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I’ll go one more, this format itself breeds contempt and arguments. There’s never going to be a “good old Reddit” because it was always a cesspool. I was there for ten years, believe me. It’s a cesspool. It’s because it’s shaped like one. The format is the problem.

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Fully aware of that, doesn’t mean they’re incapable of repeating propaganda for the other side. It happens all the time. You know the phrase tax relief right? Of course you do. You’ve heard it used by people from across the gamut. Every time they do they reinforce what is a distinctively conservative political tenet: that taxes are inherently afflictions to be relieved. Not a debt to society for services rendered.

That’s a Republican viewpoint. And it’s deliberate. They drilled that phrase like they drilled the words freedom and terrorist down our throats. Coordinated fashion across literally hundreds of talking heads since the 80s. It’s so strong that virtually everyone has the same knee jerk reaction to just the thought of taxes. Young Democrats vote against spending bills, vote against higher taxes, all the time. They’re afflictions. We believe that now as a society, it only took 30 years or less. That’s the effect of propaganda.

It’s called framing, and when done correctly you can’t even broach topics without reinforcing the opposition unless you’re extremely careful.

This panel is a clear example of the power of framing. It’s the result of the last three generations being told all politicians are equally scum bags, that the very job itself is dishonest. That’s propaganda. It sets up the excuse “the other side does it too” when the damn well don’t.

It’s reinforcing the notion that the Democrats must be commiting crimes at an equal pace. That’s not just false, it’s absolutely absurd. There is no comparison to make between the two parties in the regard that this comic makes, and yet it makes it. That begs the question, doesn’t it?

Sooo again, all ears on what crimes Democrats might be sweating over (as directly implied by the comic).

No, look at the bird faces and tie colors in each panel. The message is Democrats have some imminent criminal charges to fear here. Which is a very common right wing talking point.

The implication here is that there’s a Democrat former POTUS who should be prosecuted for federal crimes?

I’m all ears.

The irony of people posting on web applications they utilize for their own enjoyment, “applications don’t belong on web browsers” is killing me here.

There is a portion of the tech industry with their head stuck firmly up their ass and it seems a lot of em hang out in the fediverse. These people would demand we go back to party lines and manual switchboards. Techno-hipsters who are just angry at the next generation who took their BBS internet and actually made the world use it.

Downvote me, that’s fine. Use that interactivity application on your browser. Go be the very definition of irony. Please.

When my wife first told me this I said “damn I feel sorry for the girl who didn’t do shit and got hit by a mic; you know Cardi isn’t gonna nail a person in the crowd” and she looked up the video. Sure enough, Cardi can’t throw any better than she can rap.

You, in my head.

You don’t even know what “identity politics” means, apparently.

Don’t bother with your half-cocked reply, asshole, I already blocked you and I recommend other readers do the same.

Yup. Remember this when they tout how threads “already has millions of users”. They’re all zombie accounts.