It might seem like a small matter, just a disagreement over whether a body of water should be called one name or another.

But it’s really about much bigger things: Trump-style intimidation, a clear violation of the first amendment – and the extent to which news organizations will stick together in each other’s defense, or will comply with the powerful for the sake of their own access.

Even more broadly, it is about Donald Trump’s wide-ranging effort to control the media and be able to spread propaganda and interfere with the flow of accurate information.

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  • @[email protected]
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    151 day ago

    This is about them controlling the truth. They don’t even have to change or make up new laws if they just rewrite the dictionary.

    • Arghblarg
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      91 day ago

      Classic Russian tactics… ‘flood the zone with sh*t’. Adopted by Steve Bannon & co.

      Intent is to make everyone so tired they give up.

    • @SlopppyEngineer
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      41 day ago

      They can just get the summary for Project 2025 and start checking things off. It’s not a mystery unless they’re being wilfully ignorant.

  • notsure
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    141 day ago

    …duh, has anyone else read project 2025, or, even better, read the history of deutschland around 1933-45, or, good gracious, what were people talking about as nero burned rome, or, caligula debauched anything with a pulse?

    ffs, anyone surprised by any of this has been most heinously disserviced of available resources.

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      51 day ago

      I want to suggest if you live in a neighborhood of 1/3 acre properties: begin planning to convert the entire unbuilt property to some form of agriculture share and split growing responsibiity with willing neighbors be concerned and give aid to any in need accept that your local community starts the process to change the larger congress a person is not stupid, people are democracy only burns from the base up

      • @[email protected]
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        21 day ago

        I want to suggest that you start adding two spaces before you press enter if you want your line breaks to be maintained.

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      Studying the social psychology, the flow of how the third reich happened used to be popular. I guess not, now.

  • @[email protected]
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    71 day ago

    No Marge, it’s deeper than that. This is him controlling the media. While the pearl clutching shit libs cry foul and the MAGAts writhe with glee at their pain, the cameras are turned on their slap fight and therefore devote less airtime to the actual dismantling this undercover foreign asset is doing.

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    31 day ago

    Don’t think it started that way, but at this point this is a cheap way of identifying and marginalising overt opposing media organisations.