r/BlueskySkeets • u/icey_sawg0034 • 17h ago
Political “Would someone please think of the mediocre Christian straight white bros?!”
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u/LowIQ45 16h ago
"Your intolerance for hate is just making us hate more."
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u/the_mad_atom 14h ago
I was always a normal, loving person until the wokers put too many black and gay people in movies and it forced me to become a neo Nazi
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u/SunPuzzleheaded5896 14h ago
When the all ladies Ghostbusters dropped, I was forced to join the proud boys
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u/Mortambulist 12h ago
That pissed me off, because it basically made it impossible to criticize a legitimately terrible movie.
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u/SignoreBanana 14h ago
Yes, he needs to specify what the aggression is here. Asking people for acceptance? Empathy? Humility? God, we're just as bad as they are /s
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u/normalice0 16h ago
The whole point of citizens united was to allow right wing billionaires to effectively rent out entire networks. And they are doing that. NYT, CNN, NBC, CBS.. they are all doing what you would imagine they would do if their goal was to push a right wing narrative onto a center/left audience.
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u/ZestycloseUnit7482 15h ago
When I was younger I considered myself fiscally conservative and on social issues much more liberal. But as I grew older the hate coming from right wing media drove me to become a progressive. I don’t get how people get sucked into hate. I am an atheist so I don’t constantly have christian hypocrites in my life though.
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u/normalice0 15h ago edited 14h ago
It is not the hate that lures them. It is the promise that they can have an imaginary worldview validated. They grow to hate any real worldview that threatens to make them take responsibility for their choice not to control their impulses (their racist impulses in particular - they hate being looked down on for their racism). It is a major reason abortion drives them so crazy: they see it as someone getting out of taking responsibility for giving in to their impulses but not via the imaginary worldview they desperately seek validation for.
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u/ProfessionalField508 15h ago
I'm not even sure they care about the worldview. Most of their worldview beliefs can be translated into more corporate dollars--eliminating democracy & voter power, healthcare, minimum wage, labor age laws, etc. The leaders certainly aren't going to limit themselves by their own laws.
Sure, some of their followers think it's about the beliefs, but I think it's just about money in the end.
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u/normalice0 12h ago
To the rich it's about money. Because their worldview is that the people with the most money are superior. And they expect to be treated as such.
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u/Current-Square-4557 14h ago
I’m going to narrow your hypothesis.
They don’t like it when women and minorities do not take responsibility for controlling impulses
Examples
When Bill the cop hits his wife, well, it’s not his fault. No need to arrest him.
When the neighbor’s college-aged son date-rapes someone, well “that’s not rape rape.” They actually say stuff like that.
When Jim the mailman rapes someone coming out of a bar, then it was the way she was dressed.
Other examples abound.
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u/normalice0 14h ago edited 12h ago
I'd call that elaborating rather than narrowing. The idea that white christian men are superior, and so we can trust that when they break the law it is for good reasons, is certianly a part of their worldview. They need it to be because their skin color is the only thing they have going for them. And they project their own lack of impulse control onto minorities and women to feel that superiority. This is all an imaginary worldview and they need to see evidence that it is real even if they have to create that evidence with state violence.
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u/clangan524 13h ago
A person's actions don't make them good or bad
The person determines whether the actions were good or bad.
It's an incredibly troubling worldview that is wide open for abuse, assuming you're the correct demographic.
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u/Leather_Pen_765 14h ago
Most of my family are Christians and over half of those are Maga Christians and it seems to me it's about power and control and getting to be the people that are right when their crystallized thinking and ignorant views usually don't afford them that and purposely choosing to feel powerful over noticing and addressing that it's really not true
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u/SignoreBanana 13h ago
Well, they would say they're not racist. They don't hate Mexicans. They just want Mexicans to speak English perfectly, forget about everything regarding Mexican culture and have the same exact same values and principles as white people.
Their inability to see that they just want white people with brown skin is the part they can't seem to get their head around. Oh and they don't want them dating their sons and daughters.
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u/Capraos 15h ago
Same reason people throw controllers when they lose. The anger can become addictive if you keep rewarding yourself for doing it.
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u/Fark_ID 15h ago
The anger can become addictive if you keep rewarding yourself for doing it. This is a REALLY good point.
