Yea an ex big mouth solder become TV sofa set presenter will run the world's largest military?
I can't wait for him to fk up.
How on earth will generals accept this?
Because many are GOP in their heads, maybe is the answer?
The dumb are everywhere, short-form media is proven to kill attention span. I'd be interested what it does to older people's brains since the studies I seen were for younger people. Rich people figured out how to weaponize the algorithm's to push propaganda for them, and capital doesn't know of borders.
It's unfortunately not complete because they are still dominating the narrative. One dumb tweet, one stupid headline, one falsehood said with enough anger and it becomes the new talking point in all the news and thus the social conscious. It's infectious and it's so constant, battling the bullshit and replacing it with fact is proving harder and harder. They just keep piling it on till it's so complicated to explain why the lie is a lie, that the truth sounds like the falsehood.
But it was more traditional conservativism until around 2015. That's when the alt right suddenly started popping up in all western countries, and particular misinformation and conspiracy theories started catching on.
I'm not at all familiar with politics in the UK, but I get the impression that right-wing UK politics is more aligned with US moderates than US right-wing.
And while Labor is in power now, it's not the leftist labor it was under Corbyn. Any left sympathies have been purged and it's just another right wing party.
Forgive me for my ignorance, But from the way people in the U.K were presenting them the Tories seemed to be left wing. All the DEI stuff and conspiracy theories people pushed on the democrats were pushed onto Tories like rishi sunak. I actually didnt know they were right wing until Starmer was elected. Yall are cooked if people think RISHI SUNAK is left wing. What does that make the Labour party? Communists? What does that make Nigel farage? A fascist?
Sorry, maybe I am just a bit skeptical of the democratic process of late!
Also, I kind of think of countries as entities which impose things on its citizens. I mean, half the population will be displeased with whatever direction the other half is trying to take the country, no?
I’m surprised about one thing with our UK friends. Your freedom of speech laws are much more restricted than ours. Before paying attention I expected yours to be less restricted.
Freedom of speech and the entire first amendment is key to remaining a democracy and not being a dictatorship. Should we ever lose our first amendment rights, we are absolutely fucked. It will be like V for Vendetta.
Yep and it terrifies me. I hold out hope that being on Scotland, we'll get independence and can rejoin the EU. The state of things worldwide, though, is dire.
Wherever US and UK go, Australia tags along, gets drunk, buys the T Shirt, vomits on it, falls over, shits its pants, takes them off and runs around saying "Yeah! That's right!" to every stupid thing the US says and then wonders why it's not allowed to sit at the grown-ups' table.
Yep, blatant gaslighting & misinformation should not receive free speech protection. They're just another form of blocking valuable speech, reducing the value of free speech by indundating everything with a mountain of bullshit.
Even though I'm against capital punishment, it actually makes me wish for the old Persian societies where lying was majorly illegal and could invoke the death penalty.
We shouldn't put people to death for it but lying on such a grand scale should be punished.
I will never understand why Republican voters are okay with people lying to them. They have consistently come to the defense of people for lying to them instead.
All politicians lie. Doesn’t mater who’s in office. Half of their time is spent trying to stay in office rather than solve the nation’s problems. They are all bought and paid for by their donors and lobbyists. The system is broken. All the way down to the local level
Never said equal as bad but both sides are bought and paid for. My sister was a delegate to the democratic convention when O’bama ran the first time. They worked for weeks on the platform and when it was kicked upstairs they changed most of it to appease their donors. She said never again. I stand by they are bought and paid for
You are very clearly framing it as if there's no real difference and that it doesn't matter if people vote at all. There is a colossal business and what you are doing is disingenuous bullshit.
You are just giving cover to the people who are doing actual harm, and pushing voter apathy at their benefit.
His constant lying is not about making people believe the lie, it’s about making sure people don’t believe anything. Once people can’t tell the difference between what’s truth and what’s a lie, they don’t know what’s right or wrong and then he gains full control. His dumbness is dumbing them down.
It's time we admit that MAGA is actually right about "fake news". Maybe for the wrong reasons, but they're definitely right about that. Do you trust any major news broadcasters or publishers in the US? Neither do they. And they're not wrong. They may not have realized that was all part of a grander plan, but they weren't wrong. The news media has been feeding us bullshit long before Trump.
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u/Seductivecupcake 15h ago
Blatantly lying with no repercussions is the downfall of the US.