Pretty much the majority of Americans.

They had a horse race to run.

Because they are “objective” and “both sides”…

I’m going to make sure I call it a “donvict tax” and call it “donvictflation” whenever I’m within earshot of redhats or suspected redhats.

Bunch of WATBs with the thinnest of skins.

There sure are a lot of stupid people.

It’s too bad the vote of a complete moron counts just as much as someone that is far smarter.

Imagine, being anti-vaxx in the year 2024. And being put into a position of power to do something about it…FFS.

Only difference now is that we free in the information age. There is no sweeping this under the rug and the main outcome is going to be the bottoming out of what remains of our birth rates.

They can still effectively hide this information from the typical dumbass. The mediascape is so much narrowcasting and so bifurcated that a lot of people that choose to live in willful ignorance (the fauxbrained) will continue to do so. People that are not intentionally locking out any evidence but are basically low-info/passive consumers of things like Youtube, etc…will still probably be influenced by algorithms that are more likely to red-pill them than to actually inform them.

The elites hate having the threat of a good example.

Meanwhile, the dumbass marks among the qons just think that it was “tyranny” to get vaccinated or wear masks, FFS.

…and then vote for a felon who talks about being dictator for a day and staged a coup attempt.

Fuck 'em. Let them fume. This is the party that wants to let the terrorists from Jan 6 off with a pardon. The party that thinks donvict can do no wrong.

The “respectable news sources” have been fully co-opted by buffoons for decades.

Yep. It’s probably not as cartoonishly ridiculous as things might be under Putin, but given the capitalist framing all of them are in, they don’t have to be that ridiculous.

It all goes back to Chomsky - set up an extremely narrow range of permitted opinions, and “allow” vigorous debate, only in that range and marginalize anything outside that range. Rinse, repeat.

But mah egg pricez!

At least two years late, but good for them anyway, I guess.

They’ll probably starve the civil rights division or anything that’s involved with investigating right-wing domestic terrorism groups that have white nationalist ties.

How would we even be able to tell? It seems it is already terribly politically incorrect to suggest that white right wingers could be terrorists.

News orgs would have set up their own Mastodon instances ages ago and moved there if they were even 10% as “liberal” as the wingers claim they are…

That’s kinda the point. I don’t see anyone rushing to be the Czar Of Extremely Low Egg Prices, but I do see them making a performative rule against one particular person in Congress about where they can relieve themselves…

With the qons, cruelty is the point. It’s not about making anyone’s lives better, even their own base.

Ouch. JFC, the qons are such broken people.

He’s basically threatening Americans, since they’ll be paying this tax.

^ this is one of the main reasons I fucking loathe Elon so much.

Because of assholes like Elon, the epithet “tech bro” is now being applied to anyone and everyone in IT, most especially if they are white males, and that’s fucking bullshit.

I listen to his podcast (free version that gets cut off at some point midway through discussion), and I’m way behind on episodes, but what role did he have in gamergate?

Incels are gonna incel.

It seemed like every time I tried to listen to that, I kept hearing Randi Rhodes. Some of the others that came out of there still have good things to say, like Thom Hartmann and Cenk.

I don’t know what Al Franken has been up to lately.

But yeah, if there was something as funny as the Daily Show, but always something you could switch over to even on terrestrial radio, I think it’d be good to have something to combat all the hatriot radio…