#war on truth

[usindistress]

Religion is the opiate of the masses, indeed. This also contributes to why conservatives live in a world of alternate "facts" and can't be reasoned with.

homeschooling in the US needs to be regulated but this is one of those conversations that immediately gets crushed by extremist conservatives and even well-meaning liberals will pipe up to be like "well some homeschooling is good!" when that's absolutely not relevant. regulation will not change anything for the homeschooling families who are serious about their children's education. the people who need to be regulated are the fringe extremists

[gwydionmisha]

This is a direct assault of the Freedom of the Press.

[usindistress]

Fascism

Ultranationalism- interest in one state above all others "Make America Great Again much?"

Hierarchialism- belief that certain people are placed above others, (Alpha males vs. Tradwives, Christians vs. Muslims, race hierarchy etc.)

Dictatorial leader- Trump duh.

Centralized autocracy- Trump and the Trump family.

Cooperation of Corporate and State power- crony capitalism under Trump, Biden is pro-labor, corporations HATE that!

And in addition to also being anti-union and VERY anti-immigrant which are also typical of fascist governments. And they LOVE to twist the definitions of words as you have been doing.

@gloomwalkers I'm talking to you, this is your education time. These are characteristics of fascism. We don't care if Biden's whole family goes to prison, as long as it is for ACTUAL crimes, he is just there as a wall against a fascist takeover. Leftists tend to be globalist, humanitarian, egalitarian, ideological, democratic, integrationist and anti-corporate. The OPPOSITE of fascism in nearly every way.

[because--palestine]

Palestine solidarity protesters occupy the lobby of the New York Times building in Midtown Manhattan, denouncing the paper for its journalistic malpractice and slanted coverage they are calling "the NYT-backed war on Gaza." This action coincides with the paper’s annual "State of the Times" conference.

[usindistress]

On 9/11 almost 3000 people died in a day. While the objective of slavery wasn't to specifically kill people, beatings and executions were used to enforce it (in a time before antibiotics to boot) and it lasted almost 300 years in the US alone. I'm going to go out on a limb and say more than 10 slaves a year died of slavery related conditions. God people are dumb and have unearned confidence.

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

Of the 19 hijackers who carried out the Sept 11 attacks:

15 were from Saudi Arabia (a powerful/oil-rich country the U.S. works hard to maintain diplomatic relations with)

2 were from the United Arab Emirates (also a powerful/oil-rich country the U.S. works hard to maintain diplomatic relations with)

1 was from Egypt, 1 from Lebanon.

None of the hijackers were from Iraq.

None of the Sept 11 hijackers were Iraqi.

None of the 9/11 hijackers were from Iraq.

[usindistress]

Was arguing with a conservative in the comments section about Republican voter suppression and got blocked by the OP.

So now I know what its like to try to take the argument into a conservative controlled post. Spreading truth gets you blocked. Also, clearly not the fault of the person I was actually debating, I can still see their account.

[because--palestine]

The illusion of aid in Gaza

The United States' airdrops of aid into Gaza are a textbook case of cognitive dissonance on the part of the US administration - dropping food while continuing to send Israel bombs with which to pulverise Gaza. And the gulf between what’s happening on the ground and the mainstream media’s reportage continues to widen.

Censorship of news coverage and suppression of public protest in Egypt

Since Israel launched its assault on Gaza, the war has been a delicate subject for Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. The war has led to censorship of news coverage and suppression of public protest.

Israel's cultural annihilation in Gaza

The Listening Post has covered Israel’s war on Gaza through the prism of the media, including the unprecedented killing of Palestinian journalists. But there’s another level to what’s unfolding in Gaza: the genocidal assault on Palestinian history, existence and culture.

[toshootforthestars]

How different would things be out there in America if, 15 or 20 years ago, some rich liberal or consortium of liberals had had the wisdom to make a massive investment in local news? There were efforts along these lines, and sometimes they came to something. But they were small. What if, instead of right-wing Sinclair, some liberal company backed by a group of billionaires had bought up local TV stations or radio stations or newspapers all across the country? Again, we can’t know, but we know this much: Support for Democrats has shriveled in rural America to near nonexistence, such that it is now next to impossible to imagine Democrats being elected to public office at nearly any level in about two-thirds of the country. It’s a tragedy. And it happened for one main reason: Right-wing media took over in these places and convinced people who live in them that liberals are all God-hating superwoke snowflakes who are nevertheless also capable of destroying civilization, and our side didn’t fight it. At all. If someone had formed a liberal Sinclair 20 years ago to gain reach into rural and small-town America, that story would be very different today. There has in recent years been an impressive growth of nonprofit media outlets, led nationally by ProPublica and laying down roots everywhere, from the aforementioned Baltimore, where the Baltimore Banner has sometimes been scooping the Sun, to my home state of West Virginia, where Pulitzer Prize–winner Ken Ward’s Mountain State Spotlight is doing terrific reporting. These outlets are welcome indeed. They do sharp and necessary reporting. But they’re nonprofits, which, under IRS rules, cannot be partisan. They have to be apolitical. What we used to call “the progressive infrastructure” has grown in the two decades since (Rob) Stein was showing his PowerPoint around town. Donors got together at Stein’s behest to create the Democracy Alliance. It helped seed the Center for American Progress, designed as liberalism’s answer to the Heritage Foundation. It helped grow groups like the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. On the media front, it funded Media Matters for America, the broad left’s leading media watchdog outfit. But there is one job liberal benefactors have refused to take on (with a few exceptions, starting with the owner of this very magazine). The cost has been enormous. And by the way—this story isn’t over. By a long shot. I’m certain David Smith wants to buy more struggling newspapers and turn them into MAGA sheets. And there are surely mini-Sinclairs in formation. Prager University’s right-wing misinformation videos are gaining a foothold in some public schools. Right-wing outlets have zero interest in sharing the “media space” with the mainstream media. They want to crush it. And I fear that they probably will. There’s a story in the Times today about three moguls who bought prominent media properties, most notably Bezos with the Post, and the many millions they are losing. That’s sad. But what did they expect? You don’t buy a newspaper expecting to make money. You buy a newspaper because you want influence. You are passionate, as Murdoch is, about pushing the country in a certain direction. You either learn to live with the losses or you find a way to cover them. To those who say it’s impossible, I point out that somehow, the rich men of the right have figured this out. And so Bezos, who has no discernible public passion, will probably tire of it all and sell someday—and maybe to David Smith, whose public passion is very discernible indeed.

If you can’t imagine the Post as a right-wing rag, you’d better start smelling the coffee that’s been brewing for 20 years.

Michael Tomasky: "The Right-Wing Media Takeover Is Destroying America"

The New Republic | 19 Jan 2024

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[usindistress]

Conservatives respond to emotional arguments. You bring facts and they suddenly have a BIG problem and have to attack the facts or attack the messenger for not matching their emotions.

[gwydionmisha]

Israeli troops raid, order closure of Al Jazeera's West Bank bureau

[usindistress]

[because--palestine]

Iran had legal right to counter-attack Israel in self-defense

Israel attacked Iran's embassy in Syria on April 1, in a blatant act of war. Iran had a legal right to respond in self-defense, according to article 51 of the UN Charter, which is exactly what it did by launching missiles and drone strikes on April 13. But Western governments are absurdly portraying Tehran as the aggressor.

[usindistress]

This is the war on truth. Conservatives don't care about facts or definitions, only power.

The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.

MAGA/GOP tell their voters how to feel, not think. Zero consistent values or thoughts.