IndustryStandard[Video] NBC cuts interview short after man points to private equity ruining his city instead of participating in nostalgia ramblings
This comment confuses me. I guess good? I do think he stands up for a good and humanitarian cause.
I think he’s saying that he loves him on multiple levels, including the sexy kind.
TrackinDaKrakenWhen MAGA complains about mAiNSTreaM MEdiA, they’re right. Just not in the ways they think.
Yep I think that’s a big part of what made MAGA so successful. They said a lot of the right things. They clearly didn’t mean them, AT ALL, but naive MAGA people didn’t realize that (and to a large extent still don’t fully realize how deeply cynical the lies actually were).
That’s how he got farmers on his side, military people on his side, the rust belt working class on his side. And so many of them still are. Because they want somebody to look out for and support them, and in a world where neither party gives a fuck about any of them, the one who says they’ll give a fuck (but doesn’t) becomes the only obvious choice. I’m convinced the most truthful words that ever came out of Trump’s mouth was his infamous quote “I love the poorly educated”. They don’t have enough insight into what’s going on to realize how thoroughly betrayed they’ve been, but they feel betrayed already. That’s why they joined MAGA. It’s not a new or surprising experience for them.
Or when he said smart people don’t like me recently. No shit.
But it’s no secret why he’s popular with some of the working class, or shouldn’t be, if it’s a mystery to you it’s a sign you are being deliberately misled by people you trust. He looks like he’s fighting the status quo. That’s it.
He seems like he’s fighting the corrupt system. And he is, he is just fighting to make it more corrupt for him. But we all know the public doesn’t know that. So it’s no excuse for not running our own campaigns that can win.
I think its more republicans point their fingers and say “these immigrants and woke people are responsible for your problems, so we need a giant fascist prison camp system to fix it” knowing full well it will make things worse.
Many democrat politicians do this thing where they try to make the answer as obtuse as possible to deflect their donors from blame so they mostly just sound like Nancy Pelosi when she said something like “the problems are very bad but their causes are very good”, the causes there being corporate donors that largely prefer republicans but also fund democrats to a lesser extent.
The other truthful thing he said was he could shoot someone on 5th avenue and not lose any support.
I think Cory Doctorow does a good job of explaining this when he talks about Naomi Klein’s book. They both call it a “mirror world” of political beliefs.
Qanon’s obsession with “child trafficking” is a mirror-world version of the real crises of child poverty, child labor, border family separations and kids in cages. Anti-vax is the mirror-world version of the true story of the Sacklers and their fellow opioid barons making billions on Oxy and fent, with the collusion of corrupt FDA officials and a pliant bankruptcy court system. Xenophobic panic about “immigrants stealing jobs” is the mirror world version of the well-documented fact that big business shipped jobs to low-waged territories abroad, weakening US labor and smashing US unions. Cryptocurrency talk about “decentralization” is the mirror-world version of the decay of every industry (including tech) into a monopoly or a cartel.
It’s easy to be convinced by that type of logic. I used to be heavily into cryptocurrency because I saw the failure of capitalism to protect us from corporate consolidation and monopolies, so I assumed “this system that decries centralized authorities must be better.”
They were only half right though. It’s true corporate consolidation was a problem, and the centralization it brought causes issues, but the reason that consolidation happens is because of capital, which crypto is very much not against, and heavily supports, through tokens that give you ownership over a share of all the income a protocol generates, even if that protocol could run just fine indefinitely on-chain without paying you a fee.
People slowly accumulate more wealth, more voting power, and eventually control how these “decentralized” protocols operate.
In the same way, MAGA thinking has the same problem, where they’ll correctly identify an issue or motive, but entirely misjudge what the cause of it is, will fight the wrong enemies (or worse, support their true enemies), and only later will they realize things have just kept getting worse.
🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞Well, okay, let’s be real. Do you want to see every news story go like “And we have a witness here who saw the thing that happened. Sir, can you describe what happened?” and he inserts a rant against capitalism?
At the same time, I applaud this guy. He even contributed to the fluff piece about snow, but also got some zingers in there. Nicely done.
I think like many things in life: A judicious sprinkling of this behaviour is great, and this got people talking, and I love it. Too much and it bogs down and gets unweildy.
This was awesome. I think it helps the conversation in a small way, and that’s awesome. Dont’ need too much of it, though. Definitely need action to work against our oligarchs, though. But this was good and helps a little :)
I do like some actual depth to my news instead of it all being fluff but I might be the exception.
That’s not what I’m saying at all. I thought I explained myself pretty well…
Yes. I want that. I want constant rants against capitalism.
Fuck. I want the local news to dedicate one segment a week to letting people come on and read their manifestos live on air. The crazier the better!
That’s not what I’ve said at all, though.
