02-02-2025, 08:54 AM
(This post was last modified: 02-02-2025, 09:11 AM by Peter Lemkin.)
(30-01-2025, 07:31 PM)Fred Steeves Wrote: Easy does it I'm not here to troll you, just once again trying to wrap my head around how deep researchers in alt/indy media, can still wind up convinced that heavily partisan cable news is a place to find reliable information.You're entitled to your biased views, but I think your real prejudices are showing. First, MTN is not 'cable news'. It has NO big corporate or other backers - the viewership are the 'backers'. If you don't like it, don't watch it! Ben sometimes gets a little excited; sometimes more than I would wish - BUT, he and his brothers came up with the idea. I personally think he's better when speaking more coolly, as others on the network do. You seem to have a problem with people being apoplectic about Trump/MAGA/Christian Nationalism/Racism/Mysogeny/Kleptocracy and governance by illegality - with a fascist state as its goal. I find that curious. I'm alarmed that Trump wasn't impeached twice and wasn't put in prison for his illegal putsch to take over the government illegally on Jan. 6. That people like you want to find and point out imperfections in those who point out this ongoing travesty and the dangers we all now face, to me, is very odd. Which is more upsetting - that Ben sometimes gets upset or that Trump is trying to become a dictator of a fascist state in which all social/political/ethical progress made since the Civil War are reversed? There are very calm and better voices IMHO on MTN - such as the following shows: Shan Wu; Miss Trial; On Democracy; Uncovered (especially); The Weekend Show (especially); 5 Minute News (especially); Majority 54; the branch of MTN called Legal AF (especially); a separate show weekly by two psychologists called Shrinking Trump - and others.
As I scroll down "Meidas Touch" videos, I'm immediately struck that it's nothing but endless hyperbolic Trump hate, with snarling images to boot for maximum effect, while pumping up these ridiculous hyper partisan dems like they're our knights in shining armor. This guy has such a case of TDS he puts MSNBC to shame. It's just the flip side of MAGA rhetoric.
People, I suggest those shows and a lot of good information that gets posted on BlueSky Social Media. Grumblers over style [rather than substance] like Fred are missing the point while saying they get the point.
Trump/MAGA/Musk/Miller/Project 2025/Christian Nationalists/White Nationalists/etc. are an existential threat to Democracy, to the USA, to more than half of the population of the USA, to life on this Planet! A little shouting about it doesn't bother me. I'm more bothered that it bothers Fred who can't see the forest for the trees, the important facts for the style in which it is presented. I can find things to be critical of with MTN, but I don't post them, because unlike Fred, I want the urgent message out that Trump/MAGA/Musk/Miller/Project 2025/Christian Nationalists/White Nationalists/etc. are an existential threat to Democracy, to the USA, to more than half of the population of the USA, to life on this Planet!, and it is long past time to start shouting, screaming, even sometimes ranting about it. Yes, presenting it in a cool, calm manner is my preference and I listed shows on MTN that do that consistently - even Ben does sometimes. We are facing erasure of hundreds of years of progress made against hate, prejudice, and privilege - rapidly heading to territory that frightens me and ought to frighten anyone of good morality and sense in the USA and around the World. Much of the World is 'freaking out' too about Trump/MAGA/Musk/Miller/Project 2025/Christian Nationalists/White Nationalists/Tech Megacompanies which spy on us/the Corporatism/the 0.1% taking over, etc. et al. The USA is going totally in the wrong direction and needs to be reversed by the PEOPLE!
We have already lost most of the mainstream media to Rightwing Propaganda networks and podcasts. The information on MTN is the important part, not the manner that SOME shows and SOME few on it take, IMO!
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. - Mayer Rothschild
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass

