Right wing agents in full swing today on Lemmy.
Understand: all this would be stopped in a second if Republicans accepted the Democrat budget proposal. This isnt the D’s fault, no matter how many scaremongering propaganda headlines you see trying to convince you that the Democrats should just sign the Republican budget and move on. Things are much better right now in a shutdown than they would be if the Republicans get their budget passed.
Demcrats refused to sign a budget that cut people healthcare. But CNN anchors dont mention that.
I totally see now (as a non american) how magas were so easily duped into considering all MSM bullshit.
They didn’t just refuse to sign it, they actually did their job and made a counterproposal that protected funding for Healthcare (among other things). Republicans refused to even acknowledge it and shut the government down.
As an American, your empathy is appreciated but honestly save it for people more worthwhile. There was genuinely a good defense for being MAGA in like 2016, but these people have spent a decade doing nothing but choosing to stick their head in the sand further and further while proof of how fucking bad Trump is piles up around them. They’re not duped, they’re not brainwashed. They’re just cruel, cruel, hateful people.
ETA this photo
As an American, your empathy is appreciated but honestly save it for people more worthwhile.
Like my dumbass maga family members maybe? Maple MAGA is a thing up here eh.
All I’m saying is that from an outsider’s perspective… seeing how your media is reacting to this live… it’s not surprising things went this way.
They also haven’t been mentioning how this power that is supposedly being given away, was already handed to the Administration by the Republican Congress and illegitimate Supreme Court.
The CR would’ve also banned the majority of trans healthcare. A lot of my friends would die if that happened.
Yeah, I’ve seen some of these right wing folks. They are trying to get us to respond to Trump’s inflammatory raids with violence.
Things that the mainstream media missed
Trump and kegsbreath declaring war on American civilians
Kegsbreath encouraging and endorsing violent and humiliating war crimes to be committed against American civilians. Particularly disturbing when this was recorded so lower level soldiers know they can get away with it no matter what their commanders say because it’s coming from the White House
Trump using the shutdown to gut agencies with the project 2025 architect Russ Vought
The flotilla getting intercepted
The general strike in Italy Friday
The pro Palestine protests all over Europe
American mainstream media is completely compromised
Just wondering where you found out about all of these things if the “mainstream media” isn’t reporting on them. I read about all of these on the front page for the New York Times online version, which is about as mainstream as it gets. I saw you linked a Reuters article as well- hardly an underground news 'zine lmao.
You just need to identify where the edges are and step outside of your own bubble into the sort of echo chamber they exist in. Not that they deliberately avoid making it easy.
Friday last week or tomorrow?
Complicit.
The owners of Fox, CNN, and others need to be put on trial when this is over.
Youbare part of the problem. This is not ending.
Media is complicit. They don’t want the fascists to revoke their licenses or lose their gov pay outs. They think in the long run kowtowing to bullies is going to end well for them.
Dumbfuck spineless losers are helping drag our country to shit.
What do you think will happen when the files are released? That the World Police are going to take Trump away and lock him up in International Pedophile Prison?
No one is going to arrest Trump. He’s amassed too much power. Moaning about the Epstein files is a source of false hope, a distraction from all the new abuses that are occurring.
Drain the swamp, hang the pedos!
No, the media is complicit.
The media are not missing it, they are complacent in helping the power grab
What I don’t understand is that “the media” is staffed by ordinary people that are suffering as much as everyone else. Every single one of these organisations has the option to disagree, but nobody does. It’s impossible that they are all staffed only by by magats - why doesn’t anything happen against this fascism?
A lot of the big media companies have been getting snapped up by billionaires over the last decade or so. The staffers are normal people, but the editors and producers have been either made to toe the line or replaced.
That’s why the reporters aren’t reporting on this. They’re not allowed to.
They are not ordinary people. They are rich elites, capitalism and fascism go hand in hand.
“rich elites” don’t do the actual work. That’s what I mean. There must be hordes of non-rich non-elites doing that work. And surely they can’t all be magats.
That is very naive
When are we going to start a general strike?
In 3 years maybe
I wish I was kidding, that’s the big American unions’ plans.
https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/general-strike-2028-unions-labor-movement/
There’s also this one that needs 11 million more signatures to start.
Optimistic to think unions will be allowed in 3 years.
Yeah Union leaders in the US are domesticated
Totally agree as a lot of the most powerful unions are white male supremisist organizations. I also think McCarthyism damaged unions in a way that they never recovered from and put them on the defensive of constantly having to prove they weren’t communists. There’s still some great unions out there. I don’t know how to achieve widespread solidarity I just think it would be a very effective strategy in this situation where the executive branch is wanting to start a violent campaign against the American people to squash dissent. In this situation a powerful peaceful protest is essential
they’re not “missing it”. they’re complicit. their funding -and in many cases, jobs - depends on them looking the other way.
Then states should do their own power grab and remain functioning when their own federal government isn’t.
More inter-state organization between the sane states, like the replacement health committee thing
Where are the meek? It’s time for the meek to appear. C’mon already.
They just need to scroll to the bottom of reddit or whatever, and when they’re done you better watch out.
Then go take these traitors on head first. Make their lives a living hell. Throw whip cream pies in their face. Endlessly. Chase them like paparazzi. Make life hell.
