I get that it's news when these asshats say something stupid, ("can you believe this!") but what if we didn't give them press for attention getting behaviors that don't add anything to the common discourse. It's not being balanced and fair to add the attention getting, Russian sponsored perspective. If we can't figure out how to not allow them to get Russian money, or dark money, can't we just not give them a platform. At this point their stupidity isn't news.
The right wing conspiracy is dark money from Koch, from Russia, virtually the same thing. Hunter Biden's story is nothing compared to the grift of the Trumps. To think it's a story is to make a political choice, not an objective fair balanced choice.
It's not fair and equal to undermine American democracy. The 4th branch, the press, really needs to tighten things up for the midterm elections. The people who vote for these asshats and carnival barkers see the lurid attention as validation and "strategy" and legitimate political discourse.
I'm moving forward by not clicking on any article that doesn't have an Ashoka like change. I'm not going to retweet or tweet their ashattery.
I think certain people deserve to be canceled. That only half of the political spectrum can "cancel" someone is a joke. Everyone can do a blog and air their thoughts. It's not a right to post racist things on platforms. In a way I might want to known what was said that was considered racist. And a black man being racist towards another black man is interesting. But really, I'm not going to go find out, because I don't care about lurid attention whores. It shames whores, which I don't mean to shame.
Obvious harmful speech is to be deplatformed. But we have this idea of providing even coverage, that allows these people to say horrible things. That there are very few Republicans saying reasonable things is their problem.
I find it sickening that vaccines were politicized. In a way it seems like comments are amplified. The right's outrage about making Stacey Abrams the president on Earth in a scifi show, I didn't even notice it. I only noticed the outrage at the outrage. As if Star Trek wasn't already a show about the liberal future where there is no longer money, and people are expected to be tolerant of other species. The right is focusing on the culture war at the expense of policy debates.
If you're unclear what is wrong with autocracies, read this article by David Brooks.
It's hard not to want to list these asshats for what they are doing wrong.
Here is a list of bought and sold Russian sympathizers:
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia
Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida
Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado
Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky
Rep. Andy Biggs of Arizona
Rep. Dan Bishop of North Carolina
Rep. Glenn Grothman of Wisconsin
Rep. Chip Roy of Texas
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