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Wild that Fox News can practically say the hard R on Biden but every god-damn news channel is tippy toeing on Trump and sane-washing his bullshit
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Uh, Retard?
I'm not that familiar with the usa blacklist of words.
Yeah we don't call it that here in the states. I've heard 'the r word' but never 'hard r'. We reserve that terminology for the OTHER hard R.
Republican?
It's the main offensive word for black people. In general use it ends in an "a" sound, and can be positive neutral, or negative. In racist use it ends in the "hard R" and is always negative. Since you are not from the US, I would say you probably shouldn't say it at all, just like I did not in this post.
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Yeah, the short of it is that it used to be used clinically to describe developmental disorders but fell out of use around the mid-90s because, like so many other words, it was used maliciously to the point where it lost its original meaning and context.
If you were a 90s kid, retard and gay were as close as you could get to actually swearing without getting in trouble and basically carried the same cultural weight as outright slurs. The stigma around being gay was so bad that in the 2000s they made up a sexuality to describe men who were straight but liked to shower and dress in nice clothing so that they wouldn't lose their jobs. And the stigma around mental needs little explanation, I think. It wasn't that long ago that they were electrocuting people and cutting out parts of their brains for being sad or having a stutter.
i remember going on a school trip to san francisco in the 90s. one of my classmates kept saying "that's so gay" about everything she didn't like. we only let her go two shops (while gently pointing out the SF-specific merchandise) before i had to ask her "you know where we are, right?" in her credit, i never heard her speak that way after that incident so
Fun fact, electroconvulsive therapy is still available for depression! It's one of the things I tried.
And it's not mumbo jumbo but something that actually works!
I hope it did for you ❤️ !
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Because Trump is the abusive ex that you don't want to piss off because he has thousands of guns and has a hair-trigger temper.
someday everyone will have always been against this
Never let the forget.
What colors do I need to change my profile pic to to show that I always supported [the winning side]?
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It’s access journalism. Trump is just more overt about it, but each admin does it. Biden staffers refused to field questions around his acuity, Trump tried to kick out the AP from the White House Press Pool for running actual news instead of fellating him, Obama’s admin refused to honestly talk about the growing drone war, the Bush jr team chided any ‘where WMD’ reporters, Clinton…
If you say mean things or are critical of your subject, they tend to remember that and don’t volunteer information to your outlet - costing your boss exclusives and headlines, and thus ad revenue. I’m pretty sure ~~Ted~~ Rafael Cruz is never going to sit down for a 1:1 with Tucker Carlson again after he got the steel chair. White supremacist shitbag as Carlson may be, he actually did a journalism, didn’t let Cruz lie, and challenged him on the topic, and Cruz was shown to be lacking.
There is no actual journalism to be found among the main headlines, just repackaged press releases and barebones reporting devoid of context that might actually inform readers. Find an investigative reporter that deals with a topic/region you care about and follow their SubStack, or wade into Telegram and filter out the propaganda as you are able.
I remember watching a 60 Minutes episode from the mid-2000s about government corruption and embezzlement of oil wealth by the ruling family of Equatorial Guinea, and how American oil companies facilitated this corruption. They interviewed a representative of an American oil industry group and confronted him about whether it was ethical to keep doing business with a dictator knowing that the billions in oil money was going straight into the pocket of a corrupt autocrat and his family to fund lavish spending sprees in Paris and mansions in America while the people of Equatorial Guinea starved in some of the poorest and worst living standards in the world. Of course, the industry rep claimed that it was ethical, and the reporters got kicked out of Equatorial Guinea and harassed by local security forces.
But that's the kind of fearless reporting that just doesn't get done any more. It's cheaper to just have people in the newsroom write clickbait articles about what local political figures are yapping about on Bluesky than to send people to create that sort of high-quality journalism. And there's no chance that any oil industry representative would ever agree to that sort of interview now. At most, they would just have their PR division write a two-paragraph statement.
Agree wholeheartedly. It’s why I hold the term ‘journalist’ as an honorific, and don’t apply that to easily 95% of the people who work in news media. Reporter, sure. But a journalist speaks truth to power, knowing that that power figure may retaliate. A real journalist risks being assassinated with a car bomb for investigating a global money laundering ring, not invitations to state banquets, or ‘embedded live’ with government troops whilst accepting the censor.
Like I said, find a journalist with a good SubStack and support the news and analysis you find valuable. Find somewhere that tells you the what and the why, instead of a story.
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We can all collectively thank Reagan, among other terrible things we have to deal with today due to his administration, he is also responsible for the state of news media in the US in 2025. Previous to Reagan we had a policy called The Fairness Doctrine, it was a policy introduced in 1949, that required the holders of broadcast licenses both to present controversial issues of public importance and to do so in a manner that fairly reflected differing viewpoints. Broadcasters could show opposing viewpoints via option pieces, news segments or talk shows, but if they reported on one side they were required to show the other.
In 1987 under Reagan the FCC abolished the Fairness Doctrine. Broadcasters were no longer required to air apposing viewpoints of controversial topics. This has directly lead to the echo chambers that you see in the news media today.
"there's a reason" and then OP posts neolib drivel from one of the most obnoxious, most entrenched asshole propagandists from the deep political insiders list
maybe OP doesn't understand who George Conway is or something
In all fairness to OP, who I have no idea about, many of these awful people, including Conway, rebrand and change their image like others would change clothes.
News is horrible, but social media still stinks
He's the husband to Kelly Ann Conway, one of the worst women on earth and mother of the alternative facts line.
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Fair. I post things that I believe in.
And sometimes it's this.
https://clickhole.com/heartbreaking-the-worst-person-you-know-just-made-a-gr-1825121606/
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All the print media is bought by American state propaganda, and all the social media is manipulated by hostile foreign state propaganda.
Gonna have to start doing shit ourselves, like reporting.
The reason? People are stupid. Too much lead paint.
Yeah, fr, Journalists are out there risking their lives and being factual and impartial, but people like OP are being handfed by algorithms so as to not trust anyone but the hand.
Corpo journos are very partial and are often unfactual. Corporate media could disappear entirely and nothing of value would be lost.
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Wolf Blitzer used to work for AIPAC, it’s honestly not surprising for him personally.
Since the news media are all multinational corporations owned by billionaires war profiteers, their general stance isn’t all that surprising either.
Has Conway just not been paying attention? This isn’t a bug, it’s the feature.
The billionaires control the media, and they want that money/influence train to keep rolling and not derailed by the government. Doing the bare minimum of whatever pleases both sides.
Stupid sells.
For a second I thought he was going to bust out the P word.
Tap for vulgar profanity
Poopyhead
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Social media ranking higher in trust isnt due to media accuracy. There are plenty of outlets that provide a consistent source of news. Its like the comments in here point to 5 bad news sites then smeer "news" as a whole. As if social media isnt 50x worse in every single metric.
Social Media ranks higher in trust because social media companies want users to trust the news they view on their platform. Social media "news" accounts constantly attack the reputation of traditional news outlets by pointing to bad news articles because they benefit directly from the audience losing trust.
Journalism in the US is dead. Being shocked or angry at anything the news does or doesn't say at this point is in "fools me twice, shame on me" territory.
You'd be better off asking Days of Our Lives to weigh in.
pfff, stop blaming one person for a facist nation. it is the people. twice! twice they voted him into office. and those voters are also the content creators in social media. ofcourse those dumbasses trust themselves more than anyone else. idiocracy.
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The last few days
I guess that technically correct, as long as you're counting 4000 days as "the last few"
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