All I can say is keep fucking resisting. Because although they may have all this control, actually changing the culture of a population and individual minds is something else. And I truly believe that all human beings, all of us, want to err on the side of goodness, fairness, intelligence, love and understanding. It's built-in to our DNA as much, if not more, than all the opposite impulses of our minds. It's why authoritarian regimes eventually fall. Because who tf wants that besides the dictator and his groveling set of henchmen.
Just doing exactly what all dictators do from Hitler to Putin: control the media to control the truth to control the people. They got Twitter and TikTok too. Everyone should've left Twitter when Elon literally upside-downed that shit from a normal, sensible public internet forum where there were rules and moderation, to a hellscape where neo-fascist rapists keep their accounts while victims and protesters get banned. They've been very determined and they've succeeded. So far.
Glad to support independent media platforms like yours. I think it’s the future for most of us. The younger generations aren’t watching legacy media like CNN anyway, not that this merger isn’t dangerous; it is. But it’s not the future. And there is no, and has never been a “liberal media”. More Republican lies.
Me too! I only get my news from Brian, Aaron Parnas, ABC (owned by Disney) and no MAGA owned outlets. With Ellison buying Warner Brothers, including CBS and CNN, Repugs own 80% of the media. Be cautious of what news you see or read, as Repug owned media is MAGA biased!!!
P.S. to Brian, read your book and it is great!!! Thanks for your insights!
I do not condone violence. What I am about to say is meant to be objective. All these oligarchs and orange men are mortal. Keep fighting, Brian. We're behind you. Pendulums swing. I have faith in the people, and in ideals of the 1960s/70s. Those ideals will return with ferocity. We have lessons to learn. Let's be good students. I am 88 and will not be alive to see our future, for I am mortal, too. I have faith in the goodness that is America. God bless us all.
After 2028, we have some Trust Busting to do. We are going to have to make the Oligarchy simply unconstitutional. We will need wealth taxes. We are going to have to amend The Constitution in multiple places to shore up our democracy so that this cannot happen again.
Whatever happened to our anti-trust laws? This is way bigger than the AT&T of the 1980s. They were forced to split up big time. This just shows another example of more laws the trump regime ignores at will. If we can take over the house and Senate we are going to expect a lot more from them than what we have been getting!
The worst is it works. Drown people in fake news after condemning all news that is not. People get hypnotized by wartalk and muscle flexing. They believe the chilling remarks about sacrifying cities is "just a thing he says" etc. People who can joke about an execution that goes horribly wrong have changed into nazi characters from a book or movie. Racism is more vicious than it has been for a while at least. I won't react often but I follow you (almost) every step of the way. Even George Orwell did not see everything coming, a dictator who claims to know everything about everybody and everything thanks to AI, o sorry SI (Musk was grinning from ear to ear when he blurted that out) is one step further than O. The connection Israel-America has become one of the most unsettling things ever and you, Brian, and your serious colleague news gatherers will probably be illegal in the New World...
So all the more Keep Up The Good Fight! Love from Holland where Rutte believes he is now the King of the World, he keeps up his "faith in Trump" tho we believe being secretary general of NATO has gone to his head.
Deranged Don wants to keep our country ignorant with government-operated news stations, sick by cutting healthcare, poor by raising taxes, and stupid by cutting education. The United States will become another Russia or North Korea if we don’t stop the GOP Guardians Of Pedophiles. We can defeat them. 💙💙💙
They are rising, temporarily, just as climate instability is on its way to smack us hard - they will be useless when they finally realize they can’t do anything.. no control just totally helpless… let’s just hope as the oceans warm undercutting the Antarctic and Greenland glaciers and ice shelves and that they don’t break away… most coastal cities won’t be able to survive the surge of rising sea levels.
And I’m not even getting into the extreme heat, droughts, state sized wildfires, monster storms like we’ve never seen before… just a few minor things to worry about. You know how these morons love science.
When right wing talk radio took over AM radio - and subsequently their 'sister' FM stations if you know how radio frequency licensing works in the US - I genuinely became worried. It lowest common denominator, cheap but ubiquitous media they took over first, then print consolidation takeover, then cable news. Now there's no longer a Town Square anyone can rely on... nor a white house, sadly! #EndTrumpsFascistRegime Edit: Check this out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvndiG-y2dc
All I can say is keep fucking resisting. Because although they may have all this control, actually changing the culture of a population and individual minds is something else. And I truly believe that all human beings, all of us, want to err on the side of goodness, fairness, intelligence, love and understanding. It's built-in to our DNA as much, if not more, than all the opposite impulses of our minds. It's why authoritarian regimes eventually fall. Because who tf wants that besides the dictator and his groveling set of henchmen.
