The unspoken creed of the U.S. press is that its task is to keep the major parties in thermostatic balance — always comparable to one another, always operating from a shared moral plane. Mass deportations, given moral equivalence to tax breaks? Impartiality between the two parties requires it.

DMdonmoyn.bsky.socialOct 2, 2024 1:40am

More from the Dept of Fash Graphics: How Deporting Your Neighbor Can Slash Your Housing Costs

It’ll depend, we should worry, on who’s writing those history books.

Snycsouthpaw.bsky.socialOct 2, 2024 2:19am

This is one that I genuinely think will be printed in history books one day to show how insane American media culture became. CBS News presenting ethnic cleansing as a housing policy to be compared with home construction tax incentives.

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False equivalence is a logical fallacy. That alone should stop journalists for doing this. A threat to our very democracy, a promise of descent into fascism? It is a MORAL IMPERATIVE not to fall back on false equivalence.False equivalence is a logical fallacy. That alone should stop journalists for doing this. A threat to our very democracy, a promise of descent into fascism? It is a MORAL IMPERATIVE not to fall back on false equivalence.

Did Walz ever mention tfg has his merch manufactured in China? And his daughter as well?