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Groceries are expensive and they're too busy talking about culture war

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  • eurodyne@piefed.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Asking one of the most insecure men on tv about his dick

    BOSS MOVE

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    • NotSteve_@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Michigan, has raised eyebrows after asking Fox News’ Jesse Watters if he is circumcised during a combative prime-time interview.

      Man fuck right off, that wasn’t at all a weird question to ask in response to a fucking weird obsession Jesse has with children’s “dingilings”

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      • eurodyne@piefed.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Jesse Watters is the one who brought it up, after all.

        El-Sayed (a medical doctor, by the way) only responded in kind, and Watters - having brought it up as some kind of battle mark, some line that should never be crossed - immediately reversed course at brakeneck speed and attempted to dismiss it as if it were nothing, framing El-Sayed as an absurdist for even mentioning the subject that Watters himself raised in feigned outrage, despite El-Sayed’s repeated warnings that Watters would regret addressing the subject

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      • ptsdstillinmymind@lemmy.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        If you ever believed that the manipulation stream media was on the right side of history. Then this whole interview plus the one Welker did with Angie Nixon should tell you that they never were.

        These companies act like assholes to Progressives and DSA while throwing cotton candy at Pedophiles and Rapists.

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    • unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Watters is so grating in his speech, can’t watch it, but it’s impressive to see someone put up with him for a half hour

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      • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Things went off the rails when Watters asked the progressive if he supports gender-affirming surgery for those under 18 years old.

        “Sex change for minors. Do you support that?” Watters asked El-Sayed, to which the former public health official said, “I just think the government shouldn’t tell you what kind of healthcare you should have.”

        “So you think it’s okay for a parent to slash his kid’s ding-a-ling off?” Watters asked.

        El-Sayed retorted: “Do you really want to have this conversation? Are you circumcised?”

        The shocked Fox News host said, “Yeah, but I mean that’s a personal question, doctor.”

        Watters then said circumcision is “different than castration,” but El-Sayed argued, “I’m just saying that yes, circumcision is surgery on a kid’s ding-a-ling.”

        Watters called El-Sayed’s comment “wacky,” adding, “Abdul, Michigan’s not going for that. That is sick stuff.”

        Holy shit what an inane hypocrite. I swear conservatives are going to give me an aneurysm

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      • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        he supposed to be the replacement tucker carlson.

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    • sem@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Transcript from the article:

      “Sex change for minors. Do you support that?” Watters asked El-Sayed, to which the former public health official said, “I just think the government shouldn’t tell you what kind of healthcare you should have.”

      “So you think it’s okay for a parent to slash his kid’s ding-a-ling off?” Watters asked.

      Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Michigan, has raised eyebrows after asking Fox News’ Jesse Watters if he is circumcised during a combative prime-time interview

      Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Michigan, has raised eyebrows after asking Fox News’ Jesse Watters if he is circumcised during a combative prime-time interview (Jesse Watters Primetime)

      El-Sayed retorted: “Do you really want to have this conversation? Are you circumcised?”

      The shocked Fox News host said, “Yeah, but I mean that’s a personal question, doctor.”

      Watters then said circumcision is “different than castration,” but El-Sayed argued, “I’m just saying that yes, circumcision is surgery on a kid’s ding-a-ling.”

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      • zarkanian@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        So you think it’s okay for a parent to slash his kid’s ding-a-ling off?

        How insane that these are the questions. Ask him about UFOs and Bigfoot next.

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      • eurodyne@piefed.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I think something is lost in converting it to text. Something of the essence of the moment really… You have to see it and hear it.

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    • AviAdi@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I love it 😂

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    • im_fine_sandy@nord.pub ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      This was such a bizarre interaction.

      El Sayed seems brilliant at responding to these gotcha questions.

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      • eurodyne@piefed.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I’m sure the guy like that has had a lifetime of practice

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    • Slab_Bulkhead@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      bro wake up a another ‘once in a generation’ headline just dropped

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    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      hes also irl DENNIS, who slashed a fox womans news employee tires to try to get in her pants.

