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They aren't failing us they are following the plan.
What the fuck else is new? They’ve been failing us for decades now.
What is new is our righteousness of spirit! God is on OUR side this time!
I think
Saying that they're failing us buys in to the lie that their goal is to inform us of the facts. That isn't their goals. They are bought, owned and controlled by the ruling class.
Could have just stopped after the eighth word and the headline would have been equally accurate.
Mainstream media, especially legacy media, have utterly failed the "don't make fascism the new normal" test by continuing to pretend that every bald faced political lie is a normal difference of opinion consistent with regular Reagan conservatism 🤬
The people didn't do anything to stop the military used on their own people, why would they care about the people of Iran?
The majority of us are mad as hell at both cases, I assure you.
Did you do anything to stop it?
Some Minnesotans were taking Fridays off work but they kept going back without anything changing. So there wasn't any protest or strike.
Trumps Special Military Operation.
This is very likely to happen, especially if you remember in 2022 Putin waited until the end of the winter Olympics to invade Ukraine I would not be surprised at all if Trump waits for the current winter Olympics to end on the 22nd to strike Iran.
Except trump craves publicity so it'd be on brand for him to do anything to upstage something else in the news
Very true.
i feel like it should be illegal to take a country to war to cover up the fact that you're a child rapist.
Since when has America held itself to a standard?
Fixed - “The US news media is succeeding in its mission to prevent the public from knowing there is a possible war with Iran coming”
What did ever happen to that one old lady anyway?
US media will need to have an "American state propaganda" label next to it.
Shit, they've been failing for decades. The Murc's Law Media filled with reactionary centrists is largely why Pedonald is even in office at all...
i mean both things can be true; it is a distraction and the media doesn't care enough to cover it (because the media loves war coverage)
US News media has been failing on everything for a while now.
They are failing but its mostly due to two things:
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The media is controlled by the ultra wealthy making sure the story they want told is priority.
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In their defense (but only slightly), there is a horse loose in a hospital. Again. And it’s hard to cover EVERY bat shit crazy thing that’s happening. And because it’s all controlled by the ultra wealthy, they have the option of curating what information gets covered.
Chomsky silent on this one as he hopes for a distraction from the Epstein files too.
The US media has always been a loyal servant of empire.
They’re publicly traded for profit companies
Iran is going to sink an aircraft carrier
I think that is what Trump, Steven Miller and Netanyahu want to be honest.
Everything just gets so much more violent and well you know nice and starkly simple after that which would make all three of their jobs so much easier, narratively speaking.
He sent a carrier there, totally exhausted hoping some totally overworked and undertrained servicemember will blunder, create a catastrophic opening and a carrier or other big carrier will be hit bad killing US servicemembers in a spectacular way that makes for good Memes.
Cue Patriotism!
At the point we can finally all shut the libs up, stop talking, cancel elections and go to WAR!!!
I hear what you’re saying and typically I would agree with you, but I don’t think it’s gonna work that way. I think the shock of losing a carrier or a carrier and a few jets and not accomplishing anything will create a blowback of a larger magnitude than these fuckwits are calculating, and faster too. This is existential for Iran and they’ve been planning for it for decades, this isn’t 2001, this isn’t Iraq or Lybia, yadda yadda yadda, you know where I’m going with this.
This is a “Hail Mary” and the quarterback has blinders and can’t stay awake for more than a few hours.
Watch ‘Democracy Now!’
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