A core issue we face is that incredibly generous rich-people-funded wingnut welfare exists for most any psychopath with fascist views, while no such system exists to support the work of Democrat and left wing journalists and pundits (who continue to largely be precarious and underpaid)
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Mike Masnick
Seriously. Every single time I read about how right wing billionaires end up pouring *millions* of dollars into the dumbest fucking conspiracy theorist nonsense peddlers, I die a little inside.
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It's not just the media operations either. It's a multi-pronged operation that has far too much success at FAR too discount a price.
It's as toxic to the non-psychotic right as to (almost) anyone else. It just doesn't 'feel' that way.
Striking
Boycotting
While the rest of us just have our unfunded majority.
https://bsky.app/profile/faineg.bsky.social/post/3ljoei5vga22h
She's the female Joe Rogan.
Centrist media would much rather punch left that to honestly take a look at the state of the alleged marketplace of discourse.
1: Start a slightly believable conspiracy theory
2: Make a billionaire believe it and that you can fix it
3: Profit
For power and influence.