Chekov’s Cross.

Yeah no I googled a portion of it, no results, this is definitely fabricated.

it’s not a leftist community

Someone should tell their anarchists. If you only want to interact with pro-imperialism leftists, that’s ok.

East Turkistan Government-in-Exile, formed in room HC-6 of the United States Capitol.

you can’t trust a Trump-like figure not to go in and take complete control of a single nationalized news source

The status quo, where “trump-like figures” own any media of consequence, is not meaningfully different from your worst-case scenerio of a “trump-like figure” taking over the media.

The bourgeois fund the media and make sure people who are ideologically aligned with them are promoted because it promotes their interests, we would see the same backlash whether they are stripped of control by the FCC or nationalization. I figure cutting them out entirely leaves fewer avenues for them to influence their media.

Any arrangement is state-controlled by virtue of the state being the only entity capable of enforcing any arrangement, the only difference is if the state delegates control to the bourgeois or another entity. The latter at least has the potential to be beholden to the workers.

I am not proposing we waste any energy bringing back the fairness doctrine, its purpose was easily circumvented while it existed.

democratized by the working class

Yes, nationalize billionaire-owned media, set up oversight boards appointed by the media workers and state. Restrict salaries of pundits, writers, editors etc such that they can’t exceed the median income.

We’ve seen what the FCC trying to implement fairness looks like. Requiring two perspectives, both aligned against the interests of the workers, wasn’t productive.

governmental regulatory body, created with the purpose of determining if the reporting was factual

Yes, thats the FCC, they did that historically, and required equal time/space for both democratic candidates and republican candidates. Naturally that meant channels would count up every 3 second clip and replay, and surrogates/pundits didn’t count at all.

Who said we should do nothing? We should recognize all reporting is biased, and democratize media so its biased towards us, the working class.

Bringing back the fairness doctrine just means for every hour of “we need to invade Iraq/n because they’re evil brown muslims” we get an hour of “We need to invade Iraq/n because the people yearn for freedom”

America is a net exporter of oil, Trump could limit the export of oil or make a deal with Venezuela or reduce domestic demand by investing in mass transit and renewables, but any of those would be as bizarre as expecting Richard Nixon to make a trade deal with communist china.

America: I’ve had enough.

Iran: I didn’t hear no bell.

They have no reason to start letting US ships through the strait and America has no ability to stop them.

Earnest liberals and conservatives

Both those groups support the existence of capitalism. Wealth inequality and capitalists owning media are natural results of this.

If they stopped supporting the system that caused this, they wouldn’t be liberals/conservatives, they’d be leftists.

free and fair reporting

Thats not possible. Everything is propaganda; the effect of choosing which aspects if a story to emphasize and what context to include is a zero-sum game as far as shaping public perception.

percentage of profit

Most media are loss makers. By funding it, oligarchs are able reinforce a system that keeps the money flowing into their bank accounts.

i wonder how the europeans will react and i hope it’s not like the americans.

Maybe Europeans can chime in why leftist parties never seem to achieve political power, leaving fascists the only ones presenting an alternative to the system that’s eroding before everyone’s eyes.

America fucking sucks right now, but China is still one of a handful of worse governments.

Have you been to China? I have, and am headed back in a month. I cannot describe the difference in stress living in a city where public transit costs 40 cents, good food is like 2 bucks, and rent is a fifth of what I paid in the US.

China has it’s issues, but it’s simple ignorance to claim it’s anything like Russia or America.

It also explains why European social safety nets have eroded over the last 35 years despite populations that are more productive than ever.

Does that actually work? I have way more luck just kinda hanging out at the edge of a place the cat can retreat into, while pretending to ignore the cat until it sniffs my hand.

That kind of contextual information is useful, but beware of anybody giving it to you without the bigger context of absolute numbers before and after. Liberal media loves using shifts like this to imply there’s a bunch of centrists who decided to change which way they’re leaning instead of “dems failed to improve the material conditions for their constituents, so fewer people voted dem. Meanwhile 12 black business owners voted republican instead of 6, an increase of 100%”

In 2016, CNN and MSNBC spent months using that type of framing to blame black people for Hillary’s loss, essentially calling them ungrateful, homophobic, sexist, conservatives.

Well the best way to not get killed by a car is to be 40,000 feet away. The next safest way is to be a fucking train.

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