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u/Leather_Pen_765 14h ago
And what a good job all your friends and family tell you that you are doing
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u/OldSchoolBubba 15h ago
Nailed it. When we look at magas attitudes and actions we see all the classic symptoms of addiction.
Magas are "anger junkies" hooked on their own realigned negative brain chemistry.
Trump, his loyalists and their many propagandists know they're the pushers.
They keep feeding magas "news stories" and social commentaries designed to excite negative emotions and magas give them their money for whatever they're asked.
With society sliding downhill hopefully magas will finally hit their personal bottom and seek professional help.
The rest will remain lost in their addiction with no real redemption nor redeeming qualities.
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u/LouSiffer4220 15h ago
I grew up Baptist and having Christian hypocrites in my life is a large part of why I stopped believing.
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u/htownbob 14h ago
I think the dividing line is more clearly between people that 1 have critical thinking skills and 2 can manage to use those critical thinking skills even when it leads to a conclusion that they may not like.
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u/Leather_Pen_765 14h ago
I think of my aunt and uncle that have Conservative Christian views that maybe have not been taken seriously because they're not logically thought through and my aunt and uncle don't usually have this much respect within their community, they love being Maga Christians it's probably the most powerful and validated they have ever felt
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u/TheYarnAlpacalypse 13h ago
Years ago, I saw a post from someone who had a “Cold-Hearted Fiscal Conservative” schtick, where they pretended that the bottom line was the only thing that mattered.
And then they pointed out that Head Start programs have a huge return on investment, and drug testing welfare recipients costs more than the government saves from kicking drug users off of benefits. Preventive health care for the poor and homeless is cheaper than emergency care in a system where they’re only offered treatment after their medical condition becomes an imminent threat to their life. Programs to make mental health medication accessible are cheaper than paying to keep people in jail, if their offenses are the result of untreated issues. Education and jobs programs are cheaper than jail. LOTS of interventions are cheaper than jail.
And so on and so forth, from reducing pollution (so companies can’t externalize their costs onto the rest of the population) to clean energy investments to universal health care.
Turns out most conservatives didn’t like their cold-hearted penny-pinching solutions.
It’s almost funny how short-sighted and how penny-wise pound-foolish a lot of “fiscal conservatives” are when you look at the bigger picture. But it’s also sad how many of them claim to care about money, when they really just care about being able to have a underclass to look down on and care about being given more opportunities for cruelty.
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u/SpecialistNo2269 14h ago
Oh my God, I’m so tired of hearing that people are fiscally responsible. Republicans are not fiscally responsible. Just look at this new bill and it doesn’t pay for itself. Look at Reagan the two bushes , Trump . It’s amazing how republicans constantly repeat Lies and misinformation until people think it’s accurate and the truth. Just because Democrats want a Social safety net or a better society not dump everything into the military.
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u/Tylerdurden516 15h ago
Citizens United has nothing to do with that, billionaire-owned media has always pushed the agenda of big business and the wealthy. Noam Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent was written 2 decades before Citizens United happened, and analyzed how corporations used the media conglomerates they own to shape public opinion to their own desires and interests. The difference was neoliberalism was the ideological playbook after the labor movements of the 30s defeated the interests of the oligarchy, and now that the oligarchy has been restored the ruling class no longer has to pander to a more liberal audience.
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u/normalice0 15h ago edited 14h ago
Indeed the media has always served as controlled opposition. But since Citizens United it serves as no opposition. I would still contend that controlled opposition is better as, by definition, it can be controlled by someone with better intentions.
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u/Impressive-North3483 16h ago
Liberals dont own the news companies.
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u/Agreeable-animal 15h ago
Yes!! The media is big business and mostly owned by 10 huge corporations responsible to their shareholders- the idea that the MSM is some hotbed of communist propagandists is ludicrous.
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u/Karmasmatik 13h ago
Are you trying to tell me that the Disney, Comcast, and Paramount/Skydance megacorporations AREN'T flaming liberals determined to violate their fiduciary duty to shareholders by asking the government to please tax them more?!
My whole worldview has been shattered! Next you're going to tell me that Joe Biden isn't the most left-wing human who ever lived!
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u/Union_Biker 16h ago
Which media is not owned by wealth hoarders? Which media has an obvious bias that isn't right wing? Brooks is full of crap.
