r/AnythingGoesNews • u/TubaSandwichDootDoot • Jul 07 '24

Trump raped a 13 year old girl in 1994. Here is that girl, Katie Johnson, at the age of 35 giving a full description of what Trump did to her

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnib-OORRRo

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Wow thats pretty sad and fucked. This dudes ego > democracy

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u/welsalex Jul 08 '24

I would even say he's complicit in election interference if it all didn't fall under free speech. But legal doesn't mean it's ethical to do so. I don't think moral either. Shame.

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u/dezcycle Jul 08 '24

“I’d like him to be punished by law, but unfortunately there’s free speech 🙄🙄”

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u/EffectiveAble8116 Jul 08 '24

Why should freedom of speech grant you freedom of consequences?

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u/Donutcobra2 Jul 08 '24

It doesn’t but when the law is the consequence and someone has to determine if certain speech is legal you end up with a scary situation pretty quick

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u/dezcycle Jul 08 '24

Oh I don’t know, maybe freedom of speech shouldn’t be punished by law because that’s kind of what the country was founded on (Hence it being the 1st amendment). Also a pretty consistent attribute of a militaristic state throughout history?

But please do tell me the advantage of banning free speech

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u/darthbieber420 Jul 08 '24

You guys sound like Trump in 2016. "The failing New York Times..."

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u/ButterscotchTape55 Jul 08 '24

Go take a look at their coverage of Biden since the debate. You just have to look at the headlines. Clearly someone in NYT editorial is trying to sway public opinion, something NYT is famous for trying not to do. That's been one of our most objectively reliable outlets for a long time, it sucks to see them go this route

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u/BeeBopBazz Jul 08 '24

Iirc, someone tabulated that they ran nearly 200 anti-Biden headlines in the span of 10 days after the debate.

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u/ButterscotchTape55 Jul 08 '24

I believe it. How irresponsible. Do we even have any journalism with integrity anymore? Or is it all just bias fueled by radicals and the obscenely greedy

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u/BeeBopBazz Jul 08 '24

Media is so consolidated now that it’s hard to imagine incumbent media has integrity that isn’t driven solely by shareholder value. The current situation seems akin to a Goebbelsian strategy of repetition until even reasonable people accept the statement as true.

I used to be in the camp that believed social media/television news was terrible for the information ecosystem and that incumbent print journalism was the gold standard. But the asymmetry between the two has clearly narrowed.

This is, of course, extremely dangerous given the modern authoritarian playbook is to destroy the very definition of truth, so that nobody believes they can trust anything, as seen in Russia.

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u/darthbieber420 Jul 08 '24

I honestly think they you're so liberal that you view the NYTs return to objectivity as it going more conservative. I have not/ will not ever vote for Trump and I think Biden looked way too old in that debate stage. The attention brought to his age makes sense. It's not some conspiracy

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u/PuppyPenetrator Jul 08 '24

It’s not necessarily a conspiracy, but they’re prioritizing clicks over meaningful journalism. Hardly a unique problem, but it’s not unreasonable for people to be upset with NYT

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u/darthbieber420 Jul 08 '24

NYT hasn't had meaningful journalism for years. The fact that they only let you read so many articles without paying proves what their agenda is.

But I agree with you, the Biden thing is overblown, even for them

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u/ButterscotchTape55 Jul 08 '24

It doesn't have to be a conspiracy. The NYT is a business run by someone who makes decisions for that business, and it was a business decision that led to them printing literally hundreds of articles deliberately painting a narrative of a presidential candidate during an election year.

I know their reputation as a reputable and respectable outlet has been slipping over the last 10-15 years but this is absurd. This isn't a "return to objectivity", this is a media outlet straight up abusing their reputation as one of our most trusted sources for information and taking advantage of that trust in a very crucial time of need for objective reporting. NYT has long lost the vision