I watch something every day, but I balance things out by including mini-marathons of Halloween tv specials, like The Simpsons, South Park, and Brooklyn Nine-Nine, etc. Halloween themed comedies are a great way to keep from burning out.
Too little too late. Fuck the New York Times and their sane-washing of Trump.
Behind The Bastards did an interesting two part episode covering the role that the media played in Italy, Germany and the U.S. which contributed to the rise of fascism throughout Europe during the 1920s and 1930s. Basically, their attempts to maintain neutrality only served to legitimize extremist rhetoric and present fascists as reasonable folks who just had different, but equally valid, ideas. So The New York Times is just perpetuating the status quo here by sane-washing Trump and legitimizing the extremist goals of the MAGA movement. At some point everyone has to take a side, and many media outlets, including the NYT, have a lengthy track record of choosing to align themselves with the right side of history only after the dust has settled.
If anyone would like to check out the episodes I'm talking about, here's the YouTube version:
Edit: Anyone suggesting the media should not reject fascism in the name of some misguided sense of objectivity will be ignored. I don’t debate the merits of legitimizing fascist movements.
While it’s great news that someone’s finally going to prison I can’t help but feel that 9 years out of the 20 that the prosecution were seeking is still a slap on the wrist. At 68 this may still prove to be a life sentence but I’d feel a lot better if she had received the max and removed all doubt. If anyone deserves it, it’s this woman, the judge even recognized she has no remorse for her crimes and would do it again if she had the chance.
These weak sentences are only going to embolden the republicans organizing the next attempt to steal the elections. And that one is mere weeks away.
Since people on Lemmy don’t read articles and only comment on headlines here’s why this is important:
As a deadly storm system approached the southeastern U.S. last week, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper’s office asked top state officials to support his call for emergency help.
He needed approval from the other elected officials in North Carolina’s executive branch, a group of nine known as the Council of State, to exercise certain authorities under the N.C. Emergency Management Act. Their blessing would enable the Democratic governor to more easily mobilize rescue vehicles, order evacuations and begin other emergency actions by waiving some of the state’s transportation regulations for heavy vehicles.
Mark Robinson did not support the people of North Carolina when they needed him, but also keeps publicly insisting that Gov Cooper do more. Basically, he is and always will be a total fucking piece of shit.
but I do have to find the choice of 9 other cherry-picked countries to be an odd comparison.
Just to be clear, the "cherry-picked" countries you think are an "odd comparison" are Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
It’s laughable that MAGA chuds keep insisting the mainstream media is biased against Trump when the truth is he gets every advantage and benefit of the doubt imaginable. It’s not their fault he’s just a stupid piece of shit that fumbles everything despite their help.
Let’s be honest here, the mainstream media and cable news networks in particular have been carrying water for Trump since he descended that fucking escalator in 2015 and announced his racist platform. Nobody wants a second Trump presidency more than the mainstream media. There’s a reason ABC kept turning his mic back on during the debate but shut Kamala Harris down the one time she tried to speak outside of her allotted time. The major news outlets have failed us completely.
Yes, that’s the Major League Soccer team I’m referring to. As I said, there are plenty of Messi fans that call the sport soccer. Your claim is objectively false.
It’s too bad about Artifact shutting down. I jumped on that app as soon as it was publicly available last February and thought it had a lot of potential.
If anyone’s looking for a good FOSS RSS Reader for Mac and iOS I highly recommend NetNewsWire.
I watch something every day, but I balance things out by including mini-marathons of Halloween tv specials, like The Simpsons, South Park, and Brooklyn Nine-Nine, etc. Halloween themed comedies are a great way to keep from burning out.