Trump Bans CNN Corespondant from Open Press Event

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Errorist76 said:

DarthMetalliCube said:

Ahh.. So I guess THIS is now the issue everyone's gonna blow completely out of proportion and lose their shit over, until next week when Trump sneezes on a foreign leader, then everyone will completely forget about this and rant about that, claiming it to be the Apocalypse or the second coming of Hitler. Remember that children in cages thing? The Putin thing? Seems like ages ago already, doesn't it? That's because everybody already forgot about it and moved on to the next thing, essentially - what the media instructs everyone to focus on and be mad at now..

Just so damn sick of the Trump hysteria, day after day, week after freaking week, and every week it's something else. I think I might have to filter out political threads here. I get enough Trump hysteria and propaganda shoved down my throat on practically a daily basis as is. I kinda come here to escape that crap..

Ignorance is bliss I guess. It’s a testament to these dark times if some people prefer to look away just because they’re already used to these atrocities. 

Oh please.. Lol dark times. Come off it.. We live in what's probably BY FAR the most privileged, prosperous, free, equal, and comfortable times in the entire history of human civilization (assuming you live in the West and aren't homeless or of the poorest 10%). We have it 1000x better than even kings had it 200 years ago. Of course things aren't perfect but we'll never have an absolute perfect Utopia because we are all flawed beings.

We are not living anywhere NEAR "dark times." The middle ages were "dark times," when 2 thirds of Europe's population was wiped away from the Plague. WWII was dark times for a good chunk of the world, as you had 3 Fascist and Communist dictators (Hitler, Stalin, Musolini) who together brought mass destruction and death to like 60 million people combined. I don't get what it is about people that they love to feel that they're living in the era of "end times" whether it's the Evangelical Christians, or the sensationalist media lapdogs, or whoever.. I guess it makes people feel like their lives are more exciting rather than just being another cog in the machine..

Trump is not a "Fascist", a "dictator" "Satan" or "literally Hitler" as some of the media lapdogs proclaim (sure he's an egotistical right winger with Authoritarian tendencies but that doesn't mean he's anywhere near Fascist). This is pure hyperbole fueled by a media system that thrives on ratings. It's like saying Obama (because he's somewhat authoritarian left) is a socialist or that Bernie Sanders is a communist). A president doesn't have that much power in the US, firstly. Our system is designed to make it that way. I promise you, most of the real power structure pulling the strings are the same guys who were in power when Obama, Bush, and Clinton were president.

Just boggles my mind how so many get swept up in this fake media hype. The media is owned (and/or indirectly influenced via advertising) by large, often multi billion dollar corporations with billionaire CEOs at the top who obviously have vested interests and agendas. They feed the masses propaganda, and a good chunk of people continue to lap it all up. If you want to believe all this hype and go be swept up in the endless stream of mass hysteria be my guest, but personally I don't believe a word these guys say as long as money and ratings are involved. They've often proven outright to slander, be disingenuous, fabricate, and have personal agendas.

Last edited by DarthMetalliCube - on 27 July 2018