• IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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    7 months ago

    It’s not the average American you have to worry about … it’s the corporate controlled media companies that are pushing this narrative.

    If you opened up the stage for people to speak up, they wouldn’t want any of the people that are in place right now.

    The media and the establishment are the ones who drive the narratives because they are the ones with all the money and control.

    So average people aren’t deciding on wanting someone like Trump … it’s corporate heads and wealthy backers who are promoting, advertising and pushing this narrative because that’s what they want.

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      7 months ago

      If these stories didn’t sell, the media wouldn’t run them. Yes, they should be objective and stop being culpable in this ongoing assault on American democracy… but they’re serving a market.

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        They’re not serving a market … they’re serving a master.

        The general media is not an independent entity that does things to make a bit of money … they are a tool that is used by corporations and the wealthy elite to corral people into a certain mindset and beliefs … that eventually lead everyone into electing only those people that are marketed to them.

        “It’s never gonna get any better. Don’t look for it. Be happy with what you got. Because the owners of this country don’t want that. I’m talking about the real owners now, the real owners, the big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions. Forget the politicians. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don’t. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own and control the corporations. They’ve long since bought and paid for the senate, the congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear. They got you by the balls.” - George Carlin

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_Zqbg6QThg

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        So you’re blaming capitalism? I’m very much with you on that one. Except that the job of media is not to make money, but to report objective fact, and have people pay for that. You seem to have it backwards, otherwise there’d be no news, only sports, gossip, and porn.

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      7 months ago

      And that’s why, even though finally Biden opened his mouth to tell corporations to stop price-gouging, prices are still high.

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      7 months ago

      The propaganda machinery is total. They dictate to us what we can even talk and think about just like those 24/7 radios from 1984 installed in everyone’s homes (which was a real thing in the Soviet client states, by the way)