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The mainstream press failed to accurately describe the hand gesture that Elon Musk made twice at Trump’s Inauguration Day rally, setting a troubling precedent for the second Trump era.

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[–] osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org 14 points 5 days ago

Because they are also Nazis, they're just not ready to go mask-off yet.

[–] Zomg@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Because everyone wants to hope it won't happen to Us. They think/hope that by not acknowledging, it won't exist. A la COVID. Nothing like sticking your head into the sand... 😮‍💨

[–] PotatoMoon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I think that you are being distracted.

Hey Elon, do something outrageous so these idiots are looking at you while I'm over here doing this other scary stuff.

[–] ShareMySims@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 days ago

And I think you're being fooled if you genuinely believe the orange man is the one pulling the strings, and not literally the richest man on the planet.

[–] 4oreman@lemy.lol 11 points 5 days ago

For the same reason you never see Bruce Wayne with Batman

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 7 points 5 days ago

Because the same people who are asked to describe who did it are the same people who are paying the people to describe it.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 1 points 3 days ago

The media needs the government to cooperate if they want to get any info from them. As it is, they didn't HAVE to tell us much, but choose to. If might not even occur to some of them not to. It makes the medias' job easier that way. Otherwise they'd have to REALLY hound the administration, or start putting out way more negative stories. So they play nice and the government plays nice. If the government decides if hates you, they'll blacklist you and your boss will have to send somebody else. IIRC the Cheeto in Chief did that last time. And since the media is privately owned and Regan's evil bitch ass killed the fair reporting laws back in the 80s, here we are.

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