This is the moment that Donald Trump threatens an ABC reporter after they asked about free speech. Speaking with ABC News Chief Washington Correspondent Jonathan Karl on Tuesday (16 September), the president appeared to become annoyed after the reporter asked him about Pam Bondi’s crackdown on “hate speech”. “A lot of your allies say hate speech is free speech,” Mr Karl said, to which Mr Trump responded: “She’d probably go after people like you because you treat me so unfairly. It’s hate. You have a lot of hate in your heart.” After slamming ABC, the president claimed that he “wants everything to be fair” and placed blame with the “radical left who have done tremendous damage to the country”.
  • DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    14 天前

    I always assumed America would swiftly deal with a racist fascist criminal megalomaniac.

    Boy was I wrong.

    This nation is WEAK.

    • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      14 天前

      Well instead of dealing with their fascist problem after WWII, they decided to repress (and sometimes kill) the most reliable antifascists - the leftists.

      That said some countries that objectively did purge their fasists seem to still have that problem today. Perhaps the theory that capitalism creates fascism as it declines predicts this.

      • Soup@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        14 天前

        Capitalism creates an environment of fear and danger and promotes of level of individual responsibility that alienates people from everyone else. Even people who are well off today are afraid of losing advantages and being hung out to dry by the very same uncaring system they keep supporting.

  • Basic Glitch@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
    1·
    15 天前

    There was period of time during Trump’s last administration where the world just got so crazy I had a collection of screenshots of “not the onion” headlines that just seemed too insane to be real.

    I remember one was like “Judge determines woman can’t prove she didn’t want to be set on fire.”

    This would fit in nicely.

    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      14 天前

      Huh…I’m trying to think of what legal defense you could give to PROVE you didn’t want to be set on fire.

      I can’t think of one. What do you say that proves it? Which means I get how that headline happened, but also…how did THAT headline happen???

      • IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        14 天前

        The only thing I can think of is that there was some sort of event where other people were being willingly set on fire. Like if were some sort of performance that went wrong, I could see there being a reasonable defense that the performer didn’t know she didn’t want to participate.

    • Dragonstaff@leminal.spaceEnglish
      0·
      12 天前

      Any asshole posting about a “general strike” with no support fund and no organization of their strikers is a fed.

      • HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        2·
        9 天前

        Well lol im just in an industry with no unions so thought it was good to post but apparently its some op now so i wont spread the link. But we definitely need to shut down this fascist takeover

        • Dragonstaff@leminal.spaceEnglish
          2·
          9 天前

          Sorry, nothing personal. I’ve seen images posted a lot. This is the first time I saw a website, but that’s even worse.

          Strikes take a lot of planning and coordination. You need to be able to support your strikers so that they’ll be able to outlast Capital until your demands are met. One of the main purposes of unions is to save a “war chest” to do this.

          If I and a bunch of my Internet buddies tried to strike, the first problem is that we’d each be the only striker at our workplaces…our bosses would just fire us and go on with their day.