Just doing exactly what all dictators do from Hitler to Putin: control the media to control the truth to control the people. They got Twitter and TikTok too. Everyone should've left Twitter when Elon literally upside-downed that shit from a normal, sensible public internet forum where there were rules and moderation, to a hellscape where neo-fascist rapists keep their accounts while victims and protesters get banned. They've been very determined and they've succeeded. So far.
I definitely left twitter as soon as Elon, baby, came anywhere near it.
Truth has a liberal bias.
And Liberalism has a bias toward truth.
Glad to support independent media platforms like yours. I think it’s the future for most of us. The younger generations aren’t watching legacy media like CNN anyway, not that this merger isn’t dangerous; it is. But it’s not the future. And there is no, and has never been a “liberal media”. More Republican lies.
Me too! I only get my news from Brian, Aaron Parnas, ABC (owned by Disney) and no MAGA owned outlets. With Ellison buying Warner Brothers, including CBS and CNN, Repugs own 80% of the media. Be cautious of what news you see or read, as Repug owned media is MAGA biased!!!
P.S. to Brian, read your book and it is great!!! Thanks for your insights!
I do not condone violence. What I am about to say is meant to be objective. All these oligarchs and orange men are mortal. Keep fighting, Brian. We're behind you. Pendulums swing. I have faith in the people, and in ideals of the 1960s/70s. Those ideals will return with ferocity. We have lessons to learn. Let's be good students. I am 88 and will not be alive to see our future, for I am mortal, too. I have faith in the goodness that is America. God bless us all.
As my more religious friends would say, “From your lips to God’s ear.”
After 2028, we have some Trust Busting to do. We are going to have to make the Oligarchy simply unconstitutional. We will need wealth taxes. We are going to have to amend The Constitution in multiple places to shore up our democracy so that this cannot happen again.
The only way that can happen is to have a blue tsunami in the midterms! Please vote true Blue!!!
100% Brian. It's sad times.
Whatever happened to our anti-trust laws? This is way bigger than the AT&T of the 1980s. They were forced to split up big time. This just shows another example of more laws the trump regime ignores at will. If we can take over the house and Senate we are going to expect a lot more from them than what we have been getting!
I don’t see the Republicans acknowledging any laws, much less the antitrust laws.
Remember....that two faced son of a bitch Gavin (i love billionaires coz it's a big tent) Newsome allowed this to happen.
The worst is it works. Drown people in fake news after condemning all news that is not. People get hypnotized by wartalk and muscle flexing. They believe the chilling remarks about sacrifying cities is "just a thing he says" etc. People who can joke about an execution that goes horribly wrong have changed into nazi characters from a book or movie. Racism is more vicious than it has been for a while at least. I won't react often but I follow you (almost) every step of the way. Even George Orwell did not see everything coming, a dictator who claims to know everything about everybody and everything thanks to AI, o sorry SI (Musk was grinning from ear to ear when he blurted that out) is one step further than O. The connection Israel-America has become one of the most unsettling things ever and you, Brian, and your serious colleague news gatherers will probably be illegal in the New World...
So all the more Keep Up The Good Fight! Love from Holland where Rutte believes he is now the King of the World, he keeps up his "faith in Trump" tho we believe being secretary general of NATO has gone to his head.
I'm so disgusted with the Trump machine. They have gobbled up all the major media outlets.
We have the truth on our side. That's all that matters
Yes, but we Democrats and other like-minded citizens, have been bringing Facts to a Feelings Fight.
Deranged Don wants to keep our country ignorant with government-operated news stations, sick by cutting healthcare, poor by raising taxes, and stupid by cutting education. The United States will become another Russia or North Korea if we don’t stop the GOP Guardians Of Pedophiles. We can defeat them. 💙💙💙
They are rising, temporarily, just as climate instability is on its way to smack us hard - they will be useless when they finally realize they can’t do anything.. no control just totally helpless… let’s just hope as the oceans warm undercutting the Antarctic and Greenland glaciers and ice shelves and that they don’t break away… most coastal cities won’t be able to survive the surge of rising sea levels.
And I’m not even getting into the extreme heat, droughts, state sized wildfires, monster storms like we’ve never seen before… just a few minor things to worry about. You know how these morons love science.
When right wing talk radio took over AM radio - and subsequently their 'sister' FM stations if you know how radio frequency licensing works in the US - I genuinely became worried. It lowest common denominator, cheap but ubiquitous media they took over first, then print consolidation takeover, then cable news. Now there's no longer a Town Square anyone can rely on... nor a white house, sadly! #EndTrumpsFascistRegime Edit: Check this out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvndiG-y2dc
I’m right there with you on this. See my note to Brian in Comments.
Nuance and complexity and careful listening has a liberal bias.
We have to weed out the corporate Democrats. They make our party weak and ineffective.
Is this not a monopoly? Is that not illegal? Can the next administration break it up like Ma Bell was in 1984???? I am genuinely seeking an answer.