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      Don’t forget, an important component of dictatorships is controlling the media

      Trump can simply encourage violence against their employees and make them untenable in other ways. Like bring them to court at one of his bribed justices to cost them money

      There’s lots of ways to kill a company in a way that isn’t obvious when you’re a dictator

      Just remember, Mafia bosses won’t tell you they’ll injure you. They use coercion and subtle threats

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    I wish we could ban news of the USA from “global” news. There are enough communities for US news.

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      Until tagging comes to Lemmy there isn’t much we can do. USA is part of the world so excluding them is not an option. And I would say the community has a healthy balance of news from the rest of the world, so it’s not just posts about the USA.

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    Guess it’s a good thing that NPR barely gets any funding from the federal or state governments then. All this does is get people to donate more to PBS and NPR.

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    NPR will probably respond to this by hiring 50 republicans and still get defunded

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      Ah yes, and then have a 2 part series on how the Dems lost by pandering to the left, and how those values in society are long gone.

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      In December, they tend to have matching offers. So I’ll be donating then.

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    I just cancelled my New York Times subscription and I’ll be sending that money to NPR now. The grey lady has become a corporate stooge anyway.

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    NPR has an obvious liberal bias. Ive listened for over 20 years and it is the truth. It is what it is.