word. In context to mean either addressing issues of racial oppression and disparity. Or gender discrimination. Sometimes both in the same usage.

You’re doing it again. Me pointing out a simple fact. That you brought up two different things which the author never even addressed. In order to turn yourself into some victim. That is a simple fact. If you feel that it is an attack on you to have that pointed out. Perhaps you need to look inwards.

Well that is why it makes them uncomfortable. People knowing what they’re doing:-)

They’re not calling you that for having different views. They’re calling you that for making up reasons to offend yourself and acting like a toxic drama queen. And the ratio shows they aren’t alone.

It makes them uncomfortable to talk about it. Or acknowledge it’s lingering effects. It’s much more uncomfortable for the people suffering the lingering effects. But that’s not what’s important./s

The genocide denial is very selective. If a “western nation” involved. You’ll generally see widespread near universal condemnation. Should you dare to point out other genocides, historical or contemporary with leninist, Maoist, Stalinist ties. Be ready for strong tonal whiplash. Because apparently it’s only genocide when capitalists do it. When those groups do it, it’s a noble involuntary sacrifice for the proletariat by the benevolent vanguard party.

Yep. They only tolerate you as long as you’re useful. As long as you don’t push back against their mass incarceration, assassination, and even genocide. Authoritarians are authoritarian first. Left or right is a distant afterthought.

Didn’t they go bankrupt and shut down most operations years back? Oh wow not even that long. May 15th 2023 they filed for chapter 11. Seems they got a right wing sugar daddy. No worries, that’s never impacted journalism where that has happened. If you don’t count every time it’s happened.

Well yes given that we are largely talking about mainstream media. Mainstream implies there are other smaller estuaries that the media feeds into. Does that matter really? I’d argue not.

From its Inception. Media has been a valuable and coveted tool of capitalists and fascists. One only has to look to 1920s and 1930s Germany to see what that can bring about. Yes, subversive content definitely does make it through from time to time. And those in the know chuckle a little bit. While most people have no idea it was even there. Like that several minutes segments Bo Burnham sang with a sock puppet in his last Netflix special. About all anyone remembers of it is that it wasn’t the funny they wanted. Completely missing the message. Never seeing or hearing the message about the growing fascism and media’s role in it. Wait? Bo Burnham, a silly songwriting YouTuber prescient? Yeah I was kind of surprised too. Netflix absolutely let it slip through. Though at the time I think they still haved way more good will behind them. Probably not feeling too implicated or threatened.

Yes there can absolutely be good media. Unfortunately the media at Large is largely capitalistic parasitism. Even more unfortunately is that’s what most people are only exposed to. Where are the poet laureates of our day? Where are the people writing catchy protest anthems. (I listen to them. Most people don’t and don’t care to ) Where is this generation is Woody Guthrie or Arlo Guthrie? I bet you one exist somewhere. No one’s ever heard of them. And that’s on purpose.

It’s all bread and circuses these days. Who cares if there’s a fascist in office. The McRib is back and that one low effort reality TV show. That every goober in America is addicted to for some reason is starting a new season.

Believe me I know enough about being out of the mainstream. I was goth when goth was goth. I listen to postpunk before it became alternative. I listened to electronic music before Skrillex was born or whoever this David Guetta guy that’s really popular for some reason graduated Primary School. I have not listened to radio or pop music and nearly 15 years I have no clue at all about who’s popular right now. I can introduce you to so many obscure and awesome artists. No one cares. It isn’t what everyone else they know is listening to or watching unfortunately.

Wow starting off contradicting yourself. It’s an interesting argument Style. Not sure how it’s going to work though.

All right so I’m not going to defend Merrick garland. I wish that he had done better too. Unfortunately he is kind of what you want. Someone who will try to stay out of the way and seem impartial at least. We’re going to see first hand what having a blindly ideological and engaged Department of Justice will look like and why it’s a bad thing very soon.

That said Merrick Garland did not appoint the judge that sabotaged the case. Merrick Garland and the Democrats did not appoint the Supreme Court Justices who sabotaged the case. And it’s neither the executive branch or a political party’s place to act as a balance or check to the whole f****** judicial branch of government. Even with that whole checks and balances crap is b*******. It was the congress’s job. The Congress which Democrats never solidly controlled in any meaningful sense unfortunately. Especially due to Senators Manchin and the sinema.

There are plenty of actual things to blame Democrats for. That they didn’t put on the sort of performative play that we would have liked to have seen is way at the bottom of the list.

I suggest you read up on Walter Mondale. Who as a lawyer is in some small part that we are all entitled to an attorney. ENTITLED! Or Michael Dukakis who posthumously exonerated two Italian anarchist immigrants. Wrongfully convicted of murder and executed in 1927. Yeah they’re no Che Guevara, and that’s a good thing. But the American population soundly rejected both.

It wasn’t till 1993 that Democrats found success again. With the leadership of a corporatist self named 3rd way Democrat.

