• tigermountain@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    And if you do notice this administration will just tell you to stop complaining because you have to put up with it in order for them to destroy the evil of liberalism.

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      Fuck you. You useless piece of shit. You absolute waste of space and air. You uneducated, ignorant, idiotic dumb swine, you’re an absolute embarrassment to humanity and all life as a whole. The magnitude of your failure just now is so indescribably massive that one hundred years into the future your name will be used as moniker of evil for heretics. Even if all of humanity put together their collective intelligence there is no conceivable way they could have thought up a way to fuck up on the unimaginable scale you just did. When Jesus died for our sins, he must not have seen the sacrilegious act we just witnessed you performing, because if he did he would have forsaken humanity long ago so that your birth may have never become reality. After you die, your skeleton will be displayed in a museum after being scientifically researched so that all future generations may learn not to generate your bone structure, because every tiny detail anyone may have in common with you degrades them to a useless piece of trash and a burden to society. No wonder your father questioned whether or not your were truly his son, for you’d have to not be a waste of carbon matter for anyone to love you like a family member. Your birth made it so that mankind is worse of in every way you can possibly imagine, and you have made it so that society can never really recover into a state of organization. Everything has forever fallen into a bewildering chaos, through which unrecognizable core, you can only find misfortune. I would say the apocalypse is upon us but this is merely the closest word humans have for the sheer scale of horror that is now reality. You have forever condemned everyone you love and know into an eternal state of suffering, worse than any human concept of hell. You are such an unholy being, that if you step within a one hundred foot radius of a holy place or a place that has ever been deemed important by anyone, your distorted sac religious soul will ruin whatever meaning it ever had beyond repair. You are an idiotic, shiteating, dumbass ape and no one has ever loved you. Rhodes Island would have been better off if you’d never joined us. You are a lying, backstabbing, cowardly useless piece of shit and I hate you with every single part of my being. Even this worlds finest writers and poets from throughout the ages could never hope to accurately describe the scale on which you just fucked up, and how incredibly idiotic you are. Anyone that believes in any religion out there should now realize that they have been wrong this entire time, for if divine beings were real, they would never have allowed a being such as you to stain the earth and this universe. In the future there will be horror stories made about you, with the scariest part of them being that the reader has to realize that such an indescribable monster actually exists, and that the horrific events from the movie have actually taken place in the same world that they live in right now. You are the absolute embodiment of everything that has ever been wrong on this earth, yet you manage to make it so that that is only a small part of the evil that is your being. Never in the history of mankind has there been anyone that could have predicted such an eldrich abomination, but here you are. It’s hard to believe that I am seeing such an incredible failure with my own eyes, but here I am, so unfortunately I cannot deny your existence. Even if I did my very best, my vocabulary is not able to describe the sheer magnitude of the idiotic mistake that is you. Even if time travel some day will be invented, there still would not be a single soul willing to go back in time to before this moment to fix history, because having to witness such incredible horrors if they failed would have to many mental and physical drawbacks that not even the bravest soul in history would be willing to risk it. I cannot imagine the pure dread your mother must have felt when she had to carry a baby for nine months and then giving birth to such a wretched monster as you. Not a single word of the incoherent, illogical rambling you may be wanting to do to defend yourself or apologize would ever be able to make up for what you just did. The countries of the world would have wanted to make laws preventing such a terrible event like this from ever happening again, but sadly this is not possible since your horrific actions just now have shattered every form of order this world once had, making concepts such as laws irrelevant. Right from the moment I first set my eyes on you I knew you were an absolute abomination of everything that is wrong with humanity. I was hoping I would have been able to prevent your evil from being released upon this world by tagging along and keeping my eye on you, but it is clear to me now that not even the greatest efforts would have been able to prevent a terrible event in this scale from occurring. You are the worst human being, or even just being in general, that I have ever had the misfortune of witnessing. Events like the infected plague apparently only happened with the goal of teaching humanity to survive such a horrible event as the one you just created, but not even mankind’s greatest trials were able to even slightly prepare anyone for the insufferable evil you have just created. If you ever had them, your children would be preemptively killed to protect this universe from the possibility of anyone in your bloodline being even half as bad as you are, except you will never be able to have children, because not a single human being will ever want to come within a hundred mile radius of you and anything you have ever touched. You are a colossal disappointment not only to your parents, but to your ancestors and entire bloodline. The disgusting mistake that you have just made is so incredibly terrible that everyone who would ever be to hear about it would spontaneously feel an indescribable mixture of immense anger, fear and anxiety that emotionally and physically they would never truly be the same ever again. The sheer scale of your mistake, if ever to be materialized, would not only surpass the size of the world, but it would reach far beyond the edges of the known, and almost certainly the unknown universe. I could sit here and write paragraphs, nay, books describing your immense failure, yet even if I were to dedicate my life to describing the reality of what has just gone down here, and I would spend every moment of it until my heart stops beating working as hard and efficiently as possible, yet there is not even a snowballs chance in hell that I would be able to come close to transcribing the absolute shitshow you have just released upon the world. You are an irresponsible, idiotic, disgusting, unloved, horrible excuse for a living being who’s soul contains less humanity than every ginger in history combined. The absolute disgust I feel when thinking about anything that has even a slight resemblance to anything that might have to do with you and your unholy actions is so incredibly great that when I am honest about it I think that even I do not posses a consciousness great enough to comprehend my own feelings about it. When people of Columbia fought to break free from Lungmen, countless soldiers fought and lost their lives in favor of a chance at a better future for their children, they did not give their lives to have you fuck the world up beyond repair to the degree that you are doing right now. Honestly, even when technology advances and studies on the subject become more and more accurate, I do not think humanity will ever truly be able to understand what your failure actually means for the universe. My hate for you and everything you stand for is so much deeper than the depths of Shambala that you could probably take the entire Lungmen population down there and back up around twenty million times before you would have sunk to the end of my hate, and honestly, I do not want to exaggerate, but I think that that insult was low balling it such a massive amount that all mountains in this world combined would not be able to stack up to this imprecise judgement in light of the fact that when being honest, my hate is almost certainly bottomless. There is no one in this world that has ever loved you, and especially after what you just did, no one will ever love you in the future either. There is no hope that your idiotic behavior and especially your crooked soul will ever change for the better, and in fact quite the opposite might be true. By making the mistake that you just did, you have shown me that you are so incredibly hopeless that you will only devolve into a more idiotic and wretched creature than you already are. The only possible way in which your future would be brighter than the black hole your existence currently is would exclusively be because there is absolutely no conceivable way that you would even be able to sink lower than the pathetic place your current failure has put you in.

