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r/clevercomebacks • u/Lord_Answer_me_Why • 4d ago
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The difference between now and then is that there wasn’t an army of internet grifters making money off of griping about it
33 u/a_trane13 3d ago There was an army of TV, radio, and newspaper grifters making money griping about it 14 u/HobbieK 3d ago Yeah but that was mostly contained to the right-wing ecosystem. Now YouTube and Twitter and twitch feed you hate. Fox News blasts it across America. It wasn’t just some random quack like it was in the 90s. It’s a coordinated effort on a massive scale. 3 u/elbenji 3d ago the thing was if you avoided AM radio and certain editorials/channels you could absolutely ignore them
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There was an army of TV, radio, and newspaper grifters making money griping about it
14 u/HobbieK 3d ago Yeah but that was mostly contained to the right-wing ecosystem. Now YouTube and Twitter and twitch feed you hate. Fox News blasts it across America. It wasn’t just some random quack like it was in the 90s. It’s a coordinated effort on a massive scale. 3 u/elbenji 3d ago the thing was if you avoided AM radio and certain editorials/channels you could absolutely ignore them
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Yeah but that was mostly contained to the right-wing ecosystem. Now YouTube and Twitter and twitch feed you hate. Fox News blasts it across America.
It wasn’t just some random quack like it was in the 90s. It’s a coordinated effort on a massive scale.
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the thing was if you avoided AM radio and certain editorials/channels you could absolutely ignore them
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u/HobbieK 4d ago
The difference between now and then is that there wasn’t an army of internet grifters making money off of griping about it