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Corporate media is more outraged at the possibility of a Democratic socialist entering the NY Mayors office than at the certainty that a white supremacist has reentered the White House.

Corporate politicians are more outraged that Mamdani won't condemn something he didn't say than they are at Trump repeating racist things he definitely said.

Silicon Valley is more accepting of a racist who dehumanizes Muslims than they are of a Muslim who defies billionaires.

Sigh...Are we great yet?

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in reply to Qasim Rashid, Esq.

Because the racist brings in big ratings and profits. Selling Budweiser and Viagra is more important than being objective and telling the truth.
in reply to Aaron

Makes me wonder if the Democrats at the federal level are supportive of fascism. :/

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in reply to Neil E. Hodges

Almost every Democrat has spoken in favor of Mamdani. Don’t believe hype to the contrary.

The media is doing a terrible job amplifying one or two ancient out-of-touch quasi-Democrats, which is why people seem to believe this terrible narrative.

And tech bros / Venture capitalists have ALWAYS been greedy misogynistic racists.

The media and the tech bros are pushing anti-Democratic narratives manufactured to turn Democrats against each other and make MAGA stronger.

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in reply to Neil E. Hodges

@tk The billionaires that cut MAGAs paychecks also cut the Dems' paychecks. The door was opened with the general acceptance of legal bribery (aka "lobbying") and the doorstop was wedged in with Citizens United. All of this was made possible by Reagan-era policies that allowed the unmitigated accumulation and concentration of wealth in the hands of the elite.

MAGA only exists because, among the everyday people who were impacted by the ever burgeoning wealth and power inequality in this country, a significant fraction were either already bigoted or susceptible to bigoted messaging. This let the wealthy and powerful turn them against their fellow citizens as a distraction from the real culprits of everyone's misfortune: the 1%. Trump, being a narcissistic con artist, saw the opportunity and seized it for his own purposes, but if it weren't him, it would have been another. The opportunity was created intentionally. Divide and conquer.

We were all being played.

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@hosford42 @tk someone else on here said the war worth fighting is the class war. We are successfully being divided and conquered.

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in reply to Neil E. Hodges

@tk @hosford42 of course they are..their opposition is lip service done to give the illusion that someone is against it.. the democratic party abandoned its base years ago . They haven't cared what we want in decades

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Aaron
@gemlog @tk @keithzg A handful of people here are that rich. The rest of us scrape by.
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@gemlog @tk @keithzg (Wealth inequality is completely out of control here.)
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Aaron

@gemlog @tk @keithzg
Thanks for that link! I knew it was bad here. I didn't realize it was even worse in so many places. We are only in the top ~40!

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2013/12/05/u-s-income-inequality-on-rise-for-decades-is-now-highest-since-1928/

The Great Depression can be seen as a sort of (very painful) correction to wealth inequality. 2008 can be seen as an aborted correction of the same type. Without that correction, we have now reached the point where the wealthy are so far ahead that they can be blatant about their ownership of the government, and there is mass unrest. They turn us against each other instead of against them. And so fascism is born.