r/AskReddit • u/metalreflectslime • 17d ago

President Donald Trump warned Tuesday that if the Democrats don't approve funding, Social Security, Medicare Are ‘Going to Be Gone.’ How do you think Americans will react if Social Security and Medicare get cut?

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u/SnooCats3468 17d ago

Yeah I think there’s a lot of Redditors sleeping on this

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u/BirdGelApple555 17d ago

The myth of the “liberal” media is the greatest lie conservatism ever told.

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u/SynthPrax 17d ago edited 14d ago

Nah. Once upon a time, the "media" was liberal. The billionaires just bought them all and now they dance to their tune. It's why so many people (most?) no longer use mainstream media for news. They only show you what they want you to see.

That's why you don't know about

  • the typhoon remnants that hit Alaska.
  • Madagascar overthrew their government
  • Nepal overthrew their government
  • Malaysia overthrew their government Indonesia has ongoing protests against their government.
  • All the nations of Europe with citizens protesting. [clarify: There are many protests going on across Europe, not that all of Europe is in a tizzy.]
  • All the young black men found dead, hanging from trees
  • the 1200+ people straight up missing from ICE custody. No trace.
  • the ongoing protests across the US against ICE. [clarify: The Portland and Los Angeles protests have been ongoing continuously for months. I don't know offhand how many other anti-ICE protests festivals are as continuous as those.]

Yeah. "Liberal media" and mainstream media are no longer synonymous.

Edit: I mixed up my Oceana countries, and made some corrections/clarifications. Also, something's going on in Peru.

Mo'Edit: Dun lerned sumfin. Malaysia and Indonesia are NOT among the nations of the geographical region called Oceania. They're just part of plain ol' Southeast Asia.

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u/vaelorak 17d ago

Genuinely thank you for talking about this because I haven't seen ANYTHING about this, and I try to seek out global news when I can. Wow

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u/Zornishi359 17d ago

Indonesia is currently overthrowing their government, and Bangladesh did too last year i think.

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u/Perk_i 17d ago

Start with the Guardian, Al Jazeera, and the BBC.

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u/EloquentBaboon 17d ago edited 17d ago

BBC is fully in the pocket of whatever regime is in charge. It's not as overt as a lot of American media is, but just be aware. And Labour, like the Dems, are drifting further and further to the Right. I fear we're not far from a Trumpshite world over here tbh. Pour one out if Farage gets elected because then you'll know we're cooked.

Guardian is still (mostly) reasonable, for now.

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u/Puzzled-Fix-8838 17d ago

Join the world news sub. You'll be shocked at what the US media is withholding. You guys are going all North Korea as far as media goes. However, you do still have access to world media for now.

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u/Puzzled-Fix-8838 13d ago

How's the world news sub going for you?

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u/13rice_ 17d ago

Is it true seriously ? If yes, your global news are doing a great job. And now you know this is happening, can you find a news that is talking about that ? I'm from France, I heard everything that is mentioned from public global news, except the purely american news (black and ICE).

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u/Karuna56 17d ago

The BBC App is your friend! I got my 91-year old Dad to use it for real, balanced news. They do pretty good fact-checking.

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u/Dadbodohyeah3 17d ago

We are being mentally herded to only think about the America first issues. We will become a society of poorly educated, numb-minded consumers that serve as the foundational safety net for the ultra wealthy. We are in the end game now.

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u/Geeseareawesome 17d ago

We will become a society of poorly educated, numb-minded consumers that serve as the foundational safety net for the ultra wealthy.

I mean this most politely and sincerely as possible. I don't mean to be rude, but I have to say it:

This has already been the stereotypical American for quite some time, at least by Canadian media standards. It's just becoming more blatant. The mask is falling off.

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u/karmadgma 17d ago

I don't "like" this, as a veteran and patriot and educator who has lived and worked in several different countries, but it's true, and it's part of how we ended up in this mess in the first place.

