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Hortensis

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23. I was ready to ask the doctor for a first-ever anxiolytic

Reply to Initech (Reply #21)

Sun Oct 6, 2019, 07:31 PM

Oct 2019

in 2018, my insomnia bad enough as it is, but with enough positive signs I never had to. I hope to tough it through similarly this time, but! After Trump was declared the "winner" my attention span was wrecked so badly for a while that I couldn't even escape into a novel. Won't go through that again.

One way or another, life will go on as whatever it is. No choice. In a RW-controlled authoritarian state at least that 40% could stop making excuses. Voting in faux elections wouldn't matter for 100% of us.

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There's A Common Thread In The Global Rise Of Fascism And Autocracy [View all] Initech Oct 2019 OP

NewsCorp and Fox have no more power than Viacom,CBS,or Disney...they exist to make money, virgogal Oct 2019 #1

Just remember the 2000 election. Initech Oct 2019 #2

Those other corporations are all more or less the same and not blatantly propagandizing. Garrett78 Oct 2019 #4

The biggest common thread: Income inequality DrToast Oct 2019 #3

I live in an upper lower middle class neighborhood. Initech Oct 2019 #7

You misunderstand DrToast Oct 2019 #8

That's one. But there is the issue of aging white populations trying to beat back the "other", Texin Oct 2019 #11

I did a mass internet ad opt out recently backtoblue Oct 2019 #5

K&R. n/t ms liberty Oct 2019 #6

Yes. That's also much of the explanation for LW incompetent Hortensis Oct 2019 #9

Seriously I am dreading what is going to happen next year. Initech Oct 2019 #21

I was ready to ask the doctor for a first-ever anxiolytic Hortensis Oct 2019 #23

Makes me think about Gladwell's "Nudge" - how to influence people with minimal effort erronis Oct 2019 #10

I agree... defacto7 Oct 2019 #12

That - and support from big business sandensea Oct 2019 #13

It's on the rise because of immigration/refugees. It's just that simple. nt UniteFightBack Oct 2019 #14

Cut the cord to U.S. news and entertainment 5 years ago. We haven't seen a paid TV ad since 2012. usaf-vet Oct 2019 #15

Oh yeah I hardly ever watch network TV anymore. Initech Oct 2019 #22

I didn't know sky was owned by fox kimbutgar Oct 2019 #16

We've had sensationalism for ages Marthe48 Oct 2019 #17

sensationalism is not the same as DISinformation Hermit-The-Prog Oct 2019 #27

in this country fox is visual icing for the lie turd pie of talk radio. brazil's asshole certainot Oct 2019 #18

g certainot Oct 2019 #19

Also... kentuck Oct 2019 #20

Sky News is nothing like Fox Spider Jerusalem Oct 2019 #24

Doesn't Murdoch own the Sun? Initech Oct 2019 #25

Yep (and neither the Sun nor the NY Post is a "supermarket tabloid") Spider Jerusalem Oct 2019 #26

Conservative Whites such as Murdoch need to face immigration restrictions. Dawson Leery Oct 2019 #28

Several years ago, we did a fabulous home exchange on the Appian Way secondwind Oct 2019 #29

I support this premise. Additionally, it is an addiction to stress that causes many littlemissmartypants Oct 2019 #30