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Speaker 2: Welcome to it could happen here a podcast about how
Speaker 2: freedom is a joke in our Lives of the punchline,
Speaker 2: I am your host, Mia Wong. Long ago twenty thirteen,
Speaker 2: in a galaxy basically exactly where this one is now,
Speaker 2: Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon and now a terminal fascist,
Speaker 2: purchased The Washington Post. This was a sign of things
Speaker 2: to come. The danger of the American free press is
Speaker 2: and has always been, that we do not have a
Speaker 2: free press. We have a capitalist press. Writing and especially reporting,
Speaker 2: is a material product. Journalists have to eat, they have
Speaker 2: to travel, they have to go places, they have to
Speaker 2: meet people. All of this requires capital. And the problem
Speaker 2: with all of this requiring capital is that the capital
Speaker 2: is not a neutral entity, and the people who possess
Speaker 2: capital have interests. Fast forward to twenty twenty, as protests
Speaker 2: and uprisings raised across the United States against the police
Speaker 2: and white supremacy, a battle broke out inside of the
Speaker 2: New York Times newsrooms and editorial staff about the newspaper
Speaker 2: publishing an opinion piece called send in the Troops, calling
Speaker 2: for You've Guessed it, Sending in the troops to attack
Speaker 2: protesters published by a member of the American governments named
Speaker 2: Tom Cotton. Editors resigned in outrage debates raised across journalists slacks.
Speaker 2: It was the culmination of decades of battles about the
Speaker 2: direction of politics and race in the United States, fought
Speaker 2: simultaneously in the streets and in the newsroom. Twenty twenty
Speaker 2: was a significant danger to the ruling class. The actual
Speaker 2: ideology that was so dangerous it had to be destroyed
Speaker 2: was this. If the premise of twenty twenty is true,
Speaker 2: which is that the US is a structurally racist country
Speaker 2: founded on slavery and genocide, and that reproduces those same
Speaker 2: violences through the prison system, which has legal slavery in
Speaker 2: it from the structure of the Thirteenth Amendment, and reproduces
Speaker 2: it again through the police, then the American project is indefensible,
Speaker 2: and here there be dragons. The ruling class needed to
Speaker 2: move to stop it, and so they created what they
Speaker 2: would call, I guess, a new ideology, but was really
Speaker 2: a continuation of centuries old strategies, this time rebranded as
Speaker 2: anti woke. One of the avatars of anti woke was
Speaker 2: Barry Weiss. Barry Weiss is that the New York Times
Speaker 2: at the time was an ideological diversity higher, which is
Speaker 2: to say, affirmative action for why conservatives as affirmative action
Speaker 2: has only existed in the figments of the minds of conservatives.
Speaker 2: She was given a cozy make work job at the
Speaker 2: beginning of the Trump administration as an opinion staff editor
Speaker 2: and writer for the New York Times. She was hired
Speaker 2: specifically to bring in more Trumpian figures into the opinion section.
Speaker 2: This is, and I cannot emphasize this enough, this is
Speaker 2: the fever dream of affirmative action in the conservative mind right,
Speaker 2: and these are going to be about to people who
Speaker 2: really hate affirmative action. But again, what they are being given.
Speaker 2: They are being handed by the most important newspaper, probably
Speaker 2: in the entire world. You know, she was handed a
Speaker 2: job because she was a fucking right winger. Now. Weiss
Speaker 2: was part of the shall we say, conversations at the
Speaker 2: New York Times about again whether or not a newspaper
Speaker 2: should print a letter from a sitting US representative calling
Speaker 2: for the deployment of US soldiers against the American people.
Speaker 2: She saw this as an opportunity not to resist a
Speaker 2: obviously tyrannical program by again, a sitting member of the
Speaker 2: United States government. She saw this as her moment to
Speaker 2: do a grift. Now, in this moment, she resigned from
Speaker 2: The New York Times in a huff raving about the
Speaker 2: quote lack of ideological diversity, who had a giant rants
Speaker 2: about how the Twitter is not the massthead of the
Speaker 2: New York Times. Blah blah blah blah, blah blah blah. Again.