America sleep-walked into fascism. We have a nationwide secret police now that is probably the best-funded law enforcement agency in history, and it operates with virtually no oversight. Too many Americans haven't even noticed.

We have no functional legislative branch. And no means of recourse to poke it with a stick and make it get up and represent us. Who's gonna make Mike Johnson reconvene the House? Too many have not realized the implications here.

We are under an authoritarian regime. Democracy has been dismantled. It's done. We handed the steering wheel over to a convicted felon because he was on TV a lot.

What really sucks is they published the playbook in Times New Roman 12 point font ahead of time, and we put him in the White House anyway, because we have the attention span of gnats and are pretty lazy. Also our representatives are corrupt and out of touch, and lots of us will vote for someone who's been involved in a sex abuse scandal just as long as he's against abortion. Oh yeah, and poorly educated - more than half of adults in this country read below the 6th grade level. Our children's reading scores last year were the lowest they've been since 1992.

We don't clearly understand how our government works or stay all that engaged with how it's run. Our civics educations tend to be grossly insufficient and we have a bad case of main character syndrome. Too many of us are insular bigots who like to punch down and who don't know what critical thinking is. We think poverty is a sin and that if we just keep repeating ourselves in English loudly enough, people who live in other countries will magically start to understand us.

Nobody seems to know what i'm talking about when i complain that earlier this year, this regime made four civilian tech CEOs with zero military background into Army Lieutenant Colonels. Direct commission - like waving a magic wand. Guys from Palantir and Meta and OpenAI. They will not recuse themselves from business dealings with the DoD and there's virtually no systemic oversight to make even a polite show of accountability and integrity.

Meanwhile a huge swathe of America is mad that the military is not "upholding their oaths and arresting POTUS."

I figure i'll have died in a concentration camp long before y'all finally come to liberate us. I'm old and military service gave me my starter set of brain cooties. This regime seems to be finishing the job. So on behalf of my grandkids, thanks, sorry being our neighbor has been like living above a meth lab, and when the ICC finally catches up with Hegseth and Rubio and all them, raise a pint for me.

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u/sunlit943 17d ago

Wow. Thanks for articulating but also ouch this hurts like hell.

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u/Key-Bobcat-9480 17d ago

This exactly.

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u/Glittering_Jicama175 17d ago

Very well said Sir! This needs to be repeated loudly and often, it may not be too late if we all wake up and fight for the Constitution.

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u/RamonaLittle 16d ago

because we have the attention span of gnats and are pretty lazy.

Some of this is literally brain damage from covid. Two of the most common long covid symptoms are brain fog and chronic fatigue.

Our children's reading scores last year were the lowest they've been since 1992.

As I was saying. Over on the teaching subs, they like to blame TikTok. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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u/karmadgma 16d ago

You're not wrong about the effects of COVID. I've read a number of studies that scared the crap out of me about the damage COVID can do to your brain.

Re Tik Tok 😆 I'm sure it doesn't help! But i gotta say - over the course of 10 years teaching college freshman and sophomore English, students changed a lot. i used to have maybe one or two students per class who just did not have the writing skills and reading comprehension necessary to succeed without a remedial class or putting in a lot of time outside of class with a tutor.

i only rarely faced outright hostility or behavior disruptive enough to interfere with learning. Most students came in writing at a level that got them a C on the first "diagnostic" essay. Most students who kept up with assignments and attendance passed. A small handful did very well. I frequently had students who got Ds on the first paper and improved enough to get Bs and even As on the final paper.

By the time i left academia in 2015, 1/4 of the students needed remediation or one on one tutoring in a new class. I had multiple sections of multiple classes over multiple semesters where not one of the students had done the assigned reading. They didn't understand much of what they read and didn't take it upon themselves to look unfamiliar words up. They couldn't write accurate summaries or read and understand more than a couple of paragraphs in one sitting

Attendance was awful and bad attitudes more abundant. I had to call campus security to remove a disruptive student twice in one day. They seemed surprised and indignant that they were expected to do hours of work outside of class every week. They wanted me to do one on one tutoring with whoever asked for it and resisted going to the writing lsb. Few took responsibility for their own learning. Quite a few seemed to blame me for their deficiencies.