      https://typicalcolors2.fandom.com/f/p/4400000000000094481

  • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
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    blame CNN.

    They created the modern 24 hour news cycle, which slowly destroyed news media in general over the next 40 years.

    There is not enough happening to sustain a 24 hour news cycle, so it becomes constant hammering of the slightest incidents, or crimes from 800lbs a way, or whatever it takes.

    Thus creating the guise, for people not capable of critical thought, that the world is on fire and crime is rampant. . when they are seeing nothing but the same crime being reported on 200 times over 2 days, and the occasional incident from somewhere they’d never go and has no relevance on them or their local area, much less their entire state.

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      If you watch local news you’ll think the biggest story every day was the weather since they tell you about it 15 times in a 30 minute broadcast.

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      I disagree.

      CNN did provide 24 hour news, but there had been all news radio stations for year before it came along.

      C-SPAN got hacked by Newt Gingrich. Newt would go into the chamber when no one was there and make speeches that all his colleagues ignored. But because he was on TV people at home paid attention to him.

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      There is not enough happening to sustain a 24 hour news cycle

      There is, they just focus on stupid shit. They should be chasing down and harassing corrupt politicians and billionaires paparazzi style 24/7. They wouldn’t though because they’re not on our side.

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      19 hours ago

      or crimes from 800lbs a way

      “What radicalized you?”

      Those 800lbs criminals I saw on the 24h news shows. I never thought they’d be a threat but now I’m afraid of the immigrants and transgender folk because one of them could be them 800lbs criminal type coming to eat my dogs and cats!

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        18 hours ago

        lol, I meant to type miles… I dont know how i ended up using lbs.

        but you’ve already replied to it, so I’m not gonna fuck up your post by editing mine.

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          17 hours ago

          Oh I 100% knew what you meant. I just couldn’t refuse that wide open window of opportunity.

        • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pub
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          If you use metric on the regular, you converted from metric to imperial on the fly, and ended up with lbs because your brain went “kilo to… lb, that’s it”. Hahahaha that’s me quite often hahahhaa

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      This post is about the 24 hour panic machine designed to make you hate your neighbors which was an invention of Fox News, capitalizing on the fearful post-911 political environment.

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      There’s more stuff they could report on, but it either doesn’t advance their ideological agenda or doesn’t interest their audience and doesn’t get them clicks.

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      What ive always found crazy about the 24 hour news cycle is how little information is in there.

      For a while I watched msnbc all day, just to have something on in the background.

      In a day they would cover maybe 6 stories, just over and over and over. Here’s some new talking head to give their take, it’s effectively identical to the take the last 5 talking heads gave.

      I stopped watching it because I realized that in a given day I was maybe getting about 20 minutes of information on repeat.

      The channels have time, they could give complex and nuanced discussions around the 6 interesting things that happened that day, they could expand their coverage to the other 100 or 1000 interesting things that happened. But everyday they find the 6 stories that will lead to the most eyeballs watching the most ads and hammer them.

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        All news radio was a thing for decades before cable came along.

        Most people would turn it on to get the weather/sports/traffic updates/headlines, and then turn back to music.

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        It’s by design. If you missed the first round of those six stories, you can just listen to them in 20 minutes. If you get distracted on story number three, you got 20 minutes to go before the next time story number three comes out. It’s designed for ads, like you said, not for information.

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        They probably assume a good chunk of their audience is people not really paying attention, or who tuned in halfway. For someone watching all day it’s repetitive, but for someone who just showed up it’s fresh. If they did something deep that needs context, the people who arrive 35% of the way through are going to be lost.

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          Yea I just had it on for noise myself but at some point I thought “haven’t they already gone over this” and then it was like seeing something you couldn’t unsee.

          It makes sense to have that “drop in” aspect but it really makes me wonder about people that do just sit and watch Fox News all day. I think after 3 or 4 days I decided music or silence was better.

          How many times can you get angry about the same news story over and over?

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    As with so many things, you can trace it back to Ronald Reagan.

    Cronkite, Peter Jennings et al worked under a thing called ‘The Fairness Doctrine.’ Back when radio was first regulated, both Parties agreed that the public airwaves should remain neutral. No one person / company could own more than six radio stations [AM and FM] Any time there was an editorial, the station had to offer time for opposing views, and the stations had to broadcast news daily.

    Reagan had seen how that system had taken down Nixon, and swore it would be destroyed.

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        When you worship death, that just comes as a matter of course. It’s like how kicking puppies doesn’t occur to you as an option

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        That’s the great thing about knowing how great you are.

        Lying is completely justified if it’s in a good cause, and keeping the GOP in power is a sacred cause.

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    They call him “The News”

    because he was always talking about who he slept with.

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      Unfortunately, state media can be as well.

      My country’s national broadcaster is still fairly OK, there doesn’t seem to be any real pressure to censor specific topics or anything. The BBC on the other hand, has been losing its credibility hard in recent years with all their anti-palestine shit.

      And now imagine if the US had a prominent national broadcaster. Like NPR does exist, but what if it was something that a majority of Americans watched on TV. Now imagine what would happen to it under someone like Trump.

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          Even Fox News has criticized him once or twice (at which point it was named communist media by MAGAts, it was hilarious). And Fox’s CEO could still decide to do whatever if he got pissed with Trump, he just happens to find it gainful being aligned with Trump.

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    Yes and that guy would tell you every day that Israel is in Gaza to defend themselves etc. And you would believe it as the west has for the past 80 years.

    The modern media landscape has its own problems but it is so much richer than the prior narrative led order that the likes of BBC still shovel out today.

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        Ugh I hate that I agree with this because teenage me loved The Real World and Road Rules so much, but yeah there’s no way we could have known how that would accelerate the decline in the specific way that it has

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          I get bummed out knowing trump is a product of reality tv.

          Its all leading to Logan Paul influencer presidency and if im not dead like my insides are now I just may end the horror show myself.

          Rip twitch, we should have done a better job preserving you.

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    Still got that type of news in Germany. Except the guy in a suit is sometimes replaced by a woman in a blazer. Daily programme called “Tagesschau” is still the most watched show in german television.