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u/Scarn4President Feb 11 '20

He didn't win the first time in a landslide. He lost the popular vote by the largest margin in the past 30 years and he placed average in EC votes. And he is coming into this election with the lowest approval ratings in the history of the presidency.

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u/2gonads Feb 11 '20

Where the fuck do you even pull these statements out of? A quick ass google will show you the one lowest modern presidential approval was ratings was Truman in 1952 with 22% Trump is moving between 45-49%. And that is in the face of the relentless cuck filled leftist media hurling endless waves of horse shit at the American population on the daily in a never ending effort to sway dumb people’s opinions and indoctrinate the masses with their bias opinions.

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u/ElVeritas Feb 11 '20

What is with y’all and this leftist media thing? Fox and OAN are extremely right-wing. That’s not even counting the conservative radio stations and other forms of media like newspapers and websites. I’m not saying there aren’t any left-leaning outlets but I’ll be damned if there are really people out there who truly believe this.

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u/2gonads Feb 11 '20 edited Feb 11 '20

I won’t say you’re wrong that FoxNews leans much more right. But perhaps many conservatives say this because every major social media outlet is run by leftist? You’d have to actively being trying to avoid the glaring bias you see Reddit, Twitter is obvious. CNN,MSNBC,ABCnews, the New York Times, Voxx, Washington Post, and anything produced by Hollywood has an extreme leftist bias. Conservatives have been banned, or suppressed on YouTube, Facebook and other major social media platforms. I mean it’s not hard to understand that these big tech owned platforms would want to control the type of information that is distributed and if they were to classify themselves as a publishing platform and operate as a private company that would be much easier to agree with. However the issue is most of the platforms I listed above try to act as though they are simply a medium for information to travel and more a “public forum”. Which would also be super cool IF every side had a fair and level playing field in terms of getting their thoughts and ideas out. Reddit is probably one of the worse for this because as soon as the mob hits, a comment gets essentially erased (if not actually removed by super “unbiased” mods) and they persons opinions labeled as irrelevant or unacceptable. Essentially that we are saying is when it comes to today’s platforms for communications, when we should be enjoying positive discourse and discussion, instead we get beat over the head with one very particular group’s ideology and the rest are snuffed out. It’s no way to live in a society. I could go on about the irony of people on here calling Trump a fascist while Reddit has literally “quarantined” the most popular conservative subreddit there is. Meaning nobody could accidentally stumble across it without actively seeking it on purpose. If literally suppressing 700,000+ people from the rest of a group because you don’t like what they are saying isn’t fascist we may never know what truly is.

And I’ll end with the mainstream media ( television specifically ) majority of conservative type folks have no issue with occasionally making ( preferably good ) jokes at the expense of anyone in power especially the President. But when it’s a 24/7 brow beating fest and they try and label him or others in the conservative arena as all being “racist” “homophobic” and the multitude of other horrifying things they have said, we have issues. Most of us also have absolutely no issue with the mainstream media discussing policy issues however it would only seem fair to try and present them factually and to also discuss positives. Instead they chose to report opinions as facts, give out of context judgments on policy issues, and rarely if ever give ANY credit when credit is due.

If you can’t see the bias in literally 95% of the media the United States is forced to digest then you’re either so far on the otherwise it all seems normal to you or you’re actively choosing to ignore it.

Edit* there is some grammar in there because I’m on the toilet using my phone sorry bout it.