We had them. USA used to bust up companies and revoke business licenses with regularity
Unfortunately, we also had "campaign donations" and then we had "corporations are people" and "money is free speech" and after 60 years here we are.
Our political system can't be fixed by laws at this point, those receiving all of those "donations" will not willingly legislate their wealth away. Look at them. Pelosi has never turned down a check in her life. McConnell got rich for over FORTY YEARS. and so on
I have just been struck by the absurdity of discussing the merits of news networks and video games with a person choosing to call themselves "Satan's Maggoty Cum Fart"...
I'm 100% certain this account has been compromised. I've been in many heated discussions with this account but they've never gone this far over the edge
I've been "Do not recommend channel"-ing my youtube feed for the last few weeks., it went off the rails when my brother sent me a link to some "HFY" sci-fi short story.
I had no idea those were all AI content and once I watched part of one.. holy cats, that was it.
We really dont talk enough about how Trump and the modern right was made possible by 90s politicians. Those dumbass "new democrats" who basically decided to be Reagan Lite and the Republicans who happily turned the wheel even further right in response.
The American "Left" calls it "Lesser Evil" while screeching "Vote blue no matter who" on TikToks and Youtubes to a braindead audience.
We've heard Trump "fighting" for peace during the election campaign, and now his circle of friends has free reign to murder and bomb at will. We've seen Bernie and Hillary denying the genocide in Gaza while the genocide was happening in front of our eyes. They are all grifters. They come out of their holes when their respective party needs promotion and donation money for another election that won't change shit.
Meanwhile their MAGA and "vote blue no matter who" underlings slide further right without noticing...
Have you not noticed the global rise of fascism fueled by billionaire owned media companies controlling the narrative?
Over here in Europe, it's extremely obvious. Everything a left-wing party does is scrutinized, every new right-wing scandal is barely worth mentioning.
Lemmy is just a left-wing bubble. Lots of people watch TV and simply believe most things they see.
And which of the listed companies did that come from?
None of them. It came from fox news and right wing YouTube. And it's a minority that's shrinking and increasingly isolated from everyone else, who are all growing more and more disdainful of the right.
Murdoch owned media, then. Pardon me for focusing on America in the comments of a post by an American senator about an American billionaire family buying up mostly American media networks and largely failing to influence wider American culture with them.
Unfortunately, the US education system teaches that everything is compartmentalized and not interconnected to other actions by government. A cut here, a clip there, before we know it, the entire tree has been taken down.
Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.
Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.
They also are often used as performance pieces. A politician introducing a bill that is doomed to failure is not helpful, nor does it accomplish anything.
"Oh but it's important that they introduce them so that when congressmen vote no we have a record and-"
Shut. The. Fuck. Up. If I have to hear the "important to have a record" argument again I'm gonna scream. It is not important to have a record because the record doesn't mean shit. We've had records going back decades, it doesn't sway people in any meaningful way and it's foolish to pretend it does.
True. That would also mean a politician in DC would have to introduce something instead of just posting on social media, or maybe getting on tv for 12 seconds to say how had something is. Which they then proceed to open their bank account to check the balance.
That's me, joking, because I didn't think it needed an /s?
After all, they're controlling the news media and running propaganda to push us right. That said. I know hitting kids media is its own brand of evil, though we've yet to see what that looks like or if it'll even happen on those cartoon channels.
Only one can hope a Trump descendant will realize how messed up their family has been to this generation and do the right thing by ridding the fortune.
58 Comments
Mulligrubs@lemmy.world · 122 pts · 193d
Trump is just the symptom, he is not the disease.
When he leaves office (by hook or by crook) the disease will remain; they have purchased replacements already.
lyralycan@sh.itjust.works · 25 pts · 193d
Like Squid Game -- the billionaires have already chosen a replacement and continuing the operations.
Jarix@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 193d
He is absolutely a disease, he just isn't the only one
jimmy90@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 192d
Mulligrubs@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 190d
We had them. USA used to bust up companies and revoke business licenses with regularity
Unfortunately, we also had "campaign donations" and then we had "corporations are people" and "money is free speech" and after 60 years here we are.
