• AA5B@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    It’s time to give up on this idea, given the outrage culture, the death of journalism.

    We could have a race of Fred Roger’s vs fred rogers and someone would find or make up a scandal and half the internet will follow. For the foreseeable future all candidates appear to be evil, whether they are different from before or not, so our choice is who appears less evil.

    Then there’s the death of the platform. Candidates compete to see how little they can say, to not give their opponents anything to go on, so all future candidates will not appear to have a good platform and our choice is who is less evil

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      21 minutes ago

      We could have Fred Rogers vs Bob Ross…

      But we don’t. We have genocidaires vs genocidaires. We have kids-in-cages champions vs kids-in-cages apologists. We have mass incarceration with racial undertones vs mass incarceration with racial overtones.

      There is absolutely no manufacturing of the perception of evil needed. Every single American leader at that level going back as far as the eye can see is basically competing to see how many people they can kill and torture.