The New York Times Biden Vendetta Is Backfiring
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By so clearly showing their agenda, The New York Times and other big media outlets appear to be strengthening the resolve of President Biden and his supporters.
  • EnderWiggin@lemmy.world
    372·
    4 months ago

    NYT has been going downhill for a while now, and their slant lately couldn’t be more obvious. I was a reader for years but ditched my account recently. It’s not even the Biden stuff per se, but just all of the reporting quality became more about shock and drama than actual journalism. They used to be great too.

    • CaliforniaSober@lemmy.caEnglish
      71·
      4 months ago

      I feel like your screen name is an opportunity to point out Harrison Ford saying that when “all of this is over” we can have the “luxury” of examining our actions…

      The whole point of Enders Game is to avoid ethics/morality…

      • idiomaddict@feddit.de
        11·
        4 months ago

        It’s wild to imagine the cognitive dissonance in orson Scott card’s mind. He saw some things so clearly and others not at all

      • Todd Bonzalez@lemm.ee
        61·
        4 months ago

        As someone who was advised against watching the movie, this comment confused the hell out of me. I didn’t even know Harrison Ford was in the movie.

        The character’s name in the book is Hyrum Graff.

        • idiomaddict@feddit.de
          1·
          4 months ago

          I read even the really weird books, and none of them were as bad as the movie. They make Petra into a love interest. They also really downplay how hard ender can be, so, you know, entirely removing the purpose of the story.

    • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
      1453·
      4 months ago

      Its Blue Maga, but basically yes. They haven’t been picked up by a nation state yet, but give it a week and book mark this called shot.

      Absolutely Russia is going to take advantage of Biden’s cult of failure. Why wouldnt they? Its the easiest way to secure a victory for Trump: keep Biden in the race.

        • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
          1148·
          4 months ago

          You can just keep it to yourself dude. No need to make these throw-away-comments.

          If you don’t know what blue maga is, you can:

          a) look around you

          b) google it

          or even

          c) check out the other links posted here.

          You can also disagree with my assertion that a nation state will pick up on and run with Blue Maga like they did with Red Maga. Its fair to make that argument. I don’t agree with it, but its at least an argument.

          But the sea-lioning. The pretending like a thing is doesn’t exist. It needs to stop.

  • mozz@mbin.grits.dev
    2110·
    4 months ago

    I have never before seen a comments section that is all trolls agreeing with each other.

    I think it’s an instructive exercise to read all their comments first, picture to yourself what type of article they might be describing, what kinds of arguments it might make or what examples, and then go and read the article and see if it matches your picture.

  • TachyonTele@lemm.ee
    85·
    4 months ago

    I don’t know anything about a vendetta, nor do I really care… But let me tell you, there are some very strange people in the comments of this post.

        • Paragone@lemmy.world
          411·
          4 months ago

          Do you reject that in the Trump/Biden election…

          CNN & NYT shut down all progressive issues, and voices that they could, as completely as they could ( & even admitted it later, one of 'em, in an interview, which is where I got their term “shut down” from ),

          …so that ONLY the Biden Institution would be??

          I’d wondered what the hell kind of “journalism” was going on,…

          …then when I found out that it had been deliberate propaganda “journalism” suppressing as much as necessary to push their preferred institution, on their part,

          …and to prevent Bernie Sanders from having any significance…

          Dear, fuck, that’s was low, of them.

          Journalism & what they do are “non-intersecting sets”, nowadays, as seems to be the case with nearly all “journalism”.

          I think that Ground.News is categorically better, but don’t know, for sure…

          _ /\ _

      • pjwestin@lemmy.world
        1122·
        4 months ago

        Blue Maga or BlueAnon is the phenomenon where die-hard liberals sometimes fall into similar cult of personality, rejection of reality, and conspiracy behaviors that Trump supporters engage in. It’s not an entirely fair comparison, since MAGA is way more delusional, but the parallels are definitely there.