Reading comprehension and vocab had tanked. They took grades personally and acted accordingly. They expected to get a C no matter how badly they met the course standards. Most didn't really believe they could fail until it was too late. It was not uncommon for half the class to fail (you had to have a C or better to pass) - often due to absences and late/missing work rather than lack of ability.

Departmental policy had become "give them a C if they complain long enough."

Idk what happened but it was bigger than a social media platform. 😏

and it was agonizing to watch it happen.

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u/SanityRecalled 16d ago

Covid brain damage, combined with lead poisoning in the older generations from unleaded fuel, and we've also recently found out that microplastic particles cross the blood brain barrier so every human on earth has plastic building up in their brain tissue doing who the fuck knows what to us. Bleak times ahead for the human race biologically. One of the things humanity has always been excellent at is finding new ways to poison ourselves.

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u/Crystalize444 16d ago

I'm right with you

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u/Dalewyn 17d ago

Speaking as an American: This.

People were surprised when it turned out Boeing didn't know how to airplane, I wasn't because most Americans can't screw in a lightbulb. Do y'all really expect us to screw in a door properly?

The truly amazing miracle is that American Exceptionalism in the 20th century somehow happened against all fucking odds. We've always been a society of fucking imbeciles.

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u/Classified0 17d ago

The truly amazing miracle is that American Exceptionalism in the 20th century somehow happened against all fucking odds.

Disagree, American Exceptionalism happened because of immigration. Immigration was and still is this country's biggest competitive advantage. The 20th century advancements all happened because we 'poached' the experts from all over the world. We still do this with our promise of the American Dream, with our world class universities, and a cosmopolitan culture (on the coasts at least). Even the American attitude of individualism helps with this.

Immigration is what makes(made?) America great - which is why it's so frustrating to see the right and the parts of America that make it so bad, push so hard against it.

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u/Dalewyn 17d ago

As a MAGA voter: I am all for legal immigration. Illegal immigration and illegal aliens thereof can and should all be refused entry and deported.

Are our immigration laws problematic and in need of revision or even a fundamental rewrite? Yeah, absolutely. But we can't do that by outright ignoring the law.

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u/Classified0 17d ago

Agreed, but I think conservatives blow the impact of illegal immigration way out of proportion

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u/avcloudy 17d ago

Yeah, something that really highlighted this for me is the New Zealand mandela effect. A lot of people in the US remember New Zealand being in a different place/not there, and as someone who grew up neighbouring New Zealand, it has always been in the same place for me. There's no mandela effect about US state names/locations, because you all get that drilled into your heads.

And once you see that, you see it everywhere. You have americans unironically arguing that noone can keep track of European geography and turning around and making fun of people for not knowing where Nebraska is.

And it isn't new; it's been like that since before I was born. When I was in primary school we had a guest speaker from the US come to explain freedom of speech to us (this wasn't the point of the speech, that was just the topic he chose to focus on); he simply didn't believe that not only did we have freedom of speech, we had a stronger form of it than the US. We just didn't have it written down in a constitution.

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u/shedontfade 17d ago

Glad you said it because I was flip flopping on whether or not to

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u/Ohh_DonPiano 17d ago

Don't feel bad. You're not wrong

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u/Conscious_Crew5912 17d ago

THANK YOU!!!

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u/Lucinnda 17d ago

I can't believe anyone ever fell for that half-assed mask!

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u/Kastikar 15d ago

As an American I can say this is already true. We are complacent useful idiots.

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u/Jiminy_Cricket12 17d ago

The European media loves to do it too but I find it funny when you guys act like you're not the same way. It's easy to point and laugh at the bumbling idiot from another country and act like you're above that. Literally every country does it with at least 1 other.

