2016 we had a phenomenal “Democrat-media-business alliance” made up of 90% of Hollywood and almost all of the news media. We were all pulling for Hilary yet somehow it didn’t matter. I think maybe our rhetoric has been exaggerated for far too long and that is why many no longer listen. Thoughts?
No, it's the fact that the American institutions themselves were purchased decades ago. Ronald Reagan made sure of the inevitability actually IMO.
Trump just used the truth of our financial inequalities to his advantage. The best kind of lie is based in truth. Sometimes I think they're all monsters.
A very important part of surviving this is keeping the courts impartial and not political appointments.
Once SCOTUS was bought/bludgeoned/coerced into supporting the GOP it was game over. Normal routes of recourse were lost.
This smells of doomerism ~ just the very fact that we are all here sharing information on an open source platform is proof that the media does not have total control.
+ There will come a time where all those declaring victory will reap the whirlwind.
one hopes. but we are so close to things spiraling out of control
1. to address your point about us being here.... any day now this platform could be bought by an oligarch
2. once Trump finishes gutting the top of the military things may get ugly fast
I’m no techie but I think you misunderstand the structure of the place. It’s open source - on purpose in an attempt to ‘billionaire proof’ the platform so -
If you want to put your faith in anything, put it into what we know = they’ll overreach, he has 3rd rate people surrounding him, & 1/2 this country doesn’t support any of this (that includes 1/2 the courts) + they have a RAZOR THIN house majority.
I have seen the rise of Chega in Portugal... André Ventura is already in Parliament and they are getting more and more bandwidth! At the 2020 convention of the Chega party, he passed a motion at the party's 2020 convention calling for the removal of ovaries from women who have abortions!!!!
It was hard for me to support TVN when they were targeted by PiS in Poland and their news channel was threatened with shutdown. Every time PiS had a new scandal TVN had to bring up past scandals of PO which had much smaller number of scandals. They platformed politicians who openly were against TVN.
Put limitations on purchasable political influence & curtail your capitalism quickly... I'm hoping to have somewhere to flee to if we can't get to the Cheeto out.
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No, they really don't. It's a satirical magazine based in the UK. One of the shining lights of independent journalism anywhere in the world. Plus Ian Hislop the editor is quite a funny guy. No money exchanged hands for this glowing reference, but if Mr Hislop reads this, mine's a pint.
There is not a country in the world that doesn't have a % of their population that is attracted to fascist power structures.
Most countries just try harder to keep them to a minority.
Because (just like the UK) half your country are uneducated, entitled pricks with a vastly skewed exceptionalistic view of themselves and the nation in general.
It's sort of comforting to look down on Americans in a way but stupid of us to do so.
We have our own brand of ignorant rightwing shambleclownery in the UK, mostly among the English.
We tend to follow you down the same dystopian drain a few years behind, with far plummier accents & better beer.
Unfortunately I can't buy American anymore, nothing personal, I would boycott Britain as well rn if it was at all feasible.
No disposable income these days anyway.
Maybe some day
I wouldn't say the UK is nearly as awful as the US. You have universal health insurance through the NHS and gun control. Besides, polling suggests that if another Brexit referendum were held, Rejoin would win by a pretty wide margin. Compare that to a country that elected Donald effing Trump twice.
Swings and roundabouts. UK has no written constitution, huge CCTV surveillance especially in London and hugely repressive libel laws. These are all instruments for a fascist government if UK follows the US politically,
The Tories are still adamantly backing the privatization push on the NHS, & I doubt they'll stop until they get their way. And it isn't really a sign of liberalism that people only woke up from being obviously hoodwinked to vote against their best interest AFTER they faced direct consequences.
Sadly, whether people want to face this hard truth or not, the US is part of a worldwide turn to the far-right that spans multiple countries. This latest US chapter will only further strengthen that trend. Just like the last time fascism walked the earth, it's a group endeavor.
I agree with the specific points made & am grateful to be here not there because of them.
But I still think we do a slightly different dance to an almost identical beat a few bars behind.
NHS is mid privatisation but the spivs doing it wear red rosettes & call it 'outsourcing/private investment'
No it fuckn wont, I live in a mosquey part of town theyre good neighbours.
Their shops open late, they drive me home when I'm wasted, cook tasty food at silly oclock, give me pills when my pee burns & fix my teeth.
Before smart phones they used to sell me porn.
They facilitate my British way of life
I didnt say they were bad people or that your neighbors hate you but rather simply pointed out that they will be the majority population by 2030 and your politics and nation will change.
It has happened before, this is simply history repeating itself.
I think your grasp of numbers would be laughable if people like you weren't so poisonous for our culture.
