• TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    Okay. Am I to assume this means they have to do interviews on fox News? What the fuck are they supposed to do about this? They clearly know it

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    7 hours ago

    If only they had compromised more and reached across the aisle harder. That will surely fix it next time.

  • Intergalactic@lemmy.world
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    It is also time for the Democratic Party to genuinely embrace progressive policies. It is evident that not many people were enthusiastic about Harris’s moderate campaign policies.

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      5 hours ago

      It was time in 2016. Biden barely won in 2020 and somehow Dems took that as a mandate to be even more conservative. At this point I have no idea how progressive ideas ever get implemented.

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        I mean, in the US, the archetype of progressive policy success, the New Deal, was only possible because of labor militancy and the threat of systemic collapse. That should give an idea

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    lol

    Isn’t this how every other authoritarian regime on the planet operates? Control all the main media sources, promote only the main messages and propaganda that you want people to see and listen to, repeat it all endlessly, repeat it everywhere, fund it so that this media machine has all the resources it needs to maintain everyone’s attention all the time.

    Then when someone on the outside looks in … everyone inside will think they are weird because they exist in their own reality.

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    Practically speaking, what is supposed to be done about it? It’s all protected by the first amendment. Even if they were to somehow pass a new kind of “fairness” legislation in a future blue wave, the stacked SCOTUS will strike it down.

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      They could at least try to end corporate personhood… make it so that corporations are not protected by the 1st amendment and don’t get free speech… Anything they blast out needs to be scrutinized and any misinformation needs to have heavy penalties… Sure the actual person saying the thing is protected, but the corporations pushing it out or allowing it to go out through them get crushed under fines… This would require a party that is not working for the oligarchy/donors though

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        They could at least try to end corporate personhood… make it so that corporations are not protected by the 1st amendment and don’t get free speech…

        You’d need a supermajority to amend the constitution, and that is completely unrealistic.

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          It wouldn’t be easy, but I think people, especially young people, want to vote for people who will actually fight… Over and over as long as it takes

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      Left wing bias? Like anything remotely anti-capitalist?

      No, never seen it from anything remotely mainstream.

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      I see what Americans have been conditioned into believing is “left wing” - aka neoliberalism - but absolutely none of it save for a few streamers and podcasters are actually left.

      It’s all right of center and the difference is that the American “lefties” hide their imperialistic racism, or convince themselves they don’t have any.