• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    The fact that nobody watched the damned thing but everyone seems to want to talk about it should say something about the state of American politics.

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      Stop

      Giving

      Them

      Oxygen

      If the media would stop giving creeps airtime (outside of ridicule), they’d fade into obscurity. But instead we get to “hear both sides of the story” when one side is just spouting nonsense and lies.

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        when 5 people billionaires own all the media, they can pick and choose what topics people have their attention on

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            15 hours ago

            Because the billionaires are upstream of Lemmy. No one on here is posting their original research and first hand journalism.

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              original research and first hand journalism, famous competitors for your focus against… pictures of 4chan posts

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          Which is exactly why these morons remain relevant. News media needs this chaos to drive engagement and division.

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        I’m going to talk about it but only as a reference point for how unpopular and sad the right actually is. If rating were votes, they wouldn’t even be top 3rd party.