People are really not ready for the media landscape conversation because it has absolutely no easy answers. The first amendment means that well-funded misinformation systems have an absolute right to keep operating.

The information environment in the US is conducive to exactly that, so yeah you’re right.

The imagined reasons for this war - Russian security concerns will still exist even if Russia is officially given the Ukrainian territories it currently occupies.

A concept doesn’t become acceptable just because the French have a term for it. Usually that’s a red flag.

One day your Internet search history is going to traumatize a police officer.

Meanwhile, every single other news outlet is Left. Just to give you a perspective on things.

Literally just fiction that someone smarter than your came up with and convinced you of.

Scapegoating them is one thing. Actually deporting them is another. The people who employ illegal immigrants are doing it so they can pay them a pittance and have leverage over them. They’re not going go want their cheap workforce deported simply because it’ll increase costs.

Say that again but this time put some stank on it.

It’s a better opinion than “US in decline because TOO MUCH democracy”.

Literally no one said that. Read better. It’s not the amount of democracy that was the problem, it was the actual choices made.

Lmao. You just witnessed this last election Dems suing third parties to stop them from running, Dems not even pretending to hold a primary, republicans saying its the last election ever.

What did the voters who actually voted for Trump choose?

This logic is going to keep getting trotted out throughout the trump presidency. In some cases it’ll be true. In this case I think it could be. In many cases it won’t be , simply because destroying things is easier than building things and they’re mostly there to destroy .

Is commander in chief an active military position?

I think it’s specifically not a military position. The president being a civilian is how in theory the military must operate under civilian control.

Because people vote ghouls like this into office so he doesn’t have to. They do it repeatedly.

The US isn’t a democracy though, it is a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, where every election we get to select which group of oppressors will wield state power against us until the next one.

Yes that truly one of the opinions of all time.

Here’s my plan to stop the war in Ukraine. Start up a massive industrial effort to mass produce printed copies of that photo. Absolutely absurd numbers of them. Cut down forests if necessary. Load them into B52s and drop them on the front lines from high altitude to get a good scatter. Keep doing this every day for 6 months. Like 50 tones of that photo dropped every day.

I will now take exactly zero questions.

Democracies grant immense power to the electorate. Including the power of suicide. Democratic systems are inherently capable of ending themselves because ultimately their survival depends on enough people believing in the system and holding the integrity of the system to be more important than any particular democratic outcome. That is lost in the US. Most voters don’t care.

That truth alone makes a decent argument for US being in decline. It will take a long time , but it’s beginning.

Shifting yourself to death is what the founder intended and their imagined intent is literally all that matters.

I didn’t watch the whole thing but Paul’s shots didn’t even seem like they had any power behind them. He won on points obviously because Tyson was drained but it felt like even old man Tyson could have just stood there and tanked those weak-ass punches.

Disclaimer: all I know about boxing I learned from Rocky movies.

You haven’t really tasted milk until you’ve sucked it right out a cow and finally we’ll have a government that makes sure that Americans know that taste too.

We would have more sources if Israel didn’t keep killing journalists.

In 6 months we’ll have the liver king on the white House Press room telling us that kids should brush their teeth with bull blood , as RFK Jr looks on the background with the expression of a dimwit who genuinely thinks he’s saved the children.