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Silent Type

(12,412 posts)
1. Rick should have searched under the title, there are lots of news outlets who have an article
Mon Sep 9, 2024, 03:34 PM
Sep 2024

on this Nazi threat.

NCDem47

(3,328 posts)
2. It's a start, but Orlando DUers...does the OS even have a print version on Mondays that folks can see on newstands?
Mon Sep 9, 2024, 03:36 PM
Sep 2024

Went to OS website and that same headline isn't anywhere above the scroll.

markodochartaigh

(5,057 posts)
5. I'm sure that
Mon Sep 9, 2024, 06:03 PM
Sep 2024

if the New York Times had known about this they would have mentioned it.

/s

It strikes me that just as the Republican party put party before country and chose an authoritarian Strong Leader not committed to democracy, the media is putting their own interests first in not covering the imminent threat to democracy in the way that their professional duty should dictate.
Putting self before others is characteristic of a lack of empathy. How many of our levers of power will fail before our democracy fails?

Beartracks

(14,378 posts)
6. For lurking Republicans: Jailing adversaries is not democracy.
Mon Sep 9, 2024, 06:06 PM
Sep 2024

I know Republicans would be like, "But what about..." Trump was convicted of 34 felonies because he was found guilty in a court of law by a jury of his peers -- not because he's a former Republican President who lost to Joe Biden. Plus, as anyone can plainly see, despite those convictions, he is not in jail.

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calimary

(89,068 posts)
7. True! THIRTY-FOUR felonies. Why is he not in jail?
Mon Sep 9, 2024, 06:23 PM
Sep 2024

Anybody else would be. Including whites.

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