If you're really worried about it go for the good of the country & make some white babies.
I'm not buying your herrenvolk shite.
Too strong for me pal.
But Scottish beer is no.1 imo, it's the water & the pub culture is the absolute zenith of human recreation as far as I'm concerned.
When I'm a famous author I'll move into the castle next to Rowling & open a drag club.
I’m not voting for a candidate unless part of their stance is the immediate arrest of Trump, the labeling of MAGA as a terrorist organization, and the DOJ tasked to hunt them all down and arrest or kill them. That includes the politicians and oligarchs that benefited from him.
@privateeyenews.bsky.social on the nose as usual. Sad there is so little political satire in the US. Wonder what Jonathan Swift would have made of Trump and the maga hordes.
I stand corrected loll but that's in name only. Their people don't know different until they get out which most never do. Rest of the world knows.
In the US, they sell an illusion of a democracy and the American Dream (which to this day, I do not get what that means) but by now, democracy is dead.
I guess that would explain why broke people keep voting for the rich that take away everything from them, they hope to be that asshole one day...amazing.
The problem is those journalists have seen what ordinary Americans will do to protect their Orange god. They'll go and ride the capital on his say so. Or shoot them dead in the streets. No payment necessary
Oh, you forgot the part about their relentless casting of aspersions at President Biden; that started well before the elections and fed into misinformation. They
missed highlighting the many good deeds achieved over the last 4 years. They were shifting right for a while.
Honestly, all the legacy media that people continue to insist just now lost their balls already showed me exactly who they were in the Bush years. They were so far up W's anus post 9-11, just like every other person we needed to be the sane voice in the room. All it took was fear.
WaPo was straight up war propaganda for at least 10 years. You don't get GITMO without a wave of journalistic hand waving. Was it as blatant as now, no. But billionaires already killed our strong arm journalistic presence, the Bezos of it all just buried the bodies in a mass grave to applause.
Waiting patiently for the first cabinet meeting, when they gather around the table for the media, to cover the comments as the new cabinet secretaries go around the table singing the praises of their Dear Leader.
No one is cowering. They are all owned by billionaires and they see dollar signs. They're on his side and can't wait to get back to stripping the US of parts and auctioning it off.
We should all print out a copy and mail it to the felon-inhabited White House attn FOTUS, FLOOD IT, then wait, he’s BOUND to bitch about it to someone!
Will everybody PLEASE START SHOVING IT DOWN TRUMP'S/MAGAt's THROATS that ELON MUSK SAID FREE SPEECH IS ABSOLUTE & NEVER STOP SHOVING IT DOWN THEIR THROATS? Musk said he was for FREE SPEECH & GUNS to PROTECT that speech!
Hebrews 4:12 - "For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart."
Mission accomplished Bishop!! ❤️
Thank you for posting this I would happily buy you a drink of your choice for the pleasure you caused in posting it.
I actually believe that good satire can make a difference. If everyone is laughing at those anuses then it would affect them.
If I remember rightly, in the mid-1960s they headlined a genuine apology "A GENUINE APOLOGY" because they'd already published so many fake hypocrisy-mocking ones that they needed to spell out that this one was different.
I saw that skit and i never thought it was pilfered, it’s possible more than one artist is scared of trump retribution and this is the natural response.
This is just like Politico’s piece on how great Trump is and his big accomplishment was running for President (to escape crimes) while being tried for crimes.
These assholes that support the wimp of the MAGA party are as cowardly as their slave owner...how can any normal women ever look up to these POS? Its the money, nothing else...How does ot feel to be not only POS, assholes, and cowards buy now used by the whores who stay with you...
It really wouldn't have been hard to confirm votes in just a few small areas to see if they needed to look wider. Really, really frustrating Kamala and the Dem Party just threw up their hands instead of doing their due diligence. We all know he is a fraud and a cheat, why would this be different?
Geez I wish we fought harder. I never saw this article but that day I had the exact feeling and found it strange that Trump was announced as winner too soon. And AP was the one that announced it. Why did Kamala accept it? I suspected Elon too as he has control of Starlink.
Private Eye is a long-running and best-selling current affairs publication, whose covers & content are largely satirical. And its editor Ian Hislop is a legend. 😊
It appears META is adjusting its algorithms to push MAGA propaganda!
My YouTube / META feed is being fed heaps of pro-MAGA channels!
Happening since trump’s inauguration:
- Forbes Breaking News
- tricoteiro
- Honest American
- Daily Wire
- The Rubin Report
I asked ChatGPT to try to make sense of those words. Now I’m scared 😁
It could be interpreted as a reflection on the modern political and social climate, where hyperbole and drama dominate public discourse, with this “speech” acting as a caricature of how grievances are often aired on social media.