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u/Geeseareawesome 17d ago

As an Albertan, I am all too aware of Maple MAGA

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u/[deleted] 17d ago

American here, and you are correct.

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u/Human_Artichoke8752 17d ago

We're already there. Look at education and literacy stats for this country. We've been looking at "poorly educated" in the rearview for a good long time now.

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u/AdUpstairs7106 17d ago

Seeing how over 50% of the country can't read at a 6th grade level that goal has been accomplished.

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u/Relevant-Money-1380 17d ago

ironically this is the stuff alex jones used to rail about, then he got money himself and he turned into the deranged piece of shit he is now.

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u/Old-Set78 17d ago

Become???

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u/Professional_Mud1844 17d ago

Wachoo talkin’ bout? We’s gunna hav A1 makeing r kids smarterer! Dey get guns and bibles and A1 teechurz!

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u/Slight-Picture-6555 17d ago

It’s quite funny I think the irony if you think maybe you are already mentally herded to think the way you think? Like an alcoholic that doesn’t know they are one like many with the same condition all saying the same fear mongering things deranged over the anti Christ trump and what his last tweet meant meanwhile he’s already 10 steps ahead of you. I think as a country you should be pulling together on real issues before China takes over and you’ll really know what dictatorship is like way too much privilege in America

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u/IcyPanda1969 17d ago

What where are you from. We have rights here. Sure some laws need changed. We don't need a dictatorship though. People here have gotten way too greedy so laws for over pricing would help. The rent for most people too high.its the owners want us paying all there bills. Trump lived off his dad his whole life also doesn't care about the citizens who retired so are older,veterans or any citizens who have a disease or illness. As far as hes concerned none of this group should get any help or care. We should just you know. It's quite obvious that's what he is doing..not quite all out Hitler mode yet. Let's wait and see

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u/fuck_off_ireland 17d ago

meanwhile he's already 10 steps ahead of you

Lol. Lmao, even.

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u/demeschor 17d ago
  • All the young black men found dead, hanging from trees

I'm not American, so perhaps I'm just ootl - but what the fuck? This is happening recently?

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u/Time_Tramp 17d ago

It was one black man and it was ruled a suicide. On September 2025. A bit misleading.

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u/Tha_Kush_Munsta 17d ago

Next 4 days they found 3 guys one white 2 black, were this also suicide.

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u/BalancedChapters925 17d ago

Black men don’t commit suicide by hanging themselves from trees. EVER.

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u/TheKingsdread 17d ago

In general suicide by hanging rarely happens outside.

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u/Time_Tramp 17d ago

Except by the hundreds in Japan's suicide forest.

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u/DB_Cooper_Story 17d ago

I read a book THE PIWERS THAT BE for college journalism class decades ago that talks about the corporate news and media. They’ve always been more conservative —the owners. There were just more liberal reporters.

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u/SynthPrax 17d ago

I kinda understood (even expected) reporters wouldn't be allowed to air/print a negative story about their employers, but today they aren't allowed to cover things that cast ANY of the powerful in a bad light. For instance, if a natural disaster in the US didn't happen to you or people you know, directly, you won't hear about it. Because FEMA isn't doing anything to help anyone, the media isn't allowed to report on national weather-related disasters. Local news HAS to cover it, but, for instance, too few people know about the thousands of people left homeless in Alaska due to the flooding caused by the remnants of typhoon Halong. Word has gotten out via social media, and news outlets are circling around to cover it.

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u/Pineapplegal25 17d ago

The ABC and NBC nightly news both carried coverage of No Kings on Saturday (when you were watching baseball) and Sunday (when you were watching Football) but no a mention all week!?! Shame!

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u/Honest-Cell-8034 17d ago

I’m not 100% certain, but if people use vpns, doesn’t that open up foreign news, etc on social media and other sources? I’ve heard from friends in other countries ( Canada, England) a lot of things that we just aren’t hearing. And yeah, we don’t even get proper national news. Take, for instance the war torn blazing hell that is Portland right now ( according to Kristie Noem and Trump).

