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Dictator_Bob 34 points ago +34 / -0

He was right but wrong about the scale and scope. It is the corporate-media complex, and it is run in synergy with the US Government's operations. The Founders would not have tolerated this abuse by the state over the free press.

The #1 issue here is the lack of repercussions for violating the law. People must start going to prison for corruption or no one will fear it.

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Freedomnc1776 18 points ago +18 / -0

They are sending people to prison. Patriots who protested...

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Dictator_Bob 3 points ago +3 / -0

Yes, we know that the coup plotters intend to abuse power until they themselves are outed, ousted, and dumped into the ocean. This is why they come here to doom and gloom, destroy unity, claim we do not act, and attack anyone who suggests an action.

They may win this. Or we may win this. The fight is not over.

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War_Hamster 8 points ago +8 / -0

Yup, I remember pounding the table about not bailing out the banks (again).

Moral hazard is a real thing.

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learntocode 6 points ago +6 / -0

The founders ran smear campaigns bribing "journalists" and printers to make and distribute libelous, insane, shit about each other. John Adams the Hermaphrodite was an anti-Adams pamphlet. Often, made up shit was stuck in news pamphlets just to take up column inches and titillate readers.

Human nature and the realities of power are what we are dealing with, same as ever. If we keep our cool, we can pattern our future victories on those that have come before. Our system is made to cope with this stupid bullshit; bullshit which is universal to every human endeavor.

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Dictator_Bob 3 points ago +3 / -0

I'm a big fan of a free and open press. I have no issue with this. It is an entirely different matter than the Crown instructing the Mercantalists to issue proclamations masquerading as informing the public. Which is what ATT & T is doing, what Amazon is doing, what Comcast is doing, what Facebook/Google are doing, etc. etc. etc.

This is not a free press nor is it speech. It is legal gangsterism and protectionism, fascistic, mercantalistic, technocratic horseshit. These fuckers are also treasonous to boot.

I'll be happy to write a shitpost on a newsletter to distribute locally in retort to another shitpost. That's my right as a citizen and if we can collectively agree to form a body by contract to do this -- even better, especially if profitable.

This is different than treason.