this post was submitted on 22 Aug 2023
532 points (96.0% liked)

politics

18966 readers
8 users here now

Welcome to the discussion of US Politics!

Rules:

  1. Post only links to articles, Title must fairly describe link contents. If your title differs from the site’s, it should only be to add context or be more descriptive. Do not post entire articles in the body or in the comments.
  2. Articles must be relevant to politics. Links must be to quality and original content. Articles should be worth reading. Clickbait, stub articles, and rehosted or stolen content are not allowed. Check your source for Reliability and Bias here.
  3. Be civil, No violations of TOS. It’s OK to say the subject of an article is behaving like a (pejorative, pejorative). It’s NOT OK to say another USER is (pejorative). Strong language is fine, just not directed at other members. Engage in good-faith and with respect! This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban.
  4. No memes, trolling, or low-effort comments. Reposts, misinformation, off-topic, trolling, or offensive.
  5. Vote based on comment quality, not agreement. This community aims to foster discussion; please reward people for putting effort into articulating their viewpoint, even if you disagree with it.
  6. No hate speech, slurs, celebrating death, advocating violence, or abusive language. This will result in a ban. Usernames containing racist, or inappropriate slurs will be banned without warning

We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.

All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.

That's all the rules!

Civic Links

Register To Vote

Citizenship Resource Center

Congressional Awards Program

Federal Government Agencies

Library of Congress Legislative Resources

The White House

U.S. House of Representatives

U.S. Senate

Partnered Communities:

News

World News

Business News

Political Discussion

Ask Politics

Military News

Global Politics

Moderate Politics

Progressive Politics

UK Politics

Canadian Politics

Australian Politics

New Zealand Politics

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 104 points 1 year ago (6 children)

There's a blind side in America when it comes to acknowledging the primary role of racism and white supremacy that drives Trump's base and the right-wing ecosystem

The only “blind side” that I’ve observed since Trump entered politics is from journalists and media corporations that continuously bend over backwards to give him the benefit of the doubt, while doing literally the opposite for people on the other side of the spectrum like Sanders or AOC.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's class warfare and the media is entirely on the oligarchy side.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

You’re not wrong.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

You’re right!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Same. Even those who vote for him and his like and then disingenuously claim ignorance of racism and bigotry will actually acknowledge it behind closed doors and say it's "strategic".

Which is the dumbest shit I've heard.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not dumb, it's their goal. They want genocide and to turn the U.S. into a white supremacist shithole.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I mean, that goal sounds pretty dumb to me. So that's where I'm coming from as it being the dumbest shit I've ever heard.

It's like these people never emotionally matured past toddlers.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

I think it's telling that Chuck Todd called Sanders supporters "brownshirts" but didn't say anything close to that about the January 6 insurrectionists.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh but haven't you heard? Right wing views are always silenced! /s

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

As usual, it’s all projection 🙃

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

That's because Republicans played the long con.

They pretended to Champion fairness for so long, claimed that they were being unfairly discriminated against and that the media how do liberal bias. The result is that is now the media is too afraid to criticize the right for fearing that the liberal media stick will be used to hit them again.

It was never about ensuring an equal dialogue, it was about coming up with a standard where no matter what the right wing does, whatever the Democrats do has to be as good or as bad, regardless of what it is.

That's how you get "both sides are the same!" Nonsense

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/cKUaqFzZLxU?t=14

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source, check me out at GitHub.