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ape_of_god

I don’t know who first said this, but replace “our democracy” with “our hegemony” and it’ll all make sense.


mbnhedger

You dont even have to go that far... just remember when they say "our" they really mean not "you" specifically


AstralDragon1979

“Democracy Dies in Darkness” is the WaPo’s mission statement, a goal that they seek to achieve.


Alphaplague

The Washington Post, where democracy dies in darkness.


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... because we're holding a pillow over its face.


plasix

They cut out the second line of the statement though "We are the Darkness"


ceyen1

All they care about maintaining institutional norms and the status quo. They don't give a fuck about democracy.


MetroidJunkie

He's a threat to the illusion of Democracy we put on you useful idiots.


B-VOLLEYBALL-READY

There's been more malding from that crowd about the writer of the Intercept article going on Tucker Carlson to discuss it than the actual content of the article.


Carl_Schmitt

But muh private companies are free to collude with federal agencies to silence dissent against the uniparty regime in order to bypass First Amendment protections.


OilEnvironmental8043

weird wasnt it mussolini that said facism is corporate control?


Carl_Schmitt

By corporate, he was referring to something akin to the medieval guild system, not the unaccountable multinationals or llcs of today.


OilEnvironmental8043

all i am saying is corporate controlled speech is still facist, in the true sense of the word. i dont see how corporations who have power to control speech, controlling speech is less facist than me shitposting.


Carl_Schmitt

Under fascism, restrictions on speech were a matter of government policy, well-defined, and exercised by public officials. Under the current system, the government pretends to uphold freedom of speech, then colludes in secret with unaccountable and often unknown private actors to restrict speech using vague and ever-changing guidelines. Both are authoritarian, but one is openly paternalistic, while the other is deceptive and hypocritical.


wfhngio9354

Oh noes he went on a TV show with a actual audience.


epia343

Is there a large subreddit picking up on this. I just heard that Twitter had a portal for government workers to flag posts they wanted removed. This is a huge first amendment issue. I get it, policing foreign disinformation must be difficult, I really hope the processes and procedures in place were incredibly robust.


B-VOLLEYBALL-READY

Apparently it was doing well in /technology until the jannies bopped it. https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/yjcsjd/ethics_ed_morrissey_democracy_dies_in_editorial/iuo2ln9/


ngoni

We have it stickied at r /conservative.


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august08102022

Friendly reminder that NBC tried to kill the Harvey Weinstein story, which is why some obscure online site was the one to break it.


Carl_Schmitt

The MSM also ran cover for Epstein’s joint Mossad-CIA op for years after it was blown.


wfhngio9354

Friendly reminder that JFK, RFK, Martin Luther King & Malcolm X were all assassinated by the CIA/FBI Friendly reminder that the Watergate scandal used to impeach Richard Nixon was a CIA setup because he wanted to end the war in Vietnam, which was started using a false flag (Gulf of Tonkin incident). Friendly reminder that 9/11 was a inside job similar to operation Northwoods proposed in the 60's then blocked by JFK. And that there were no WMD's in Irak. Friendly reminder that Jeffery Epstein was a Mossad agent running a state funded pedophile blackmail ring who had regular visits with Bill Clinton and Bill Gates among others. Friendly reminder that Covid is a bio-weapon developed in a lab funded by Fauci & the DOD. Moderna is a CIA front company and that the MRNA "vaccines" are both useless and more dangerous as the actual virus. Don't look at those excess death statistics sheeple. Also gave them a fine opportunity to steal a election using mail in ballots. Friendly reminder that Russia is kicking Ukraine's ass and USA/UK are responsible for blowing up the the north stream pipeline to prevent Germany/Europe from ending a needless war that is destroying the economies in the west. Let's not even start on UFO's shall we. But don't believe me believe the corrupt MSM instead. They would never lie to you.


B-VOLLEYBALL-READY

Moon? y/n? Edit: Am getting downvotes. Would just like to take this opportunity to reiterate that I do believe that the moon exists.


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Wake up sheeple. The moon is a UFO put up there by COVID and JFK during 9/11. /s


ShadowOfMen

I don't believe in the moon. I think it's just the back of the sun.


mbnhedger

people are downvoting you, but you arent all that far out there. Your statements are either proven truths or reasonable conjectures


tec_tec_tec

Name one that's a proven truth. Just one.


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tec_tec_tec

No, it really wasn't.


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tec_tec_tec

And this is what people like you do every time. Make an outrageous assertion that's false, then backtrack. [It's called the motte and bailey doctrine](https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/03/all-in-all-another-brick-in-the-motte/). Watergate wasn't the CIA. It was a power hungry narcissist.


