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Old 09-03-2021, 01:10 PM   #10585 (permalink)
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I mean, you're asking me to agree to a always/never statement. I think people who complain about the media always are like "dId yOu hEaR hEr tOnE oN tHaT sTaTeMeNt?!?!? sHe'S a cOrpOrAte sHiLl!!!!"

You'd have to explain to me what tank you thought the media was in. But this unified "The withdrawral is a disaster!" - pulling in veterans and people from both sides of the aisle - in the face of 70% approval rates is just so obvious its mind blowing.

As for them being Establishment, are you still a shill if you believe it? The problem with being Establishment is that the fringe wings usually can't give you policy answers. And for better or worse the Left-wing journalists are dying to show the right-wing voter how even handed they can be. That's not reporting what corporate America wants, it's asking how M4A is going to work when you've said nothing about regulating any of the U.S. food. And you can't have 39g Coca Colas and universal healthcare.
They're in the tank for PMC culture where capitalism is good with proper regulation, imperialism is a leftist conspiracy, and social progress is when some puff piece about a minority going to Harvard makes you feel good instead of sad. They don't have to be paid off cause imagining that the country that gave them such a nice middle class life is actually doing something bad isn't something they're generally willing to do.
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