The Shutdown Isn’t a Stalemate — It’s a Power Grab. And the Media Are Missing It.
The Shutdown Isn’t a Stalemate — It’s a Power Grab. And the Media Are Missing It.
Things that the mainstream media missed
Trump and kegsbreath declaring war on American civilians
Kegsbreath encouraging and endorsing violent and humiliating war crimes to be committed against American civilians. Particularly disturbing when this was recorded so lower level soldiers know they can get away with it no matter what their commanders say because it’s coming from the White House
Trump using the shutdown to gut agencies with the project 2025 architect Russ Vought
The flotilla getting intercepted
The general strike in Italy Friday
The pro Palestine protests all over Europe
American mainstream media is completely compromised
Just wondering where you found out about all of these things if the "mainstream media" isn't reporting on them. I read about all of these on the front page for the New York Times online version, which is about as mainstream as it gets. I saw you linked a Reuters article as well- hardly an underground news 'zine lmao.
You just need to identify where the edges are and step outside of your own bubble into the sort of echo chamber they exist in. Not that they deliberately avoid making it easy.
Complicit.
The owners of Fox, CNN, and others need to be put on trial when this is over.
A trial? They are so wealthy that they could easily pay every fine imaginable and afford a lawyer who could convince any judge to provide wrist-slap punishments such as a month of community service or a year at one of those rich people prisons that are in reality day spas.
There is no "legal" system for the wealthy, only for you and me who couldn't afford the impacts to our lives from the fines or jail time with a normal lawyer.
Proper punishment is to simply end their influence.
Ending them in terms of their lifes? No.
We just need a system that punishes criminals instead of the poor.
Youbare part of the problem. This is not ending.
The media are not missing it, they are complacent in helping the power grab
What I don't understand is that "the media" is staffed by ordinary people that are suffering as much as everyone else. Every single one of these organisations has the option to disagree, but nobody does. It's impossible that they are all staffed only by by magats - why doesn't anything happen against this fascism?
Many Americans, especially white men who haven't been targeted much so far, don't feel that the problems matter to them personally. They think "everything is cyclical, it's all just hype, I'm doing OK, I can't risk my job, fuck it".
And that will work for them, until some day it won't, because fascists are never satisfied with what they have. But it's sad, too, because it shows a clear lack of community values.
A lot of the big media companies have been getting snapped up by billionaires over the last decade or so. The staffers are normal people, but the editors and producers have been either made to toe the line or replaced.
That's why the reporters aren't reporting on this. They're not allowed to.
they're not "missing it". they're complicit. their funding -and in many cases, jobs - depends on them looking the other way.
No, the media is complicit.
Media is complicit. They don't want the fascists to revoke their licenses or lose their gov pay outs. They think in the long run kowtowing to bullies is going to end well for them.
Dumbfuck spineless losers are helping drag our country to shit.
So any news on a country wide strike yet? At this point, we need to drag this machine to a halt. It will be devastating I'm sure, but so will this regime if we don't stop it soon.
It'll never happen, sadly.
How much of that is because every single time it’s brought up, without fail, the immediate reaction is “it’ll never happen.”
How much are we self defeating by being convinced by conditioning that collective action just isn’t feasible?
It’s only not feasible because so many people firmly believe it’s not. This is the most powerful tool in the system’s arsenal: our own surety that we will never act.
It’s literally the one and only thing that holds us back
When are we going to start a general strike?
Where are the meek? It's time for the meek to appear. C'mon already.
Then states should do their own power grab and remain functioning when their own federal government isn't.
More inter-state organization between the sane states, like the replacement health committee thing
You know, something the Heritage Foundation doesn't realize is that we are much more like Korea in our ability to resist.
Not like Hong Kong. And the people in Hong Kong were pretty damn good at resisting the white shirts before China said "fuck you guys" and just took over.
Korea stopped this before it got to this point
shut down is a good thing
It's all fucking bonkers. They are talking about loyalty pledges for universities, they are doing little pogrom dry runs on Chicago apartment blocks, they are building the concentration camps. And people are still out here wrangling about health care and tax benefits. I mean, it's not wrong, we should care about those things, but the whole framing of what is happening in the media, and treating this shutdown as all of a sudden as a big crisis overshadowing the other stuff, is just nuts.
This article to me got to the heart of it. Framing it as primarily a fight about health care plays into the Republicans getting away with more of the Hitler stuff, however it plays out.
I can tell it's a Democrat strategy consultant making that framing decision and it's just so... stupid. Yes, we're ok with a shutdown, just as we were in March when Schumer et al decided to cave in out of fear for this exact situation, and now they're getting a lose lose scenario because they can't just say "governments on hold until the fascist stop fascisting" to at least use this shutdown to galvanize the left.
We're so cooked, ugh.
I'm not sure it is even the strategy consultants who are framing it that way. I feel like the Chuck Schumer / consultant framing is "we hate doing this shutdown because it makes us look bad." Then there is the Bernie / AOC framing of "it's really critical that we don't kill 50,000 Americans a year by taking their health insurance away that is what we're refusing to compromise on." That's better, the consultants would have been fine with caving and killing 50,000 Americans a year, they've done it before. Even better than that would be "Well we should be shutting down the government, because what the government is doing is attacking American citizens and in some cases killing them directly and building camps to house them by the thousands. And the Supreme Court just said Trump is king and doesn't even have to honor any 'deal' that Congress works out about health care or anything else, so fuck it, government's closed." That framing is more where I'm at.
People here are still saying "both sides are the same" as of yesterday, too.
Oligarch-controlled opposition, doing what they've been paid by the oligarchs to do, and told by the oligarchs lobbyists to do, to benefit the oligarchs authoritarian takeover.
Every time I come to lemmy.world, I always regret it lol
If this were the explanation, they would surely be aware that they are talking themselves into potentially a concentration camp, or potentially "only" losing their job and career forever and becoming a bunch of Leon Trotskies. Your theory has a certain emotionally satisfying nihilism to it, but it doesn't actually make sense for understanding the nature of the failures in our government (and ideally being able to react to them constructively in some fashion, in the future.)
And people still think the files will end it lmao