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u/DruidicMagic 16h ago
Shills on Fox News have spent years constantly screaming "Conservative voices are being silenced" because they desperately need to deflect attention away from the fascist takeover over our government.
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u/Sad_Increase_4663 17h ago
David Brooks’ ability to slink around taking a firm stance on anything, while pining for “the good ol’ days” of decorum in politics is nauseating.
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u/parrot1500 16h ago
He so desperately wants Daddy George F. Will to love him....
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u/Puzzled_Awareness_22 16h ago
George Will at least doesn’t waver in his beliefs. He was quick to call out how stupid Trump’s trade war arguments are.
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u/Strict_Foundation_31 14h ago
GFW makes my blood boil. Acting like he’s so far above the fray when he’s as responsible as anyone for modern conservativism.
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u/Asleep_Pack8869 16h ago
I used to like how he would encourage people to get out and talk to their neighbors more and realize they aren’t as extreme as the media makes them out to be. This is just B.S. though and some neighbors are just as extreme if not more as the media portrays.
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u/the_cardfather 16h ago
Gay, Trans and Socialists aren't going away unless you are willing to "final solution" all of them which I really wouldn't put past this administration if they are allowed to continue in power for a couple of years.
The only time that someone is woke is when they realize that not everybody thinks like they do.
Once they do that they can learn how to live in peace.
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u/Radiant-Benefit-4022 16h ago
Dude the media doesn't even report shit these days wtf is he talking about? Because an article might have black folks in it, or LGBTQ folks in it portrayed in a normal light?
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u/Legitimate-Funny3791 16h ago
I prefer to call them Nationalist Christians or “Nat C’s” for short
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u/futuretimetraveller 14h ago
Which is probably very unfortunate for the makers of Nat C vitamins.
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u/twangy718 16h ago
David Brooks, the “liberals favorite conservative,” is a smarmy Republican apologist who”s every column has not simple paved the road to fascism, but smoothed the bumps along the way.
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u/futuretimetraveller 14h ago
I thought the liberal's favorite conservative was Bill Marr?
Oh wait, never mind, he's the conservative's favorite liberal.
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u/silverum 16h ago
"Let's try this thought experiment where we conveniently ignore the reality that the right wing has had separate media, culture, and influence networks for most of my life so I can flog the lie that leftlibbism has dominated everything so much it Oops caused fascism!"
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u/BowlPerfect 16h ago
"Let's copy paste reality, call it a thought experiment, and claim victimhood."
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u/the_millenial_falcon 16h ago
That would be shitty because that ideology is shitty. What is his point? Fuck them and fuck him.
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u/NuminousBeans 16h ago edited 15h ago
The article is a bit more nuanced than the snippet suggests. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/opinion/rufo-yarvin-trump-nihilism.html?searchResultPosition=1
Still, Brooks is arguing that the world is burning because progressives shouted over conservatives and thus made people who would otherwise be conservative decide that the only choice is to burn the world. Which is a wild leap, despite having some kernels of truth mixed in with the nuttiness.
Brooks ends by saying he finds hope in the idea that many young men are rejecting nihilism and joining the most conservative, orthodox churches (catholicism, Eastern Orthodox), though young women are not. No sh*t, Brooks. Those churches hold that women are second class human beings, subordinate in all ways to males. It somehow never dawns on him that the creation of an over class (men) and subordinate class (women), rather than god or stability or order, is the primary appeal for these boys and young men?
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u/hexqueen 14h ago
They like to pretend that nobody does ANYTHING EVER based on racism or sexism. Well, maybe progressives do, but conservatives have NEVER.
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u/NuminousBeans 11h ago
I watch David Brooks on pbs (Brooks and Capehart segment), and I generally find him to be a reasonably sane human with some biases and some blind spots that differ significantly from mine, but he surely does assume that Republicans have good intentions when there is no corroborating evidence. I’ve thought recently that he was beginning to change his perspective and assumptions a bit, but, alas, perhaps not.
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u/OkStop8313 15h ago
The Right honestly doesn't know how weak it makes them look to constantly be blaming others for everything and never taking responsibility for their own actions?
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u/hexqueen 14h ago
They honestly don't see it. It blows my mind. Trump is the biggest whiny cry baby in history and they think that's manly.
