Guy Montag
There was plenty of evidence he was unsavory before the Sieg Heil. www.newsweek.com/tesla-elon-m... www.bbc.com/news/busines... www.businessinsider.com/spacex-paid-... At this point, if you buy a Tesla - ANY TESLA - you are saying you are okay with this shit.
This is most excellent. I don’t do instagram, but I do occasionally watch John Oliver, and he brought it to my attention. So now I’m sharing it with you. www.instagram.com/p/DFtEPrihPH...
I’m under no obligation to give any brain cycles to people who can’t be bothered to be curious about what is happening around them. If you’re too unbothered to even ask questions about the world, I can’t be bothered to be your friend. It’s not about changing the world, it’s about personality.
Saw someone say, "End your friendships with people who are going about life like nothing is wrong." I will never understand people who think that further isolating ourselves from everyday people who don't get it is going to save us. It's not. Your judgment and disdain will not save us.
I learned media literacy as a kid. It was part of my school curriculum, and I had practical homework assignments to spot bias in newspaper reporting. I suspect it was for lots of other people, too. I wish they had paid more attention…
Obviously one must be careful in picking their sources. If all you do is watch Fox News, that’s bad. You also have to practice critical thinking. There’s a propensity for people to blame trad media “both sides-ing” issues, but if you can’t tell the difference between a legit argument backed by …
HUGE if true! This would be a massive story about media deliberately covering for Trump. It should be pretty easy to prove. Does anyone have any links to broadcasts from outside the US hosted on their corporate websites showing this? (Probably not. I doubt this happened. Hoping to be wrong though!)
When social media exposes traditional media’s deceit, it’s time for independent journalists to investigate why the press is backing a president who undermines free press—and is it coordinated?
Or, you could go further down the rabbit hole and convince yourself that the conspiracy is international! (There is no conspiracy.) www.irishstar.com/sport/other-...
HUGE if true! This would be a massive story about media deliberately covering for Trump. It should be pretty easy to prove. Does anyone have any links to broadcasts from outside the US hosted on their corporate websites showing this? (Probably not. I doubt this happened. Hoping to be wrong though!)
When social media exposes traditional media’s deceit, it’s time for independent journalists to investigate why the press is backing a president who undermines free press—and is it coordinated?
1) Venn diagram of NFL and Trump is a near circle. ⭕️ People keep underestimating the popular support Trump has. It’s delusional. All the evidence is that Trump and his ilk are actually hugely popular. 🤮 2) Who cares about Tom Cruise?!
NOTES: 1. Donald was not booed, I’m sure the NFL threatened people with ejection beforehand 2. Tom Cruise did the introduction for the Super Bowl so the NFL could squeeze some more sponsorship money out of Mission Impossible and Scientology.
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Video clip from Fox News of Leavitt speaking to the pres…I mean “the enemy” (it’s hosted on MSN, so don’t worry about clicking thru to Fox) www.msn.com/en-us/movies...
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The thing is, Netanyahu can unilaterally decide to end the Gaza campaign any time. Which he is doing now to support the narrative that his buddy Trump ended the war. And the protest voters aren’t going to see the lie. They will only see that the bombing has ended.
The Trump White House has reportedly instructed the Pentagon to release the hold imposed by the Biden administration on the supply of 2,000-pound bombs to Israel. Where are all those college protests now? 🤷
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I fundamentally do not understand non-voters. It is self-defeating behavior. Always vote. Vote 3rd party or write-in over *not* voting. No 3rd party will ever get support if all the anti-2-party protest votes just stay home. Not voting cedes the only power you have.
I do think that a bit of intra-coalitional bridge building that should be done is to admit that while not voting is dumb and bad, some (definitely not all) of the things that motivate anti-voting leftist types are valid complaints about the way a two-party system structures people's options.
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This is vile. The United States has a moral obligation to provided aide and assistance to the Afghans who provided the US with aide and assistance.
The Trump administration abruptly halted services for refugees in the United States, including Afghans, according to a memo obtained by CNN, stunning agencies that provide critical support to recent arrivals: cnn.it/42sjEeQ
“Every sperm is sacred!” 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Oh, wait, he’s serious… www.wlbt.com/2025/01/22/m...
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Did you get added to a list called “$3.19 - rat fried rice”? I can’t say what the rationale is (probably just engagement - any attention is good attention, amiright?), but if you subscribe to a @listifications.app list, then you’ve been added to the moderation list. @bodegasupport.bsky.app
I feel like this needs to get more attention from the public. #Luigi #DenyDefendDepose #Deny #Defend #Depose #healthcare www.beckershospitalreview.com/rankings-and...
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1) Yeah, that sounds to me like something he would do. 2) Who cares? 3) If this is the scandal that takes him down, I guess I do. fortune.com/2025/01/09/e...
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The idea that online misinformation is overblown is itself misinformation.
Still wild to me that so many "savvy" folks on left and right have bought into the idea that online misinformation is overblown and doesn't really matter. From lies about migrants to transgender people to crime to election denial to climate denial, it's literally driving our country's politics.
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I left Facebook in 2018 in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal. They sold out democracy and deserve to rot. Honestly, I don’t miss it at all. In fact, I run a VPN that blocks all meta domains, so I couldn’t go back even if I wanted to.
Honestly surprised people are freaking out over Facebook. I left it because it became a far right hellsite like 5 years before Twitter did. It's been that way for a very long time.