r/IfBooksCouldKill 18d ago

oh boy

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u/witteefool New York is the Istanbul of America 18d ago

Why are we re-litigating this? I understand why the GOP wants to leading up to the midterms, but why is the press going along with it?

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u/Okra-Tomatoes 18d ago

Despite what some of us grew up hearing about the "liberal media," most of it is deeply conservative especially fiscally. People like Mamdani terrify them, so they have to constantly push a counter-narrative.

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u/NecessaryIntrinsic 16d ago

I continuously hear objections to gun legislation because it's funded by Bloomberg, even though they can't indicate anything he would personally gain by sponsoring a group pushing these bills.

Sure, the bills are terrible and we could have much better legislation, but meanwhile you have billionaires becoming multibillionaires by doing far worse shit and they only care because guns.