Our political system can't be fixed by laws at this point, those receiving all of those "donations" will not willingly legislate their wealth away. Look at them. Pelosi has never turned down a check in her life. McConnell got rich for over FORTY YEARS. and so on
br0da@lemmy.world · 44 pts · 193d
That’s a long list of companies I’m not going to fuck with anymore. They can produce whatever they want, doesn’t mean we have to consume it.
foodandart@lemmy.zip · 20 pts · 193d
We are absolutely NOT obligated to consume ANY of that corporatist shit.
Best thing I did was get rid of my TV when I cut the cable back in 1999.
My current TV is a 50" budget "special needs" 4k Hisense I use for gaming. That's it.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · -33 pts · 193d
Protoknuckles@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 193d
I mean, animal crossing and tetris exist.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · -17 pts · 193d
Protoknuckles@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 193d
I have just been struck by the absurdity of discussing the merits of news networks and video games with a person choosing to call themselves "Satan's Maggoty Cum Fart"...
Gork@sopuli.xyz · 9 pts · 193d
Fox News watchers think CNN is the Clinton News Network
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · -9 pts · 193d
Mulligrubs@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 193d
Oh dear God, you poor kid
Protoknuckles@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 193d
Maybe at one point this was true, but Fox News has gone off the deep end, and CNN is now owned by a right wing billionaire.
K1nsey6@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 193d
I'm 100% certain this account has been compromised. I've been in many heated discussions with this account but they've never gone this far over the edge
Ghostie@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 193d
K1nsey6@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 193d
They won't be doing it around here anymore.
foodandart@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 192d
Now I'm really curious as to what he wrote to me that you slapped down..
This is what I get for gaming most of last night.
Ah well..
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 193d
They don't teach you to be a hateful bigot, though, unless you count shooting brown people in CoD.
cobysev@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 193d
Arr 🏴☠️
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 193d
It won't be hard to avoid. Most of it is going to be lame propaganda that you wouldn't want to watch anyway.
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 193d
They're also going to go full-on into AI slop, which you likewise won't want to watch.
foodandart@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 192d
The slop is INSANE!
I've been "Do not recommend channel"-ing my youtube feed for the last few weeks., it went off the rails when my brother sent me a link to some "HFY" sci-fi short story.
I had no idea those were all AI content and once I watched part of one.. holy cats, that was it.
Say goodbye to my carefully curated home page.
FUUUUCCK!
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 192d
I've been diligently curating mine for about 3-4 months, and it's gotten a lot better. Be sure to keep at it.
foodandart@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 191d
Will do!
Good to know I can get things back on track.
ceenote@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 193d
I already don't watch any of them, but now I can have a chip on my shoulder about it. Win/win.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 193d
Consuming it, but not paying them anything for it, is also an option, but I certainly respect avoiding it altogether out of principle.
njm1314@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 193d
We really dont talk enough about how Trump and the modern right was made possible by 90s politicians. Those dumbass "new democrats" who basically decided to be Reagan Lite and the Republicans who happily turned the wheel even further right in response.
krzschlss@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 192d
The American "Left" calls it "Lesser Evil" while screeching "Vote blue no matter who" on TikToks and Youtubes to a braindead audience.
We've heard Trump "fighting" for peace during the election campaign, and now his circle of friends has free reign to murder and bomb at will. We've seen Bernie and Hillary denying the genocide in Gaza while the genocide was happening in front of our eyes. They are all grifters. They come out of their holes when their respective party needs promotion and donation money for another election that won't change shit.
Meanwhile their MAGA and "vote blue no matter who" underlings slide further right without noticing...
ceenote@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 193d
Pretty remarkable that they control that much and still can't meaningfully control culture.
De_Narm@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 193d
Have you not noticed the global rise of fascism fueled by billionaire owned media companies controlling the narrative?
Over here in Europe, it's extremely obvious. Everything a left-wing party does is scrutinized, every new right-wing scandal is barely worth mentioning.
