“The FCC chair is clearly undertaking an effort to bully and intimidate independent journalism, which is a hallmark of authoritarian regimes where democracy is under siege,” said one critic.

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      i expect to get ratio’d for bringing any semblence of balance to the discussion here. i’m no trump apologist, but democrats still have a lot to answer for, too.

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        i’m no trump apologist

        Yes you are. Anytime you say ‘both sides are the same’, you’re just excusing the ways this administration is making things so much worse.

        The Democrats suck, but saying they’re both the same despite drastic differences in magnitude is carrying water for trump to minimize the changes they’re making.

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          no, i’m not. i’m sick of the democrats only having energy when they’re out of power-- they chose to support genocide and bypass democracy to appoint their defacto choice for successor.

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            Yes, you are. It’s fine to take them to task, but don’t minimize the shit that’s going on now with that dismissive and objectively incorrect bullshit. It makes you look ignorant and uninformed about things when you incorrectly say they’re the same when they’re clearly much worse.

            But whatever, I’m sick of arguing with BoTh SiDeS bullshit people. Bye.

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              Oh they’ve taken a step further than ‘both sides are the same.’ In order to support their argument, they are claiming in another part of this thread that Gaza has no people in it. They are actually trying to claim that Israel has killed literally every Palestinian in Gaza (presumably with Biden’s help) in order to avoid blaming the current administration for anything.

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                I’m really not surprised, these people didn’t seem super honest from the start. I’m just at the point where I call people on bullshit and block when they try to justify accelerationist or cryptofascist shit.

                E: LOL mfer is tried to tone police the conversation when you called them out. Good on you for keeping on these people and showing just how unserious and obviously trolling they are.

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                  They don’t really care. It’s all a scapegoat to not vote, bury their heads in the sand, and pretend they have moral high ground.

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                They literally called out the dems several times in their comment and they never said they wouldn’t call them out.

                They take issue with you saying that both parties are the same when clearly one is worse than the other.

                To really try and cement this in your brain.

                BOTH BAD, ONE WORSE.

                You see how Trump is already giving Israel larger bombs. That’s worse for Palestine right?

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                  hey rude guy, come at me in a decent tone sometime… like i said, this energy would’ve been helpful during the campaign but naaaaaaah, you lot had your eggs in kamala’s basket…
                  “larger bombs” to pulverize an already completely destroyed gaza? “worse for palestine” get a clue.

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                    hey rude guy, come at me in a decent tone sometime…

                    Some of the things you’ve said in the last 24 hours:

                    I guess it’s okay for you to be rude.

                    Let me guess- “they started it.”

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        we are like 11 days in and have already become more officially fascist than not, and you think the painfully tiresome wHaTaBoUt bullshit is “balance” because you say it is? GTFO

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          can i call you a genocide apologist ? i assume you call yourself a democrat and were pulling for kamala to continue biden’s heinous legacy… feel free to correct me on this, its just an assumption after all (man enough to admit that)