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Where is exactly is the left in this fight? The media is hardly the left and RFK Jr. is an alt-right candidate using his family's name as cover to masquerade as a Democrat.
Almost all TV media is left wing. Most online media is left wing. Social media is left wing.
Can you define alt-right?
Generally folks who are alt right aren't willing to sign a gun ban, generally aren't pro-choice, aren't for college loan forgiveness, doesn't champion trans rights, nor other LGBTQ rights, generally aren't for nationalized drug recovery centers, aren't anti-war, don't fully condemn every white supremicist, anti-semite or anti asian rhetoric.
If you really think he's alt-right, we have different depictions of what the 'alt-right' are.
Ribbit
You linked a salon article that says a private source says that bannon secretly tried to get someone to run.
Any, ya know, reliable sources?
Ribbit
Delusions as fuck. Media in this country is all run by the extremely wealthy. To call it left wing is laughable. Neo-liberalism (democrats) are borderline conservative and that's who runs the media. Just cuz you've been brainwashed into thinking centerist big corporate politicians are "left wing" doesn't make it true.
Almost all TV media and social media is run by corporations who only care about making money. That's hardly left-wing.
and guess who gives out more money? That's right, the democrats!
The guy who paid 45 billion dollars to lift bans on several infamous wingnut trolls like Catturd and turned a bird logo into an X for clout doesn't seem like a Democrat to me. Neither is the billionaire oil baron who owns Fox News, Sky News, Fake News, etc., the former of which is the largest media company in America. You're not an underdog.
He's the opposite of how the former ownership ran twitter for the past 10 years. I didn't hear you bitching about it then.
And, having uniform/unbanning regardless of political affiliation is how I believe media should be. It shouldn't be bias.
Fox news is the only right wing cable network. NBC, MSNBC, CNN ABC are all left
Literally none of this is true. The only universe this is true in is the one where anything left of fascism is "left wing."
You make a great point here. It's so common to boil one view down to a label, and then people use that label to extrapolate a whole set of views, many of which the individual may not ascribe to. Example: he's anti vax which is an alt right viewpoint, therefore he is alt right. You tell someone that he is alt right and then that person thinks he is bigoted toward LGBTQ+, donates to the NRA, pickets outside of abortion clinics, etc.
I'm not saying any of this in support of RFK Jr at all, just that this concept is detrimental to all rational discourse. Labels are a helpful part of language in categorizing things, but they can also be really dangerous when you default to using them in every situation even if they don't fit.
No it's not, it's traditionally fringe left - see hippies.
Agreed. You don't perfectly fit into one box, and the fact that one side will trash you if you don't perfectly align and vote how their party votes is absurd