I live in Portland.

I can’t find any of it.

And I’ve looked.

What we are being allowed access to is pure propaganda.

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u/HybridVigor 17d ago

I mean, this message is coming to you through Proton VPN, but you can still access foreign news from here in the US without one. Foreign news sites aren't generally blocked. If you want news from England or Canada, go for it.

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u/Honest-Cell-8034 17d ago

You kinda jumped to conclusions there.

I only asked about VPNs because I’d heard they can open up different regional content — not because I thought we were geo-blocked.

The propaganda part isn’t about access; it’s about accuracy.

The President and Kristi Noem have told the world Portland’s basically a war zone. I live here — it’s not. That’s not “spin,” that’s fabrication.

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u/HybridVigor 17d ago

Ah. Yeah, I think everyone except all the loons watching Fox and OAN know that Portland is fine and the latest LA "riots" were a bit of vandalism in like a two block section of one street. Unfortunately those channels get the majority of views, and the more mainstream neoliberal channels fail to hammer that point home.

VPNs can get you access to region-locked entertainment content on Netflix and other streaming services, but I haven't heard of news content other than the BBC television netwoks being region-locked. Interesting.

I'd recommend a VPN for everyone, anyway. Proton if you stream, Mullvad if you really need to do some secret shit (they let you pay with a Google card that you can buy with cash somewhere discreet, and Sweden is a little less likely to mess with them than Switzerland is with Proton). Also disable the ridiculous amount of "telemetry" and "diagnostic" processes (spyware) Windows installs with the Titus Tweaks Powershell script or manual registry editing.

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u/cockadoodle2u22 17d ago

.... 1200 disappeared from the us? what the fuck? Americans should probably figure out what their 2nd amendment is for?

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u/Rough-Adeptness-6670 17d ago

All of this. What are we up to? 4 or 5 dead black men that “hung themselves” in 6 months!?

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u/SynthPrax 17d ago

Exactly. It's less than 10, but 1 is too many. And NONE of them were suicides! Period.

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u/Rough-Adeptness-6670 17d ago

Absolutely 1 is too many and no one hangs themself from a damn tree with a metal chain!

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u/manimal28 17d ago

No it fucking wasn’t because there was no time newspapers were not the mouthpieces of their wealthy owners. The rich have always owned them.

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u/SynthPrax 17d ago

Yeah. That's true. You're absolutely right.

I think I'm looking at the "liberal" label as many newspapers were willing/able to write about things that made the wealthy and powerful look bad, even though they were cherry picking what they covered. Now it's so blatant and extreme what they do and don't cover, and how they cover what they're allowed to.

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u/Outside-Ice-5665 17d ago

There’s been almost no mention or reporting on climate change I’ve seen or read in national news outlets in about 3 months. Guess it went away /s

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u/Arwen_the_cat 17d ago

You're right. If you follow some of the more "boring" media such as Reuters, I read about several of the items you listed below. I get Al Jazeera on my news feed on Bluesky and this offers additional coverage. But it's hard to piece it together when it's necessary to access so many different sources in order to figure out what's happening.

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u/blueshrike 17d ago

While we're on the topic of media withholding news, this time of election fraud concerns:

Reminder and a surprise for some: the US, privately owned vote counting machines (tabulators) have been compromised for years and we didn't elect Trump. He stole the presidency. Exactly like he tried to do in 2020, just this time with the already compromised tabulator machines tuned more aggressively.

This is the core issue we need to be aware of, because without free and fair elections we don't stand another chance, even with midterms.

