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She did not get half of burgerland to do anything that's not how the election works.
I heard from my mom last night that Putin directed Iran to tell Hamas to do the 10/7 attack. It was calculated to divide the US so we would be less effective in supporting Ukraine. This led to me yelling for two hours, which I don't feel good about, but I'm tired of explaining that when examining the world you have to strive to find plausible explanations for why things are happening, not something as fucking stupid as saying the people of Gaza were perfectly satisfied until a bunch of outside agitators got them stirred up.
Edit: She actually doesn't watch MSNBC. This is NYT brain. She used to be fine with criticizing media that promoted the war in Iraq, but doing that now means you're just like Trump.
Liberals completely gave up on self crit at some point in the last 6-8 years
It used to be how they showed they were 'better' than their counterparts, but Trump just broke so many brains
I fully believe a significant amount of libs opposed the Iraq war because it was started by Bush Jr. If it was a Democrat they wouldn't have been against it. Nevermind all the Dems that started it. GOP = bad, Dem = good, and for the parts that overlap, it's bad if GOP is currently in charge and a necessary evil/tolerable inconvenience if the Dems are in charge.
See also: Children in cages at the border
a significant amount of libs opposed the Iraq war because it was started by Bush Jr. If it was a Democrat they wouldn't have been against it.
well 99.9% is a significant amount
Clinton's NATO bombed the Chinese embassy 5 years before and not one peep
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Didn’t something like 90% of Americans support the invasion when it happened? The libs were only against it afterwards.
Yes. Virtually everyone except the actual left was on board at first. It was bananas.
It's like they've all become demcents but for an institution they have no democratic control over.
Thank you, this is a perfect description. I've been arguing with a liberal friend who seems to blame everyone but the DNC and Harris campaign for their loss, it's so frustrating and confusing why so many people are ride-or-die for the Dems.
The ride or die Dems make sense because it's the last thing holding their entire world view back from collapsing. Republicans are overtly evil so they're not an option. Third parties have no real chance of elections or social change. There are no mainstream activist groups that have social capital or numbers for change (like the civil rights movements).
So the Dems are all you have left to believe in the system. If you admit to yourself Dems are coconspirators in all the bad things about America, then you have no real reason to think America is a force for good. So for the majority of liberals the cognitive dissonance is an easier pill to swallow than saying "Are we the baddies?" Not to mention there is an infinite amount of media for you to consume that reinforces that dissonance so you don't have to think about it.
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I guess Bill O'Riely would be the Republican equivalent of her
Wrong, Bill is the shoulders which Rachel stands on. Every cable news talking head is copying his game. Bill walked so Tucker could run. He's only irrelevant now because he accelerated the american conservative past him.
I'd even go so far as to say he's a couple rungs down in terms of history. Tucker is standing on Glen Beck who is standing on O'Rielly.
This although Beck was standing on the shoulders of Alex Jones more than O'Reilly
Regardless of the order, whoever is standing on Alex Jones is standing on his roid gut, not his shoulders.
I cast Spicy Chili at the Roidgoblin
Roll for damage
Critical failure: you forget the names of your children
Fair enough, though O'Reilly was always kinda cribbing from Jones. He just never had the intensity. If we want to go that route though then they are all standing on Rush Limbaugh. As for who was most effective of the lot, hard to say.
Also not to forget Art Bell of Coast to Coast AM fame, whom I just learned while relistening to (I think) a Qanon Anonymous episode apparently died in a shootout with the cops just after 9/11 lmao.
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who was standing on rush limbaugh who was standing on bill buckley... it's assholes all the way down
Dig deep enough in the America Propaganda Mines and you find Goebbels down there.
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John Stewart was a cheerleader for norms and civility from about 2002-2015. He defined what as worthy of ridicule (Kucinich, Chelsea Manning, occupy movement) and ultimately what was worthy of respect .
What was his problem with Chelsea Manning lmao
I think it was something like "yeah war crimes are bad, but leaking secrets that put service members in danger is unacceptable." It's civility, but with the chain of command.
Ahh yes the old "endangering the troops" hobby horse they trot out to silence dissent, protest, or opposition. A charge they never level against the generals and emperors, kings and presidents, and fitting because of the topic of this thread, propagandists. The ones responsible for putting the troops in harms way to begin with.
endangering the troops
The picture of Abu Ghraib and the Collateral Murder video radicalised young me to the point where that's my reaction.
Why isn't it an emoji?
I think Chelsea served more time than any of the abu ghraib torturers (And obviously the commanders actually responsible for abu ghraib were never held responsible)
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CD-i Zelda says "no war but the class war, Link."
Sure their job is to be endangered and every boot worshipper is constantly using that as justification for why they should be the only ones with rights and shit, but also hOW DARE anything put them in danger.
i feel like it's a mistake to let the face of these operations have too much credit. This is a performance, and it is an editorial team that sets her agenda, it's a crew that manages her image, and it's the network that gives her the platform - the personalities of these people are there for your consumption and an icon you're encouraged to relate to and see as a teacher.
A friendly feminine presence who is there every night to tell you how to be an obedient little liberal
but never forget she's just a performer in an ensemble.
Yeah this is like saying the New York Times is tricking the working class.
In a proximate tier of liberal smugness, Sam Harris and Bill Maher have done damage.
Bill and Sam have the ears of actual liberal elite, like ceo's and investors. Rachel has your college educated white collars.
The big Eichmanns and the little Eichmanns.
They have indeed, but Bill Maher in particular is such an asshole and also a sexist prick that I can't see him having the ear of many (any?) women. Maddow, on the other hand, can appeal too pretty much all Libs.
Can't think of other examples. Just wanted to say that this happening is horrifying.
Yeah comrade, I was once accused of “spreading Russian propaganda” for simply sharing an article written by Benjamin Norton (the article had absolutely nothing to do with Russia whatsoever) because he was on a Russia Today podcast once (I guess?).
Absolutely deranged shit.
I mean, where do you even go from there? It's worse than being a rabid flat earther. That generation that said TV turns brains to mush was right.
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I remember in 2016 right after the election she was on some talk show and made some word salad like "Well Trump has a lot of policies that want to help only Americans so he's a nationalist. And he has policies that want to make sweeping social change, like a socialist. So he's really a national socialist." And I was nodding along with my lib brain.
It's plausible that Russia preferred Trump to his Democratic rivals, and did a little bit of trolling to fuck with America. But only to the tune of 0.1% of their military budget, not the 20% of GDP it would take to get anywhere near what BlueMAGA keeps accusing.
Well Kamala's campaign spent over 1 billion dollars and it didn't seem to make any difference 
That had to be money laundering.
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I thought people were memeing about how much she blames everything on Russia until I watched a couple of clips of her
Ehhhh that's giving her waaaaaaaaaaay too much credit. Not many people watch MSNBC
Yeah this is insane and would imply Maddow is good at what she does lol there’s not many burgers who give a shit about Russian interference
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Back before I was an ML I knew a few PMC liberal types who listened to Rachel Maddow. Yes, those individuals were the worst humans one could imagine. But what used to shock me was how non-Amerikans would listen for an hour (?) each day about Russian electoral interference.
Red MAGA propaganda - can you believe the libs think they know better than us, rage
Blue MAGA propaganda - we libs know better than them, rage
Synthesis: red libs who know better than everyone how to loot the country by enraging everyone as a distraction
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