• psyklax@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 month ago

    Yeah, they rigged the election by taking over the entire media-sphere. They bought twitter, they pushed the tiktok algorithm. Conservatives now own CNN. OAN and Newsmax were pushed into legitimacy.

    They might have also done some major voter suppression by de-registering hundreds of thousands of people. We’ll never find out, because the media has been captured.

    • crime [she/her, any]@hexbear.net
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      1 month ago

      They didn’t make the Dems try to run old pudding brain to prevent a primary, or to run Harris once the pudding leaked out in public, or to run an absolute dogshit campaign on top of that lol

      You’re describing problems with bourgeois media that have always existed (Parenti and Chomsky both have good woks on the subject specifically, even Lenin talked about it iirc). It’s no more “rigging” to use it for one party like that than it is during business as usual — it is always used against the proletariat to prop up the bourgeoisie, no matter which bourgeois politicians they’re supporting.