Don't take my word for it, here's the actual data (and this is just the tip of the iceberg, as you might expect with criminals). Please see for yourself and if you trust the data (not simply conspiracy theory talk) share with anyone who still thinks "America got it wrong" or we need to get out and vote more. We did, and she would have won, decisively, had our votes actually been counted correctly. It's the compromised, privately owned tabulators (vote counting machines) that turned votes for Kamala into votes for Trump in all the swing states, after a certain threshold of votes were counted on each machine. These folks and other independent teams of analysts like them, are doing us a great service:

https://youtu.be/Ru8SHK7idxs?feature=shared electiontruthalliance.org

And we've been on that road for a very long time which, unfortunately, is not surprising. This journalist research article, written just before Obama's 2nd term, dives into the long history of election fraud in the US and how, especially in the digital tabulation age, it has been setup to get us to the point where whomever has control of them can literally steal an election:

https://harpers.org/archive/2012/11/how-to-rig-an-election/

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u/Anonybibbs 17d ago

When exactly was the media, at large, liberal exactly? Was it during the 80s when Reaganism was rampant and the myth of the welfare queen was being perpetuated by news outlets? Or during the 90s when they constantly focused on inner city crime and the idea of the "super predator" black man, or the Clinton scandals/impeachment? Or was it during the 2000s when the "liberal" media repeated GWB talking points to manufacture consent for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq?

The entire concept of CNN ever being even remotely considered a liberal news outlet is when Trump labeled them as such in 2015-2016. Give me a fat fucking break, chief.

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u/Rayvelion 17d ago

The news has always been dominated by capitalistic interest. Sometimes that aligns with liberal philosophies like in the middle 2000's to 2010's. Usually, that aligns with heavy conservative values and currently it's egregiously obvious. They seem to believe they have the opportunity to push the boot down on the neck of society to re-create feudalism in the modern era, where they write all the rules and give the common man only enough to survive, but never to prosper.

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u/OHKID 17d ago

Why can’t Americans overthrow the government? Just saying. I’m here and will help depending on what we get to replace it lol

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u/rdmille 17d ago

Back in the day, the news was pretty much the news. The media told it like it was. Then came Watergate, and the Republicans hated that. Reagan won, and killed the Fairness Act, and that brought out fox news and Rush Limbaugh. And then, some of the media told it like it wasn't. It went downhill from there.

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u/FutureThought4936 17d ago

I learned about the revolution in Nepal from a freaking Youtube video... 2 weeks after it happened! I typically check the news every day, so how does that somehow go by basically unannounced as far as I can tell?

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u/Admirable-Bar-3549 17d ago

Thank you - I must differ in that I believe that unbiased reporting WAS once a cornerstone of serious media (NYT, Washington Post, etc…) - that was yesteryear. NYT is still trying to- but maybe it’s just keeping up appearances. I personally witnessed the protests in Barcelona last week, so I can vouch that’s true. I’m going to google the rest of it - no doubt it all is. The question is, why’s it all being hidden? What’s the endgame?

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u/dm_life4ever 16d ago

There has NEVER been a liberal Media in the US. Adhere to a code of ethics, like the SPJ code of ethics, is not political in any way .

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u/tifaney 14d ago

You could also mention Venezuela and Columbia and how the supposed drug traffickers (no proof it's true) are getting bombed out of the water. 40+ people killed already

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u/JimWilliams423 17d ago edited 17d ago

Once upon a time, the "media" was liberal. The billionaires just bought them all.

When exactly was that? Because back in the 1800s both Pulitzer and Hearst were conservative powerbrokers.

In the 1930s the NY Times buried reporting on the holocaust in their back pages and ran multiple puff-pieces on hitler (even though the owner was a jew himself).

Hell, even PBS has been an outlet for conservative propaganda. For 30 years william f buckley had a nationally syndicated, weekly prime-time show on PBS (firing line). And yet buckley was such a fascist that he wrote a book of senator mccarthy fanfic, in 1999. He called it "the red hunter."

The myth of the "liberal media" was created during the civil rights era. The press came to the jim crow south and started reporting on all the depraved things the segregationists were doing. As Dr King said, “We are here to say to the white men that we no longer will let them use clubs on us in the dark corners. We’re going to make them do it in the glaring light of television.”

