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I wonder if there’s a money trail that can be traced back to a single source for both the German and US (and probably others as well) media outlets to corporatize/liberalize at around the same time.

The laws here directly reflect the wishes of corporations, including the relealing of the Fairness Doctrine, and there is a money trail showing which politicians took money from who for their political campaigns.

The Heritage Foundation also played a big role in influencing policy during the Reagan administration. These are the same people who wrote Project 2025.

It’s a few different companies over here (Fox, Sinclair [who controls basically all local media nationwide, John Oliver did a good segment on them], Newsmax, One America News, CNN, MSNBC), but same result that the media controls the Overton Window.

In 1987, America abolished the law that forced newsmedia corporations to cover the news in a specific way (which you can read about here). This has a massive negative effect on our media’s news coverage. It started to become just about ratings and profit.

Over here, it’s a bit of the opposite, but also the same in some ways, where the newsmedia controls our politicians and populous (especially Fox News with the Republicans). Behind the scenes, there are almost definitely dealings between Fox News and the Republicans that isn’t public. Fox News spent a significant chunk of the past 4 years denying the outcome of the 2020 election for the benefit of Trump.

It’s a half/half mix of our politicians being stupid/brainwashed by the newsmedia and also corrupt. I’m sure you’ve seen what some of our politicians have been spewing out of their mouths.

Read the first sentence of the article

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_j56IiLqZ9U

Same thing here, but with basically every industry and not just news media. We call it the “revolving door” effect.

In America at least, this is as a direct result of corporate media and money in politics both controlling the narrative. None of this was naturally occurring.

This reflects American politics as well.

I’m American and I use the term “liberal” specifically to refer to neoliberals. I’m probably in the minority, though, especially given Fox News and GamerGate calling everything they don’t like “liberal”.

I’m an American. I really hope the German masses can learn this lesson before it"s too late.

But you guys need to counter the hateful messaging against immigrants with an equally effective message against the people with power/money, otherwise, fascism is likely to win in the long run against neoliberalism, as we just saw in America after our long-term experiment with neoliberalism, which really kicked off in the 1980s with Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher.

In the 1990s, the American Democrats felt so defeated after having lost big time to Reagan and Bush Sr., so Bill Clinton decided the Democrats cannot “unilatterally disarm” and must start taking corporate money. This acceptance of corporate money led to their idiology becoming the same as Reagan’s idiology, and then the Republican party being bith opportunists and contrarians, took advantage of that situation by shifting further and further right (see: the ratchet effect), until they openly became fascists.

I’m not too familiar with German politics, but if anything I said applies, then heed my warning.

It’s almost like capitalism is an inherently broken system or something

As if they care about hypocrasy. They actually enjoy being hypocrites because it “triggers the libs”

Trump is and always has been a spoiled child who’s never been told “no” in his entire life, and he’s going to continue to act like one.

You can if you emulate a CPU that does have an MMU. Someone has actually done this to get Linux booting on an Intel 4004. Another one got Linux to boot on a Commodore 64.