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This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.
by ranger_danger 2y ago
This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.
- jeffgreco 2y agoAgreed - the replacement of reporters at the Pentagon has been even worse. https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/02/08/trump-administration-throwing-more-pentagon-reporters-out-of-their-workspaces.html https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/02/08/trump-adminis...
- 9283409232 2y ago> CNN, The Washington Post, the Hill and War Zone will be asked to leave their spaces, with Newsmax, the Washington Examiner, the Daily Caller and the Free Press moving in, according to a memo from John Ullyot, acting assistant to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. These are all very right wing media outlets who in the best case will not press for the hard questions and in the worst case will out right lie for Trump.
- CamperBob2 2y agoI don't know how I'd sleep at night if I were Bezos. All of his pre-election poltroonery with the Post is going unrewarded. Or, rather, I can imagine how Bezos sleeps at night, but I don't know how I would.
- threecheese 2y agoNot sure either, but I imagine it’s hanging from his feet, wings folded for warmth.
- defrost 2y agoThere's sure to be recirculated replacement blood involved.
- 9283409232 2y agoBezos' net worth increased 100 Billion since Trump took office. I'm sure he sleeps fine.
- CamperBob2 2y agoThat seems pretty dramatic. How exactly has his net worth increased by that much?
- whoitwas 2y ago[flagged]
- mdp2021 2y agoThe root mentality remains the same (if you want to be concerned about what a root can spawn).
- stavros 2y agoSource: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZggCipbiHwE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZggCipbiHwE
- _ink_ 2y agoAs a European, the lack of protest is very concerning to me. Maybe it's just not televised, idk. Also this is the first post I see here on HN since the inauguration that communicates concerns. I know it's a tech board, but still, the silence is eery.
- krapp 2y agoThere are protests ramping up, but the press may not be covering them out of their own complicity. And there have been tons of threads here communicating concerns, but all of them get flagged and suppressed for being political.
- ranger_danger 2y agoThere have been many very concerning posts about this administration here every single day since even before he took office... just do a search for elon or trump and sort by date. And there have been mass protests like 50501, but the media actively chooses not to report it, unsurprisingly.
- sebazzz 2y agoIt is still early days. There are several factors at play here. First, American news media work totally different than European in the way they report things. Secondly, some things done by Trump or his aides like Musk are probably not allowed by the law - but the opinion of the judge is always in hindsight. We still need to reach that stage and then see if Trump and the rest of the government will respect the rule of law.
- ffsm8 2y agoAs another European: Negative articles are very quickly flagged after hitting the front page. There have been quiet a few if you use alternative frontends for HN like hckrnews.com and use top 10/top 20/50%. These categories only work for dead links for the last 24h though, sadly... So you'll only notice if you check in every so often. (Because a dead link ceases to get traction, consequently dropping off these lists)
- tomjakubowski 2y agothere have been big pro-immigration marches in downtown Los Angeles almost every day since he was inaugurated
- Freedom2 2y ago[flagged]
- mcphage 2y ago…and they’re going to get it, good and hard, whether they like it or not.