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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Sad trombone.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The 8200 division at Meta working overtime

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

This is why we gotta ban TikTok!!!!! \s

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

“lobbing”

is this a trusted outlet? at least we can be pretty sure a human wrote it ha ha ha

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I would also like to lob Congress.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

please give me the lobbing machine 🙏

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Well it is called readsludge.com

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

right?!? lol

i know mbfc isnt the best but: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/sludge/

Bias Rating: LEFT Factual Reporting: HIGH Country: USA MBFC’s Country Freedom Rating: MOSTLY FREE Media Type: Website Traffic/Popularity: Minimal Traffic MBFC Credibility Rating: HIGH CREDIBILITY

…so…. maybe? maybe its fine idk

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Well we knew it had to be something. I mean most of Congress is too old to know what a tik tok is.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Tic Tac Toe!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

They’re just too old for everything. They’re almost part of ancient history.

[–] [email protected] 68 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Media headlines that use the word lobbying probably do it so that people don't take up arms. If they were to instead call it bribery, I think a lot more people would take issue with the whole process.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

they can't really do that because that would be defamation and they would be sued for it. Bribery is a crime and while it is effectively the same as lobbying from our perspective, one is legal and one is not and a media outlet can't just accuse someone of a crime without evidence unless they want to close up shop

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

How about ~~legal bribery~~ lobbying

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

When in practice Corruption is not investigated or prosecuted, nobody ever gets convicted of Corruption, the Media can't talk about Corruption as it would otherwise be defamation, hence the country has no Corruption.

I haven't lived in the US but I lived in the UK and this was exactly how Britain had "no Corruption".

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Except the only thing that will be prosecuted, or adjudicated, is the claim of libel entered by Meta, for suggesting their millions are anything other than legal contributions to something or other.

There is a solution, though, staring us all right in the face.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Just like how ABC paid/donated $15 million for reporting an unpleasant fact about the preaident-elect.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Yeah.

Those of us paying attention have spotted long ago that the Ju$tice System is mainly a tool for violent enforcement of the power of the moneyed and well-connected elites on the majority of the population behind a charade of "rules are rules" and it being just an independent and a fair mechanism for equal application of the "rules defined by Society" to all (all of which is nowadays and in a painlfully obvious way, clearly a bundle of lies).

All it takes is comparing how the Ju$tice System reacts to merelly the peons breaching uneven contracts with big companies or to the occupation of the property of the very wealthy by the poor, compared to how it reacts to violent crime in poor neighbourhoods, to see how their Ju$tice is not in any way form or shape Fair or Just.

Maybe it's less so in some countries and more so in others, but nowhere is it actually fair and independent.

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