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  • That’s a big chunk of it, yes. KOMO is owned by Sinclair media, KIRO isn’t much better. Fox13 is fucking fox, so I won’t even bother. The Times is Hearst Corporation. So the vast majority of media sources here are directly owned by institutions that have a vested interest in maintaining status quo.

    The Stranger is still independent, but the quality has suffered greatly over the last 10+ years.

    Also, this is partly a natural pendulum swing back to the right. A lot of people were upset after the Sawant experiment (debacle?), but instead of finding better leftist politicians, we just fled back to the centrist, corporate bullshit that led us down the Sawant path in the first place.










  • If the US leaves that alliance and then starts surreptitiously sending drone parts to Russia, it’ll get dicey.

    If the AfD forms a coalition government with the normal conservatives and Germany decides to turn inwards and keep Deutsche money für die Deutscher, it’ll get dicey.

    If Macron finally completes his heel turn and appoints Marine le Pen to interior secretary…

    If Italy keeps going the way they’ve been going…

    If the Finnish right decides that joining NATO was a mistake that let too many minorities in…

    If the rest of Africa goes along with the Sahel nations and starts funneling their resources into the Russian war machine…

    If Modhi lets Russia open more factories in India…

    If China decides that they’re cool with sharing power on the global scale and fully buys in on the BRICS bloc…

    Russia looks weak right now because the invasion has been such and embarrassment, but that can change surprisingly quickly. The global shift towards authoritarianism is coming hand-in-hand with a shift away from US/Eurocentric hegemony.