Yes I do. People don’t talk enough about the core issues in society, even though we all feel the pressure
Paradoxically it might lead to people feeling more heard, and if it contributes towards fixing the issues, well,.there’s less pressure in all of our backs
There’s a difference between derailing a fluff piece and derailing actual news.
duncan_bayneI’m talking about do you want EVERY SINGLE STORY interrupted by the ONE MOST IMPORTANT THING WRONG IN THE WORLD.
… actually yeah. That would not be a bad thing.
What a stupid as fuck hill to choose to die on.
What a stupid fucking bunch of idiots replying. Fuck you and fuck all of the rest of you fucking morons. Nobody would want that. I don’t know why people are saying they would. Jesus fucking Christ I hate the internet sometimes.
It was a little bit of observation and then everyone went YES WE ONLY WANT TO HEAR ONE REPEATING THING AND NOTHING ELSE, like, no news about ANYTHING else. That’s so fucking ridiculous I would think this is a fucking sarcastic subreddit.
This is the type of stupid shit that makes me not want to speak up at all, because everyone is fucking wrong. And it’s not a big deal until twenty people are like “ACKSHYLLU I AM STUPID” and the downvoting, which I don’t fucking care about numbers, but it’s the lack of respect for what was just a fucking comment in passing.
I thouht it was fun, but of course nobody wants that constant interruption. And now fucking morons are like “YES I want that interruption all the time!” No you fucking don’t and if it happened a TENTH of the time you’d complain that they should shut up.
So it was a nothing until asshole fucking morons made it something, and now it’s so much worse than nothing.
Goddammit. Fuck off.
Please refer to my previous comment.
And please fuck off and have a rotten day.
You are not here for conversation, and you’re clearly not listening. Your mind is already made up.
Fucking ironic, but go on and be fucking stupid.
And you can all downvote this and be happy with yourselves, and you can all fuck off.
Fuck every single one of you stupid dipshits.
You’re cheering for something nobody fucking wants and would be compeltely stupid because nobody can be bothered to take the time to comprehend more than three fucking words.
I don’t care that I lost my temper, you fucking dipshits are being stupid. I’m angry because of your stupidity.
I know the general rule "If everyone else is wrong’, but everyone IS wrong. No news, no entertainment, no discussion on the internet, just a telling and retelling of whatever the most important piece of news is.
Nobody would fucking watch that. It’s so fucking ridiculous.
I’m done. I’m deleting all the comments because fuck everyone. You are all fucking stupid and I hope you all hav a rotten fucking day being wrong.
You first.
12 hours later, when are you deleting the comments?
Ha ha, this guy is awesome. We need to organize enough to be able to put guys like him up for local office. City council for instance. It wouldn’t take that much oranization, and we could do it from the fediverse, we could make a new type of social media interoperable with lemmy and mastadon, and start it here on lemmy and mastadon in the interm.
Find and grooming candidates, coordinating getting them press, dealing with smears, etc would not take all that many people to start. We are better than they are too, if following politics has taught me anything it’s just how dumb, arrogant, and corrupt the ones leading us are. They aren’t better at all, their people aren’t better. We are.
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__反いじめ戦隊This was the twist of a great movie about corrupt cops
movie nameIn Rebel Ridge, the protagonist, a black guy, is trying to get a bag of bail money back from a corrupt police department that enacted civil forfeiture. It often cuts away to the one black woman in the dept who has to drive a shittier car than the rest. Then, we learn there’s an informant to IA inside the dept trying to bring them down. The protagonist figures it’s the black woman. He’s wrong; she betrays him, trying to arrest him. Turns out, the informant was the white guy who first stole his money, as a way of trying to build trust with a department that had been doing a lot of the same.
I’m glad fiction helped you see the modern problems with class traitors.
Oh, I absolutely know it’s not new. Long ago, I thought that Uncle Ruckus in the Boondocks was an absurd fictionalized character. But people like that absolutely exist.
I don’t often get to talk about this because I’m a straight white guy from the south with a thick accent. I ain’t upset about it because I would assume the worst of me too.
I think it’s at least semi common knowledge that conservative/racist/sexist/homophobic white men often assume all other straight white men think the same as them and will say some wild shit on that assumption. Well it wasn’t common but I definitely remember a few black folks that may as well have been Stephen from Django Unchained
She’s not a class traitor because she’s black or because she’s a woman, she’s a class traitor because she works for a living and is cooperating in suppressing news about the problems caused by the Owner Class.
They’re aren’t implying that it’s because of those things. They are saying as an individual who has undoubtedly been subject to those systemic abuses is makes it all the more stomach turning that they’d be a cog in perpetuating it.
They are saying as an individual who has undoubtedly been subject to those systemic abuses Bullshit!