Speaker 2: I kind of emphasize this enough, like that she was
Speaker 2: brought in as a right wing affirmative action higher in
Speaker 2: order to appease the demand from the ruling class. I
Speaker 2: guess for like pro Trump people, they already had electric
Speaker 2: right wingers. This is completely unhinged. But you know, she resigns,
Speaker 2: and she has this big press tour in the right
Speaker 2: wing press trying to talk about how she was canceled,
Speaker 2: and of course none of this ever even happened. Right
Speaker 2: We can debate the effect to which cancelation ever was
Speaker 2: even really a thing or did anything at all, But
Speaker 2: she was not canceled. She literally resigned of her own
Speaker 2: free will. She was not forced out. She chose to
Speaker 2: leave in order to pursue a career as a right
Speaker 2: wing grifford in other fields. Namely Substack, where she ran
Speaker 2: a newsletter that was sort of rebranded as like, oh,
Speaker 2: it's a media outlet called the Free Press. It's like, no,
Speaker 2: this is Barry Weiss's Substack. Come on, what are we
Speaker 2: doing here? What are we doing here? Now? Weiss is
Speaker 2: not a journalist. She is a right wing idea loge.
Speaker 2: She's also a hardline Zionist. If you want to go
Speaker 2: into all of the absolutely unhinded shit that Barry Weiss
Speaker 2: has said and done over the years, all of the
Speaker 2: just unbelievably somophobic shit, all of the weird racist shit,
Speaker 2: all of the anti immigrant shit that she said, there's
Speaker 2: a very good John Oliver thing about her. She is
Speaker 2: part of this story. But if we spent this entire
Speaker 2: episode just talking about how much she fucking sucks, we
Speaker 2: would be here for like two decades now. In a
Speaker 2: just world, none of this would matter at all. This
Speaker 2: would just be a conservative walking off from the free
Speaker 2: job that she was given by the New York Times,
Speaker 2: stomping off at a huff and going to start a
Speaker 2: substack whatever. Who cares. This is not a just world.
Speaker 2: This is the United States. She now controls one of
Speaker 2: the most powerful and important news organizations in the United States.
Speaker 2: The story of how she got there is the story
Speaker 2: of the future of the American media. Unfortunately, for all
Speaker 2: of us, the story is astressingly simple. Barry Weiss and
Speaker 2: her outlet, I'm using that in immense quotations. Again, this
Speaker 2: is just a substack was bought out by one Larry Allison.
Speaker 2: Larry Ellison then appointed Weiss to be the ideological hatchet
Speaker 2: woman for his takeover of Paramount, which owns CBS. There
Speaker 2: was no secret plan, there was weird strategy. There was
Speaker 2: no Illuminati cabal behind the scenes. It didn't require any
Speaker 2: effort at all. All you have to do in order
Speaker 2: to install a right wing hack as the editor in
Speaker 2: chief of CBS News is by the company. The results
Speaker 2: have been devastating. I would call what happened to resegregation.
Speaker 2: There was a large scale firing of non white employees.
Speaker 2: NBC eliminated the editorial teams for NBC Asian America, NBC Black,
Speaker 2: NBC Latino, and NBC Out. NBC Out was the queer one.
Speaker 2: They fired Gail King. They did some stuff that frankly
Speaker 2: sounds like a joke. I'm just going to read this
Speaker 2: quote from the root and the CBS News bureau in Johannesburg,
Speaker 2: South Africa has been shut down, with coverage of Africa
Speaker 2: shifting to London. That is again, they closed the South
Speaker 2: Africa Bureau. This is a CBS bureau in South Africa
Speaker 2: and moved their coverage of Africa from Africa to London.
Speaker 2: If a hardline Marxist ideologue had written this in nineteen
Speaker 2: sixty seven, no one would have believed them. And in
Speaker 2: the process, what they've done here is they've destroyed the
Speaker 2: NBC outlets that were responsible for doing a whole bunch
Speaker 2: of comfort for different groups of non white people. Right NBCBLKS,
Speaker 2: EMC Black did a whole bunch of very good coverage
Speaker 2: of the uprising in twenty twenty. Right NBC Asian America
Speaker 2: did a bunch of good work. NBC out was a
Speaker 2: place where you could occasionally find a transperson who was
Speaker 2: allowed to write. And all of that is gone because
Speaker 2: one man, Larry Allison and his son David Allison, bought
Speaker 2: the fucking media company and installed this unhinged right wing
Speaker 2: hack as their ideological secret police. I don't even know
Speaker 2: what you would call this position. The ideological purge executor.
Speaker 2: I guess you could call it of CBS. Now, obviously
Speaker 2: there are multiple aspects to this. We'll talk about Larry
Speaker 2: Ellison himself in a second, because he is a very
Speaker 2: important figure. But first, before we talk about the consolidation
Speaker 2: of capital into increasing monopolies. Let's go here from some
Speaker 2: of those monopolies, product services. Let's go we are so back.
