By Professor Marc Murphy of the Brandeis School of Law
Cheetos can't melt steel beams.
this post was submitted on 27 Apr 2025
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Cheetos shit themselves
rejected by who?
He did not point the finger at any particular paper. At least not where I saw the cartoon.
I bet most any publication would have rejected it at the time.
I mean... I'm from the US myself and this is extremely true
I've never seen anything in the US more complicit towards fascism and autocracy than the US media. They reported NOTHING negative about Trump for months? Why? Fairness? But Kamala got fucked every headline ''Job Numbers trending up, but are the numbers too soft because of Harris? " type of bullshit.
I’ve never seen anything in the US more complicit towards fascism and autocracy than the US media.
yes, including social media. People think adopting Donald Trump methods of dehumanizing those you disagree with, Donald Trump Twitter-think and Tweet-length mental attitudes is actually addressing the problem... in reality, it is joining in with the bonfires of goodness. Instead of a "we are under siege mentality" of posting a thread to the top of every social media platform every 6 hours since 2015 when it was clear Donald Trump and Putin wanted to fulfill their "Conservative International 2013" politician aims, people have just mocked and gone along with the total mockery media values of MAGA / Donald Trump Twitter-tweeting thinking.
I’ve never seen anything in the US more complicit towards fascism and autocracy than the US media.
People are entirely unable to defend and resist absurd comedy, surreal humor, surreal absurd "jokes', they all end up joining in / jumping on the bandwagon with the mocking and mockery.
Neil Postman was correct in 1985: “When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an audience, and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk; culture-death is a clear possibility.” ― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, 1985
Always has been. Have you ever checked out how the imperial media covers genocide?
Almost as if the rich and powerful have WAY too much control. Break out yer guillotines!
They want fascism. It's an element of class war.
Uhhhh get this human generated slop out of here!
The pathway to authoritarianism is lined with people telling you to stop overreacting
I hope as fuck that everyone who said that eventually realize they were warned, and take some humility into the future
Maybe, maybe, break Cassandra's curse. At least for a little bit
Yea, and then they’ll say “never forget” and build a monument and a museum. And then everyone forgets 2 generations later. Just look at Israel, the families there still materially experience the lingering effects of genocide yet they continue to perpetrate another one.
That is the unfortunate reality of it. I wish I could say that I hope it will be different this time but..
About the one hope I have is that during the next iteration we overhaul society's systems to so solidly work for the average person that it helps counteract this cycle, but it's hard to stay optimistic for sure
The pathway to chronic fatigue leading to inaction is lined by people catastrophizing every day. Sometimes I wish the criticism of Trump was a bit more targeted. Some people claimed with a straight face that he would amend the constitution to take away women's voting rights on his first day of office. While time and effort was spent talking about that, some of the "lesser activities" he performed, like greatly curtailing the EPA, or budget cuts to the IRS went unnoticed.
I don't know if there is a name for this effect, but it seems like so many people are talking about how the world is burning in every way and that makes it difficult to conduct opposition to his efforts.
The only "good thing" for me is that almost by any way you measure his presidency, it's been pretty bad. Wages haven't gone up, productivity hasn't gone up, GNP hasn't gone up, etc. Every day it gets a little harder for his fans to defend him. I suspect instead of leaning on actual data that they will just confabulate some other data that makes things seem favorable.
I find it a little comforting to think that it wouldn't have gone as bad as this if Kamala got in.
No matter how bad it gets during his Presidency it will be Biden and Obama's fault and he will have spent so much tireless effort to fix it that it may still be bad but just think of how much worse it would have been without Trump daddy here?!? Then when whoever comes in after him fixes it up and it starts getting better it will be "Trumps tactics and work in his term finally coming to fruition" and "despite their best efforts in this new administration to destroy it, Pappa Trumps policies from the previous administration are finally turning things around!"
They are just sick in the head and short of the ICE Nazi's dragging away the Trumpers own family to the concentration camps they will defend and excuse every bit of Trump's bullshit.
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2016 was worse for America than 9/11.
Yes. Trump's failure during Covid was killing a 9/11's worth of Americans weekly.
Trump was already responsible for one 9/11's worth of American deaths when he refused to send aid after Hurricane Maria. Then COVID happened.
Republicans preventing the US from joining the first world probably kills more than that every week.
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give 'em some time. it's still early in the first quarter and he's still getting warmed up
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Jr Bush/ Cheney laid an awful lot of the groundwork for Trunk One’s malevolence
As did Reagan and Bush I. And for that matter, a lot of their people cut their teeth under Nixon. Some cancers take a long time to grow.
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wait what
Needs an update:
Now of course the "Rule of Law" is already destroyed and the plane should be headed for the 2nd one...
I do think that Trump's first administration was fascist-lite. He had set precedence that future politicians will do. However, his second term has now gone full fascist and it is no longer "setting precedence", but making breakthrough and ripping apart the very heart of democracy and what it means to be human.
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