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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 15 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

BlueMAGA energy.

Israel is massacring hundreds of people a day across Lebanon, while the liberal media is fully fixated on whether JD Vance had to listen to On Hold music for a minute in Switzerland.

No coverage of why these negotiations are delayed or what the stakes are. It's all just optics.

[–] tempest@lemmy.ca 5 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Which is 'the liberal media' again?

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world -3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

The dirty secret that nobody wants to tell you is... in the West it's liberals all the way down.

Some are just more scratched than others.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

I think you're confusing the Anglo-Saxon countries and their Press with "the West".

Outside places like the US, UK and Canada the whole "lets talk about Identity Politics instead of Wealth Inequality" "liberal" propaganda technique to disguise their authoritarian pro-Oligarch ways didn't really took hold anywhere as much.

Granted, the rest of Europe is sliding towards the same increasing use of the tools of autoritarianism (most notably civil society surveillance), but that's not led by "liberals", that's led by the traditional Right which at the moment is in power in most of Europe, was a large majority in power when the current EU Commission was chosen and is currently a majority in the EU Parliament.

In most of Europe "Liberal" techniques such as their performative "fight for equality" that very explicity excludes talk of Wealth Inequality are only common for fringe (supposedly) leftwing parties.

Even though - in my experience - the posh deceit discourse techniques have migrated from the US and UK towards other European countries, even the mainstream old center-left parties (which are now Neoliberal and well to the right of center) haven't adopted the heavy identitarian discourse you see in their supposed equivalents in the US and UK.

Mind you, the mainstream "center"-"left" parties in most of Europe are sold out and as rotten as they come and mainly represent the rich, they're just not playing the "liberal" theatrics that you see in the Anglo-Saxon sphere and do still once in a while do things which are actually for the many rather than for the few.