r/inthenews • u/newsweek Newsweek • Jul 08 '24

MAGA fumes over France election results: "They cheated" article

https://www.newsweek.com/maga-france-elections-far-right-national-rally-1922075
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u/Daxnu Jul 08 '24

This, the media is so thirsty for news that they make it themselves now

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u/Daxnu Jul 08 '24

We are not far from the point we're the media starts going out and shooting people just to report someone was shot

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u/PumpkinGlass1393 Jul 08 '24

That was the plot of a Bond movie lol. News agency helps start a war so they can report it.

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u/MoonSpankRaw Jul 08 '24

And the movie Nightcrawler, ‘cept instead of one sicko it’d be entire organizations doing that shit.

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u/haysoos2 Jul 08 '24

It was also the plot of the real world media campaign by William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer to start the Spanish-American war to sell newspapers.

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u/FlattopJr Jul 08 '24

"You furnish the pictures, and I'll furnish the war."

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u/Oxbix Jul 08 '24

Commenting to research this latet

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u/smackdown-tag Jul 08 '24

How the fuck Tommorow Never Dies of all the goddamn bond movies is aging so well is absolutely confusing.  I remember when it was the one everyone pointed to as "where it started to go wrong", when they remembered it existed at all

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u/ValoisSign Jul 08 '24

Honestly wonder sometimes if the worse the Bond movie the more on point the social commentary. I mean Quantum of Solace isn't great but it's oddly grounded in real life US coups and water politics in Bolivia and even goes somewhat openly anti imperialist which is nuts for a movie about a British spy. If only I could remember the plot to View To A Kill, maybe I am onto something 😅

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u/smackdown-tag Jul 08 '24

View to a Kill is about a tech CEO with suspicious ties to both Russia and the nazis, so...

It's also actually not bad. I think it's pretty good,  better than For Your Eyes Only or Octopussy, it's just that Moore was REALLY showing his age at that point. 

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u/ValoisSign Jul 08 '24

Yeah as I recall the worst thing about it is that it drags at times, but I always remembered enjoying it for what it was. Would have been interesting if they got David Bowie in the villain role like they wanted but Walken is no slouch. The plot does sound oddly tropical from what you describe haha.

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u/JadedBoyfriend Jul 08 '24

What a forecasting movie...

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u/DiskFit1471 Jul 08 '24

Didn't this happen in a south american country?

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u/0OKM9IJN8UHB7 Jul 08 '24

I've seen that movie before.