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Open Thread - Thurs 12 Sep 2024 - What is this?

Submitted by Sima on Thu, 09/12/2024 - 5:12am

What is This?

The title of this oped, 'The NYT publisher just wrote the most insulting editorial ever printed — inside the pages of the WaPo ', intrigued me, even though it was on Alternet. After reading the opinion piece, I don't really agree with everything the writer, D. Earl Stephens, is saying, even though it's true that the media often ignores Donald Trump's grossness, crimes, and so on. I do agree that the current media world is driven by money and only money: as the Stephens says,

Money is the impetus that drives too much of what we are being forced to consume in today’s polluted media landscape, and the American public is suffering mightily because of that.

But this problem isn't only about Trump or the right wing. Does the media really ignore Donald Trump? I mean, I don't think Donald Trump would be what he is without the non-stop incessant blathering of the media, blathering that has happened for years and years. That blathering may often ignore the failures of Trump, his crimes, his grossness. Although, I dunno, it seems like two out of three articles on, say, Alternet, are about Donald Trump. Isn't that giving him attention and fame even if it's negative? I mean, Trump was a close friend of the Clintons, once, right? Why not pay attention to that? And he was not always Republican https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_of_Donald_Trump right (he's changed his party affliation 5 times)? And he supported abortion once (or twice, or whatever), https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/09/politics/trump-abortion-stances-timeline/... right?

And that's enough about Trump for me! Smile Whatcha think about Stephen's opinion piece? Ohh, and I want to note that the coverage of Harris is just as nonsensical and stupid. This whole election is a farce.

The Most Important USA elections of my lifetime

Submitted by fire with fire on Wed, 09/11/2024 - 10:25pm

I have read on this board some very persuasive argumentation that dismisses the current election as irrelevant. I agree whole heartedly with this assessment. Here is Caitlin Johnstone weighing in this same idea:

Democrats Don’t Care If You Vote For Them And Don’t Care If They Lose
By Caitlin Johnstone on September 10, 2024

The Empire Strikes Back

Submitted by earthling1 on Tue, 09/10/2024 - 9:52am

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With the Cheney Clan's endorsement of Harris and the Neo-Democrats, the vanquishing of the anti-war movement in America is complete.
Even after dozens of Bush/Bush/Obama neocon administration officials have jumped ship and joined the Cheney bandwagon, few Americans have raised an eyebrow.
The old Democrat Party is officially dead.

Nukes: Escalate to de-escalate; superfuze; South Korea; China-Taiwan

Submitted by soryang on Mon, 09/09/2024 - 8:03pm

I liked this video with Ted Postol and Col. Wilkerson. Postol describes the theory behind the "superfuze" on the W-76 nuclear warhead and why it's destabilizing. Wilkerson describes the so called escalate to deescalate tactical nuclear war ploy. I cued the video to Wilkerson's presentation. Postol had an article on the superfuze in 2017 in Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. His presentation is before Wilkerson's.

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