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Yeah. The mirror image of MSNBC or John Stewart, is something like the Wall Street Journal.
The mirror image of Fox News is like hexbear or lemmygrad, except put on TV for a majority of the country to watch for a majority of their picture of the world and accept uncritically. I think this article actually explains very well why it should be treated as a lot more cause for alarm than it is.
Ah good point. Tankies are indeed a bit like this on the left-wing side. I forgot about them.
The interesting thing with Tankies is that many of them are blatantly pro-autocrat, believing wholeheartedly that the single-party state needs a singular leader with essentially unlimited power vested in them in order to prevent counter-revolutionary movements, when in actuality that power is just used to quash the whole DotP and 'stateless' aspiration parts, and they just end up supporting right-wing outcomes like Putin and Xi, and being unwilling to admit that's what they are.