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I mean we're talking about a combined nationwide investment of less than, idk, $50 million. But indie and nonprofit media are fighting amongst ourselves for grant-scraps and begging for subscribers.
NRO? Federalist? Their ilk? Are set and are paying their staff six-figures-plus for years to come.
It's easy for investors because funding authoritarianism-aligned platforms is remunerative for fascists both in terms of messaging and desired outcome, they know if they pay for fascism apologia they'll get fascism apologia, and they know a bunch of assholes are ready to pay for it if daddy says so
Monied right-wing donors have been investing millions, like tens of millions, in batshit nobodies for years with an eye toward legitimizing disinformation and fascist propaganda. Monied left-wing donors have responded by hoping that, I guess, Maddow does a real good show sometimes
There's plenty of money on the left, but almost none of the biggest foundations, donors, and family funds are interested in investing in anything other than center-aligned messaging and campaigns.
Which is part of why Nazi-aligned Substack is so attractive to lefty journos who oughta know better.
It would be nothing, like NOTHING, for a handful of lefty donors to fund a pipeline for truly leftist media that could rival the fascist apparatus and give hundreds of fact-oriented journalists jobs and set up dozens, maybe hundreds, of local news outfits, fully staffed, for 5+ years or more
oh no theres tons of that, this isnt that
and i know this pales in comparison to child abuse but there were definitely parents not inclined to child abuse who were socially and spiritually pressured to hit their kids and given these damn books and it is just so sad to me. i talked to some of them too
you can straight up buy a wooden spoon with a cute message that it's meant to abuse kids with on amazon dot com
There’s a documentary I saw about Amish people and one of the women had a wooden spoon with a happy face carved on it that she called The Smiley to beat her kids with and she claimed that the kids would smile after their punishments. During the interview, one of her toddlers sees her with it and
and still legal in a lot of states!
honestly its hard to create or feel joy when youre depressed
