Yup, the country is falling rapidly into fascism and all I here about is a week old airplane crash.
this post was submitted on 05 Feb 2025
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Pointing out, debunking, and spreading awareness about state- and company-sponsored astroturfing on Lemmy and elsewhere. This includes social media manipulation, propaganda, and disinformation campaigns, among others.
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Weak sauce. The US press do not call out the US government. They keep you afraid of the boogie man, and use your personal values to divide you. You are not fixing this now.
This is an excellent piece of media reporting. Thank you for sharing it.
Its not a sleepwalk, the destination is intentional.
It's wild to have this relative silence from the media on all this. Especially considering how things tend to go for the media in fascism.
It goes great for media that's a propaganda arm of the government!
It’s because they’re all part of the same system - Bezos owns WaPo FFS, and that’s assuming people read newspapers in the first place.
It’s not sleepwalking if they’re actively enabling and always have been.
Sleep walks into autocracy? .... you mean marching lockstep alongside the fascist brigades (and frowning because they don't fully support it, but they'll still march in the parade anyway)
I keep seeing so many posts and headlines begging Democrats to do something to stop this, do people not fucking notice Republicans took majority in both chambers and even the SCOTUS?
The time for democrats to do something was during the last 4 years of biden's admin, they decided bombing gaza was the priority. ooops.
The DNC did a lot for the USA and they even did some good for Palestine as well by limiting Israel's access to large bombs and actively negotiating between Israel, who are not controlled by the USA, and Hamas, who were armed and funded by Iran, for a ceasefire and hostage exchange. All of that good is undone now that Netanyahu's favored candidate won the USA election and is pushing for all of Gaza to be cleansed of Palestinians.
Good job, you really saved Palestine by telling Biden off. /s
No, you need to fuck them over.
Fuck Comcast, Fox, Viacom and Disney.
Screw Google, Meta, Tiktok.
Don't demand anything. Adblock. Federate. Stop using their services, tell all your friends, shout it out, and then tell them. The only thing these entities understand is profit through engagement, and why it might be falling. They would run the country into the ground if it increases the quarter's profits by 3% and gives all the C-Suites golden parachutes.
...And that's what bothers me about so many charitable/advocacy organizations. They don't seem to understand how exclusively profit-driven so much news is now.