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BenMedia's avatar

Great piece. I didn't even know Fox News, Trump and the right-wing mediasphere had done this and yet it doesn't surprise me.

What's actually funny is that there are genuine questions like the ones you raised and others, but they aren't interested in raising those questions because, well, it opens themselves up to some inconvenient truths they don't want people to know about.

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Joe Wrote's avatar

Exactly. A real problem is why so many mass shooters are ex-military. That would be something a serious problem would consider (even a right-wing one), but they have no interest.

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Brucker's avatar

It always fascinates me that there are legitimate problems with the Democratic party, but right-wing media always prefers to make up almost random shit about them rather than tell the truth. (Of course, that’s often because the truth is that Democrats are acting like Republicans, and we can't point that out, can we?)

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Joe Wrote's avatar

The best example of this was Obama. Bailing out banks instead of homeowners, the drone program, etc, are all legitimate criticisms. But because Republicans like that stuff, they got mad at his tan suit.

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Brucker's avatar

And then Democrats say, "Eight years of Obama and the biggest scandal was a tan suit!" Really? What about all the bombing, the arms sales, the assassination of American citizens?

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Lidija P Nagulov's avatar

This is it exactly.

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Saralyn Fosnight's avatar

Make no mistake, Trump wants to turn the FBI into an entity that would parrot his bullshit, not solve crimes with truth. Truth is something he does not comprehend or care about.

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Saralyn Fosnight's avatar

Yes!

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Joe Wrote's avatar

Agreed. I see a lot of people complaining rightists are "hypocrites" for complaining about censorship / small government while supporting the cops. I think that's wrong. They're not hypocrites, they're fascists - they're lying to gain power.

https://www.joewrote.com/p/right-wingers-attacking-campus-speech?utm_source=publication-search

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Tony Kohler's avatar

American, European and Israeli Nazi-liberals - who are also active in the so-called progressive parties - are always interested in the same things: deportations, concentration camps, class domination, colonialism, theft of other people's land and resources. To do so, however, as well as completely enslaved mainstream media, they need popular masses without class consciousness and willing to believe in messianic promises. The construction and narration of a totally distorted alternative reality are fundamental to this purpose.

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