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Some people work for MSNBC, CNN, or Fox News, and their jobs are to understand contemporary politics and report the news of the day, no matter what their bias might be.  Then there is Bloomberg, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal and others doing their thing outside of cable news.  Finally, the internet has allowed private journalism to exist through YouTube, Rumble, Spotify, and other outlets.  Once again, bias is a factor, and so is intellectual integrity.  In other words, some journalists are more prone to sticking to talking points more than others.  Some are more prone to getting defensive when their side or their heroes are attacked.  Some are more prone to lie in order to save face.  In other words, some are more intellectually dishonest than others.

So we have the old school traditional news, aka MSM (mainstream media), aka Legacy Media (a term that's come to replace MSM as private podcasters become more mainstream).  This Legacy Media has its perks because it is well-financed through corporate donors, and it's built decades of trust through reporting on vital historical events.  Ironically, the thing that makes Legacy Media strong is the same reason that people turn away from it.  The corporate donors create an atmosphere where you can report about some things but not others.  Sure, you're bound to hear a bad story about Ford, Disney, or McDonald's here or there, but overall, you can't bite the hand that feeds.  There comes a moment when you, as a Legacy Media reporter, must stop and look the other way.  Do you want to keep your job?  And the decades of trust?  That can also backfire.  Legacy Media can come across as bureaucratic and out of touch with ordinary people.  Traditionally, it has a one-size-fits-all format, and comes across as less personal than catered podcasts.

The Legacy Media, together with modern independent journalists, create the news we take in.  This thread deals with Civil War 2.0 and it's not necessarily created for the ones who live, breathe, and eat the news.  I have my mind on the Noobs, and on the people who've been living under rocks.  I love to share as much content from "both sides" as possible.  I put "both sides" in quotes because there are many more than two sides to our current conflicts, and as I've written about before, there are subdivisions within warring factions.  I care about intellectual honesty a lot, and no matter what side you're on, it's difficult to perceive "the other side" as anything other than dishonest, or being rooted in propaganda by nature.

With this said, I bring to you the featured video provided by the Real American podcast.  When I started this thread, I featured a video from the Piers Morgan show.  In the video, one of Donald Trump's sons defended his involvement in cryptocurrency.  One of my takeaways was, "He believes his own bullshit."  If this is accurate, it's actually a form of intellectual honesty, not that it condones the behavior.  In today's video from Real American, we have a former J6er who is running for office, and he's in Dearborn, Michigan ranting in a city hall setting during a meeting.  He is angry about the Islamic presence in America, and he becomes confrontational with cops outside.  Later, he screams about a Republican candidate for governor who had recently visited a mosque, then he spray paints "cuck" on the outside of his tour bus.  In another video, this man is marching in a parade and gets socked by a bystander.

At this stage of this Civil War 2.0 thread, I'm not trying to convince anybody that one side or the other is correct.  I'm not trying to move anybody from the Left to the Right, or vice versa.  I'm trying to convince people that the hatred is real.  The delusion is real, but so are some of the insights.  These people don't evolve their consciousness in a vacuum, and their actions are derived from some sort of reality, relative as it might be.

The mayoral race in New York was a great example of this.  There were those on the Right who said Zohran Mamdani will turn the Big Apple into a giant mosque.  These fears are real, though they might not be shared by you or me.  This is the root of a Civil War, though.  Fear, not logic.  We are past the stage of reasoning with each other.  Everybody's taken to the streets, and most people are willing to fight before they back down.  "Fuck you" to the other side coming from all directions.  For the Noobs out there, this video gives another piece of the puzzle.  We're at odds with each other, and polarized reporters in Legacy Media profit off the angst of ordinary people.  On the ground, peace is fleeting.  Many of us want it, but it's difficult to maintain ...

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