

Get over yourself. All I did was state a fact that was contradictory to the previous comment. I didn’t even say anything about whether it was good or bad. Trump is trying to cut VoA.
Get over yourself. All I did was state a fact that was contradictory to the previous comment. I didn’t even say anything about whether it was good or bad. Trump is trying to cut VoA.
The word “propaganda” is tricky. It has connotations of being lies, but that isn’t always or even usually the case. Objectively true information can literally be propaganda. The mission of the VoA is to spread American propaganda. That’s why it’s funded. That can be truths that foreign governments want to suppress, it can be spin, or it can be lies. VoA is generally pretty truthful, especially compared to the privately run domestic versions like cable news outlets.
Government officials don’t need to dictate content. As you pointed out, content can be controlled by who is appointed to manage the content. They know the mission.
He literally has control over it though.
Be that as it may, Trump is trying to dismantle it.
No, for the behavior of staff that he never directly condoned and in-fact provided training and policies against. He didn’t monitor or enforce (well enough anyways) and maintained a culture of competition that indirectly incentivized ripping off customers.
Again, I see that it’s entirely clear that AOC’s over-all case is very different. I said that right at the start. Her’s is a case of imperfect compliance with rules that she and her staff clearly tried to follow, and she immediately worked to correct the issue.
All I’m saying is that she isn’t innocent by virtue of “my staff did it, not me”. Just imagine how the shittiest Republicans you can think of would abuse that loophole.
Except that Trump is currently trying to dismantle Voice of America" and other propaganda machines around the globe.
My former CEO got fired after being chewed out by Congress for exactly this, so apparently, yes.
Oh, my innocent child…
Both sides harbor sexual predators? Yeah, unfortunately that is obviously the case. I mean fuck, we know with 100% certainty that Billy boy stuck his dick in an intern, and he had a long history of sexual misconduct accusations. When the truth came out, his popularity went up. Instead of being marched out to irrelevance, he has remained an influential member of Democratic leadership.
You might not remember this, but when the Trump “grab 'em” tape came out it was right before a debate. Trump brought a whole gaggle of Bill’s accusers to sit in the audience to call out the hypocrisy. A scandal they should have ended Trump made him stronger. I guess Billy boy fucked us all.
maybe they knowingly accepted or solicited discounts for their boss, but that isn’t AOC’s fault
I think the AOC complaint was overall ridiculous, but this particular excuse shouldn’t fly. She ought to be responsible for properly training , instructing, and managing her staff.
Bill Clinton almost certainly belongs on the list. Furthermore, I think he is the primary reason the Democrats didn’t/couldn’t use Epstein to destroy Trump years ago.
What’s Jesus have to do with Christianity? Christianity has always been Paul’s religion, not Jesus’.
I don’t even see a justification for the need to put these departments more closely under the control of the executive
False corruption charges are frequently used by insurgencies and foreign influence operations to undermine legitimate governance. I’m not saying it is or isn’t a legitimate concern in this case but, if it were, we definitely wouldn’t know the exact reasons. Given Russia’s history of using foreign influence as a weapon of war and, in particular, their history of doing so in Ukraine, I can definitely understand the concern.
Of course real corruption can’t go unanswered because of the possibility of trumped up charges. It’s a tricky bit of business to get right.
Will abstaining leftists be willing to offer a peace branch and vote for an anti-fascist candidate, even one that disagrees with their wider views,
You mean just like we have for decades now? Yeah, we might just do that. It sure as fuck isn’t going to be the neoliberals who can’t even bring themselves to endorse the Democratic candidate for NY mayor.
Abstaining leftists didn’t change the outcome, apathetic Americans did. And why are Americans apathetic? One look at the Democratic establishment makes that crystal clear.
I’ll bet more people didn’t show up for Harris because their favorite video game had an update on election day. We don’t see these shit memes shaming them, only the people who are against genocide.
Yeah it’s fear. Fear that fuckwits are going to drive the country into the hands of fascists. Is that not worth a bit of concern, or is that just too far fetched an outcome?
And don’t act like it’s one sided mate. Calling me a coward by coming at it sideways doesn’t change your meaning.
I meant anti-Harris lefties who actively wanted her to lose to Trump
If you think that’s a large enough group that it had any impact whatsoever on the election, then you are insane.
How? How would you propose that could have realistically happened?
Well, for one we wouldn’t have nominated Biden and never would have been in that position with Harris. We might have also held Biden’s feet to the fire more, thus discovering his mental state long before election time.
Its partially because more of them don’t vote compared to the last election.
None of that says that “lefties” in particular didn’t vote for Harris. Left policy sells, so a further left Harris would have done better, but that’s the establishment’s fault, not leftists. It also doesn’t take a leftist to be against genocide.
Now does some of the blame go to the Democratic establishment? ABSO-FUCKING-LUTELY. But not all of it.
That’s funny, because nothing you said before gave them any fault at all, and you definitely seemed in the mood to throw fault around.
So you can go ahead and choose to not vote next election. I don’t care enough to argue with you on that now.
WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU TALKING TO?
These are not the droids you’re looking for.