Speaker 2: One of the obvious driving factors behind what has become
Speaker 2: a right wing fascist takeover of the media has been
Speaker 2: the consolidation of capital into increasing monopolies. Now, it's been
Speaker 2: a very, very famous thing in the US to say
Speaker 2: that most of American media is controlled by five companies.
Speaker 2: Here's the thing. Even those five companies can always be
Speaker 2: consolidated into fewer and fewer companies. Right as the companies
Speaker 2: start to struggle, and as any one of them sees
Speaker 2: weakness in the other ones, you get attempts to buy
Speaker 2: them out. And this is what happens with Paramount, which
Speaker 2: is again the parent company that owns NBC. So the
Speaker 2: way that it's framed, if you read it in the press, is, oh,
Speaker 2: it was a merger between Skydance, which was Ellison's sort
Speaker 2: of outlet, and Paramount. But that's not really what happened. Really,
Speaker 2: what happened was Paramount was bought by Ellison and Skydance
Speaker 2: and they were merged together after that. And this is
Speaker 2: a problem with the concentration of capital.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: As capital becomes increasingly more and more concentration, as there
Speaker 2: are individual people and also entities that control more and
Speaker 2: more capital, their ability to simply swallow the rest of
Speaker 2: their competition and consume it increases. And this is a
Speaker 2: significant advantage to the companies. To get the swallow this capital,
Speaker 2: they get to absorb all of the intellectual property, and
Speaker 2: so now they have control over the property regimes that
Speaker 2: allow them to control cultural production, and as a sort
Speaker 2: of incidental bonus, they can take control of the media.
Speaker 2: Now it's worth getting into the Ellisons themselves now. Larry Allison,
Speaker 2: back in the Halcyon Days of twenty twenty, was merely
Speaker 2: the eleventh richest man in the world when he quote
Speaker 2: participated in a call shortly after the twenty twenty election
Speaker 2: that focus on strategies for contesting the legitimacy of the vote.
Speaker 2: According to court documents and a participant, the November fourteenth
Speaker 2: call included Lindsey Graham, Fox News host Sean Hannity, Jay Seclau,
Speaker 2: an attorney for President Donald Trump, and James Bob Junior,
Speaker 2: an eternity for True the Vote, a Texas based nonprofit.
Speaker 2: True of the Vote was a completely unhanged organization dedicated
Speaker 2: to overturning the twenty twenty election by doing all these
Speaker 2: weird voter fraud things. And they had a strategy call,
Speaker 2: like their attorney in a strategy call with a bunch
Speaker 2: of Trump supporters Incline Voting one. Larry Ellison, now again
Speaker 2: that was back in twenty twenty. Here in twenty twenty
Speaker 2: five and now fighting with Elon Musk for the title
Speaker 2: of the richest person in the fucking world. Ellison said,
Speaker 2: and I quote, we're going to have supervision. Every police
Speaker 2: officer is going to be supervised at all times, and
Speaker 2: if there's a problem, AI will report that problem and
Speaker 2: report it to the appropriate person. Citizens will be on
Speaker 2: their best behavior because we are constantly recording and reporting
Speaker 2: everything that's going on now in that intervening time. Larry
Speaker 2: Ellison is one of the people behind Oracle, and Oracle
Speaker 2: has benefited enormously as a company that got really in
Speaker 2: on the cloud storage boom. Daven benefited enormously from selling
Speaker 2: a bunch of shit to AI companies. Lary Ellison is
Speaker 2: also a huge AI supporter, a huge backer of AI,
Speaker 2: a huge someone who wants to spread AI, and someone
Speaker 2: who wants to spread AI, you know, very specifically, and
Speaker 2: this is very important into surveillance technology. He is also
Speaker 2: one of the people who, as twenty twenty went on
Speaker 2: and as the last half decade has come on, and
Speaker 2: as the giant sort of backlash against against the uprising,
Speaker 2: and as his attempt to reassert racism as the dominant
Speaker 2: ideology of the United States and to make sure that
Speaker 2: capitals hold over this country and that white supremacies hold
Speaker 2: over this country would be maintained, he has become one
Speaker 2: of the large drivers of this entire project. He's not
Speaker 2: the only one. Jeff Bezos, as we started this program with,
Speaker 2: already owned the Washington Post in twenty twenty five he
Speaker 2: went in to very seriously change it. Jeff Bezos on
Speaker 2: the now fascist Twitter and we will get to that
Speaker 2: in a second. Two wrote and this was a letter
Speaker 2: that he was sent to his staff, and this is
Speaker 2: this is the editorial section to let you know about
Speaker 2: a change coming to our opinion. Pages. We are going
Speaker 2: to be writing every day in support and defense of
Speaker 2: two pillars, personal liberties and free markets. We'll cover other
Speaker 2: topics too, of course, but viewpoints opposing those pillars will
Speaker 2: be left to be published by others. David Shipley, who
Speaker 2: had been his handpicked editor, resigned rather than lead the effort.