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    • Mongostein@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You got a link?

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      • eurodyne@piefed.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/abdul-el-sayed-jesse-watters-circumcised-b3038567.html

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    • SinningStromgald@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      And of course Waters couldn’t/wouldn’t understand.

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      • eurodyne@piefed.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        What a Ding-a-ling!

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    • IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      thought the bar was low.

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      • eurodyne@piefed.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        As low as your ding-a-ling!

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    • Fmstrat@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Is there a link with the correct video?

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      • eurodyne@piefed.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Having already watched it a few times, I assure you, this is the correct video

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  • Flower@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Hey Fox News, it’s bread and circus. If you’re only doing circus and people get hungry you’re still going to be in trouble. Groceries matter.

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  • switcheroo@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Love this guy. El-Sayed and Mamdani are really kicking ass! They are exactly what I want for my state (and the whole gd country too, but you know as well as I do that red states are hopeless and too brainwashed to ever do better).

    Dr. El-Sayed was born in the US. Just saying. He is very qualified to run for president— though the bar is so low right now it’s a tripping hazard in hell…

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    • VitoRobles@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      They’re focusing on the message.

      Kamala was doing the right thing by laughing in their faces.

      But we have to take it to the next step. Piss them off. Tell them to stop wasting everyone’s time about which bathroom to use when people are dying because they’re afraid of going to the hospital.

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      • fisch@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Spot on. Journalism today is a joke. They’re owned by billionaires and mostly care about clicks and ad revenue, so they milk every stupid trend rather than go for the topics that really matter.

        Politicians get too easily distracted. You don’t have to answer every bullshit question or take a position on every stupid trend topic. If a journalist doesn’t do his job properly, tell them off, or even address the viewers and their actual real-life struggles directly.

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      • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        and then the party/msms put a muzzle on thier language, they knew it was hurting the Rs.

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  • TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    It’s by intention. I noticed that right wingers don’t really talk about the economic equality but instead focus on culture wars.

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  • uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah. That’s FOX News. They tell their viewers what to think, and the viewers obey.

    They have a very specific propaganda program. It draws people in with fear, outrage and bigotry…

    Then it invites them to divest of all other information sources (except maybe approved ones like OANN or WSJ) the way that an abusive spouse gets their partner to disconnect from all other social relationships.

    And then it pumps them with MAGA ideology. The culture war stuff.

    It’s literal mind control, but it’s like a reverse hack (trying a common password on multiple accounts), in that it hits a lot of people and sucks in those who bite. Usually white uneducated men.

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    • TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      They have a very specific propaganda program. It draws people in with fear, outrage and bigotry…

      It’s the same one that’s been around from the 1920’s, they’ve all been cribbing from the same guy for over a hundred years.

      The German jurist and political philosopher Carl Schmitt wrote about the inherent vulnerability of democracy in his book The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy in 1923. He basically wrote the playbook that every fascist still utilizes today.

      Writing “Every actual democracy rests on the principle that not only are equals equal, but unequals will not be treated equally.” Basically, you can tear apart any democracy by framing diversity and minority opinions as existential threats to the political community, by exploiting this you can lay the groundwork for majoritarian tyranny and state-sponsored exclusion.

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    • Nonprophet@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I was on a 2.5 hour flight recently, and a guy a couple of rows up was watching Fox News. It just jumped from: Trans, Immigrants, Socialism, over and over and over the entire flight. It made me realize how fitting the term ‘News Story’ really is!

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      • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        It identifies as news.

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      • tempest@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        That’s repetition if just 24 hour news channels. CNN is similar they just harp on a different set of issues.

        I’m mildly curious how much longer they can keep it up as they slowly become less and less relevant. Few under 40 subscribe to cable television and instead consume social media influencers who are both myriad and cheaper to influence.

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  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Thats the correct response.