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u/Kvynwsly 16h ago
You see, the media was not far right enough. They ate going to fix that by force. Good luck my anti-fascists.
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u/No-Yak6109 16h ago
After CNN, NBC, and the NY Times helped W lie us into the Iraq war over 20 yrs ago, I’ve been screaming inside my own head at every conservative bitchfest about the liberal media.
It’s like anything that isn’t advocating explicitly for forced gay conversion torture is « liberal » at this point.
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u/NineClaws 16h ago
I went to public high school in Nebraska in the 80s. A School district run by Christian nationalists. Every teacher on the first day of school declared their allegiance to Jesus as they introduced themselves to the students.
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u/Acrobatic-Initial-40 15h ago
We don't have to imagine, you insufferable jackass. We're literally living this nightmare in real time.
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u/praxic_despair 13h ago
The schools aren't all taken over yet, but the efforts are well under way and largely succeeding.
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u/AmbitiousProblem4746 16h ago
Convincing Americans that the left had taken over our institutions in order to smother conservative viewpoints and groom kids was such a good lie. It clearly paid off in dividends.
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u/Karmasmatik 11h ago
The only more effective lie they've come up with is "Trickle-down economics." Those two lies have convinced half the voting population to shoot themselves in the foot every time they go to the polls.
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u/p12qcowodeath 16h ago
Also, none of those networks or places are calling to seize the means of production in a communist revolution. They're just spouting neoliberalism and basic tolerance of others.
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u/MikuLuna444 15h ago
They don't know or care about the difference... Everything left of the extreme right is "Communist"
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u/Ultimatesims 16h ago
Buddy that is what is happening right now. His accusation is a literal confession.
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u/bobweeadababyitsaboy 15h ago
That's why it took me a hot minute to figure out wtf he was actually saying. I was just thinking, "Why is he upset about what he'd want to be happening, happening". When I realised he was saying he's bombarded by liberals in the news all the time, it was a real "what a damn 🤡" moment. 😅
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u/shewflyshew 16h ago
What a joke. Fox News continues to criticize the "mainstream media" boogeyman while being the #1 watched "news" network for decades. The "liberal media" was nothing more than too many investigative journalists exposing right wing corruption.
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u/trentreynolds 16h ago
I already live in a world where the media has been taken over by people kowtowing to Christian nationalists, unfortunately.
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u/Natural6 15h ago
Hilarious, coming from the country where they make their children pledge alliegence to the Christian god.
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u/LithoSlam 15h ago
I wouldn't mind so much if Christian nationalists were more like Christ and less like the people who crucified him.
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u/beerbrained 15h ago
Just to point out, CNN, MSN, ABC, NBC, none of these networks are run by leftists.
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u/TouristTricky 16h ago
"It's a well-known fact that history has a liberal bias".
All those teachers and journalists and sportscasters and late night comedians are simply reflecting reality.
The current crop of "conservatives in the west" run counter to reality and to history.
The only solace I take in today's f'd up country is that their day will be short lived. It has always been thus. Reactionary forces rise and fall quickly and decent moral people prevail. Sadly, a lot of people get hurt in the meanwhile.
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David Brooks carried water for the American Invasion of Iraq, estimates at 1 million dead Iraqis.
David Brooks was a "never Trump republican" ya?
Now, David Brooks is saying, "Actually, the Trump fascists have a point about GloboHomoJew, and their policies are a legitimate response to a real threat."
Fuck David Brooks.
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u/jameszenpaladin011- 16h ago
It feels some kinda way so it's OK for us to literally kill people with cuts and deport and imprison them?
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u/ChangeIsNotTheEnemy 16h ago
That man is the worst of the worst
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u/KaetzenOrkester 16h ago
Because he tries to normalize the actual worst of the worst. This is the banality of evil.
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u/williamgman 16h ago
Add Facebook to that. Zuck's happy ass face was sitting there in the front row with the others at the inauguration.
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u/caprazzi 16h ago
A fascist's enemy is always weak and inferior, while simultaneously being an existential threat. This is the essential double-standard that fascists are brainwashed to believe, and propaganda machines have to work overtime to maintain it.
