cross-posted from: https://fedia.io/m/news@lemmy.world/t/2006492
Fox News appears to have removed their DOW ticker in a pattern for the company, choosing to block out the steep drop in DOW points after Trump’s tariff announcement
Ah, peak Trumpism. “If we ignore it, it goes away!”
The new Republican policy. Put your idiotic head in the sand.
We all know that BAD NEWS sells so they must think the crashing stock market is GOOD NEWS.
Another bloodbath day on the DJI:
it seems to me like the people should have no problem coordinating an attack on fox news that would take them off the air. i feel like that’s an easy one to do that doesn’t require a leader, just anonymously post maps detailing the infrastructure of their studios, where security guards are posted, any known passkeys, etc.
If this hypothetical were to come to pass I personally wouldn’t call it an attack, so much as a day of love where nothing was done wrong.
Eh. I don’t care about Internet points, I just think it’s funny. And even though we’re on Lemmy we should probably still be careful about out-and-out calling for attacks against a rogue president’s favorite news station.
We can go politely ask them to stop broadcasting. In numbers.
no offense, but can we please stop with the goose and gander comparisons? it just feels like trying to slam dunk for internet points. we all know they’re hypocrites. let’s just focus on solutions rather than finger pointing.
that would take them off the air.
Not sure how hard that would be. Their disaster recovery plan would have to be pretty bad not to be able to switch to another geographic location in a hot minute. And if they’re still in Rockefeller, you’d probably have a hell getting past the elevators without them shutting it down. They probably have backup satellite uplink so you can’t just knock out their fiber.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for another Max Headroom, but I think we need to shut them down with fairness in broadcasting laws, or, gallows, just sayin’
well good luck with the regulations part. i’ve lost all faith in lawful good actions.
Yes, newsblonds, without the stock ticker your faces do look fat.
I googled for fox news screenshots, but can’t find any with ticker… I’m confused, where is it usually?
Edit: Found a clip, unfortunately with Trump onscreen here
For convenience here’s a side by side
He has really changed a lot too.
My doctor said my cancer will create a golden age of health.
Fox ‘news’*: anything I disagree with is terrorism, trump isn’t a bigoted idiot, there’s no class war, we’re just entertainment not news 🤡
As an old fart I’ve never lived under an administration that I considered a real threat. Even Reagan, who was raged against by the left and beloved by the right, at least had some restraint and considered his actions. Each president did something that I didn’t like but I never felt like psychopaths had taken over and were just letting their whims and manias run rampant. Their personalities also felt reasonable and at the very least respectful of others. I also never felt that a large chunk of my fellow citizens were a threat to democracy. The evangelicals were always that way but felt like a fringe group before.
Reagan’s just took time to poison the system. Everything we’re seeing now is from that time period, build up.
reagan also had alzheimers at the time,
Hell of a thing, ain’t it? I remember the tail end of Regan as a child. I come from evangelicals, these are the sort of events I would expect them to freak out about, but instead, they’re willingly along for the ride.
Ahh the age of golden shower America. Isn’t it gargle
Trump is reliving the glorious P tape days.
Let’s use this to our advantage.
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A British owned tabloid posing as an Irish paper reporting on American news. There aren’t many worse sources.
A shame on the memory and legacy of Michael Collins and James Connolly.
As in…you need to be blonde to not be carried away to a gulag in Guantanamo.
Man this sounds familiar. Need blonde hair and blue eyes?
Somehow this is the most dystopian thing I’ve witnessed recently. Just straight up disappearing reality once it doesn’t fit the regime’s narrative. Chilling.
War is peace. Truth is lies.
I think the other famous one applies even more:
The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.
—George Orwell, 1984.
I feel like the original quote applies here pretty well, no real need to change it…
War is peace
Freedom is slavery
Ignorance is strength
Should be updated to include “empathy is sin”.
Racism is virtue.
Empathy is weakness
Let’s add: Poverty is wealth
I feel like, as a non American, ignorance is bliss.
But I’d realize all of this is insane shit even if I didn’t hear about it daily.
Well feigned ignorance can totally be a strength, but actual ignorance is only worth your luck or others’ protective instinct
It is so much easier and comfortable to just close your eyes to the troubles of the world, but it also means that you won’t see what’s coming and will not be able to act. So this sort of sensory overload with negativity and craziness is kinda the point. The more people are tuned out and overwhelmed, the easier it is for assholes like Musk and Trump to push their agenda through. It’s also talked about in 1984, where the quote comes from
Gave a book club with elderly. Chose 1984 for January.
A woman literally said after we had discussed this that the salute wasn’t the salute.
The Jewish woman next to hers fingernails were about to grip through her own wrist.
Shocking to see the dissonance in real time like this and then.
and now Wealth is Poverty
Beans are eggs
France is bacon
Knowledge is power
Next, 1984 will be banned in US
The worst part? There is no need for it. 1984 can only happen in places other than america, after all. America is a shining beacon of beautiful democracy that is #1 in everything, ever. Anyone saying otherwise is just a whiny bitch social communist.
The maga idiots are not in their position from logic, but from following the cult, and the cult is the current president.
“If we stopped testing we wouldn’t have so many positive cases”
This is hardly new.
Yes thank the nearest Republican to you.
The US is what Americans think China is.
… and they’re not wrong. Now we have two authoritarian world powers, yay!
Trump and Xi both want unlimited terms. Xi got his and Trump is jealous.
This is such classic Fox bullshit. I’m reminded of FOX News changing the Party ID of Republicans they don’t like to “Democrat”.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mistake-fox-news-identifi_n_85656
fox is pretty comedic unintentionally
