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MAGA morons scream "defund the media" outside the privately owned New York Times (Original Post)
FelineOverlord
Oct 2021
OP
Who organized this? It's obviously not spontaneous. These people have no homes or jobs to go to?
Walleye
Oct 2021
#1
And, shortly after this, the organizers came around and passed out the Brawndo.
GoCubsGo
Oct 2021
#4
Walleye
(31,028 posts)1. Who organized this? It's obviously not spontaneous. These people have no homes or jobs to go to?
Tomconroy
(7,611 posts)2. OMG! As a lifetime reader of the Times the video made me laugh out loud.
Kind of a wacky looking crowd (love the guy who gives the camera the finger with both hands).
Are all the people in the background just spectators? I think so but I'm not sure. It all looks like surrealist theater.
PatSeg
(47,501 posts)11. Yeah, he was really priceless
What on earth do these fools think they are accomplishing?
I was wondering if some of those in the background were spectators as well. It was a bit of a circus, so I can see how it would attract some attention. Absolutely bizarre.
Jilly_in_VA
(9,983 posts)3. Stoopid is as stoopid does. n/t
GoCubsGo
(32,086 posts)4. And, shortly after this, the organizers came around and passed out the Brawndo.
It has electrolytes.
hibbing
(10,098 posts)5. A cacophony of kooks n/t
Tomconroy
(7,611 posts)6. I guess it's a movement:
https://www.defundthemedia.com/
Can't tell much from the bare bones website other than the hq is somewhere in AZ.
Can't tell much from the bare bones website other than the hq is somewhere in AZ.
Mossfern
(2,513 posts)10. Defund the Media website has a differnt platform
than that 'demonstration':
The good news is that your grandfathers advice hold truer today than ever- actions speak louder than words. How you can help right now is through your actions.
Cut your cable. Stop visiting their websites, giving them the ad revenue they crave. Dismiss their narratives, discard their attempt to influence and control you. You have that power, the power to ignore them.
And most importantly, spread this message.
Cut your cable. Stop visiting their websites, giving them the ad revenue they crave. Dismiss their narratives, discard their attempt to influence and control you. You have that power, the power to ignore them.
And most importantly, spread this message.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)7. Considering some of the comments around here...
whaddaya wanna bet some DUers were in the crowd.
Initech
(100,080 posts)8. God these people are stupid!
Vinca
(50,278 posts)9. Good lord. It's like a couple hundred bricks fell off a truck and decided to opine.