• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    Why?

    Like, obviously bullshit propaganda, but name a cable news network not owned by corrupt billionaires who only bought it to manipulate public opinion.

    Bernie’s been on there so often they probably have a chair with his name on it.

    If you genuinely want to talk about helping Americans, it’s not impossible to get your message out.

    Hell, Pete goes on there all the time too. It’s not just progressives.

    We can’t reach them by being more conservative, but still to the left of Republicans.

    We have to reach them by authentically telling them how we’d help everyone. That can be sold on Faux News these days even if the hosts fight against it.

    But you can’t just trot someone out there to say “my name isn’t trump!” and expect to get applause.

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      14 hours ago

      It was the right thing for him to do- to go on and talk to those viewers - but i felt dirty watching the channel and changed it immediately after.

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        13 hours ago

        The people billionaires who bought CNN flat out said they were gonna emulate Faux News in order to manipulate the viewers with a focus on ad revune and outrage over information…

        Years ago bro.

        Like, one is worse, 100%. But we’re getting to the point where it’s like comparing “shot in the head” to “shot in the head, then they pee on you”.

        Whether or not that is the reality, that’s been the opinion of a large segment of reliable dem voters. And a good amount of R voters as well, then obviously nonvoters think that.

        There’s a shit ton of votes on the table for an authentic candidate, they just can’t get past the shambling zombie of Hillary’s “victory fund” that keeps getting handed off during the primary.

        Someone is going to be running in the 2028 dem primary with it btw, it didn’t just disappear.