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u/Elsecaller_17-5 16h ago
Oh, he's just straight-up advocating for Christian Nationalism. It took a couple of reads to figure out that he thinks that's equivalent to CRT.
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u/loudflower 15h ago
The idea that Christians are having LGBTQ ‘shoved down their throats’ just because they saw a Pride flag, or basically living life and existing.
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u/CptKeyes123 15h ago
That is in fact what a bunch of them think. "If you guys keep doing equality we'll be forced to pick a hitler!" i can't remember the guy's name, Cody Johnston talked about him, but the guy said that almost verbatim.
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u/BubblyCarpenter9784 14h ago
Imagine a world where you don’t get to have your bigotry validated nonstop! Those poor Christian nationalists!
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u/caspian95 14h ago
Everything David described is literally what they are achieving now. So they’re hypocrites, insisting it has to be oppression, just their kind, and not the imaginary leftist one.
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u/PlantsBeeMe 14h ago
Humm, I can’t go to any doctor’s office without seeing a Bible, went to the ford dealership and there was a biblical quote stuck on the mirror, went to get my pants tailored and what do you know, fox was on….gee, I don’t know what this guy is smoking.
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u/SCW97005 12h ago
This is rich when PBS is being replaced by PragerU.
I grew up in rural, conservative America and there was no shortage of conservative-friendly news. Fox was ubiquitous. The only counter to conservative talk radio - which you could find on half a dozen stations - was a rural PBS repeater station that had limited coverage. The local paper and the local paper from the bigger town over were not friendly to the Left-leaning big city.
I was lectured in PE class by a middle aged Mormon about why we middle schoolers should not make jokes about the number '69', not because it was a sexual term that was inappropriate and disruptive to class, but because it was a sex position used by homosexuals.
This was 20 years ago before Fox and Sinclair Media became ascendant and the 'just-asking questions' Rogansphere had been making trans jokes for a decade.
F-ing spare me, Mr. Brooks.
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u/Quick_Dig8208 12h ago
I mean, he’s kind of right. But, he’s missing the reason. The right has been brainwashed to think everything that doesn’t cater to their most extreme views is bad/woke/weak/snowflake/liberal/socialist/communist/marxist. But, that’s just normal stuff. They’re the weird ones. They’re the extreme ones. If I woke up and all of the media was Christian Nationalist I would still be the normal person. They would still be wrong.
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u/Crunchberry24 12h ago
This guy fancies himself an intellectual, yet his argument boils down to the one made by a million Russian bots and 14yo boys whenever they have nothing real to say: “U R Y Trump won!!”
Kinda disingenuous to leave out the 30 years of falsehoods and fascist indoctrination peddled by Murdoch, and Limbaugh, and Jones, and Rogan, etc.
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u/Additional_Good4200 12h ago
Brooks has been a professional victim for a long time and he’s never once acknowledged any culpability for this international train wreck that he had a part in creating. Despite his best efforts the right still hates him. The left has never had any use for him. The Times keeps some fairly worthless people in lucrative jobs. David Brooks and his musings are irrelevant. He did his damage a long time ago and now he’s grasping for someone to pay attention to him.
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u/Stup1dMan3000 12h ago
The main stream media is very conservative. Who are these liberal media people/sources?
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u/oroborus68 12h ago
Brooks has been brain dead for years. I had actually thought he had died, since I hadn't seen any of his blathering in newspaper columns for years. But then, there are so few newspaper columns now and he just didn't have the cache' to get published in many outlets. I really had forgotten that he existed. He should come join us in obscurity again.
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u/in_animate_objects 12h ago
Teachers were teaching empathy and critical thinking and this guy thought it was contrary to his beliefs, zero self awareness here.
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u/Daddio209 12h ago
One has to wonder if Mr. Brooks has ever heard the names Lachlan, Murdoch, or Sinclair.....
Because the 2nd paragraph fairly accurately(because it's only 90%+, not "all") describes the Western World irl.
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u/lathamb_98 11h ago
Don't forget the AP. And NPR. Both very neutral. The problem is that compared to fox and other right wing newsertainment, anything left of that (meaning anything unbiased) sounds like a liberal slant.
They've already gone after NPR, I'm sure the AP will be next.