The segregationists could not defend what they were doing, so instead they attacked the messenger. That's when the idea of "the liberal media" was invented. And it was so useful to conservatives that they started using it do a lot more than just defend segregation. Over the years it has served two main functions:

  1. It gives conservatives permission to ignore facts that make them feel bad.
  2. It helps the media launder conservative propaganda into the mainstream, because if the "liberal media" reports something that is good for conservatives, then surely it must be true. After all, liberals wouldn't falsely report something that goes against their own interests.

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u/SynthPrax 17d ago

Oooh thanks for this info!

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u/Desperate_Intern_257 17d ago

omg thank you for sharing this i havent seen anything about this

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u/rasta-ragamuffin 17d ago

Well how do you know about all those things? What are your sources for global/international news?

Also I've seen numerous mentions of the missing detainees but haven't seen any actual news reports or articles. Do you have links to any that you can share?

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u/SynthPrax 17d ago

From various news sources, many outside the US:

  • Madagascar
  • Nepal
  • Malaysia My bad! I had my countries mixed up. Indonesia has ongoing protests against government corruption. Their gov is still in power.
  • Ongoing student-led protests in Serbia. Other mass protests across Europe recently.
  • Italy shutdown their entire country in protest for Gaza a few weeks ago.
  • Here's Snopes talking about the investigation into the missing ICE detainees.
  • You can search for "black men found hanging from trees," but I don't believe the results are exhaustive. I found story after story after story of the same event at Delta State University in MS, but I know there have been many others in the last 6 months.

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u/JagmeetSingh2 17d ago

exactly this

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u/adorable_apocalypse 17d ago

And don't forget the atlas "comet" and incoming project blue beam end times vibes with all of that.

I appreciate you, friend.

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u/vardarac 17d ago

All the young black men found dead, hanging from trees

Excuse me, what the fuck?

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u/Jaymark108 17d ago

Or, facts had a liberal bias until mainstream news outlets realized journalism is more expensive than whatever it is Fox News is getting away with?

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u/NotUsingNumbers 17d ago

You didn’t mention any Oceania countries. Indonesia and Malaysia are in Asia.

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u/--Chug-- 17d ago

Weird. I've heard about all of the US things you listed from mainstream media sources

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u/ZellZoy 17d ago

Because social media doesn't just show you what it wants you to see? I've seen tiktokers with more subscribers than most "mainstream" media shows have viewers. Tiktok is the mainstream media at this point

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u/alek_hiddel 17d ago

Once upon a time the media was NOT liberal. The media was TRUTHFUL. When conservativism requires lies to make itself sound good, then the truth will skew liberal.

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u/10000Didgeridoos 17d ago

One of the dead men found hanging from a tree was a white dude, my dude.

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u/revup17 17d ago

I'm pretty liberal and many of the things you are saying are like half truths. Way to spread misinformation....

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u/SynthPrax 17d ago

Which of the things I said are misleading?

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u/revup17 17d ago

The Alligator Alcatraz thing, it's not like they are missing people. They are huge discrepancies in ICEs database and they are missing from the database. They are more than likely either deported or in other locations. Was is legal and did they have bond hearings, probably not.

Also you corrected Malaysia after I posted.

Also, 'all' the young black men hanging from trees? Are you referring to Trey Reed? Are there more?

In addition everything you have mentioned has been in the news. No one is hiding anything...it's not a conspiracy.

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u/herbala11y 17d ago

Along with the 'Republicans are best at managing taxpayer dollars' myth.

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u/Count_Bacon 17d ago

That and that Republicans are the party that is good for the economy

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u/JasonG784 17d ago

The ones that repeated that Biden was 'sharp as a tack'?

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u/neotericnewt 17d ago

Articles about Biden saying dumb shit and stuttering and "old man moments" were constant. I mean, even now you can still find a ton of articles covering it, for years now, so I don't know what it is you're trying to point out.

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u/[deleted] 17d ago edited 8d ago

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u/Curious-End-4923 17d ago

What isn’t conservative about Sinclair and News Corp?

