Please, for the love of God, just stop giving him attention

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you want a billionaire owned multimedia ad revenue agency (aka the “news”) to stop hyping the billionaire backed chaos cheeze monkey and the stupid shit it says?

This is exactly why instead of expecting the media to evolve or adapt I encourage people to walk away from corporate news.

I'm not a zealot, so follow it if you like, just know that it has its own goals and one of them is to hook you on its crappy product and convince you that it is the sole arbiter of truth...when it's really stuffing its billionaire-sponsored narratives down your throat.

The reality is that if the news were in any way objective and about "the truth", it would steadily maintain reality-based positions over time, but it doesn't. It adapts based upon what its billionaire owners want and based upon the whims of the electorate -- all the while pretending that it does nothing to influence the whims of the electorate when it very clearly does.

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TIL. ty

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Yes, ty. Voice typing is bad lol

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Exactly. I heard more about Trump with Biden in office than I did when he was president before.

ddh

Like moths to an orange flame

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Well, no, not the same thing. This is a meta critique.

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"subtle" way of supporting him

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Oh yeah, they are indeed struggling to make ends meet which is exactly why they're doing this because THIS is what makes them money. Outrage sells so if they have to sell trump, they sell trump.

Is it cynical? I'm sure it is, it's also what it is

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Nah, I want him crazier and crazier. I want him to figure out how to act so batshit crazy that his own base keeps having to question themselves.

I don't think it'll happen, but I'll LOVE asking them to explain it away.

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The guy is never going to run out of dead cats to grab headlines and avert attention from more important things.

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Too late for that. Now its more about keeping track of madman with weapon.

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If you just sum it up as being stupid, you ignore the inherent nature of it.

It's intentionally stupid to make you pay attention to instead of anything truly meaningful. The political equivalent of saying something wrong on the internet just so some angry nerd comes along to correct you. He is stoking outrage for the sake of outrage, so that his bedfellows can capitalize on it, and he can mooch off them.

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That's so fucking stupid! They're covering it because it's news!

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Your theory of attention management is stupid and bad.

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Oh, he definitely does malign things that hurts both the US as a country and Earth as a whole... but not everything he says is indicative of what he does. If you simply take everything he says at face value, you will get so mired in bullshit that you won't be able to pull yourself out when something meaningful does happen.

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Too late

by about 8 and a half years

NotAnonymousAtAal

His base has long proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that they are immune to reflection, introspection, common decency and feelings of shame.

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not everything he says is indicative of what he does.

That's stupid!

You haven't actually been paying attention. Every single time he says something, he's tried to do it.

The declaration of the possibility of the use of military force in Panama has to be taken at face value. Don't be a fucking moron.

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Just don't look

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Strap in, with him actually in the White House it's going to get a lot worse.