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MAGA advocate calls for ban on pregnant women traveling to US and ‘sterilization of all foreign visitors’
(www.independent.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 01 Jul 2026
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Love you dude. Thanks for sticking up for us.
Hell yeah.
Agreed 100%. Constantly feeding the trolls is why they run everything now. They feed on attention and must be starved.
Slight correction. They’re not not feeding trolls, they’re platforming extremists to shift the Overton window further right. Most news media in the US is right leaning now.
Yes! The only reason these freakshows ever get heard is because of reporters giving them a platform.
Sadly, that is what the media owners want.
I’ve been saying this for a while, but it’s still relevant. You need to view US politics under the lens of professional wrestling.
Of course they print this, and of course you’re going to hate it. That’s the entire point. These absurd people saying hateful things are the heels, you’re supposed to hate them. It also makes you like the faces even though they’re lackluster. Posting articles like these online in some sense of (lazy) advocacy or “staying informed” simply reinforces the worldview they’re pushing. It’s all propaganda.
It's why even though I do hate and blame the greedy narcissistic assholes that run the government, the ones I hate THE MOST are the propagandists.
Without pieces of shit like Sean Hannity and to a slightly lesser extent every other corporate media outlet the greedy narcissistic assholes wouldn't be able to thrive in the way that they do and we might actually be able to live in the same "reality" as the rest of the population instead of being fed different versions of reality to fight over.
I'd love to see the propagandists put in front of a firing squad. Air that shit for ratings, corporate fucks.
The media needs to call out the crazy people. Everyone has a platform online, which means that crazy people feel validated. Just because someone has a hundred thousand followers doesn’t make them an authority, and the media needs to be critical in what they promote
But emotional responses make clicks. Angry and scared emotional responses make more clicks. And clicks are the only thing that matters to these people.
I wish we see more from the other side like NY Times posts a story like some socialists call for the guillotine to return
This is how Rupert Murdoch built his empire in Australia and then brought it to America. 30 years later. Everyone is copying him. He ignored traditional news and wrote sensationalist headlines.