I do not want an aircraft carrier. I do not want dead palestinian kids. I do not care about our tactical interest in the middle-east nor do I feel threatened by fucking countries like motherfucking Venezuela.

I want healthcare to take care of people I care about who need medicine.

That’s it, that’s ALL i am asking of my country in return for the massive amount of money I pour into the country from my paychecks.

And you know what? I guarantee if you said this to about 90% of conservatives who voted for Trump without contention or condemnation of any characters or storylines, they would agree with you. This is why the media empire is trying to pry us apart with social/cultural war.

The way they got our population to elect Trump is a motherfucking case study in democracy sabotage. The KGB manuals for destabilizing nations from 50 years ago describe how to amplify and boost the most extreme stories on both sides of every issue until the population tunes out and stops caring or paying attention.

I’m not saying it was just Russia that did this here, but that it’s a known and easy to accomplish tactic, aided by forces like Elon Musk who bought one of the largest media platforms, then outsourced the propaganda grinding to countries like India where the modest income they receive from shares and likes is enough to live on. That was deliberate, that was on purpose.

The news media outlets from MSNBC, to CNN to FOX to every other fringe corporate news organization are owned by and paid for by the same people who benefit from you thinking your side is winning and their side is losing. Either you become a frothing team-member or you get burned out and stop believing anything you read. Either result is a win to the oligarchy.

She hasn’t seen his movies, but knows he’s super liberal

It makes me wonder how many MAGA drones are spitting on his life and legacy while also having core memories of movies like Princess Bride as formative, key pieces of entertainment in their lives.

“Something is changing here.”

I don’t even need to read this article to know it’s pandering bullshit designed to make you think your side is winning and the bad guys are losing, keeping the kayfabe flame alive and burning so we don’t realize we’re all getting played by a group of rich, dumb fucks who have learned how easy it is to keep all our wheels spinning forever, or at least tuned-out enough that we stop paying attention to any news stories. Either result is a win to them.

Do you even understand that’s the propaganda the oligarchs push the hardest?

They don’t push a narrative that trying is pointless, they are doing the opposite, they are showing pandering bullshit to both sides, every day. It is in corporate interest that we are all fighting each other and hating each other for whatever group we belong to, and then funding those groups and reinforcing those lines of division.

Part of that plan is to constantly push and design algorithms to push pandering news stories for both sides to consume and believe themselves winning against the eeeevil enemy. News stories like this are part of that machine. Nobody on the right saw this story, their version is the complete opposite of your reality, but the people who design these atomized universes know neither side is ever going to cross lines and look at what the other side is seeing.

This situation is not going to change until a better story is introduced, but right now the people controlling the distribution of the stories are the wealthy oligarchs and corporations and donor-class. Our last and only chance for change is slowly, deliberately ripping the foundations out of the political structure they build. Local communities and town and state elections are largely uncontested and produce all the people, representatives and judges who have allowed corporations to have basically unlimited power to do what they want.

And fuck these media outlets and “news” orgs who publish this pandering bullshit knowing that only the people who want to see it will have it appear on their feeds.

These are the people destroying our country. Far more than the dumb dipshits who latched onto Trump’s kayfabe storyline, it’s the grifters and liars on both sides of every news story.

It’s all part of the kayfabe narrative, your main storyline character has to stay consistent and stay controversial so that they’re the center of the story.

100%. I hate this pandering bullshit.

Every single headline, on BOTH sides of every issue:

“People you hate are losing bigly and are getting OWNED by opposition, YOUR side is winning and things are finally about to change!”

This is exactly why Trump won. Not because people looked at these stories and believed them, but because people stopped believing this shit entirely. People have broadly gone numb to this rhetoric and tuned out of news and information because they get it from aggregators and the stuff that rises to the top is invariably “hot stories” people click on, which is always this pandering bullshit.

I have tentatively have Reuters and Associated Press as primary headline news sources, they’re a lot better about neutral reporting, and naturally those stories never make it to the aggregators because they’re far less exciting or emotionally validating.

People voted for the mess we have right now because they didn’t know what was going on, what was true and real, and said that Trump seemed “genuine” and while true to the extent that he’s open about his hate, that should say volumes about how desperate people are for anything remotely “real.”

Just by asking this question, you have sent several on-duty cops to the ER with rapid heart rates and extreme agitation, well-known signs of opiate overdose.

It is very, very much on-brand for establishment democrats to ignore the multitude of well-respected, socialist or left-leaning politicians across our country, as well as the mandate that shows just how much people want inspiring leaders who want to help people, and go all-in on Harris/Newsom 2028.