Lemmy is just a left-wing bubble. Lots of people watch TV and simply believe most things they see.
ceenote@lemmy.world · -5 pts · 193d
And which of the listed companies did that come from?
None of them. It came from fox news and right wing YouTube. And it's a minority that's shrinking and increasingly isolated from everyone else, who are all growing more and more disdainful of the right.
biofaust@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 193d
He openly stated he is in Europe. We have no Fox News here and YouTube is barely used by the right wing.
I am so tired of American Lemmy users like you who cannot think outside of their crumbling nation.
ceenote@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 193d
Murdoch owned media, then. Pardon me for focusing on America in the comments of a post by an American senator about an American billionaire family buying up mostly American media networks and largely failing to influence wider American culture with them.
biofaust@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 193d
As I already pointed out, imagining you would try this comeback, you answered a specific comment, USian.
And Murdoch owns none of the state-run or private channels that are the main source of news in all the major EU economies at the very least.
MerryJaneDoe@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 193d
Don't they?
"You don't need 100% of the people to love you. You need 10%, fuckin' pissed. You have followers. I have soldiers."
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 193d
So refreshing to see another person who realizes this didn't happen overnight and has been an incremental and bipartisan project.
K1nsey6@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 193d
Unfortunately, the US education system teaches that everything is compartmentalized and not interconnected to other actions by government. A cut here, a clip there, before we know it, the entire tree has been taken down.
nonentity@sh.itjust.works · 17 pts · 193d
Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.
Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.
Emerald@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 193d
"Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but billionaires should be euthanised."
Ah man, the end of that quote must've gotten cut off by a guillotine or something
AffineConnection@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 192d
Good thing this isn't Reddit.
NewSocialWhoDis@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 192d
On the plus side, half of those are effectively dead.
GarboDog@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 192d
NOT CARTOON NETWORK!!!!
Bieren@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 192d
Well do something about it other than post on social media. You are the politician in DC.
MyVeryRealName@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 192d
Bills don't get the kind of popularity social media posts do.
I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 191d
They also are often used as performance pieces. A politician introducing a bill that is doomed to failure is not helpful, nor does it accomplish anything.
"Oh but it's important that they introduce them so that when congressmen vote no we have a record and-"
Shut. The. Fuck. Up. If I have to hear the "important to have a record" argument again I'm gonna scream. It is not important to have a record because the record doesn't mean shit. We've had records going back decades, it doesn't sway people in any meaningful way and it's foolish to pretend it does.
Bieren@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 191d
True. That would also mean a politician in DC would have to introduce something instead of just posting on social media, or maybe getting on tv for 12 seconds to say how had something is. Which they then proceed to open their bank account to check the balance.
Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 193d
Perhaps we should stop blindly believe what’s presented to you in the media, especially if it aligns with your views.
Numinous_Ylem@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 193d
Bust that shit up. I can't believe we just let this sort of monopoly happen. Further proof that both parties are corporate-owned and always have been.
K1nsey6@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 193d
Democrats always lay the foundations for Republicans to further subjugate the working class
Etterra@discuss.online · 2 pts · 193d
I'm more glad for ditching cable than ever.
voaw@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 184d
And again, because he's a Zionist, Bernie leaves out the elephant in the room: Israel.
AlexLost@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 193d
Arrr mateys, it be smooth sailing on these here high seas.
Marshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 193d
Alwaysnownevernotme@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 193d
Just in time for cable to become completely irrelevant.
acchariya@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 193d
Cool, I've just stopped watching all of these because they mostly suck, seems to be an easy boycott
Jomega@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 193d
Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon?!
taiyang@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 193d
Oh no, not Cartoon Network -- where will I get my news?
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 193d
What do they have to do with news?
taiyang@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 193d
That's me, joking, because I didn't think it needed an /s?
After all, they're controlling the news media and running propaganda to push us right. That said. I know hitting kids media is its own brand of evil, though we've yet to see what that looks like or if it'll even happen on those cartoon channels.
ohshit604@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 193d
Only one can hope a Trump descendant will realize how messed up their family has been to this generation and do the right thing by ridding the fortune.
etherphon@piefed.world · 1 pts · 193d