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[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 161 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Another one:

Epstein is a convicted sex offender. They keep calling him, "disgraced Financier"

[–] Insekticus@aussie.zone 30 points 1 week ago

They dont want the other financiers tarred with the same brush, even though the capitalist scum deserve it.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Even that's too soft for him, makes him sound like the creep who moved in down the block.

In reality, he was the most connected and influential international child sex trafficker in history. "Convicted sex offender" sounds like one of his customers.

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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 88 points 1 week ago (6 children)

They're not sugarcoating it, they're normalizing it...

And the answer to "why" for all those questions is oligarchs bought the news stations after Clinton de-regulated it with the Telecoms act of 1996.

The media isn't run for the sake of journalism, it's not even run for profit anymore. The oligarchs goobled it all up so they could influence everyone else, and they don't like it when anyone from their class is held accountable for anything.

It's the same as when medieval royalty would always side with each other no matter what.

They don't see us as the same species as them.

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Don't want to risk missing out on precious clicks and shares due to keyword-sensitive advertiser friendliness algorithms.

[–] zd9@lemmy.world 40 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The "news" is the same people as the accused. It's all the ultra wealthy ruling class. They are also destroying the environment with fossil fuels, buying up livable property and jacking up the rates, shorting water stocks and such, etc.

Their time may be up soon, but I want to see them rot in prison, not the other option, because that'll be way more chaotic and could lead to worse outcomes.

[–] Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 8 points 1 week ago (4 children)

There is no prison for billionaires. Look at New York v. Trump. The only way to fix this mess is a revolution, AKA civil war.

[–] carrotfox@piefed.social 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Revolutions and civil war have a nasty habit of not going the way you want them to go. Even the French Revolution was coopted by Napoleon and turned into a monarchy.

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[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 36 points 1 week ago

“Adolescent women” to refer to a 13 year old was used in that one witness account of the women who worked as a recruiter for his parties.

[–] pipi1234@lemmy.world 35 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

Distorsión of reality by linguistic manipulation.

This is straight out of 1984 book:

In the novel, "Newspeak" wasn't just about being concise; it was designed to shrink the vocabulary so much that "heretical" thoughts became literally impossible because the words for them no longer existed.

Here is a breakdown of how linguistic manipulation distorts reality, both in the book and in our world:

1. The Erasure of Nuance

In 1984, if you wanted to say something was "terrible," you just said it was ungood.

By removing "bad," "terrible," and "horrific," the emotional weight of the experience is flattened.

  • The Result: When we lose specific words for our feelings or experiences, our ability to think critically about those experiences atrophies.
[–] Turret3857 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ungood is very similar to "unalived"...

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] pipi1234@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They took a literary warning about totalitarian regimes and used it as manual to implement a totalitarian regime.

It would be laughable if it wasn't so dangerous.

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[–] Saledovil@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You could say doubleplusungood.

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[–] Suburbanl3g3nd@lemmings.world 34 points 1 week ago

More like the people that own these news companies are also in the files and tweaking the narrative as a result. Something something follow the money something

[–] stiffyGlitch@lemmy.world 32 points 1 week ago (13 children)

The minimization is CRAZY. Like people are saying "Oh, no, he didn't rape the kid he just had sex with her." Like the child CONSENTED to it. Sex, by definition, is engaging in sexual pleasure with both persons consent.

Our country that was fought for by thousands of soldiers, many whom died for this land, so we could have freedom and a break away from the king of Britain. He was a dictator, and now we are in the company of one such other dictator. A rat, who gained entry only by his father's money and influence. Who used that influence and abused it, who corrupted young minds and brainwashed people to believe that he was doing good.

That he was making America great again.

When the only thing he did for us was give us empty promises, and shoved us down the path of an emptier future.

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[–] ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Have you checked who owns big media corporations? 🤔

[–] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 week ago

People who rape children.

At this point it's on the wealthy to prove they aren't child rapists. Epstein is just one of many and there is zero reason to assume others like him are not still operating.

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[–] CheesyFingers@piefed.social 29 points 1 week ago (4 children)

X.com? Supporting the abusers, i see.

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[–] humanamerican@lemmy.zip 26 points 1 week ago

🎼 Some of those who work newsrooms

Are the same who rape kiddos

SHILLING IN THE NAME OF! 🎶

[–] CityPop@lemmy.today 26 points 1 week ago

The media machine is complicit with the state. Always has been.

[–] BigBenis@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Because the news is largely owned by the oligarchy.

[–] ViceroTempus@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How the fuck was I your first upvote? You're spitting pure fact. Our MSM "news" is mostly owned by right-wing billionaires AKA oligarchs.

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[–] Quexotic 21 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It's called "sane-washing" and the media won't stop doing it. Even NPR, though less so recently.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 week ago (4 children)

You would think with their funding cut off they would stop doing the "fair and balanced" act and stop carrying water for Republican liars.

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[–] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 20 points 1 week ago

What's even more fucked is just how personally responsible Epstein is to the modern right wing movement. While online Nazis and crass as fuck assholes were common, the way how they became such a concerted and active and effective politicial movement was done entirely through Epstein motivated and funded shit.

You know how so many major gaming channels always make a ton of right wing advocacy? Their money and funding came from the motherfucker and his network.

I remember when online gaming channels were AVGN type fun stuff. Either with retro or with modern games.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

To actually answer the question:

Because most of the old media functionally has the CIA as an editorial board.

Immensely ironically, we know a lot about that because of Noam Chomsky.

Who... is also in the Epstein files.

Quite a lot.

Yeah, it wasn't just the right wing of the country that has been existing in a constructed media hyperreality, it has also been the left wing of the country.

[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 12 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I wouldn't describe Noam as left wing, he's advocating for Ukraine's unilateral surrender rn. He's just Red Fascist.

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[–] kingofras@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Totally agree, but it is also our responsibility to stop consuming it. Stop using X before chomo musk starts his Social Education addon. When everyone is logging into S E X and seeing pictures of AI generated naked children will people finally stop!?

Seriously get the fuck off X! I am going to start considering anyone still using that platform a supporter of child rape.

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[–] Zexks@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

People need to be calling out networks and reporters/authors by name for doing this. Stop blaming "they" and put a name on it.

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[–] lemmyuser345@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

American media engage in censorship that people don't see. They soften the language and cherrypick the facts.

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[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is why you should get your news from alternative media. I usually recommend Breaking Points. There's even a reporter on their staff that punched Jesse Watters in the face once.

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Look at who owns the news that are hiding the reality of the situation. Look at who they're beholden to.

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I was a bit miffed to discover that, during the current fall of america, most media, whether right, middle or left leaning, proved to us they'll fiddle with the truth for money and clicks. Fuck capitalism. We the people?, or we the money?

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Even the term "soliciting prostitution with a minor" really shouldn't exist because it implies some sort of consent by the minor.

[–] MadBits@europe.pub 10 points 1 week ago

The fact that mainstream media constantly does that it just shows you on who's side they are. They wouldn't talk about it at all, but they need to wash their karma somehow.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

mind that most of these people would otherwise refer to women as girls. it's deliberate.

The other night I listened to the PBS News Hour characterizing grok's AI child pornography as "explicit" and "putting women into bathing suits".

[–] DupaCycki@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The same people who are in the files run the media. Not 100% positive, but this might have something to do with it.

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