Weird, I thought appeasing fascists made them stop attacking you.
Nice job, ABC. Guess that merger was worth losing all your credibility, huh?
ABC has been owned by Disney for decades. Are you confusing them with CBS who just went through a merger?
You’re absolutely right, thanks!
ABC agrees to give $15 million to Donald Trump’s presidential library to settle defamation lawsuit
Of course my point about appeasing fascists still stands, but it’s important to have the facts straight. Much appreciated.
Reasonable discourse ? On the internet ?
Lemmy is a strange place…
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No, it’s not a different ABC.
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The article never mentions Australia. The reporter is from the American ABC. Everything mentioned here, including Disney, the $15 million, the reporter… all American.
No one here is talking about Australia except you
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For the people who got paid, yes of course it was worth it.
We’ll see. They still have to live in this world, and they were already rich.
I’ll guess it won’t have been worth it in the end, even for them.
You can’t but a mega-yacht with “credibility”.
“So I named it after the Lionel Richie song because of how I bought it. The Credibility Queen.”
“Do you mean Caribbean Queen?”
“…fuck!”
I don’t get this reference, but you still got me a chuckle bro thanks!
Caribbean Queen is a song by Billy Ocean, whose art was popular around the same time as Lionel Richie’s.
Wrong ABC. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation has not undergone any mergers.
Beyond this being another obvious step towards a bastard combo of 1944 and 1984, I’m once again faced with the same question I’ve had for the last decade: how the fuck can anyone hear this guy talk and think “yeah, that’s a leader”? He has the temperament and vocabulary of a pissy 5 year old, the memory and general cognitive performance of a dementia patient, and the ideological consistency of a magic 8 ball.
MAGA are genuinely the stupidest group of individuals that have ever collectively organized.
how the fuck can anyone hear this guy talk and think “yeah, that’s a leader”?
Rich geriatric white business goon is the archetypical American Bossman. Guys like him are everywhere, especially in the scloratic journalism industry.
MAGA are genuinely the stupidest group of individuals that have ever collectively organized.
They hate their current system and they don’t seem to care who gets hurt tearing it up.
You can call that stupid. You can call it angry. But it’s horrifyingly effective.
Meanwhile, smug posting liberal hecklers and don’t-rock-the-boat centrists are at least as stupid. And “The Left” - such that it exists - is either too terrified or too feeble to fight back.
They like him specifically because he has the temperament and vocabulary of a 5 year old. Cause they do too, which makes him sound “real” instead of someone talking down to them. They don’t care about any of his actual policies. They don’t care about what he does. They barely care about what he actually says. All they care about is he makes them feel okay about being ignorant and bigoted.
It has been absolute whiplash to realize this over the last decade. I used to laugh at the old carlin joke of “imagine how dumb the average person is. Half of them are dumber than that.” I knew that there were a lot of idiots out there, but I believed that they were at least kind hearted idiots that could learn a lesson one way or another. Apparently I set the bar too high. I genuinely cannot adequately express how disappointed I am with my fellow countrymen every single day.
No single issue has had a more significant impact on my perception of humanity than the popularity of Donald Trump.
if it’s any consolation, even more americans than that are just too apathetic (or too damn tired, overworked, and overstressed) to pay attention to politics at all unless it immediately effects them on a day-to-day basis
oh wait, that just makes it even worse
I would prefer a 5 year old as POTUS. Give them some ice cream, fries and something to do (not to difficult) and they’re happy. No unlimited greed or hatred for others.
You’d think these people would be just the dumb ones doing crappy jobs but I’ve seen Maga types in high positions in engineering as well, boogles my mind that someone educated would make such bad choices and harbor so much illogical haterated
He is not even thar good of a talker.
You would know!
JK I love you, probably.
Social media made this possible. Fuck Zuck.
I’m going to keep sharing this until people understand what’s going on: Narcissist Collapse
If you give him even the slightest pushback, he freaks out. The thing is, we need to keep pushing and pushing without letting him yell “Fake News!” or call a reporter “nasty.” Keep pushing and he’ll melt down.
As a German, I had to laugh at “NPD” as this is the name of the predecessor of the current Nazi party AfD, and this is just such a perfect fit.
Technically the NPD is the predecessor of the new outspoken nazi-party “Die Heimat” and not the AfD but the sentiment holds true
I love that they had to publish an explainer article for everyone in Australia under the headline:
Trump is so rarely challenged, simple questions can seem hostile
Americans don’t know how to fight back. They’ll roll over and take it. Just watch.
“She’d probably go after people like you because you treat me so unfairly. It’s hate. You have a lot of hate in your heart.”
The narcissism here is incredible - taking a question that is essentially about the United States Attorney General suppressing our supposedly most cherished protected right, and making it about his own “oppression.”
Listening to this traitor speak is just exhausting. WTF is the hottest country in the world? This isn’t Zoolander you twat. We are all miserable and the cost of living has skyrocketed since you got into office.
I hate that people actually believe the shit he says.
He means hot, as in, he’s set fire to the economy, trying to burn it to the ground.
It’s “we’re living in hell” hot.
America is so hot, nobody wants to touch it.
Trump is such a fucking fragile snow flake.
(and a PEDO)
Maybe we should go after him.
Maybe we should go after him.
Many people are saying it.
“it’s hate”
Said the paedo who is so full of hate it balloons its skin and turns it orange.Can you imagine what this buffoon would be like if he was faced with questions from a proper journalist?
Fuck off you old man.
Please die already
At what point will a reporter dare him to do it?
At no point, because they will lose their job and no one will care it happened.
We can dream tho.
Reminds me of the American dream, and like Carlin said: they call it the American dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.
In the US? Won’t happen.
Most sadly ironic response possible…and spoken without any hint of self-awareness.
Maybe the grim reaper should come after you Donny.
He’s trying
Real patriotic stuff.
The reason I wouldn’t call myself a free speech absolutist is that I don’t think people should have the right to intentionally lie and mislead people from a position of authority.
The reason this is relevant is that I cannot think of an example of hate speech that is truthful. And the reporter’s question was about whether Trump viewed hate speech as free speech.
The only part of hate speech that’s true is there are quite a few minority groups that have been thoroughly oppressed and traumatized that result in inevitably higher crime statistics.
So you get those assholes who talk about how minorities commit more crimes, but ignore that law enforcement is harder on them, and they come from lower socioeconomic backgrounds.
Nobody has ever provided real evidence that one race or ethnicity is superior to others. We have superficial differences like face shape or skin colour and that’s it. The rest is culture and society.
The answer, of course, is that to Trump (and all his cult) “hate speech” = “anything that is said I don’t like” and “free speech” = “anything that is said I like.” So they can never be the same thing.
I think fraud laws should be extended outwards from economic law and cover mass manipulation. Make politicians legally honest. Provide robust investigative support to prove or disprove intent. Unintentional mass manipulation gets injunctions. Intentional gets fraud convictions.
Lying for political gain should be just as much a criminal fraud as lying for financial gain.
