What he describes is one of the worst crises the American idea of government has ever faced, and yet it is also one that few Americans will feel directly
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Aaron Rupar
Chris Murphy: "There's no doubt that this administration's policy toward the Middle East is going to be compromised by the fact that they're making money off the very people they're sitting across the table from and supposedly having a conversation about the interests of the US"
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like a sequel of ' Godfather' by Puzo, in a way
It may not be in the next four years but there will be a reckoning.
Our poor kids… and I mean that globally.
Now we are their employee.
hence uneducated
This is an
existential crisis.
People in leadership should be physically, verbally, and emotionally reacting to the impending collapse of our democracy.
Hate to say it - but the Democrats need a younger, white male centrist.
one of the worst tendencies of social media is to assume that people today are different from people 10, 20, 40, or 400 years ago and that just isn't true IMO
The current human nature default is apathy, choosing talking points and memes as news sources molding easily influenceable zombies.
Or more like, audience loses interest… I have to think about this.
All I can say is:
a) Repetition
b) Fox gets people to care about the dumbest things. Trust? Presentation? Outrage? Trusted outrage?
So there are two steps:
a) Media, properly cover important news
b) (who?), push the message and make people care
cont.
https://bsky.app/profile/demental.bsky.social/post/3ld5h4xts4s2l
a) $/billionaires
b) right-wing apparatus
c) other state actors, often filled with a) it seems?
with Climatechange these numbers will sky rocket.
to an eventual Babys only in testtubes.
Extinction is coming.
And our country may fall because of it. Selling out democracy for a buck
American's lack of curiosity is actually dangerous.
Americans don’t care about this bc, in general, we don’t care a lot abt things that happen abroad & don’t directly impact average Americans.
But also, the press has normalized Trump– both by how they cover Trump & how their coverage of Biden’s scandals implies they are on par
(I also think the 24hr news cycle, clickbait-style news, etc. impacts the seriousness w/which people treat news).
So the press can cover this story and treat it seriously, but the damage was already done.
“If you aren't reading them, (Or watching) then that's your fault.”
Thanks 🙏
The way I see it, the US grew accostumeed to exploit fragile nations in every way possible, to the point that it's population have little or no regard for the lives of anybody outside its borders.
I'm both willing to read and lucky enough to be able to afford a few subscriptions.
I have no statistics, but it seems to me that most Americans aren't as willing or able, and that hurts our state of democracy with each passing election day.
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:o4s55v3tsfph6whswxccpsia/feed/aaaixbb5liqbu
Liberal democracies turning into corrupt oligarchies
But mrs. Harris and her party lost and misogyny prevailed.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/07/opinion/trump-harris-joy-anger.html?unlocked_article_code=1.hE4.Z9Ap.N2j3zH0SHp0e&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare