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[–] [email protected] 294 points 1 month ago (4 children)

My father changed his politics radically when his health declined and he had to stay home watching tv because of mobility issues. Fuck FOX. Assholes. One of the most harmful entities in the USA. I wish every one of them would drop dead.

[–] [email protected] 115 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I feel extremely lucky that my parents somehow avoided going down that rabbit hole. I'm sorry the hate-media got to your dad, that really sucks.

[–] [email protected] 84 points 1 month ago (1 children)

My dad used to watch it to laugh at it, but I think my mom took a lot of it seriously.

That shit is a cognitive hazard.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Everybody thinks they're immune to propaganda themselves, that it only influences other dumber people.

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It happened to my dad after a TBI in like 2015. Went full ancient aliens too.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hey now. If it weren’t for Ancient Aliens I would probably never sleep. Have a little respect for my insomnia cure!

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

So fortunate that my parents got more liberal as they got older.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (2 children)

That really sucks. What's weird with my parents is that they never watch Fox News ever, only NBC, and still they remain conservative AF. They actively reject any negative information about Republicans. Totally don't care whatsoever, anything and everything is justified by "both sides, but abortion!!".

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How much facebook are they on?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

mom: constantly, but this attitude pre-dates FB. my dad has never had a FB account to my knowledge.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (4 children)

If it's a local station it might be Sinclair.

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[–] [email protected] 188 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Tim Walz is the dad and grandpa that Rush and Rupert stole from us. He's the family we lost when their personalities changed seemingly overnight.

If the right wing funded rage machine never existed, we would have had millions like him. They've broken so many families.

[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 month ago (12 children)

This is exactly it. Fake news should have a regulatory body.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (11 children)

It should be illegal to present entertainment as news and opinion as fact to a global audience. There should be real life jail time (not fines that are only for the poor) for the business owners

When a society in the future figures this out, the world will be a better place.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (2 children)

FAIRNESS DOCTRINE!!!

Fox giving “news” while legally not being news has led to crimes, that’s a fact. Maybe prosecutor Kamala could go for a bite but damn it’d be nice to have the news be true again

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Another of the many sanity checks Ratass Reagan took from us after the GOP collectively shat itself over Nixon's press reception.

So much of our nations 4 decades of struggle have come from this moment, and no one involved will ever face justice for degrading our nation so much for so little benefit for so few.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago

Like reinstating the fairness doctrine.

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 month ago

My grandpa was an Army mook from 50s-70s, dude spent literally his entire time working on vehicles to fight the USSR while we had a third party fight in Korea and Vietnam.

Hearing this man suddenly defend Trump and the red caps hurts my heart. They say don’t meet your heroes but goddamn watching one turn into a cult member is worse.

[–] [email protected] 171 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Tim Walz is the Free Dad Hugs guy at Pride Marches

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ye it's a whole thing, there's free mom hugs and free sib hugs now too

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

What a wonderful description! That's exactly what he is.

[–] [email protected] 135 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I’m an old man and I feel this way as well. My parents are a lost cause

[–] [email protected] 102 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Full populations of our society are a lost cause. There is a lot of work to do to undo the damage.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 month ago (2 children)

We need to hold media responsible for blatantly and intentionally deceiving viewers.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (11 children)

News ought to be a regulated word, if you put it on your show or paper or anything, anywhere, it means you can’t knowingly lie.

Politicians ought to be held to that same requirement, you aren’t allowed to knowingly lie.

You want your full first amendment rights (to lie and deceive) back? Stop being a politician or a “news” person.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

They were, before Reagan intentionally fucked it all up in his crusade of feces

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[–] [email protected] 117 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Tim Walz is the masculine role model that we need.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Tim Walz is what a real patriot looks like. He loves his state, he loves his country, and he does everything he can to make life in both of them better for everyone.

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[–] [email protected] 102 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's almost weird how not-creepy he is, in this day and age

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 month ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 91 points 1 month ago

I was just talking to a coworker about how Walz being a daughter father is a great look for the campaign trail. No nonsense campaign dad who calls out creeps is going to play well with a lot of people especially women.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Can someone explain why exactly?

[–] [email protected] 137 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Last night's Daily Show had a good segment on him.

He's basically just a normal "dad". Was a teacher and a highschool football coach, genuinely enjoys spending time with his family, sometimes is wrong but listens to others and is open to changing his mind.

It's an incredibly low bar, but dude seems to be a decent human being.

It's not any deeper than that.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I recently heard the phrase "the bar for men is in hell". At first I thought they were talking about a drinking establishment for men with the devil. No, it's saying that the bar for men to get over to be a comparably decent person is so low, it's in the depths of the earth in hell.

Like, there are so many absolutely terrible men that someone who doesn't inappropriately touch and does listen most of the time by comparison is like an Olympic gymnast

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (2 children)

And yet I catch motherfuckers every day absolutely killing the devil himself in a limbo competition in his own home.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Eh...

Kamala is also benefitting from where Biden and Trump have set the bar.

So in this scenario it'd be more accurate to substitute politicians for men in that saying.

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 month ago

Because he shows what our parents could be like.

He's the parent we wish we had.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Waltz gives big dad energy.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (7 children)

I bet he is, but the GOOD weird. Not the fascist creep weird.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I swear I should change my username I say it so often:

FUCK PROPAGANDISTS!!

Rupert Murdock needs to do the world a favor and join Roger Ailes already.

Sean Hamface, Laura Ingrate, and Fucker Swanson Trust Baby Carlson, should have their trip to visit Ailes 6ft under expedited as well.

They're a goddamn cancer on society. They've ruined countless lives.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I live in Georgia, Walz isn't going to get the hardcore Fox News and MAGA idiots. However, I could see more than a few Kemp voters (basically, moderate conservatives who went Ossoff twice and Warnock thrice) going for Harris/Walz. Further, suburban Atlanta has a lot of people turned right the fuck off by JD Vance. He's definitely viewed by a lot of OTP folks as yet another crazy person either hand picked and/or enthusiastically endorsed by Trump (like Loeffler, Purdue, and Walker... people felt like these three idiots were forced upon us by Trump). Those people probably won't vote Harris/Walz, but they just might not show up or, if they do, they might leave the top of the ballot blank. Trump knows his electorate and knows how to play to them, but he doesn't get Georgia. Kemp is the key to understanding this.

Our governor is Republican Brian Kemp... he's definitely on the right wing of the party, not a moderate by any stretch of the imagination, but he's a savvy son of a bitch when it comes to elections in this state. The vibe check on him is: sexist/racist/homophobic uncle who diplomatically holds his tongue at Thanksgiving even if others don't and things get heated. He believes some wild shit, but keeps it to himself in mixed company (read: armchair racist).

He's quietly distanced himself from Trump for nearly a decade now. Never pushing the former president away, but never fully embracing him either. Trump and Kemp have a love/hate relationship; Kemp needs the far right MAGA idiots to keep voting for him, but Trump can't find the center of Georgia politics anymore. In 2020, Biden found that center when 11,780 moderates held their noses and voted for him because Trump was embarrassing them. Having Walz lead the charge on messaging and stump speeches is the best card the Harris team can play in the state if they want to win it... in Georgian statewide politics, Kemp could stump hard and barely beat Harris, but still win. However, he's got nothing to put up against someone like Walz. Walz, as a person, is literally the kind of voter Kemp courts.

Kemp campaigning against Walz looks like this: Who do you like more? The uncle who's nice, but you know he's talking shit about your gay kid on the car ride home OR the coach at the local school who's nice to everybody and thinks your kid has real talent. Who would you vote for? That's the reason Georgia is at a statistical tie right now.

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