• eurodyne@piefed.world
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    2 months ago

    And then El-Sayed asked Watters if he was circumcised, LMAO

    Asking one of the most insecure men on tv about his dick

    BOSS MOVE

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      Not being an American, I tend to have very little experience of Fox News, and that’s how I like it.

      But how do they keep replacing one shithouse with another?

      Bill O’Reilly gave way to Glen Beck gave way to Fucker Carlson gave to whoever this barely-sentient pile of dog shit is. Is there a training school for ridiculous, puffed up white boys who make that stupid “I’m just asking questions” face that I’d never tire of hitting with a bat?

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      2 months ago

      gonna be more fun when they bring up the piker radicalisation pipeline’s new statement supporting punishing jews for being ok with the existence of israel

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      2 months ago

      Transcript from the article:

      “Sex change for minors. Do you support that?” Watters asked El-Sayed, to which the former public health official said, “I just think the government shouldn’t tell you what kind of healthcare you should have.”

      “So you think it’s okay for a parent to slash his kid’s ding-a-ling off?” Watters asked.

      Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Michigan, has raised eyebrows after asking Fox News’ Jesse Watters if he is circumcised during a combative prime-time interview

      Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Michigan, has raised eyebrows after asking Fox News’ Jesse Watters if he is circumcised during a combative prime-time interview (Jesse Watters Primetime)

      El-Sayed retorted: “Do you really want to have this conversation? Are you circumcised?”

      The shocked Fox News host said, “Yeah, but I mean that’s a personal question, doctor.”

      Watters then said circumcision is “different than castration,” but El-Sayed argued, “I’m just saying that yes, circumcision is surgery on a kid’s ding-a-ling.”

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        So you think it’s okay for a parent to slash his kid’s ding-a-ling off?

        How insane that these are the questions. Ask him about UFOs and Bigfoot next.

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        I think something is lost in converting it to text. Something of the essence of the moment really… You have to see it and hear it.

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      Watters is so grating in his speech, can’t watch it, but it’s impressive to see someone put up with him for a half hour

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        Things went off the rails when Watters asked the progressive if he supports gender-affirming surgery for those under 18 years old.

        “Sex change for minors. Do you support that?” Watters asked El-Sayed, to which the former public health official said, “I just think the government shouldn’t tell you what kind of healthcare you should have.”

        “So you think it’s okay for a parent to slash his kid’s ding-a-ling off?” Watters asked.

        El-Sayed retorted: “Do you really want to have this conversation? Are you circumcised?”

        The shocked Fox News host said, “Yeah, but I mean that’s a personal question, doctor.”

        Watters then said circumcision is “different than castration,” but El-Sayed argued, “I’m just saying that yes, circumcision is surgery on a kid’s ding-a-ling.”

        Watters called El-Sayed’s comment “wacky,” adding, “Abdul, Michigan’s not going for that. That is sick stuff.”

        Holy shit what an inane hypocrite. I swear conservatives are going to give me an aneurysm

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        2 months ago

        Having already watched it a few times, I assure you, this is the correct video

        Satisfaction not guaranteed

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          I looked at that link a couple of times before giving up on trying to find the video. What a trash source.

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      This was such a bizarre interaction.

      El Sayed seems brilliant at responding to these gotcha questions.

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      the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Michigan, has raised eyebrows after asking Fox News’ Jesse Watters if he is circumcised during a combative prime-time interview.

      Man fuck right off, that wasn’t at all a weird question to ask in response to a fucking weird obsession Jesse has with children’s “dingilings”

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        Jesse Watters is the one who brought it up, after all.

        El-Sayed (a medical doctor, by the way) only responded in kind, and Watters - having brought it up as some kind of battle mark, some line that should never be crossed - immediately reversed course at brakeneck speed and attempted to dismiss it as if it were nothing, framing El-Sayed as an absurdist for even mentioning the subject that Watters himself raised in feigned outrage, despite El-Sayed’s repeated warnings that Watters would regret addressing the subject

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          On the surface the article comes off as rather neutral in tone but the headline, the line about “raising eyebrows”, and really just the existence of this article at all is so standard for “left” leaning news corporations. Mamdani’s response didn’t “raise eyebrows” from anyone except the fox viewers who would have already been fired up before the camera even started rolling and all this article is doing is validating them.

          It’s always the same thing, politicians on the right are allowed to say or do anything they want freely without any scrutiny and those who are left of centre are held under a microscope.

          As a (Godwin’s Law proving) example: imagine if what Mamdani had said was “I actually think Hitler was a bad person” and then we got articles about that statement raising eyebrows. It wouldn’t be false but the only people it’d be referring to would be Nazis and why the fuck would you validate or acknowledge their opinions?

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              Oh right. I think I got the names mixed up since I had been commenting on Mamdani earlier. Tbf I’m not American so it’s a bit surprising that I even know the name of an American city’s mayor at all lol

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        If you ever believed that the manipulation stream media was on the right side of history. Then this whole interview plus the one Welker did with Angie Nixon should tell you that they never were.