Speaker 2: It's not like Shipley had been like a leftist right
Speaker 2: but you know, I'm gonna read another part of this letter.
Speaker 2: Quote I offered David Shipley, who I admire greatly because
Speaker 2: you know he was the pamback guy, the opportunity to
Speaker 2: lead this new chapter. I suggested to him that the
Speaker 2: answer wasn't hell yes, that it had to be no.
Speaker 2: After careful consideration, David decided to step away. So okay,
Speaker 2: what was actually happening here he came in was like,
Speaker 2: our board is not fascist enough, and if you're not
Speaker 2: going to make it more fascist, then get the fuck
Speaker 2: out of the way. And the guy he had picked
Speaker 2: to run the editor board like three years ago, when
Speaker 2: this is unacceptable. I cannot be involved in this. And
Speaker 2: left and now Washington Post publishes pieces with titles like
Speaker 2: quote Pam Bondi's welcome Woke rollback, the Justice Department rescinds
Speaker 2: regulations encouraging racial preferences, you know, and you can in
Speaker 2: some ways see all of the things that are coming together. Obviously,
Speaker 2: Bezos was a major supporter of the Trump administration, is
Speaker 2: a major support of the Trump administration. Put a bunch
Speaker 2: of money into the unhinged Trump ballroom. And when he
Speaker 2: says Justice harn't rescins regulations encouraging racial preferences, they're talking
Speaker 2: about anti discrimination ordinances, right, That's what they're actually talking about.
Speaker 2: But these people have been so cooked and have stewed
Speaker 2: so much in the ideology of countering the ideology of
Speaker 2: twenty twenty that they're now doing all of this reverse
Speaker 2: racism stuff where they think that if you're not allowed
Speaker 2: to discriminate, that's anti white discrimination. And the Washington Post
Speaker 2: has been tanking effectively in the wake of a whole
Speaker 2: bunch of a whole bunch of writing editorial changes. Its
Speaker 2: audience has significantly declined since this. A whole bunch of
Speaker 2: people who subscribed to the Post called it in their
Speaker 2: subscriber count is just absolutely pitiful. Now the reach has
Speaker 2: been contracting. The paper is going to shit. But that
Speaker 2: doesn't matter because the Washington Post is not a money
Speaker 2: making outlet. The Washington Post is a chance to shape
Speaker 2: the way that the country thinks. And it is better
Speaker 2: that you know seven people in Washington, DC, who are
Speaker 2: all identically minded conservatives read the Washington Posts and agree
Speaker 2: with it than it is for there to be any
Speaker 2: sort of independence whatsoever from anything on the shop floor,
Speaker 2: from any of the people writing for it. We've also
Speaker 2: seen in recent months the elimination of teen Folk Conte Nasty.
Speaker 2: Teenvogue's parent company eliminated Team Vogue as an independent outlet.
Speaker 2: Teen Vogue had been the furthest left of the even
Speaker 2: sort of mainstream outlets in the US. It had carried
Speaker 2: a bunch of extremely good and radical work on race
Speaker 2: and gender. It was also one of the few outlets
Speaker 2: with consistent trans writing. And of course, the other aspect
Speaker 2: of all of these purges has been unbelievable on hinde transphobia.
Speaker 2: And this was them just destroying what had been a
Speaker 2: very very important outlet on the left for telling the
Speaker 2: stories of non white people, telling the stories of workers,
Speaker 2: and telling the stories of trans people. And they just
Speaker 2: destroyed it even though and this is actually very interesting,
Speaker 2: Ever since teen Vogue had you know, shifted to doing
Speaker 2: a bunch of leftist coverage and covering the protests against
Speaker 2: Donald Trump in its first administration, and had gone towards actually,
Speaker 2: you know, talking about labor and talking about struggle and
Speaker 2: talking about unions and talking about you know, the like
Speaker 2: the experiences of people living under white supremacy. Its readership
Speaker 2: had exploded, but again that doesn't matter because it's bad
Speaker 2: for Donald Trump. And so we're seeing the ideological tightening
Speaker 2: consolidation of the media as what had been an outlet
Speaker 2: that allowed people to talk about shit was just destroyed.