Now we can probably agree that the lesson Democrats learned from that was bad. But it was also valid. They’ve seen repeated success with it since. This whole claim that if only Democrats would embrace the left, that they would start winning again. Is utter bullshit however. Is it what this country needs? Absofuckinglutely! But this is a country that now almost a Century after the Red Scare is only just timidly starting to embrace actual left-leading politics again.

Even then it’s generally only the most online of the most online. Your average person on the street couldn’t tell you the difference between a Democrat and Democratic Socialist and a social democrat. Let alone what an actual libertarian is or what anarchists stand for. And are still put off by such terms. Not to mention that no actual ideologically left cleaning group holds any significant presence in any governing body town city state or at Federal level. How the hell would we be of any help to an actual governing party? We’re too busy fighting amongst ourselves to even go for the soft seats.

The Democratic party could not even prosecute a guy who tried to murder Congress. So the thinking goes - Why the fuck would someone vote for them when they do fuck all?

It was never the Democrats job to do that. It was congress’s. Democrats did try. And they absolutely could have done better in many areas. I’m not defending them on that. But we need to also recognize that a large portion of Congress was flattered and extremely impressed that Trump was able to sic so many people on them. That they had no choice but to eagerly and gladly defend him while sucking up for him. Conservatives love an authoritarian. And without a few conservatives. Democrats were and never did accomplish much of anything.

It’s like they’re a company pretending to be another company, disguised as another company. Tropic Thunder all the way down.

Somehow behind the bastards is never fun but always enjoyable. Well at least if you enjoy learning. It can still be depressing but enjoyable. And Robert addresses everything with the right type of black/ sardonic humor to make it more palatable. I have not seen / watched that episode? I think they’re doing full video now as well. At least I remember seeing him do some with Cody Johnston and a few others Katie too. But behind the bastards is always good.

Well, by “broken” I mean “Not being used in a manner befitting humankind”. That is to say, it’s been misused.

Objectively it has always been used to its owner’s benefit whenever they desire. That is how the media has always functioned. And how it currently is functioning. They’re simply was more diversity of ownership at one point which made it harder to notice monolithic opinion shaping. Ideologically I’m 100% agree with you that is how the media should be used. But being in touch with reality I can say 100% the media has never been used that way. The only media but even remotely comes close to operating that way would be community or straight up publicly funded not for profit media.

Relevant counterpoints to current events . . . I guess we could use some form of successfully beneficial online community and compare it to greatawakening.win or whatever the Qanuts are posting to these days.

While that is absolutely something we should be looking into. It in no way disproves any of the historical examples of sensationalist capitalist/ownership bias Etc throughout the media historically. Property serves its owner. Always has always will. Therefore not a Counterpoint.

Lol they certainly aren’t planning all this. None of them are that particularly bright. All this conspiratorial tone gives them far more credit than any of them have ever been due.

Blue Sky will not become a heavily monetized enshitified platform because of some Machiavellian conspiracy. It will become that. Because it is what un regulated capitalist structures must become. Hell even the regulated ones have a hard time not being that way.

Nowhere did I deny that she did. I simply stated that amount of money is a drop in the bucket when it comes to politics. Especially gathered once every 4 years. $1 billion every 4 years even if it’s spent perfectly would still be ineffective compared to the multiple billions of dollars spent per year collectively pushing conservative propaganda.

And yes I know but but but Obama. Things have changed drastically since 2008. The propaganda has concealed and consolidated throughout our entire mass media to an extent unimaginable to someone in 2008.

And while it is bad for Democrats to mismanage funds. Bad democrat. Bad democrat. It’s kind of missing the forest for the trees in this instance. And helping the opposition more. Keeping ourselves divided. But there are a lot of people on money more focused on destroying things than building things so that’s not unusual.

There’s plenty social action we’ve only begun to use. Exclusion, ostracization, and especially ridicule to it’s fullest extent. People in the last 8 years have started cutting out conservative family members. We need to go further. Are you on twitter? Then you should be ridiculed and harassed about it till you leave. Facebook? Same thing. Do you watch cable news, or any outlet that has these people. Especially if they don’t have the journalistic integrity to push back. Who the hell is dumb enough to watch that shit. Not anyone we would willingly associate with. Though that’s only part of the equation.

We also need to promote and work hard to support actual non profit driven journalism. Building up viable alternatives. Nationwide and in our communities. There are people out there who need a bigger audience. If you’re familiar with YouTube coffeezilla for instance.

Our complacency has been our downfall. This time a French Revolution style action will not work. They won’t all be located conveniently nearby to go after. They will be all over the world many of them hard to reach. In the end even France has still rotted from the inside regardless. And I shouldn’t even have to mention the Follies of Vladimir Lenin. Whose ideology has failed everywhere it’s been attempted.

And the biggest hardest thing of them all. We need to be able to reach out to many of the disaffected people brainwashed by wealthy right Wingers. They would be recruits to turn against the people who currently own them. But that’s the hardest thing. Reaching so many of these people seems impossible.