Exactly one week after the murder of three Black people in Jacksonville, two neo-Nazi rallies took place in Orlando.
  • stevedidWHAT@lemmy.worldEnglish
    92·
    1 year ago

    The mental gymnastics lmfao.

    Taking away the ability of the government to control a public option = fascism because people made money off it.

    The word you’re looking for is capitalist pig and I agree with you.

      • SCB@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 year ago

        Conservative talk radio predates Clinton by over 2 decades, and is what led to the rise in Trumpism.

          • SCB@lemmy.world
            2·
            1 year ago

            Fairness Doctrine ended in 1985 under Reagan, a decade prior to Clinton.

            It also didn’t totally prevent the talk-radio programs at the heart of (especially rural) radicalization.

            While the original purpose of the doctrine was to ensure that viewers were exposed to a diversity of viewpoints, it was used by both the Kennedy and later the Johnson administration to combat political opponents operating on talk radio. In 1969 the United States Supreme Court, in Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. FCC, upheld the FCC’s general right to enforce the fairness doctrine where channels were limited. However, the court did not rule that the FCC was obliged to do so.[7] The courts reasoned that the scarcity of the broadcast spectrum, which limited the opportunity for access to the airwaves, created a need for the doctrine.

            The fairness doctrine is not the same as the equal-time rule, which is still in place. The fairness doctrine deals with discussion of controversial issues, while the equal-time rule deals only with political candidates.

            It should definitely make a comeback though, and Dems should push for it while calling for unity, using Republican language currently employed to deflect from their own partisanship.