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Initech

(107,187 posts)
5. The right wing echo chamber calls the shots.
Tue Mar 28, 2023, 12:23 PM
Mar 2023

It's not just the politicians. The real underlying problem is that the right wing echo chamber is too powerful, and it's increasing in numbers. It's Fox News, it's Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity. It's Ben Shapiro. It's the Daily Wire, it's TPUSA. It's the Federalist Society. It's the John Birch Society. It's the Heritage Foundation. It's Sinclair Broadcasting. It's Mike Lindell and Steve Bannon. It's Infowars. I could go on and on.

Yes, getting out the vote is a good idea. But as long as people keep watching and listening to this shit, it's going to further divide the populace and nothing will get done. As I said yesterday, we have a handful of streams with which to get our message out there. The right wing has thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands.

The right wing echo chamber rots people's brains and turns them into mush because there's no one to challenge their ideas or claims. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Ron DeSantis are perfect example of what happens when watching too much Fox News rots your brain. Rupert Murdoch does not want a well informed populace capable of critical thinking. He wants people kept intentionally stupid and in the dark on hot button issues, while just being functional enough to push the buttons to make profit for our corporate overlords. This is the real underlying fundamental problem in the US that we need to address.

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School Shootings [View all] Gilbert Moore Mar 2023 OP
Sadly, it doesn't seem to matter what actions we take, we still get the same results Walleye Mar 2023 #1
same results Gilbert Moore Mar 2023 #3
Thanks for the pep talk. maxsolomon Mar 2023 #2
Maybe Gilbert Moore Mar 2023 #4
The right wing echo chamber calls the shots. Initech Mar 2023 #5
This is an easier way to accomplish the same thing: world wide wally Mar 2023 #6
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