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Initech

(100,107 posts)
Wed Apr 19, 2023, 12:18 PM Apr 2023

Fox is responsible for a lot more than election lies.

Last edited Wed Apr 19, 2023, 04:58 PM - Edit history (1)

Fox News is the "We report, you decide" network. But they don't want anyone to actually make an informed decision or have an independent thought. They are largely responsible, since 1997, as to how we got here in the first place. They rigged three presidential elections. They stole the Supreme Court and the states of Florida and Texas from us. They divided the Senate and have kept it divided. They hijacked the House in 2022. And it will continue to get worse. Yesterday's settlement was but a mere slap on the wrist, and a slap in the face to America. The election lies are but one product coming from Fox.

Every hate-filled conspiracy theory. Every victim of a mass shooter and the families and communities that have been affected and torn apart by mass shootings and the lies coming from the NRA, the gun industry, and right wing politicians. Anyone who's ever been bullied or harassed at school because they're LGBT. Anyone who's been the victim of a hate crime. Any black person who's been shot by white supremacist police officers just for going about their day. Every public school teacher and school board member that's been harassed by insane Christian conservative parents. Anyone who's ever been evicted because of out of control home owner's associations. People that are homeless because of policies that benefit billionaires and not the working class. Every family that's been divided because of the hate-filled partisan rhetoric that airs nightly. Anyone who's had to get an abortion for health reasons. Every border town who had to pay for Trump's ridiculous fence. Every city who's had to pay the clean up fees from the obscene piles of trash left by MAGA enthusiasts at Trump's hateful rallies. Every victim of COVID-19 who died at the hands of the disinformation being spread by Sean Hannity, Trump, and Fox & Friends. The list goes on and on. Fox is responsible for all of this. They don't offer any solutions to these problems either. They just create chaos and that's it.

And now Fox News looks like it's making moves towards committing genocide. Aided and abetted by the batshit crazy candidates they help elect, like Marjorie Greene, Lauren Boebert, Paul Gosar, Matt Gaetz, and so on. And they actively enable and embolden Trump and Desantis. Despite their best efforts to move on from that disaster of an administration, the GOP just can't shake the stink of Trump off of them. Back in 2019 and 2020, Fox News was literally controlling Trump's every move and he had a nightly Batphone to Sean Hannity, and the chaos he created was good for their ratings.

If, god forbid, the GOP takes back the White House in 2024, we have to be prepared for the worst. They will commit crimes against humanity and there would be nothing to stop them. This would include things like mass murder, mass imprisonment, public executions, and worse. The concentration camps weren't built in a day. It started with draconian legislation and discrimination. We've seen how this movie ends. It's a damn shame that America is engulfed in such hatred because of this piece of shit network. Rupert Murdoch is a terrorist and he needs to be taken down. We have to stop them at all costs in 2024.

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Fox is responsible for a lot more than election lies. (Original Post) Initech Apr 2023 OP
Rupert Murdoch is the #1 threat to our democracy gab13by13 Apr 2023 #1
As Frank Zappa once said: Initech Apr 2023 #2

Initech

(100,107 posts)
2. As Frank Zappa once said:
Wed Apr 19, 2023, 12:20 PM
Apr 2023

"Why are we fighting those terrorists over there, when we should be fighting these right wing freaks over here"? So true!

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