• Cora@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    I was arguing with my mom a few weeks ago because she was spouting racist anti-immigrant bullshit randomly, and I told her to stop watching Fox News.

    She said, “I don’t watch Fox News anymore. They’re propaganda. I switched to NewsMax.”

    ಠ_ಠ

    I honestly hope they destroy and bankrupt each other. We literally can’t mention politics anymore or else it will turn into a shouting match, because she is so brainwashed and propaganda-addled and gets angry when I literally back myself up with evidence that I show her right then. We even had to come up with a safe word if we get close so we don’t start yelling.

  • reddig33@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    I’m amazed Newsmax has any money left for lawsuits after they lost to Dominion Voting Systems.

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      8 days ago

      They slunk away with paying a fraction of what they would have lost under serious, competent leadership. As it was, Dominion was lucky to get paid before trump SuperPardoned them or whatthefuckever insanity he’d barf up.

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      8 days ago

      Seems the big payout was Fox News paying $750 million to settle. Dominion and SmartMatic sued Newsmax for a combined $107 million. Shortly after settling Newsmax went IPO and recouped all that money (and then some).

      They are in a better position than Fox and are drawing more and more viewers since Trump took office. I think Trump even said he watches more Newsmax than Fox at one point but that could be a hallucination.

      Newsmax seems to think it can fight Fox and win. Let’s see how this plays out.

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    8 days ago

    The second worst propaganda outlet in the US suing the worst propaganda outlet in the US because they have a monopoly on propaganda, was not on my 2025 bingo card, but I’ll take it.

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        7 days ago

        A short, costly, and devastating litigation generally means one side won desively. The matter was dismissed without going anywhere.

        I want motions being filed every step,a long discovery, pointless court appearance, and more. I want these fuckers to spend money and time in litigation where no one really won due the amount resources spent. I want the only people making any money is the lawyers. I want expensive lawyers who charge ridicolous sums for their services. I want Johnny Depp and Amber Heard level of aminosity.

        I want them to drag Robert Murdoch’s undead corpse onto the stand. I want them go into the depths of hell to get Newsmax CEO Christopher Ruddy to give a deposition.

        I want this to be humilating and very public. This a major issue in the right wing propaganda machine.

        During all this, I want to sit and eat a bag of buttery popcorn. That is what a long, messy, costly litigation means.