Post #4055068
2026-07-24 05:33 UTC
There's reasons for the disdain. Decades of exposure to corporate #Internet, not to mention #entertainment designed to normalize bigotry and abusive relationships like #SouthPark and copaganda shows, have destroyed the general U.S. sense for propriety and courtesy. There's ever so many people who think it's a citizen's duty to rain bomb threats and slurs and "kys" on powerless strangers.
As I've said, journalists are not broadly liked for U.S. #conservatives in common with the #IDF all want journalists in the hands of firing squads. They're seen as mere wreckers. Do I have to mention that Ayn Rand's favorite villains were poison-pen journalists?
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@mxchara@seattle.pink 2026-07-24 05:36
The CEOs and even the #investment punters who do nothing all day but hope their portfolios go up as if by magic, they're the "builders" and "creators". Abundant pro-business pro-#capitalism agitprop have cemented the impression that there's something intrinsically creative about "building wealth" even if it's all in electronic funny-money maintained at enormous social and economic cost. One tries to tell them they're swindlers, one tries to get them to understand what actual labor is like and WHY it's laborious and "boring" to them, something they've actually become terrified of. (cont'd)