• Enoril@jlai.luEnglish
    1183·
    4 days ago

    If the other serious media have integrity, they should also remove themselves from any official event in the name of free speech (and future protection as that could happen to them later).

    This is the only way to treat this kind of dangerous behavior.

  • Superheavy@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    65·
    4 days ago

    There’s a video where the press secretary basically says they will ban everybody that is telling ‘lies’. I didn’t know that asking questions as the press could now be considered lies but here we are. What a timeline we ended up in.

  • filister@lemmy.worldEnglish
    26·
    4 days ago

    The same administration that was claiming that Europe is stifling the free speech. What hypocritics

  • ristoril_zip@lemmy.zipEnglish
    18·
    3 days ago

    the… remarkable… thing about this is the Trump administration probably thinks they’re winning this.

    • TheFriar@lemm.eeEnglish
      141·
      3 days ago

      Well…they kind of are. We are not seeing the kind of push and pull we saw last time trump was in office. We’re not really seeing the compounding buffoonery and constant chaos of an evil yet highly disorganized and stupid and largely solitary extremist right wing government.

      We are seeing a largely accepted—if nothing else, ignored—well-funded, focused group of absolute death mongers who are powering this much larger boat with trump as the flag on top, but an elite crew of Chistofascists turning coal (yes, it’s a coal powered boat) into much more precise and damaging takeover of every single lever of power. And this is just one in a fleet of these types of ships taking off all around the world. This far right surge is not an isolated thing. This is happening worldwide and they are fucking ready to put their plans into action.

      While we all took four years to decompress, they were becoming a much more ruthless and serious fascist machine. They are primed to make some scary moves and they don’t have nearly the amount of big dollar pushback and spotlight on them. They are manipulating the spotlight to focus on flashy trump nonsense while some truly fiendish motherfuckers are doing everything they can to fuck things up christofascismo style.

      Be very much more worried about things that aren’t the “gulf of America.”

  • blady_blah@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    3 days ago

    Good. There’s just about nothing useful that comes from the White House press brief. It’s all propaganda as far as the eye can see.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldEnglish
    282·
    4 days ago

    I’ve known infants that don’t act this infantile when people say things they don’t approve of.

    • Random_Character_A@lemmy.worldEnglish
      93·
      4 days ago

      Substance misuse rots your brain and you become like a child. Emphasis on the word “like”. No child will have similar lifetime of hate and malice coupled with insecurity and narcissism.

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldEnglish
        61·
        4 days ago

        Very much so. Toddlers, who almost totally lack empathy, show more empathy.

        If a toddler punches their friend and you tell them it’s bad and they need to say they’re sorry, they say they’re sorry. And also feel bad about it even if they don’t know why they feel bad about it.

      • YarHarSuperstar@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        4 days ago

        Wtf? Substance use does not cause hate or Narcissistic behavior or any of that shit. That’s not why they’re evil.

        • SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          21·
          3 days ago

          I guess you have never watched a family member descend into meth abuse then.

          Permanent personality changes such that trust is pointless, redemption is merely a faint hope, all motivations are underlaid with a new narcissistic set of delusions and denials.

          Since I have watched this happen to three family members of distinct lineage and personality types, all of whom were pleasant and acceptably kind beforehand, my small sample size is nevertheless very convincing.

          • YarHarSuperstar@lemmy.worldEnglish
            11·
            3 days ago

            I am a recovering addict, genius. I have plenty of experience, speaking of myself as well as those around me, with meth and many other substances. Not every addict is like that.

            • SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              21·
              3 days ago

              Yeah, should have clarified, meth can cause narcissistic behaviour, not hate. Other substances, no. All the alcoholics and heroin etc. addicts that I know or am related to or have worked with, were not fundamentally changed in character or even personality by the addiction. But chronic meth use, yeah. Big difference.

              • Random_Character_A@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                3 days ago

                Heavy use of alcohol does cause gradual brain damage in the areas it affects. Frontal lobe, memory and motor centers taking the biggest hit. Actions become more selfish and impulsive, but not always violent or hateful. That really depends on the character beneath, but not always.

                I know three lifelong alcoholics personally. All of them have the same delusion that they could have been something great, but there was a conspiracy to ruin them, by “the man” and they had no choice but to take the path they took. They feel very bitter and sometimes get in to crimes and violence just to rebel and give some payback to totally random recipient. It can be muggings, petty theft or repeated DUIs, because “fuck the man”.

                Then again I’ve met the sweetest childlike characters near the local drunk shelter that have slurred speech and walk funny with very small steps even when they are sober.

                … so you never know.