• @Valmond
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    187 days ago

    with a New York Times editorial characterizing it as a “gigantic hoax”

    Funny how mainstream media bends over preventively all the time (elon nazi salute being the latest I have seen dismissed like that).

    • @Gradually_Adjusting
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      127 days ago

      The press in Germany was also overeager to normalize and stifle alarms. Even the left leaning ones.

      • hauiOPM
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        97 days ago

        Hi from hessen. Stop reading „mainstream“ propaganda and read independent news like the taz (horizontally organized newspaper owned by employees and subscribers afaik) or 404 media.

        The billionaire media is the equivalent of the german „volksempfänger“ that was only built to stream nazi propaganda into households.

        • @Gradually_Adjusting
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          67 days ago

          We’re on the same page, but it doesn’t solve the problem of everyone else’s toxic media diet. Change comes from within, I guess?

          • hauiOPM
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            16 days ago

            Actually, I dont think change comes from within, ever. Change comes from people organizing, always has. All positive change has come by people agreeing on one small thing and making it happen.

            For example, people in germany are starting to agree that fascism is not an option, 10.000 at a time. The mainstream media is doing everything to coopt it but without success so far.

            Go take a walk with your fellow citizens, read, talk, listen and take action. Thats the only way.

      • @Valmond
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        77 days ago

        Yeah, in france too “he is neurodivergent!” “It wasn’t a ‘real’ nazi salute” and so on.

        Why jump the boat like that?

        Guess part of their job they have is to calm the population or something.