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    Distorsión of reality by linguistic manipulation.

    This is straight out of 1984 book:

    In the novel, “Newspeak” wasn’t just about being concise; it was designed to shrink the vocabulary so much that “heretical” thoughts became literally impossible because the words for them no longer existed.

    Here is a breakdown of how linguistic manipulation distorts reality, both in the book and in our world:

    1. The Erasure of Nuance

    In 1984, if you wanted to say something was “terrible,” you just said it was ungood.

    By removing “bad,” “terrible,” and “horrific,” the emotional weight of the experience is flattened.

    • The Result: When we lose specific words for our feelings or experiences, our ability to think critically about those experiences atrophies.
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    To actually answer the question:

    Because most of the old media functionally has the CIA as an editorial board.

    Immensely ironically, we know a lot about that because of Noam Chomsky.

    Who… is also in the Epstein files.

    Quite a lot.

    Yeah, it wasn’t just the right wing of the country that has been existing in a constructed media hyperreality, it has also been the left wing of the country.

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        They kind of just explained that… Chomsky is famous for writing about manufacturing consent, which is exactly what the media is doing here.

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      I wouldn’t describe Noam as left wing, he’s advocating for Ukraine’s unilateral surrender rn. He’s just Red Fascist.

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        Oh dear, I was unaware of that.

        Oi…

        Still though, he was a pillar of the left wing, in the sense of left wing = not conservative, a literal seminal figure of it, for decades.

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    The minimization is CRAZY. Like people are saying “Oh, no, he didn’t rape the kid he just had sex with her.” Like the child CONSENTED to it. Sex, by definition, is engaging in sexual pleasure with both persons consent.

    Our country that was fought for by thousands of soldiers, many whom died for this land, so we could have freedom and a break away from the king of Britain. He was a dictator, and now we are in the company of one such other dictator. A rat, who gained entry only by his father’s money and influence. Who used that influence and abused it, who corrupted young minds and brainwashed people to believe that he was doing good.

    That he was making America great again.

    When the only thing he did for us was give us empty promises, and shoved us down the path of an emptier future.

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      How the fuck was I your first upvote? You’re spitting pure fact. Our MSM “news” is mostly owned by right-wing billionaires AKA oligarchs.

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    The other night I listened to the PBS News Hour characterizing grok’s AI child pornography as “explicit” and “putting women into bathing suits”.

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    More like the people that own these news companies are also in the files and tweaking the narrative as a result. Something something follow the money something

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    “Underage female”. I’ll never forget this. He was a serial child rapist, to start with.

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    I was a bit miffed to discover that, during the current fall of america, most media, whether right, middle or left leaning, proved to us they’ll fiddle with the truth for money and clicks. Fuck capitalism. We the people?, or we the money?

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    People need to be calling out networks and reporters/authors by name for doing this. Stop blaming “they” and put a name on it.

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    This is why you should get your news from alternative media. I usually recommend Breaking Points. There’s even a reporter on their staff that punched Jesse Watters in the face once.

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    mind that most of these people would otherwise refer to women as girls. it’s deliberate.

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    To be fair to some of them, almost nobody who isn’t already deeply committed to following the story is going to rage-read an article or watch a news segment titled “Child Rapist who owns your life accused of murdering infant belonging to a 13 year old, threw corpse into Lake Superior” instead a lot of them are going to turn the screen off or go work on the new terraria achievements.

    What’s more wild to me is no matter how they phrase it you’ve still got fucking nutjobs yelling “both sides bad” or even outright supporting these pedos.

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      Sure, clickbait headlines don’t really work, that’s why they don’t use those at all…

      I would say its the other way around:

      They purposedly use extra mild language to report these news so they don’t catch people’s eyes that much, while still claiming to report the news.

      Next, they put news of Alleged Domestic Terrorists Rene Good and Alex Pretti in all caps.

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          I meant clickbait as “The most impactfull headline to catch the most views”, not as unrealistic.