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Scubamatt

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11. This is so true . . .

Reply to Miles Archer (Original post)

Wed Mar 11, 2026, 12:12 PM

Yesterday

it's one of the reasons why so much of my anger is directed to the so called media. I have come to expect Republicans to be liars and cheats and greedy authoritarians - it's baked into their DNA and you might as well ask the sun not to shine. But we know that the media can be different and should be different and that we cannot have a functioning democracy without some watch dog checking this authoritarian tendency.

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"....once you've convinced enough people that truth is just whatever you say..." [View all] Miles Archer Yesterday OP

Trump is the inevitable end product of corporate mass media's 50-year disinformation strategy. sop Yesterday #1

Can't argue with that jfz9580m Yesterday #8

Twilight Zone '63 Doodles Yesterday #12

;-{)..... Goonch Yesterday #2

A lot of truth there but eventually people wake up malaise Yesterday #3

Past the paywall UpInArms Yesterday #4

Thanks malaise Yesterday #5

And, War is Peace . . . NH Ethylene Yesterday #6

To do a bad paraphrase of Hannah Arendt kairos12 Yesterday #7

Very true jfz9580m Yesterday #14

"Less is more." Grumpy Old Guy Yesterday #9

Let us not forget that the people that believe this crap are themselves to a a certain extent accomplices. All con men Fil1957 Yesterday #10

I was thinking the same thing PatSeg Yesterday #15

This is so true . . . Scubamatt Yesterday #11

That is one of the most important points and thank you for expressing it so succinctly. llmart Yesterday #13

The advantage conservatives and MAGA have is that whatever their politicians say, Fox News, talk radio. and the rest Martin68 Yesterday #16

Thank you for this. My memory isn't what it used to be. kairos12 Yesterday #17

When Thom Hartmann speaks, I listen. yellow dahlia 23 hrs ago #18

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