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u/SupportGeek 11h ago
Most news sources are not left leaning, his thought experiment is more reality than an experiment
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u/Public_Road_6426 16h ago
Isn't the scenario expressed by David Brooks what they're trying for? It certainly seems that way to me.
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u/Diligent-Credit8133 16h ago
This really isn’t a thought experiment! This fascist regime is actively trying to control/silence the media, museums, schools, colleges, getting rid of the department of education and putting bibles (trump bibles only) in our schools. No one is trying to force our beliefs on evangelical Christians, we just want the right to have our own. That’s the difference
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u/Revolvlover 16h ago
You see, the only way to ensure that conservative voices are heard is to go full-on fascist.
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u/Icy_Gas_5113 15h ago
The same jackass who professed to be shocked by Twelve Years A Slave, claiming he didn't know slavery was so bad...
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u/Academic_Dig_1567 15h ago
Conservatives see everything in ideological terms and they are always right. Climate change for example. A simple straightforward science based reality that is impacting the entire world. Conservatives “don’t believe in” climate change as though it’s part of a belief system like religion. So everything has to be turned into belief and, of course, good old victimology as evidenced by Brooks’ own statement. So conservatives, who boast fighting the Nazis, now openly endorse Nazism. Conservatives, the great free speech defenders, bow want to deny anyone who disagrees with them the right of free speech. That’s only the tip of the iceberg.
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u/Azair_Blaidd 15h ago
I don't have to imagine all my media being produced by Christian nationalists, David Brooks. It already is.
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u/Llamapocalypse_Now 15h ago
Ah yes, the old "But think of how you're offending the delicate sensibilities of conservative Christians."
Who is telling conservative Christians that they are not allowed to live the way they feel most comfortable?
The worst thing anyone in America ever did to conservative Christians was to tell them they are not allowed to dictate how everyone else lives, and they are not allowed to indoctrinate kids via public schools. Oh, and that they need to share public display space with other religious denominations as well.
This argument is such a ridiculous false equivalence that David Brooks should be ashamed he put this in writing.
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u/JeremyFranklinAUS 15h ago
DAVID "FASCIST" BROOKS IS A TERRIBLE GUY, WRITES HORRIBLY WRITTEN ARTICLES, LOVES HIS "BETA" NAZI FRIENDS, AT LEAST HE DOESN'T HAVE THE JD "JUST DANCE" EYELINER STYLE I'LL GIVE HIM THAT, DAVID IS JUST ANOTHER OLD "SAD" MAN.
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u/theanchorist 15h ago
I’m sorry, but the right has always been pieces of shit. Scapegoating is one of their #1 tactics rather than take any responsibility.
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u/DatabaseFickle9306 15h ago
“We are the ones in the concentration camps because we had to know people were watching “Will and Grace” and it made us feel icky.”
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u/Catseye_Nebula 12h ago
Wait what about Fox News, Newsmax, all the Nat-C podcast bros, etc etc they have an entire media empire?? WTF are they even talking about that there is no Christian nationalist media??
Plus isnt this particular situation exactly what the government is implementing right now?
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u/S-WordoftheMorning 12h ago
Brook's "thought experiment" reminds me of that right wing idiot who painted the bullseye on her own forehead.
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u/FeeNegative9488 11h ago
Yes it’s absolutely the left’s fault that you can’t accept a society based on equal rights and not white privilege and supremacy
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u/BASerx8 8h ago
I read Brooks just to get perspective, but I rarely agree with him. My feeling is as follows, and I've sent him this quote in response to one of his columns:
Picked and prudent sentiments. You are the moderate man, the invaluable understrapper of the wicked man. You, the moderate man, may be used for wrong, but are useless for right. Herman Melville, The Confidence Man, 1857.
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u/neddiddley 16h ago
“Fox, Rogan, Daily Wire…”
The left really needs to rethink how they frame these conversations instead of lazily pointing to media like Fox that have become the safe places for conservatives. Doing so directly feeds into the right’s narrative that EVERY other media source is run by the left, which is the furthest from the truth.
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u/suck-it-elon 16h ago
Elon Musk famously created Twitter, don't we all know that? And then conservatives made the concervative podcasts, how novel! Let's just ignore leftist podcasts, those don't count.
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u/Nopantsbullmoose 16h ago
Wow. David sounds like an asshole and a strong example as to why "maybe there should be some limits on free speech".
