• Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz
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    Mr Trump has made fiery threats of violence before and failed to follow through. So, anything he says along these lines needs to be viewed in that context.

    ABC is normalizing Trump’s threats of violence.

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      It’s not just ABC. The entirety of mainstream media — especially billionaire owned media — has been sanity-washing the mental illnesses of fascism for decades.

      Coalition tactics in strong-arming the independence of the ABC worked, the same as they have worked against independent journalism in America and all liberal “democracies”.

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        Oh my friend, that really does depend on which Americans you’re talking about.

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        Interesting. The targets of the US propaganda machine are… responsible for said propaganda machine? I’m not sure that tracks, buddy.

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      Not really, trumpy himself is normalizing threats of violence. ABC is (correctly) pointing out that’s he’s more often than not too much of a bitch to act on them.

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        No they’re not just pointing it out. As it says “needs to be viewed”. ABC is advocating for specific interpretation of the president’s statements and that interpretation is undoubtedly sane washing threats to negotiators.

        If it were responsible journalism it might have pointed out the amount of times he started bombing in the middle of negotiations before.

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          Yeah…they’re literally saying that the threats need to be viewed in the context of trump being consistently too chickenshit to follow through. That isn’t normalizing threats. That’s adding context, and the context is that these threats are often meaningless.

          Edit: otherwise, we are all normalizing threats by not taking them seriously at face value and rushing to the bomb shelters every time Donnie opens his mouth.

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    “You close [the Strait of Hormuz] and you won’t have a country,” Mr Trump said he’d told Iranian officials, during a phone interview with Fox News. “You won’t even make it back to your f***ing country.”

    Such dignity, such diplomacy.

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    everything he touches turns to shit

    kayfabe has done irreparable harm to society. because that’s what his cultists are huffing. they’re in it for the spectacle. this is their circus and he is their favorite clown. but they are incapable of acknowledging reality because it would spoil their fun–until it directly affects them of course. it’s the biggest game of make believe in modern history that isn’t actually registered as a religion… but i wouldn’t put it past them if they did do that, eventually ._.;

    i don’t even care if it harms me; i just wish these foul sickening monsters would face consequences for what they’ve done. ugh >.(\