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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: dutch508 on February 20, 2018, 02:36:59 AM
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it starts off with the typical DUmpmonkiez whining about how if we could just all see that they are right and switch to being good [D] leftists, maybe this country could be saved...
then there is this post:
Star Member appalachiablue (13,687 posts) https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210260607
15. For quite some time I've had concerns about why so many on the left and Dems. seem largely indifferent to the 30-year power and influence of prolific, free Fox TV Stations and RW Hate Radio. Hardly a month passes that the topic doesn't come up in posts, but still nothing happens.
Consolidated extreme right news media controls 96% of the Radio market, 1,500 Stations with 300 Talkers going at it night and day, as one DUer on top of the issue wrote again today.
These ultra conservative radio stations and Fox television are aired all over, easily accessible to millions of Americans in their cars, at hotels, airports, businesses, even dentist offices and on college campuses.
Americans throughout the US now have very few other broadcast news choices, especially in the last five years. Millions of people have been profoundly affected by the lies and hate, many of them for decades. In the last 20 years the internet has also become an outlet including newer venues that promote Alt Right views especially designed to attract young males.
Why has there been no serious effort lately to counter the behemoth which is effective but clearly divisive and dangerous for democracy? Interested individuals and groups with the resources to create alternative, truthful media venues, esp. in broadcast must exist, somewhere. Claims that 'Air America failed' and Nothing can be done, 'wingers don't read' are often heard and unsatisfactory. Similar to comments Re freedom of speech, the FCC, ignoring the Sherman Anti-Trust Act since Reagan, the 1996 Telecom Act.
There must be a way, this can't be insurmountable but what's the obstacle? I really must be missing something significant. Anyway, the entire subject remains puzzling. Thanks and Signing off!
Let's just do away with that pesky Freedom of Speech nonsense...
:whatever:
BlueStater (4,997 posts)
7. I don't WANT to come to together with them.
A national tragedy three times the size of 9/11 couldn't get me behind that digusting human being with the completely unworthy title of "President" or his racist, ass-brained followers.
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Star Member BigmanPigman (11,425 posts)
17. After I read a DU post a few weeks ago I realized that coming
together is almost impossible. I sent the article to my family and friends and they agreed. The differences are ingrained in then people for generations and will never be swayed. It is long but worth the read.
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/02/insider-explains-rural-christian-white-america-dark-terrifying-underbelly/
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Star Member TreasonousBastard (29,170 posts)
20. Somebody was asking that in 1861...
The answer wasn't pretty, but it worked.
Oh, yes. The Republican party fought a war, destroyed the Democratic slave holding south and freed the slaves.
Then a [D] assassinated the President...
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Star Member appalachiablue (13,687 posts) https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210260607
Why has there been no serious effort lately to counter the behemoth which is effective but clearly divisive and dangerous for democracy?
I agree there needs to be a much stronger conservative presence to offset the extreme left-leaning bias of the msm. Fox has been moving leftward for the last 10 years so we need something to counter that as well.
I propose a right-oriented, taxpayer-funded broadcast network that is as big as all the other networks combined. I will be the arbiter of what is "left" vs "right" reporting.
Thank you for bringing this danger to democracy to my attention dear appalachiablue. Swift action must follow!
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There must be a way, this can't be insurmountable but what's the obstacle? I really must be missing something significant. Anyway, the entire subject remains puzzling. Thanks and Signing off!
It should be easy to understand, the majority of people don't agree with your left wing /progressive bull shit agenda. You have shown yourselves to be a bunch of commies and fascists. :thatsright:
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"Star Member BigmanPigman (11,425 posts)
17. After I read a DU post a few weeks ago I realized that coming
together is almost impossible. I sent the article to my family and friends and they agreed. The differences are ingrained in then people for generations and will never be swayed. It is long but worth the read.
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/02/insider-explains-rural-christian-white-america-dark-terrifying-underbelly/"
They've been posting and reposting that same hatemongering BS article over and over again ever since the election. It can be basically summed up as the DUmmies' standard response to the election of President Trump: "Oh, it's not that rural America sees us as a bunch of mean, smug, pretentious, condescending elitist pricks who look down our noses at them, voted against our candidate for that reason, and attempting to appeal to them in the name of unity and address them as our equals could help us win the next elections: It's that we really ARE so much better, smarter, and more enlightened than all those brainless, inbred, racist, gun- humping, Bible- thumping rednecks in Flyover Country, and they're just jealous of us! We should be even MORE mean, condescending, and pretentious towards them as we near the next elections, that's SURE to be the perfect strategy to help us win!"
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Since their version of 'Coming together' involves everyone else offering complete submission to their unchecked authority on all matters, I think we can safely say that isn't going to happen.
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"Star Member BigmanPigman (11,425 posts)
17. After I read a DU post a few weeks ago I realized that coming
together is almost impossible. I sent the article to my family and friends and they agreed. The differences are ingrained in then people for generations and will never be swayed. It is long but worth the read.
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/02/insider-explains-rural-christian-white-america-dark-terrifying-underbelly/"
They've been posting and reposting that same hatemongering BS article over and over again ever since the election. It can be basically summed up as the DUmmies' standard response to the election of President Trump: "Oh, it's not that rural America sees us as a bunch of mean, smug, pretentious, condescending elitist pricks who look down our noses at them, voted against our candidate for that reason, and attempting to appeal to them in the name of unity and address them as our equals could help us win the next elections: It's that we really ARE so much better, smarter, and more enlightened than all those brainless, inbred, racist, gun- humping, Bible- thumping rednecks in Flyover Country, and they're just jealous of us! We should be even MORE mean, condescending, and pretentious towards them as we near the next elections, that's SURE to be the perfect strategy to help us win!"
That is a good summary of the story. I got about 1/3 the way thru the article before I hit the TLDR mark and stopped. I just could not handle the smugness oozing from the article anymore.
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https://www.rawstory.com/2018/02/insider-explains-rural-christian-white-america-dark-terrifying-underbelly/"
They've been posting and reposting that same hatemongering BS article over and over again ever since the election. It can be basically summed up as the DUmmies' standard response to the election of President Trump: "Oh, it's not that rural America sees us as a bunch of mean, smug, pretentious, condescending elitist pricks who look down our noses at them, voted against our candidate for that reason, and attempting to appeal to them in the name of unity and address them as our equals could help us win the next elections: It's that we really ARE so much better, smarter, and more enlightened than all those brainless, inbred, racist, gun- humping, Bible- thumping rednecks in Flyover Country, and they're just jealous of us! We should be even MORE mean, condescending, and pretentious towards them as we near the next elections, that's SURE to be the perfect strategy to help us win!"
Your summary is superb, much better than the article. It's a frickin' strawman Holocaust, and a very long one at that.
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it starts off with the typical DUmpmonkiez whining about how if we could just all see that they are right and switch to being good [D] leftists, maybe this country could be saved...
then there is this post:
Let's just do away with that pesky Freedom of Speech nonsense...
:whatever:
:mental:
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Oh, yes. The Republican party fought a war, destroyed the Democratic slave holding south and freed the slaves.
Then a [D] assassinated the President...
:censored:
Yup I ran across a this very thing not long ago but it comes up frequently, like bad sushi.
https://upload.democraticunderground.com/100210274784
No DUmmies of prominence on the thread, basically low throw 'cred seekers. Point is, it is their nature to believe that only with proper propaganda will they prosper. But to a Commie, the ends always justify the means.