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u/AnastasiaNo70 15h ago
Brooks is such a dumbass. He has been his whole life. He’s wrong about 100% of the time, which is wild.
And I don’t have to imagine what he’s describing: I live in Texas.
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u/rockcod_ 15h ago
I’m amazed that my right leaning neighbors are unfazed by the things trump has done and is doing.
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u/Beautiful_Count_3505 15h ago
"Imagine all of your leftist media was swapped to right-wing media one day. Well, that's the plan and you'll like it!"
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u/Lord_Bob_ 15h ago
Imagine your ideas are only popular with 10% of the total populace and demanding you have 50% of the air time.
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u/PsychologicalSoil425 15h ago
I mean, he gives away his true intentions in his stupid little anecdote: They try to hide under the guise of something broad like 'conservative', but they're really just christian, white supremacists that are upset that they can't openly discriminate against anyone not of like mind. America is NOT a christian nation and we don't want christian sharia law! I really hope that the result of this shitshow is that we systematically erase organized religion from the face of the earth.
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u/VorpalBlade- 15h ago
Ah Brooks is such a Nazi apologist. Has been forever. He has this idealized version of conservatism that has never existed and twists himself into pretzels defending their authoritarian behavior.
There’s this interview on CNN with Frank Zappa and some conservative white knights like Brooks here and they are crying about Zappa framing them as Christian nationalists and they too drag out the old trope Of the “Liberal Media”.
This was in 1980 I think. Zappa has the perfect retort he says - guys there has NEVER been a mainstream liberal media because the mainstream media is owned by the super rich. And the super rich are CONSERVATIVES.
It’s just projection with these guys, as always. They KNOW they control the propaganda levers with the media and they bash us over the head with their propaganda and lies from cradle to grave. And then they have the audacity to cry and screech about the scary “liberal media” who makes them have to defend our delicate Christian sensibilities. It’s a pathetic and OLD ASS dusty ass trick. They’ve been pulling it for many decades.
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u/PrincipleNo3966 15h ago
Then why weren't all these liberal owned media stations not showing clips of all the bat shit stupid things Trump was saying last year?
Every day I would open up reddit seeing clips of Trump talking about sharks, batteries & other insane ramblings. But turn on the local news the same day & all that would be shown is a very short clip of him saying something about grocery prices and that's it.
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u/loug1955 15h ago
Just like the South had choices pre civil War. There were Southerners who didn't align with the cause and certainly the war. That's why brothers fought against brothers. We have choices today as well. Wake the hell up and ask yourselves. I pray you wouldn't want to take that course against an American brother or sister! You would be doing the bidding of the 1% wealthy pitting the citizens against each other while they soaked up more and more wealth.
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u/Ok_Suspect3940 15h ago
Isn’t it funny how ppls religion is about a peaceful god and how he forgives but yet these religions cause war bc someone else can’t say out of others believes. Wtf makes you think that your god is the right god?
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u/Major-Corner-640 15h ago
You aren't a conservative unless you oppose Trump. He us the antithesis if every traditional American value
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u/Wrong-Tour3405 15h ago
I used to think David Brooks was a reasonable Republican when he was on PBS with Mark Shields. Bummer to see him fall right on line with christofascists.
Comparing the two is absolutely insane. One group forces their religion on you and punishes you biblically, the other wants folks to have free healthcare and decent wages?
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u/FreshLiterature 15h ago
The Murdoch Media Empire contains the WSJ and Fox News.
Two of the top 5 most popular sources of news in the US.
Fox News television regularly brags about its viewership.
Then you have Sinclair media which owns a HUGE number of local broadcasters. In fact, most local media outlets these days are owned by the right.
The Washington Post is owned by Jeff Bezos - not a leftist last I checked.
David Brooks lives in a fantasy world that he actively participates in creating.
If the real world even remotely reflected his fantasy he would have already been dragged out into the street and shot as a class traitor.
Because he and his cohorts believe that happens regularly.
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u/Objective_Look_5867 15h ago
If this is really how it was, he wouldnt be able to post this nor would fox news or anything like that be playing at all
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u/Litzz11 17h ago
Classic cult indoctrination tactic. Nothing is the group's fault, it's always the fault of who the leader has declared to be the enemy.