Corporate Media Pushs Propaganda to Keep Wealthy Rich

Ummm....

 

I see mentions of "Palin", "Fox", and "Reagan" in this article.

As if Democrats are not merged/forged/fused with Corporate America or the Media Establishment.

This nonstop cat fight between you guys in this forum is laughable. They got you chasing your tails incessantly, all-the-while oblivious to the fact that both parties are one and the same and equal WHORES in every sense of the word.

Where is all the big "change" you were promised during Obama's campaign? Structurally absolutely nothing has changed. Wars persist, national debt compounds, federal prosecutors still get 90%+ conviction rates (highest in the world), the US still has the world's highest incarceration rate, corporations still get free reign in their everlasting marriage w/ govt., and gitmo is still alive and well.

But of course you zombies continue on in your perpetual numbness to the reality around you.

 

WHERE WERE U WHEN BUSH WAS I N OFFICE LMAO!!!111

Bro, most people just don't get it. Distract, divide, and conquer. The blueprint for taking over minds, men and worlds.

 

Did you see the discussion of the rich Democrats who would rather not see the Reagan tax cuts rolled back or did you just see the word "Reagan?"

 

This.... totally agree with this...

 

Freaking hilarious. John Cleese is one of the funniest people ever and, though this clip was made for the English political environment, it applies here.

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Yes, who exactly are these "rich Democrats" who no longer buy media?

John Edwards? :grin:

And please educate me on these Reagan tax cuts. From my understanding the top bracket individual tax rate was 70% when Reagan took office and something like 28% when he left.

So now what percentage have Clinton/Obama rolled back those Reagan tax cuts? And a step further, what has happened to Corporate tax rates during their terms? Tax dividends? ooooh from 15% to 20%, when they were at 39.6% just a decade ago

 

http://www.billionairesforwealthcare.com/

 

well said. The D&D is a wasteland, which is sad because it would actually be nice to talk about issues. However, once you start to talk to someone you are either a liberal or conservative and automatically attacked.

spoken like a true neo-con warmonger

 

Ah, a nice post until everyone who disagrees with you becomes... wait for it... a zombie. Yes, just like people who don't believe the government carried out 9/11 are zombies in an adjacent thread. And of course, we've been told countless times that anyone who voted for Obama is a zombie.

This appears to be the new "nazis." It's only a matter of time until an entire group of people are labeled braindead zombies for even a slightly different point of view. Color me completely unimpressed by that ironically braindead rhetorical turd.

 

The John Edwards mention was only meant in jest.

Regarding Buffett, he has spoken out against tax cuts for many many years now and lamented that "there is class warfare in America, and his class is winning." The convenient fact of the matter however is that he's never really had to pay any taxes thus far anyways because he never sells out of his stock positions :grin:

Gross may be a Democrat I dunno, but he sure doesn't like the current spending spree Obama's gone on and he's spoken out against it at length.

Gates I also don't know if he's donkey or elephant but in any case he's been sitting on the country's biggest monopoly for 2 decades now and his Gates Foundation is partnered up with Monsanto/Rockefeller Foundation so quite frankly I'd really rather he not invest in media to spread any type of info :grin:

Nonetheless all this Dem/Rep bickering is an exercise in futility. They are 99 44/100% the same!

 

I apologize that you have taken offense to the term I used, "zombie." It was honestly the first, and at the time of writing, the most accurate description I could find in my palette. Do you prefer sheeple?

 

I thought it might improve after the disappearance of Biggie and T_J (or is it Biggie/T_J :grin: ) but it's just the same nonsense. Every issue is automatically framed around whether the poster is Dem or Rep from the start and any real discussion is hijacked from thereon.

 

At the sametime though MSNBC has been providing an ideological counterpoint to Fox News while media people like Jon Stewart have been skewering the corporate media (lets not forget though that Comedy Central is owned by a big corporation Viacom.) If you don't like those there still is NPR and PBS which are not corporately owned and beyond those there is Democracy Now. Lets not forget all of the blogs out there too.

Rather than their being a lack of diversity if anything media is way more diverse than it ever was. Lets not forget too that back in the good old days of uncle Walter the broadcast media was even more dominated by a handful of companies, called CBS, ABC and NBC.

 

So instead of trying to engage in rational debate you would rather just call people "zombies".

The D & D is what you make of it and while some might be zombies there are a lot of thoughtful people on here too.

 

As opposed to thinking that everything is a conspiracy? Indulging in conspiracy theories are its own distraction and escapism as it removes any responsibility on your part to try to change things when its easier just to blame it on forces beyond your control.

 

The D&D gets nauseating when something controversial is happening (major event, election, etc) but for the most part, the above is true, the majority of posters here during the downtimes are actually very thoughtful and intelligent. A couple of lame-o's stick around persistently like dingleberries unshakable from the butthole of partisanship, but otherwise it's actually a good pool.

 

Gaddamit.