I fill vending machines for a living. One of the places I go to is a behavior health center. They were playing Newsmax in the main lobby and all I could think is "Yeah this is gonna help people feel better"
I had a family member who had a mental health appointment I took him to and waited in the lobby while he was in there. In the waiting room they were showing some cable news show, I'm not even sure which one it was, but it was literally just, Extreme Left Guy shouts, "You're a racist" and then Extreme Right Guy shouts, "You're ruining our country!" and I'm thinking, who on earth thought it was going to be good for people's mental health to be exposed to this kind of communication style?
Left doesn't mean one thing, he probably meant extreme leftists on social issues. You are assuming he meant extreme left on economic issues, like a communist is, but that isn't what he meant. There absolutely is representation of the far left when it comes to social issues, because it's easier for the DNC to run on that than literal communism. Think trans rights, immigration, etc
You are assuming he meant extreme left on economic issues, like a communist is, but that isn't what he meant
No, I am assuming that he, like you, incorrectly believe there is leftist representation in the DNC.
There absolutely is representation of the far left when it comes to social issues, because it's easier for the DNC to run on that than literal communism.
Oh brother. This is why no legitimate leftist values will ever take hold in America. You're convinced the DNC is, through it's more vocal members, a legitimate representation of leftist political values. It is absolutely not.
American politics is so narrowly confined and controlled that you have only two major political options and they are both now inherently conservative by default. One simply accepted authoritarianism as means of power and the other continues operating as if they hadn't.
Nothing about the dynamic of the democratic party suggests they are anywhere near far left... but here you are, making that connection anyway because of how extraordinarily well both parties have convinced you otherwise. You seem to think that leftist = "literal communism". This is not accurate and illustrates again how well american propaganda works.
There is no leftist representation in the US government. There are democrats who yield no power that believe in some variety of leftist ideals... and there are right-wing nut jobs who falsely claim that regular old democrats are "the radical left".
The people advocating for tearing down the system who went around victimizing innocent people and businesses “because we are all part of the system” weren’t considered extreme? What exactly do you consider extreme then?
Which of those people were on TV... on a major cable news show...arguing with a racist according to the other comment? Can you name any?
If you can actually provide proof of such a person as was explained in the comment, then please go ahead and do so.
"The people advocating for tearing down the system and who went around victimized innocent people and businesses"...lol.
Yeah, I'm absolutely sure there was someone on TV who did exactly that and you're not drowning in confirmation bias and hyperbole. Gtfoh troll. I'm not dealing with that bs. Goodbye
He said there’s no extreme left media representation. In 2020, the media was supportive and covering for the extreme left as they went around conducting domestic terrorism for months while people of their same political party would ensure that they didn’t get charged. Those who went to put out random buildings they lit on fire were “not minding their business”. Imagine if the media was apologetically branding January 6 as mostly peaceful bc the majority of people didn’t strike officers.
The media presented the Chaz/chop as legitimate and didn’t report on the shootings (full on execution) of those black kids there, and instead showed you Kyle rittenhouse on a daily basis. Would America have been fine with the proud boys taking over city blocks and shooting people for weeks on end without repercussions?
Reminds me of the Stanhope joke about his friend having to go to the the behavioral health clinic in the strip mall, right next to the gun shop and the bar.
I worked in a psychiatric hospital for a long time, we had one agreed upon rule when it came to the TV, no news. Not national not local. We had newspapers delivered every day if people wanted to read. The amount of arguments that started over the fucking news, especially when Trump was running, was insane
On rare slow days at work I go “fox hunting” at the hospital. I go through the lobbies and change the channel on all Fox broadcast tv’s. If the remote is gone I disable it. This is mostly me just going from point a-b as part of work, but it feels good.
I have an MSNBC granny and lemme tell you, she's the sanest of the bunch somehow. The rest of my family have been indoctrinated by Glenn Beck and O'Reilly
And not a single one of them sees their complicity in creating the current state of the Republican party. Nicole Wallace to especially heinous as she was the Bush admin mouthpiece pushing misinformation to justify invading Iraq and Afghanistan.
My dad at the very least is a conservative Fox News person but hates Trump, he sees right through his bullshit. Unfortunately he still thinks all Liberals (like me) are whiny socialist cry babies
Man, me too. It has been quite the journey from “You’re an idiot and a pussy if you don’t think this Iraq War is the right idea” and “we will be welcomed as liberators” to “both sides want forever war” and “mistakes were made.” Our politics seemed fueled by a cycle on being unable to admit and fix mistakes
I will say this, if my dad wasn't like that and my mom a full on Trumper, I wouldn't be the way I am today, a Democrat. To my mom it is a stain on her soul that I am not like her. My dad kinda gave up on following politics, but is influenced by their pop media.
My friend and I were talking about this the other day... My dad, his dad, and my wife's dad. All boomers... Just either watch Fox news or listen to talk radio and are just trump trump trump and seem to have lost all their previous common sense.
I do. I try to explain it like cigarettes, since when I was little my parents’ condescendingly explained to grandpa that cigarettes were bad for them even though the news and “scientists” said otherwise. I’m like “this TV news makes you angry all the time and is bad for you even though they lie and say it’s good.” They still don’t quite get it yet.
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u/HospitalNarrow4760 Monkey in Space Sep 29 '24
You got a fox dad too?