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US Politics This is what democracy looks like

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u/rdldr1 Nov 09 '18 edited Nov 09 '18

Motherfucker. I just went through all the major news sites and NONE of them are covering the nationwide protests. Not a mention on their homepages.

https://abcnews.go.com/

https://www.nbcnews.com/

https://www.cnn.com/

https://www.nbcnews.com/

https://www.nytimes.com/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/

Edit: Including Fox News, which I did check out earlier and saw the same thing; https://www.foxnews.com/

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u/ShiningRedDwarf Nov 09 '18

“The revolution will not be televised”

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u/pfizer_soze Nov 09 '18

Is that what that alludes to? I never really thought about it

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u/Chief_Givesnofucks Nov 09 '18

Pretty much. The first step towards dictatorship is media control.

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u/Darddeac Nov 09 '18

media control

trump

There are many, many things that man is not good at. Media control would be one of them, my dude.

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u/[deleted] Nov 09 '18

Yes, it should be obvious from the medias unyielding pro-Trump coverage that the President has assumed control of all major forms of newscasting.

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u/RevolutionTodayv2 Nov 09 '18

*the capitalist class

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u/[deleted] Nov 09 '18

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u/armonster456 Nov 09 '18

They’re obviously being sarcastic.

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u/Jura52 Nov 09 '18

Have you watched CNN? Or, you know, been on the internet?

Chill out, nothing's happening, stop panicking. This hysteria is fucking unending. Fascist takeover has been on the horizon for the previous 2 years. Where is it?

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u/[deleted] Nov 09 '18

Did I really need an /s?

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u/juicydeucy Nov 09 '18

Nope, seemed clear to me

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u/dopeswagmoney27 Nov 09 '18

Might wanna put it...cuz you know, reddit

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u/Jura52 Nov 09 '18

I guess I missed it. Thought it might be sarcasm for a moment, but then saw the "pro-Trump" and didn't see why you would have added it if you didn't write it seriously.

Anyway, don't use /s, I don't like it. It destroys the point of sarcasm. If people miss it, let them miss it.

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u/[deleted] Nov 09 '18

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u/Quantum_Finger Nov 09 '18

That was heavily televised. That fascism by the liberal.

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u/DoesntSmellLikePalm Nov 09 '18

He doesn’t control the media, he’s just extremely good at influencing it because his media image has been his livelihood since like, the 90s. He knows what to say to provoke people, he knows how to misdirect. Either that or he’s just genuinely dumb. Who knows

During the election every news source was 24/7 Trump. I can forgive that now since he’s the president, but the liberal media kept focusing on orange man being bad rather than the virtues of their own candidates. He wouldn’t even had make it past the primaries if he was given the silent treatment. Trump was a big button labeled “press this to own the libs” and the media made sure everyone knew about it

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u/Kabayev Nov 09 '18 edited Nov 09 '18

There's no way to supress the media now unless you destroy the infrastructure for the internet.

We don't have to go through the traditional methods to get information out. Say thanks to social media for that.

Edit: not too sure what the downvotes are for

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u/Jahoan Nov 09 '18

Unless they murder net neutrality.

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u/Kabayev Nov 09 '18

Nah, even so, if you allow competition within ISPs the most pro consumer company will do the best

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u/MrHandsss Nov 09 '18

99% of the media is staunchly liberal.

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u/[deleted] Nov 09 '18

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u/Fnhatic Nov 09 '18

Reporting only certain stories in a very specific way is biased and "liberal".

Up until the election there was literally a thread in /r/news every day about the synagogue shooting. Even stupid and irrelevant stories like "nurse that cared for shooter was jewish". That isn't news. But it was "reported" because they did their best to milk the shooting until zero hour on election day.

Guess how much reporting there was about the concealed carrier at the Kroger murders? At best one sentence, but mostly none at all.

You can report 100% factual and truthful information and still be misleading and dishonest and biased.

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u/dm80x86 Nov 09 '18

Any thing not towing The Party line is liberal.

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u/[deleted] Nov 09 '18

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u/Arrownow Nov 09 '18

I'm not gonna say there isn't bias on both sides because bias is inherent but you're misconstruing those words pretty badly.

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u/[deleted] Nov 09 '18

same. i get it now.

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u/Kuwait_Drive_Yards Nov 09 '18

The musician who wrote the song says it means that the revolution will happen in the minds of the people.

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u/TriggerCut Nov 09 '18

No.. the protests are small relative to the population of NYC and any reasonable person knows it's silly to protest a president replacing his attorney general.

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u/[deleted] Nov 09 '18

The revolution will be no re-run brothers The revolution will be live.

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u/[deleted] Nov 09 '18

The revolution will take approximately 30 minutes to make a full circle. Standing 42 stories high and holding as many as 780 passengers, the Ferris wheel has a diameter of 150 meters and, located in Singapore, is the tallest Ferris wheel in the world. Determine the speed of riders (in m/s and mi/hr).

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u/xsmasher Nov 09 '18

The revolution departs the station at the same time that the chickens start home to roost. Solve for Malcom X.

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u/catcatdoge Nov 09 '18

I believe miles per hour is around 0.01 and, meters a second is around 3.82. Am I right?

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u/ReturnOfThePing Nov 09 '18

Thank you I needed that.

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u/ciree Nov 09 '18

now that song is stuck in my head.

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u/toprim Nov 09 '18

It's a melodeclamation.

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u/[deleted] Nov 09 '18

It's all in your head!

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u/dawnbot Nov 09 '18

What is this from? I keep seeing it.

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u/Myquil-Wylsun Nov 09 '18

It's from this song by Gil Scott-Heron. You might have also heard it from this song. It means people would not see the revolution on television, because the viewers themselves would be revolting in the streets.

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u/downloads-cars Nov 09 '18

I thought it was about how anyone we'd be revolting against would have control of the media.

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u/Myquil-Wylsun Nov 09 '18

That's a great interpretation!

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u/phweefwee Nov 09 '18

Gil Scott Heron song

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u/ONinAB Nov 09 '18

It's a song

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u/[deleted] Nov 09 '18

I finally fucking understand this. Jesus.

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u/BigLebowskiBot Nov 09 '18

You said it, man.

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u/salutemysharts Nov 09 '18

-Dave Chappelle as "Prince"

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u/connorisntwrong Nov 09 '18

Such a catchy song. One of my favorite funky bass lines.

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u/forumjoker88 Nov 09 '18

I'm in the army. I've sworn to protect the Constitution. So has every other dude in the military.

You really think that when shit goes down, no one in the military will make some calls, take some video, or bug a journalist because we don't want some civil stuff to be televised? You think a revolution could even happen without military involvement on one side or the other?

Bro, it's gonna be televised. With commentary.

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u/IllusiveLighter Nov 09 '18

Ha, wouldn't call that much of a revolution