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These people are crazy and very dangerous. I hope Americans - and especially American media - can stop bothsidering Joe and unhinged fascist craziness like this.
But Joe didn't stop the genocide!
You know, by acting unilaterally... In a foreign country over which he has no authority... Mired by centuries of dissent...
Right, he didn't actively say he's a Zionist and pledge support no matter what Israel's actions.
He did say he’s a Zionist.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/i-am-zionist-how-joe-bidens-lifelong-bond-with-israel-shapes-war-policy-2023-10-21/
I've recently noticed that Lemmy often has great difficulty with detecting sarcasm.
It's like the sarcasm-aware never left Reddit and the ones that did just can't spot it even when pretty blatant in front of their face.
I understood the sarcasm but felt it better to be clear for the trumpist morons who read these discussions. Note I didn’t say “But he is”, it was more adjunct to the comment rather than critical of it. It’s basically a citation.
Well well welll
he could have stopped all military aid and placed sanctions to the maximal extent of presidential authority and pressured congress into doing what he alone can't. he hasn't even denounced the genocide. the CIA has couped countries for much less bad things, why not now?
Listen I don't like Biden's support of Isreal right now either but to not vote for him just because of that is lunacy- allowing Trump to win will result in a genocide within our own nation. Just look at project 2025, the Trump crowd is planning it.
when did I say anything about voting? I'm tired of people shutting down any criticism of Biden because we aren't allowed to have a primary to replace a shitty candidate who is polling below a generic democrat ahead of an important election
Because there are tons of people that aren't going to vote for Biden over Israel. I'm sorry I just assumed, but I'm so used to people saying "I'm not voting for Biden because of Israel" so I just assumed. I would like Biden to be replaced in the primary with someone better as well, but it's not going to happen.
biden supporters shouldn't sweep concerns like that under the rug because that's how you lose elections. entitlement to people's votes isn't a good strategy, and "moderate" (right wing) candidates aren't actually safer since the median American is progressive based on how they respond to polls on individual issues. I'm sick of having these arguments with biden fans who seem to support him despite these glaring issues. personally I wasn't gonna vote for him anyways because I live in a deep blue state where it literally doesn't matter but if we get a fascist takeover of the government because biden lost it's all on biden fans for their poor choice in candidate and I just hope you'll join us on the barricades
I feel like that fatalistic attitude is too commonplace. That it's inevitable that fascist takeover, although Biden is not my favorite in any way, shape, or form, I would still have anything other than a fascist takeover with popular support. I feel like that kind of defeatism only sets us up for failure like in the Francoist revolution. Spain's left was so bitter that they really couldn't join together when the shit hit the fan.
Chin up man, of course we will join on the barricades if that happens. Don't let them live in your mind so much, let them "minecraft" in your mind.
Someone mentioned barricades? I've been waiting for the barricades, are they up finally?
That's a complicated question with an even more complicated answer. The two words I will use are geopolitical advantage.
"Ok, so he did stop the genocide. But he didn't stop it fast enough! Oh, the same day you say? Well he didn't stop it from happening in the first place!"
You can't argue with people who aren't really arguing.
It's not the average American you have to worry about .... it's the corporate controlled media companies that are pushing this narrative.
If you opened up the stage for people to speak up, they wouldn't want any of the people that are in place right now.
The media and the establishment are the ones who drive the narratives because they are the ones with all the money and control.
So average people aren't deciding on wanting someone like Trump ... it's corporate heads and wealthy backers who are promoting, advertising and pushing this narrative because that's what they want.
If these stories didn't sell, the media wouldn't run them. Yes, they should be objective and stop being culpable in this ongoing assault on American democracy... but they're serving a market.
They're not serving a market ... they're serving a master.
The general media is not an independent entity that does things to make a bit of money ... they are a tool that is used by corporations and the wealthy elite to corral people into a certain mindset and beliefs ... that eventually lead everyone into electing only those people that are marketed to them.
"It’s never gonna get any better. Don’t look for it. Be happy with what you got. Because the owners of this country don't want that. I'm talking about the real owners now, the real owners, the big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions. Forget the politicians. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own and control the corporations. They’ve long since bought and paid for the senate, the congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear. They got you by the balls." - George Carlin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_Zqbg6QThg
People wanting to read crazy, unhinged, insane, chaotic garbage about how the world is falling apart doesn't mean that they want it to keep happening or that they approve or that they think these are the right people to have in charge.
Their motives don't matter because the result is the same.
Edit: The algorithm is driven by engagement. One's particular reason for engaging with media content is wholly irrelevant- to the algorithm, watching Alex Jones because he's a flaming racist homophobic paranoid schizophrenic and watching Alex Jones because one is a flaming racist homophobic paranoid schizophrenic are equivalent. The algorithm doesn't care why the content was engaged with, only that it was.
And the algorithm serves the capital. Who needs truth and accountability when there's PROFIT!
I think the whole "let people decide what they want to see" line of argument is bogus, just like the lie about the relation ship between supply and demand. There's a big difference between "Hey I will tell you the truth for a penny", and "Hey I will tell you whatever you want to hear for a penny".
Motive always matters.
So you're blaming capitalism? I'm very much with you on that one. Except that the job of media is not to make money, but to report objective fact, and have people pay for that. You seem to have it backwards, otherwise there'd be no news, only sports, gossip, and porn.
And that’s why, even though finally Biden opened his mouth to tell corporations to stop price-gouging, prices are still high.
The propaganda machinery is total. They dictate to us what we can even talk and think about just like those 24/7 radios from 1984 installed in everyone's homes (which was a real thing in the Soviet client states, by the way)
The fate of the country doesn’t matter silly, ratings do!
Dude, they are the worst fanatics there, but this shit has spread all across the world. I can't even recognize my own country anymore, used to be one of the most socially progressive nations in the world. All it took was a little bit of consistent funding to right wing extremist groups over twenty years, which is nothing to achieve such dramatic political aims. With the help of the amoral conservative "private enterprise is more efficient than government ~for the capital~", people just sleepwalked straight into it.
The worst part is that I can't even figure out where your from with that description. Netherlands? UK? New Zealand?