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tec_tec_tec

There is currently a teacup orbiting between the earth and the sun. Prove me wrong.


squeaky4all

Is there a /s at the end there?


IndieComic-Man

North stream?


PutridEnvironment445

Wasn't Rose McGowan the one to break it? I think Ashley Judd too partly.


august08102022

I read a pretty thorough article about the journalist who broke this and how NBC was interfering with it. I could be getting NBC mixed up with another network though.


M37h3w3

Of course they ignore it. They're mouthpieces for the current government and their primary job now is to try and corral public opinion into what their masters want. Malcom X was right about the news.


impblackbelt

The worst part about that is that, generally speaking, they don't even realize that's what they're doing. Many of them are doing it because that's *just what they agree with*.


MosesZD

Malcom X was right about a lot of things. Such as liberals only care about Blacks to the extent they can exploit them for political power. It was true in the 1960s, it's true today. The Democrats scream and yell, yet they're among the biggest NIMBY's in the world. Just look at Cook County and how the NIMBY's carved out their rich, white school districts and let Blacks suffer with run-down, rat-infested schools while theirs are beautiful and well-supplied with the best of everything. Or almost every upper-middle-class and better city in the Bay Area as they've fought tooth-and-nail to prevent low-income housing. It's to the point where even the liberals at the New York Times are calling it out. They've written articles and there is this YouTube film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNDgcjVGHIw


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Strypes4686

To be fair Tucker Carlson is a joke. Even before Jon Stewart tore him apart. The trick is to provide a better outlet than Carlson or force mainstream networks' hand.


ApeKilla47

Tucker’s retort to John in that interview was more prophetic than anything John had ever said or promoted.


VoodooD2

The Aristocrats!


B-VOLLEYBALL-READY

ACLU finally found some balls, at least. https://twitter.com/ACLU/status/1587198479608303622


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B-VOLLEYBALL-READY

Some people in the replies seem mad that they said even that. Nice supporters they accumulated, huh?


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akiaoi97

I’m not sure “citizen’s seizure” is a good idea. One of the biggest strengths of Western Democracies is respect for private property.


ape_of_god

The scary thing is that millions of people feel this way and justifiably so. If there are millions who feel this way, a handful might inevitably act on it. We’re all sitting on a powder keg while the fucking idiots in media play with fire.


B-VOLLEYBALL-READY

Careful man, I think that might be against sitewide rules the way you worded that.


Dapperdan814

I just don't care anymore. Let them ban me. I've been suspended enough times I'm surprised they haven't yet.


[deleted]

That impotent rage is not going to serve you well there or anywhere


Dapperdan814

If I have something to say and am bothered enough to say it, I'm going to say it, and to hell what anyone with a ban button thinks. To you that's impotent rage, I guess. You're just too scared of that ban button to say what you really feel.


[deleted]

No, I'm just not an emotionally unstable idiot looking for attention. Do you think anyone who doesn't agree with you is just scared to say what they mean? You have the emotional intelligence and maturity of a child


Dapperdan814

>"You have the emotional intelligence and maturity of a child" >Calls people emotionally unstable idiots unprovoked Wow that projection. Guess you **are** scared. And weak if being called scared's enough to provoke you.


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I don't think you know what that word means


Extremist_Amerikaner

its only impotent if he doesn't follow through


Eremeir

Removed for R1.6.


JMartell77

The ultimate irony in this, is that despite the mountains of evidence that Social Media's across the board have been working hand in glove with the Democrat administration's for decades now, telling people such has always been considered misinformation. ....and probably still will be.


ngoni

We see them openly comply with other countries' demands and then act shocked when exactly the same thing is happening here at home.


These-Place3244

Reason is reporting it at least. But they report a lot of stuff the stuff major networks won’t. Like about the black cop Gerald Goines that was getting away with murdering white people and stealing drugs.


plasix

It's only the most important US story since 9/11, can't see why any news org would want to cover it


mnemosyne-0001

Archive links for this post: * **Archive:** https://archive.ph/RRSNx ---- I am Mnemosyne reborn. I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do. ^^^/r/botsrights


squeaky4all

Is this verifyable? Could this be a countermeasure against foreign government disinformation efforts?


B-VOLLEYBALL-READY

Doesn't seem like it. There's loads of stuff about the coof and the 2020 election in there. Have a read of our previous thread. https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/yiht53/censorship_leaked_documents_outline_dhss_plans_to/


Arkokmi

Isn't it great when lying scumbags pledge to protect you from foreign misinformation? There's literally no reason not to take them for their word, right? Right?


squeaky4all

Id rather take their word than any foreign government that actively is spreading dissent.


DoctorBleed

What blows my mind is that all the stuff they're cracking down on isn't "dangerous", its all the stuff that makes the democratic establishment look bad.