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  • DarkFuture@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Unfortunately there are plenty of idiots with propaganda brain willing to take the traitors at Fox seriously.

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  • 800XL@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    You can see by the expression on Watters’s face the arm up his ass from below is moving his mouth

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  • HubertManne@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I agree with this. They are always trying to drag in all this social minutia when we have a real problem with wealth disparity, our federal goverment being completely hollowed out, and of course healthcare. we have a lot of real problems to fix.

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    • fisch@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Many people who are benefitting from the status quo would prefer you to not pay too much attention to large scale systemic problems and would rather have you fight some stupid, meaningless side battle. Unfortunately, many of these people own the news outlets that are shaping the public discourse.

      Journalism is interested in clicks and ad revenue. We can’t rely on them to go for the real problems when their chasing trend topics like a meth addict chasing the next high.

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  • Zink@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I love how this frame captured them both so well. If you look into the candidate’s eyes you see frustration. If you look into the Fox drone’s eyes, you see a big smiling face on an inflatable clown punching bag that’s about to tilt back to the right.

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  • Nonprophet@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This is the way

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  • Hikermick@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This is the way

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  • QueenHawlSera@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Men? No, Transgender Women? Yes, as long as they meet the hormone requirements.

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  • SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    And it works, every time. It brings out MAGAs to vote for the people who will harm them.

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  • jballs@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Saw this short on it. If anyone has a better source, I’d love to see one without a stupid reaction thrown into the middle. But even with that, it’s still worth a watch.

    youtube.com/shorts/G3FDUI_w4IM

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    • save_the_humans@leminal.space ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      “It is a big deal, have you watched the news lately? It is a big deal”

      Lol you are the news. You’re making it a big deal; its all you talk about.

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  • lemmyng@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Y’know, looking back and forth between the image of them, Waters looks more skinwalker than human.

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  • trainsrkool@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    abdul talks such a big game, but will go full zio just like mamdani, liberals get ready for the award this nov!

    Image

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    • Tzayad@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Just like Mamdani??..

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      • trainsrkool@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        yes, just like Zio Mamdani

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    • homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Okay ml

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      • trainsrkool@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        what does my instance have to with anyting? Okay lib world

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    • NotSteve_@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’m not from New York nor the US even so forgive me if I’m not up to date but how is Mandani Zionist? Isn’t he the guy the media got worked up about saying he’d arrest Netanyahou if he came to New York?

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      • nkat2112@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        He isn’t. But the commenter your replying to seems to have an obsession for down-votes.

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    • BigMacHole@thelemmy.club ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      This meme works REALLY well because UNLIKE Republicans Democrats DONT think For Themselves! If you say Zoran Mamdani is a ZIONIST then you MUST be 100% Right!

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    • gibmiser@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Hey don’t be lazy and copy liberals homework. Come up with your own material for your propaganda

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    • Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Acct from Lemmy.ml, this tracks.

      Also what flavor was the kool-aid that made you so gullible

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      • Mammothmothman@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Im betting it was lead flavored.

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      • jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Doesn’t .world block .ml? Did they change that, or how are you guys seeing this?

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    • DarkFuture@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Look guys. Another one aimlessly wandered out of the .ml safety zone.

      Don’t worry. We’re gonna get someone to help you back where you belong.

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      • jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        You’d think they would support someone for at least leaning towards socialism. Unless it was all just a big troll…

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    • LostCarcosan@lemmy.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Wow, what an incredibly misinformed and uneducated take. I’d like to ask you for a link for your sources, but I don’t want to see a picture of your asshole

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    • MashedTech@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You know how much Mamdani fixed by puttin responsible and hard working people in position of power? SHIIIIT, there’s even memes of people asking on social media for a whole to be fixed and the next day there’s a pot of it being fixed… It’s become a MEME!

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    • starik@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Repping lemmy.ml like a pro

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    • echo@lemmy.today ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Nice one, Jesse… you can’t be taken seriously.

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  • Polisheocket@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This is such a face palm for me, I have no words

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