Plenty of black women are part of the Owner Class, plenty of white men are part of the Working Class - what’s almost perfectly correlated with being subject the systemic abuses of class is “not being rich”, more than race (even in the US, which is extra fucked up) and way, way more than gender.
There is no reason to pull out “identitarian markers” when talking about class inequality unless one has been indoctrinated in a Neoliberal “divide and conquer” fake-Leftist political ideology designed to divide the fight for Equality For All into a hierarchy of “differently deserving of having Equality” based on things people wore born with rather than need, a view of others and how deserving they are that mirrors the way the Far-Right sees the world.
Not being filthy rich and having to slog in the mud like the rest of us to just keep one’s head above the surface is infinitelly more correlated to not being in the Owner Class than one’s count of X chromossomes in pair 23 or one’s gene for melanine production.
It really pisses me off how people from some political cultures with a very rightwing Overtoon Window, even whilst they have the best of intentions, have been brainwashed into classifying their fellow human beings and having expectations on them (i.e. Prejudices) using the very same architecture of thinking as the Far-Right, to the point that even when they talk about “class inequality” their mind sees “identitarian markers” (just like the Fascists) rather that “Working Class” which is from where the actual expression “class inequality” originates from.
I understand that wealth is the primary decider of one’s rights in America.
However you can’t say that Reagan deliberately putting drugs in black neighborhoods didn’t have a systemic effect on the advantages of black people in America.
You can’t say that women earning 80% as much as men doesn’t have an effect on how high they could reach.
I don’t think that any one thing decides which class you’re going to be but it does stack the cards against you. Maybe this person never experienced it but she certainly had a higher chance of it.
Re-read what I wrote - being black is nowhere as correlated with suffering systemic abuses from wealth inequality as is being poor or working class, more so for being a woman as per your own numbers: earning in average 80% of what men earn is far less unequal than the average worker earning less than 0.3% of what a CEO earns (and way less than that when compared to a billionaire).
There is no inherent poverty in being black or a woman, there’s only that which has been placed there by people who - like Reagan - when they look at other human beings don’t see people, they see ethnicity or gender, and by following a logic that expects afro-americans or women to all be “something” and “having an obligation to behave in certain way” purely because of their race or gender, you’re following THE EXACT SAME SOCIAL ARCHITECTURE as the racists and sexists like Reagan of classifying people based on genetics and then having expectations on them and determining what they deserve based on that.
Fighting inequality by using the very same proxies of worth and deserving as the Far-Right is validating and prolonging the very fundations of Far-Right thinking that say that people should be treated first and foremost based on race and gender. Those who do so, whether they think that they’re leftwing or not, are part of the problem, not part of the solution.
It’s thus not surprising that this kind of thinking is most widespread in Neoliberal countries whose Overtoon Window is way to the right of most countries - you don’t shift politics to the Left by accepting and working on top of the very same foundations of social thinking of the Fascists.
You fight the suffering of systemic abuses by punishing and stopping the abusers and helping the ACTUAL victims, not by accepting the reductive and prejudicial proxies of the abusers themselves and shaping your thinking on the subject and fighting around those - that’s just willfully playing by the rules of the Fascists.
She didn’t come in prepared to have a nuanced conversation about private equity firm or hedge fund acquisitions of residential living spaces, so I’m not surprised that she tried to nope out of the conversation. There are thousands of topics I can’t hold up a conversation about, but I think it would be awesome for reporters to do a 15 seconds of fame rule in these cases. Just state “i’ve got nothing to contribute, but you have the next 15 seconds,” and then let them cook.
Uhhhh, this is who she works for. There is a legitimate financial reason not to say “I’ve got nothing to contribute, but you have the next 15 seconds.”
This is why she is a class traitor.
This is why she is a class traitor.
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wavebeamThey are spineless bastards, but the news does not have have an obligation to broadcast this dude’s opinions. No freedom of speech was violated in any sense of the words
Yeah, it’s not like the FCC (a government agency) has been caught multiple times directly pressuring corporate media to toe the party line, or else. O wait…they actually have been
I would say that freedom of speech as an ideal extends beyond just the law, and that if there is value in getting someone’s opinion “on the street” there is something to be said to them sharing views on predatory capitalism.
Sure, no violation of freedom of speech by the letter of the law. Mission accomplished I suppose.
But instead we have structures and institutions funneling inconvenient opinions and lived experiences into the fringe - bit by bit - so that they may fizzle in silence.
And on an interview with the veneer of “regular people’s opinions”, why is this particular opinion being met with repulsion? Why would a journalist seek an opinion and determine this guy’s isn’t the “right opinion”? Why would an interviewer who is working as a professional chase a vapid discussion about nostalgia?
And this is why network news isn’t doing so great. Bunch of rich-ass, traitorous boomers.
“yeah yeah much more snow, cooler winters, and again, private equity didn’t own so much”
Lmao this guy knew what she was trying to do