        These companies act like assholes to Progressives and DSA while throwing cotton candy at Pedophiles and Rapists.

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    I watched the entire thing.

    I can’t stress enough how Sayed stayed calm and cool during the whole thing, while the clown on the left there was constantly trying to talk over him (as is the game plan for all those swamp creatures).

    I couldn’t sit there and be as patient and calm as Sayed, that’s for damn sure. It’s about time we started taking a no nonsense stand, and I am here for it. :-)

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      I mean it’s their whole effective schtick after all because Americans are not intelligent. Loud and repeated is the truth to so many Americans when they have little to no critical thinking skills. Whoever is the loudest, the fastest, the most obnoxious is the victor of the debate when it comes to the vast majority of the American electorate.

      it’s sad but it works and it make tons of money promoting this type of discourse instead of actual boring, proper debate and discussion.

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      I’ve only watched a part but i laughed at the the part of: “Have you followed then news recently, it’s pretty big.” It’s only big because they misuse their platform to make it big. When you look at the numbers of actual people affected, well let’s just say the amount of measles death in certain states is higher.

  • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Yeah. That’s FOX News. They tell their viewers what to think, and the viewers obey.

    They have a very specific propaganda program. It draws people in with fear, outrage and bigotry…

    Then it invites them to divest of all other information sources (except maybe approved ones like OANN or WSJ) the way that an abusive spouse gets their partner to disconnect from all other social relationships.

    And then it pumps them with MAGA ideology. The culture war stuff.

    It’s literal mind control, but it’s like a reverse hack (trying a common password on multiple accounts), in that it hits a lot of people and sucks in those who bite. Usually white uneducated men.

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      They have a very specific propaganda program. It draws people in with fear, outrage and bigotry…

      It’s the same one that’s been around from the 1920’s, they’ve all been cribbing from the same guy for over a hundred years.

      The German jurist and political philosopher Carl Schmitt wrote about the inherent vulnerability of democracy in his book The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy in 1923. He basically wrote the playbook that every fascist still utilizes today.

      Writing “Every actual democracy rests on the principle that not only are equals equal, but unequals will not be treated equally.” Basically, you can tear apart any democracy by framing diversity and minority opinions as existential threats to the political community, by exploiting this you can lay the groundwork for majoritarian tyranny and state-sponsored exclusion.

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      I was on a 2.5 hour flight recently, and a guy a couple of rows up was watching Fox News. It just jumped from: Trans, Immigrants, Socialism, over and over and over the entire flight. It made me realize how fitting the term ‘News Story’ really is!

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        That’s repetition if just 24 hour news channels. CNN is similar they just harp on a different set of issues.

        I’m mildly curious how much longer they can keep it up as they slowly become less and less relevant. Few under 40 subscribe to cable television and instead consume social media influencers who are both myriad and cheaper to influence.

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          Under penalty of perjury, FOX News lawyers assures the court it is absolutely not a news channel but entertainment. Therefore should not be subject to news media regulations. During the 2020 election recount when they were lying about the integrity of Dominion Voting Systems election machines, the lawyers made it super clear now not news FOX is.

          So FOX is not only a propaganda machine, but is deceptive at its core.

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    It’s exactly the point of culture wars to distract people away from the complete total crash in the quality of life for the many due to the bipartisan complete agreement on shoving as much money into the hands of the wealthy no mater what the consequences for the rest.

    You see it all around the World - the more the “center” “mainstream” “pragmatic” parties agree on managing their country for the good of a few and screw the rest, the more they loudly and exaggeratedly (with the subtlety of 5 year-olds doing putting on a play) “fight” around things like trans-sexuality which are morally solved by the simple logic of “it’s not of my business what others do with their bodies”.

    You saw this shit first in the US because that country is the one more advanced in the whole thing of the Money Elites owning the Political Elites and thus them Pillaging the Wealth Of the Many (after all, the US has being doing the whole Pillaging Of The Wealth Of The Powerless for literally decades, just mainly abroad in places like the Middle East and South America, so politicians there have a lot of practice and are pretty much a self-select bunch of Psychopaths and Sociopaths, plus the Press there has long morphed in exactly the same direction becoming little more than Propaganda).

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    It’s absolutely the right move to not even play that game. Don’t let them use that weapon to distract from the issues.

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    The unfortunate thing is that the high grocery prices are a direct result of a culture war. Namely, the one between the ultra rich and the rest of us.

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    We need to zealously stomp on culture war distractions whenever we see them. Remind people no war but the class war.

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      It doesn’t even make sense within the Republicans own claimed worldview. Shouldn’t governing of sports programs be left to those programs, if we believe in small government? But they want to make it federal legislation. Make it make sense.

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        I’ve always interpreted “small government” as single-party with lots of privatization of government services instead of small government that stays out of people’s lives.

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      “The Ladyboy Muslim immigrant with the illegal penis is desecrating the American Flag and that’s why you can’t afford groceries”