        For example, a recent BlueAnon phenomenon I’ve seen is people claiming that the press is manufacturing the concern over Biden’s debate performance while ignoring recently released Epstien documents that show Trump assaulted a teen girl. In reality, the documents are from an 8 year old lawsuit that was dismissed, and the reaction to Biden is pretty organic. So, it’s not as delusional as QAnon’s satanic pedophile cabal, but it’s still pretty detached from reality, and demonizes the press.

        The Mueller investigation was when Blue MAGA peaked. BlueAnon peddlers like the Krassenstein brothers breathless reported on how Mueller had evidence that Putin had crafted Trump into the perfect Manchurian candidate, and it would soon be the beginning of the end for Trump. These outlandish claims, which often got reported by MSM outlets, made the actual Mueller report (which didn’t prove a Trump/Russia connection, but found President could be charged with obstruction of justice) seem underwhelming, which is why it was eventually labeled a, “nothing-burger.” This Louise Mensch tweet from 2017 is a great encapsulation of Blue Maga:

        • muse@fedia.io
          62·
          4 months ago

          ah, so Blue Maga is literally just whataboutism crafted by the right to distract over wanting to turn america into a fasciat christian theocracy with Project 2025.

          This person thinks you’re stupid. Vote blue everyone! this person isn’t even from a democratic country!

          • pjwestin@lemmy.world
            31·
            4 months ago

            No, it’s really not whataboutism. I first heard about it from the QAA Podcast, which examines at right-wing extremism with a focus on QAnon, in about 2017 or 2018 (EDIT: actually, now that I think about it, it was probably closer to 2021/2022). They did an episode examining BlueAnon grifters and how they employ the same basic strategies as the the QAnon influencers that used to, “decode,” Q posts. Since then, I’ve heard BlueAnon or Blue MAGA come in and out of fashion a few times.

            Disinformation will spread in any echo chamber, which is why it’s always important to examine if what you believe is true, or just something you’d like to believe. For example, my post explaining Blue MAGA has been downvoted 19 times, but you are the only one who’s attempted to refute what I’ve said, and your response has been to call Blue Anon a right-wing psy-op and imply I’m a Russian agent, without evidence for either claim. Does that seem like reality, or a narrative you’ve constructed to reject reality?

      • bostonbananarama@lemmy.world
        1127·
        4 months ago

        On Reddit, r/joebiden shadow bans anyone who doesn’t fall in line. If you question Biden’s fitness or faltering polls, you’re gone. And they’re too much of cowards to even tell you that you’re banned.

      • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
        1231·
        4 months ago

        Its those 16 downvotes:

        https://www.dailydot.com/debug/blue-maga/

        Its a cult that has formed around the refusing to question of Biden as candidate, his capabilities as candidate.

        Its very very very similar to the earliest stages of MAGA, which found its footing in r/TheDonald. An abject denial of any conversation they don’t ‘approve’ of, cult of personality, abusive, dergatory shaming, brow-beating to those that disagree with them, and most fundamentally: a complete dismissal of objective reality.

        Its how a cult forms. We’ve seen it before if you were on Reddit at that time. Its like, shockingly similar to the earliest days of the MAGA cult.

    • Zaktor@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      175·
      4 months ago

      I love how they’re trying to imply it’s just the Times causing these problems. It’s those damn unfriendly journalists that made literally half the party and multiple big name elected Democrats and Democratic operatives think Biden was a problem. A real Failing New York Times problem.

      Foreigners buying into the gaslighting just make me think they don’t actually know many real life Democrats. My mom’s most normie Democratic-boosting friend has been depression posting about Biden needing to step aside since the debate, all while giving a steady stream of Project 2025 infographics. It’s not a media attack or a factional fight, it’s a real emotion from across the party because we all saw what we saw.

      • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
        54·
        4 months ago

        I love how they’re trying to imply it’s just the Times causing these problems.

        It’s depressing watching the “good” party support genocide and then start talking about lugenpresse.

      • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
        1228·
        4 months ago

        Yeah, and Blue Maga wants you to deny that objective reality that you experience. In the same way Red Maga asks you deny the objective reality around DJT.

        Its the same thing.