Andrew Sage

And Trump administration is using the fact that the media is being bought out by his allies in order to try to get people to buy CNN and simply eliminate negative news coverage of him.

And I don't really think I need to explain why it's extremely bad that the President of the United States could simply order a news outlet to be bought out and then suddenly it's bought out.

I think it's kind of self-explanatory why that's unbelievably bad.

But that is the situation that we may rapidly find ourselves in because we don't live in anything that even sort of looks like a democracy.

We live in the dictatorship of capital.

And the thing about the press under a dictatorship, even one that's as decentralized as the dictatorship of capital, is that one particularly fascist faction of capital can simply roll in by the media and take control of it.

And that's the project that we're seeing now.

But these people are not undefeatable.

We beat them before, we can beat them again.

And in some ways, their project is kind of self-defeating in that they have spent a significant amount of time hollowing out people's trust in these institutions.

And there is an extent to which, as bad as all of this is, they may simply be taking control of a husk that they had already caused or brought from the inside.

And meanwhile, all of this control of the media that they've been taking has not stopped everyone from fucking hating them.

And that's the note that I want to leave everyone here on.

It doesn't matter how much of the media these people buy.

Everyone still hates them.

We can fight them and we can win.

The social media trend that's landing some Gen Zers in jail.

And the MAGA influencers whose trip to the White House ended in embarrassment.

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