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We actually live in a world now in which the President of the United States explicitly states his intent to overtly violate the first amendment and the media just repeats it as if nothing of any note is going on.
I think we actually get to understand now how Hitler came to power. I remember in school, I was mystified how such an hateful man could become a leader of a country. Now I understand.
History will most likely repeat itself and humanity needs a big war to once again remember what hate leads to.
It just sucks for the ones who already learned that lesson from basic history.
Best advice: Chop wood and carry water, or in other words, prepare for hard times and be careful of which side you are on.
Watching it unfold before me and still I'm baffled. This all still doesn't make any sense.
Exactly. I see that it can happen, I am seeing it happen first hand. I still don't understand why it's happening.
Every 80 years, some country has to repeat this shit. Sucks it's on our watch. But best to make the most of it. #NaziPunksFuckOff
Well the media is owned by them so...
Mainstream media at least. Thankfully, Arstechnica and The Verge have been shouting from the rooftops at how unconstitutional and fascist the trump regime is being.
I also heard Vogue magazine is actually not afraid to criticize as well
Teen Vogue is killing it right now. For example How ICE Raids Are Making It Easier for Civilian Men to Assault Immigrant Women
Your first amendment only applies to congress and legislative bodies at state and municipal levels. Private citizens and corporations technically can do whatever they want.
The media reports on it, attempting to do so from a neutral point of view.
I actually appreciate that the professional media is still attempting to stick to a neutral point of view. If they abandon that, you get media like MSNBC and Fox News where every single news story is discussed from a certain political point of view. That just sorts people into camps that listen to the news source that agrees with their perceived notions, which then radicalizes them even more.
If people can't agree on a basic set of facts, then there's no point to having a democracy. A media that covers the facts with as little bias as possible is essential to that working.
That isn't to say that I think the media is doing a great job. The big media companies that are owned by the oligarchs are doing especially badly. When Trump does something like this, responsible media that's attempting to be unbiased should at least connect historical dots, like other times that presidents have threatened the media, and what the results of that have been.
Because the public, apart from maybe one kid in Utah, is just sitting there allowing it.