Comment on Why is Kamala Harris being held at such a higher standard than Trump this election?
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Trump is an outrage machine, and we have a media that deals in an economy of outrage.
Trump gets outrage. Outrage gets clicks. Clicks get money. It’s a pretty simple chain to follow.
Impassionata@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I am shocked to see this pseudofascist apologia so highly upvoted.
It’s not the media’s coverage of the fascism that’s the problem.
You would rather deflect blame to the media than point the finger at the fascism. Shame on you.
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
I don’t think the fascism would exist if it wasn’t profitable to give it a platform.
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
fascism is enabled by those who delude themselves into believing they can control it. see: 1930s germany.
they knew hitler was a nutbag. but too many people and too many industries were ready for the profits militarism brought - see krupps, ibm etc.
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Hitler wouldn’t have been shit if he wasn’t celebrated by German media during the Beer Hall Putsch trials. And he would’ve faded to obscurity pretty quick if not for Goebbels.
Fascists are bad. But they only get dangerous when they’re given a platform.
Impassionata@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That’s stupid!