the counting continues and with it there is growing impatience and greater room for mischief and partisan bickering ( if not violence )...and, as always in an election, there's ample bickering...both sides...
have taken to the streets which, from a political standpoint, is perfectly valid...
you can have your say...without an ar15..even though the potential for political violence is very real......but beyond that i am looking at these two photos from the n y times today and wondering about market mechanisms and media bias...to begin with the photo of the clearly pro biden group has a lot more people in the frame given the nature of the popular vote you'd expect nearly equal numbers of people...not so in the times...which has always been anti-trump...the more interesting issue is that all the media ( even the crypto-fascists at fox ) seem to be turning away from donny...corporate structures as sensitive to shifts in public opinion and they may be joining the battle for "hearts and minds" with an eye to viewer/readership...market mechanisms may be stronger than editorial policy...there are quite a few signs in both photos...who paid for them and who gained from printing them...lots of masks in the first photo...who profited from the sale of those...how much energy was consumed getting these people to these gatherings...the economics of this would make an interesting flow chart...someone is making cash from all this and what would they do to keep the voters churning...capitalist structures are sociopathically focused on self-interest ( something reflected in congress ) and their concern with "public opinion" ends with its impact on profit with little concern for matters of public governance…both sides in this debate represent cash cows to be milked to the fullest possible extent…and, finally, who are those two heretics in masks at the pro-donny ev
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