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• SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Why not tell that to the News mods who took down my comment that simply said “and nothing of value was lost” and claimed that was celebrating and promoting violence.

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  • noscere@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Yeah, the mods over there are killing like half the comments. I looked through the modlog, and most of the deleted comments are pretty tame. The mods over there are sucking right now.

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    • SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Meh, there’s worse mods out there. I’m sure it’s an overwhelming thread and they’re just slamming the brakes on everything to try to keep it in control. Probably like a thousand user reports already or something.

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  • DarkCloud@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Turns out mainstream journalism, news agencies, and even forums that deliver “the news” are actually there to force a particular culyural interpretation of the news whilst preventing others. We can see this in the sane washing of Trump.

    It’s another aspect of Cultural Class Warfare - The Frankfurt School pointed it out in this essay. They called it "The Culture Industry, and Marcuse said it was an inescapable part of the reproduction of culture in the age of “mechanical reproduction”… Which is what Marcuse’ book “One Dimensional Man” is about.

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