Yes, but also no. I've seen this adversarial attitude lead to much worse governments being voted in when the media forgot to show how bad the opposition is.
I think adversarial is a wrong word.The press should be the critical watchdog of the Govt but not its enemy. Keeping it honest makes it in the end a friend. A friend is determined in pointing out error & dishonesty but also fair to celebrate a job well done or good fortune
I get your point though I cannot agree. Being a 'friend' with govt puts the press in a tricky situation; I'm not suggesting the press should work as an 'enemy'.
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European democracies face the same threat and need to act immediately to avoid the same fate.
We must reinforce the separation of political, media & business interests to avoid vulnerability to authoritarian corruption.
Trump just used the truth of our financial inequalities to his advantage. The best kind of lie is based in truth. Sometimes I think they're all monsters.
Once SCOTUS was bought/bludgeoned/coerced into supporting the GOP it was game over. Normal routes of recourse were lost.
+ There will come a time where all those declaring victory will reap the whirlwind.
1. to address your point about us being here.... any day now this platform could be bought by an oligarch
2. once Trump finishes gutting the top of the military things may get ugly fast
Again - I don’t do doomerism
I wish I could have your outlook in regard to doomerism. from where I'm sitting we are about.... three rash decisions away from an 1861 situation
Good luck - aside from EO’s - he’s fucked.
Fuck that. Never obey in advance.
I'm just cognizant of the fact that I may regret not stocking up at a gun show (I've never owned or even fired a weapon) in a few months from now.
I wonder if there'll be a WHCD and who the comedian will be??
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Here we go…
Politico co-founder John F. Harris: "no contemporary can match...He is a force of history.”
NYT, WaPo equivocated pardons: “In Dueling Pardons, an Intensified Fight Over the Meaning of Jan. 6.”
NBC Chicago edited out Nazi salute.
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But we don't have it like America.
I've noticed it worsen when Cost of Living spiralled.
Most countries just try harder to keep them to a minority.
Is exceptionalistic even a word? 😂😂
If yes, I’m having it! 😁
We have our own brand of ignorant rightwing shambleclownery in the UK, mostly among the English.
We tend to follow you down the same dystopian drain a few years behind, with far plummier accents & better beer.
IRL I enjoyed uber hoppy American IPA's
No disposable income these days anyway.
Maybe some day
But I still think we do a slightly different dance to an almost identical beat a few bars behind.
NHS is mid privatisation but the spivs doing it wear red rosettes & call it 'outsourcing/private investment'
Cheers!
Cheers! 🍻
Their shops open late, they drive me home when I'm wasted, cook tasty food at silly oclock, give me pills when my pee burns & fix my teeth.
Before smart phones they used to sell me porn.
They facilitate my British way of life
It has happened before, this is simply history repeating itself.
If you're really worried about it go for the good of the country & make some white babies.
I'm not buying your herrenvolk shite.
But Scottish beer is no.1 imo, it's the water & the pub culture is the absolute zenith of human recreation as far as I'm concerned.
When I'm a famous author I'll move into the castle next to Rowling & open a drag club.
Be brave but be careful.
Federal employees are vulnerable for example and may need to think about VPN.
Even kids can be inadvertent quislings.
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In the US, they sell an illusion of a democracy and the American Dream (which to this day, I do not get what that means) but by now, democracy is dead.
missed highlighting the many good deeds achieved over the last 4 years. They were shifting right for a while.
We've seen this movie before.
NYT, headline right now.
Disgusting total capitulation.
The media is not defending democracy.
FOTUS has removed a copy of the constitution from the Whitehouse site.
Media outlets are OWNED by other firms … so news is filtered not to conflict with their business.
Their stock holders want tax breaks so cut king Chetto slack !
And their website is here: private-eye.co.uk/
Mission accomplished Bishop!! ❤️
Resistance isn't futile.
Revolution is necessary.
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I actually believe that good satire can make a difference. If everyone is laughing at those anuses then it would affect them.
Same basic theme, no more...
Netflix.
Resistance!
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That is exactly what satire is supposed to do to you.
Congrats, you're not crazy.
My YouTube / META feed is being fed heaps of pro-MAGA channels!
Happening since trump’s inauguration:
- Forbes Breaking News
- tricoteiro
- Honest American
- Daily Wire
- The Rubin Report
It could be interpreted as a reflection on the modern political and social climate, where hyperbole and drama dominate public discourse, with this “speech” acting as a caricature of how grievances are often aired on social media.
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