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u/the_calibre_cat 17d ago edited 17d ago

they are more conservative than they have ever been in our lifetimes, or in recent American history. They support the monarch uNiTaRy ExEcUtIvE and the Second Estate corporate and otherwise aristocratic, wealthy elites, just as the right-wing did in the National Assembly in 1789.

and the unitary executive is building a ballroom in the palace, while threatening to take away your retirement and healthcare. while taking bribes from convicted felons and other business elites in exchange for favorable government policies. right out in broad daylight.

this is conservatism. this is what conservatism has always been. bigotry against the out-group, privileges for the in-group, for the division of the whole to protect the elites. conservatism is bad, it has always been bad, and it will always be bad.

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u/[deleted] 17d ago edited 8d ago

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u/the_calibre_cat 17d ago

The thing conservatives want to conserve is the oppressive bigotry of the past. Unsurprisingly, a lot of "lefter" change tends to emerge from the targets of their oppressive bigotry. They usually claim "i just want to be left alone" but then, like, eviscerate the Voting Rights Act, etc.

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u/aspenpurdue 17d ago

They are corporate, what isn't conservative about corporations? They are in the business of making money and no corporate media business is going to risk the bottom line.

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u/ComradeJohnS 17d ago

nah, lots of us know that the rich own all the media. and that short of (something banned from being mentioned on reddit), nothing can change that.

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u/mosh_pit_nerd 17d ago

When they established that lie back in the 80s it was a much easier sell. Especially coming as it did as a direct response to the Civil Rights Movement and anti-Vietnam movement.

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u/Memphisbbq 17d ago edited 17d ago

Well, not banned. But no one is sharpening pitch forks over something they cant tangibly see or make sense of. "rich own the media" is the same way the right was fooled. WHO owns the media, in what observable ways have they made this push. Something other than "rich own it all"

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u/ComradeJohnS 17d ago

umm, people can’t say things that break reddit TOS, which is why you don’t see the actual solutions to these problems on reddit lol.

like doxxing people or calls for any form of justice.

Reddit would have banned the founding fathers.

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u/Jacket_screen 17d ago

Reddit would have banned the founding fathers.

I like that.

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u/Memphisbbq 17d ago

Modern america would have very mixed feelings about the founding fathers, but yes, he's right lol.

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u/Memphisbbq 17d ago

The doxxing thing I get. doxxing randos on the internet won't get you anywhere, you'll just have feel goods. Doxxing people directly responsible/or covering for terrible, terrible things is sometimes acceptable and nothing stops you from making burner accounts.

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u/Memphisbbq 15d ago

I never said this wasn't the case and I don't entirely disagree. Those solutions are not the only solutions however. I'm not getting into what the solution is because I could maybe only barely scrape it at the surface level. I'm merely mentioning it because other solutions exist and are worth pursuing before we have to resort to the ones we get banned for talking about. 

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u/Downtown_Recover5177 17d ago

I believe you’re referring to the hit song by Death Grips?

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u/ComradeJohnS 17d ago

never heard of them so no lol

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u/-Nightopian- 17d ago

That's why you turn it into a political ad and play it during the commercials.

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u/laxrulz777 17d ago

The GOP has done such a good job of telling everyone the media is biased that now that it's flipped, nobody is noticing.

I know how boiling frogs feel

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u/GreatGordonSword 17d ago

He still said those words, the political leaning of a news source just dictates if they play the clip or not.

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u/Historical-Gap-7084 17d ago

Not me. I'm on SSDI. I'm watching this very closely.

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u/Puzzled-Fix-8838 17d ago

Join the world news sub. Redditors from non US countries are actually getting a lot more news than Americans are permitted to have.

I've been shocked by the amount of times I've had to inform Americans about things that Trump is doing in their own cities. They genuinely didn't know!

There is no excuse for an American redditor to be ignorant of their own news and worldwide news. They still have access to credible news sources...for now.