‘60 Minutes’ airs scathing segment on ‘first felon in the Oval Office’ despite pressure to avoid sensitive stories about Trump

Capitalism is the entropy lottery, and the more you remove the graphite the more the reaction runs away toward total meltdown

Conservatism is the belief that we should ban pencils because how dare you limit my chances even a little before everything breaks

The only reason why Trump’s approval rating has sunk a bit amongst conservatives is that tariffs are directly affecting them. As you said, they are selfishness incarnate.

Well said

And it’s so overwhelmingly male and (usually) white. Though that can sway depending on country. Seems they want to go back to owning slaves. And feel equality is oppression somehow.

Though there is a growing amount of white ladies now I want to see rot in prison.

A certain philosopher seems spot-on about the nature of our enemy.

JEAN PAUL SARTE

They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The antisemites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert.

If the Jew did not exist, the anti-Semite would invent him.

[The anti-Semite attributes] all or part of his own misfortunes and those of his country to the presence of Jewish elements in the community, ... proposes to remedy this state of affairs by depriving the Jews of certain of their rights, by keeping them out of certain economic and social activities, by expelling them from the country, by exterminating all of them ....

It is not unusual for people to elect to live a life of passion rather than of reason. But ordinarily they love the objects of passion: women, glory, power, money. Since the anti-Semite has chosen hate, we are forced to conclude that it is the state of passion that he loves.

[The anti-Semite] fears every kind of solitariness… however small his stature, he takes every precaution to make it smaller, lest he stand out from the herd and find himself face to face with himself. He has made himself an anti-Semite because that is something one cannot be alone.

[The anti-Semite is afraid] of himself, of his own consciousness, of his own liberty, of his instincts, of his responsibilities, of solitariness, of change, of society, and the world – of everything except the Jews. [He is] a coward who does not want to admit his cowardice to himself.

Anti-Semitism, in short, is fear of the human condition. The anti-Semite is a man who wishes to be a pitiless stone, a furious torrent, a devastating thunderbolt – anything except a man.

OK, but this is also what every journalist needs to be doing right now.

Nah thats not really the same thing. Streisand effect is when people learn about something they wouldnt have otherwise known about.

The almighty power of spite.

Man that's such a small detail I glossed over, that they can bar them from courthouses.

A lot of PAID cowards in powerful positions.

it's safer, and already successful people hate taking risks that threaten their status.

Ronald Reagan "Rookies".

If moving to independent media or at least better sources like Ruiters, AP or even Ground or just triangulating multiple sources so you can get a better grasp of the truth before CBS helps create a situation they make money from while pretending to be "news" is considered "Defeatist" then yes, I am defeated and you should be too.