Speaker 2: Now speaking about outlets destroying things ideologically, Hey, product and services,
Speaker 2: please don't destroy USOO. Now, as we covered on this
Speaker 2: show a few weeks ago, Conde Nasts also fired several
Speaker 2: union workers legally for you know, staging a again protected
Speaker 2: workplace action, demanding to know what the fuck was going
Speaker 2: on with these teen Vogue firings. And that's another aspect
Speaker 2: of all of his takeover, which is that these outlets
Speaker 2: just viciously and radically hates and this is this is
Speaker 2: the ruling classes to people who run these outlets viciously
Speaker 2: hate unions. And this is something that's very important to
Speaker 2: understand in terms of media unions, because media unions were
Speaker 2: also a very powerful force for encouraging diversity because, as
Speaker 2: it turns out, workers and this is true, I could
Speaker 2: say that someone who's part of a media union less
Speaker 2: racist than the bosses, and in fact would like there
Speaker 2: to be more non white people and don't like it
Speaker 2: when non white people are discriminated against. And this is
Speaker 2: one of the things that these media unions and that
Speaker 2: unions in general do, is try to help you not
Speaker 2: get fucking discriminated against on racial grounds. So of course
Speaker 2: a part and partial of this has been the targeting
Speaker 2: of the union and that's what we've been seeing at
Speaker 2: conte Nast, where they also fired workers who had nothing
Speaker 2: to do with teen Vogue and also one of whom
Speaker 2: was on the show and is trans and you should
Speaker 2: go listen to that episode because it's very good. But
Speaker 2: that's another aspect of this right being consolidation is that
Speaker 2: media unions are able to push back against the untrammeled
Speaker 2: power of these fascist billionaires to turn news coverage into
Speaker 2: whatever the fuck they want. And that's what's happened at CBS,
Speaker 2: where there are an doing giant specials with like Kirk's
Speaker 2: Widow and all of these just absolutely deranged, unbelievably bizarre
Speaker 2: right wing pieces that they're just sort of airing now.
Speaker 2: And in order to you know, stop that shit, you
Speaker 2: need powerful media unions, and this is one of the
Speaker 2: things the ruling class is trying to crush now. It's
Speaker 2: also worth mentioning that these fight wing billionaires are trying
Speaker 2: to consolidate their hold on social media as well as
Speaker 2: the traditional media. And obviously the largest example of this
Speaker 2: is Elon Musk, who's purchased Twitter and has you know,
Speaker 2: effectively turned Twitter into another arm of Stormfront. It is
Speaker 2: a just unhinged stew of racism and conspiracy that is
Speaker 2: now effectively unusable if you don't want like the most
Speaker 2: racist shit you've ever seen in your entire life, just
Speaker 2: in every single one of your replies. And it's also
Speaker 2: become a major, you know, vector of targeting for the
Speaker 2: Trump administration, where what Twitter is used for now, instead
Speaker 2: of being a platform that at one time actually was
Speaker 2: able to play a role as a thing that does resistance,
Speaker 2: as a tool of protesters and as a tool of
Speaker 2: people who opposed the untrammeled rule of billionaires, it's now
Speaker 2: been converted into just racist slop and a way to
Speaker 2: track down anyone who's sort of vaguely centered left and
Speaker 2: just put them in the eyes of the administration so
Speaker 2: they can be targeted by the States. And it's also
Speaker 2: worth noting that one of the people who helped bankworld
Speaker 2: the purchase of Twitter because Elon Musk couldn't just purchase
Speaker 2: it directly, was one Larry Ellison. Larry Ellison is also
Speaker 2: part of a massive attempt to buy TikTok. Listeners of
Speaker 2: the show are probably familiar with the whole extremely weird
Speaker 2: story about how TikTok was banned last year under the
Speaker 2: Biden administration sort of bafflingly, and then Trump sort of
Speaker 2: just broke the law and made it still be usable,
Speaker 2: but has been trying to force TikTok to be sold
Speaker 2: to American buyers. And the conglomerate that's supposed to buy
Speaker 2: it is a Larry Ellison thing, so he's also attempting
Speaker 2: to buy TikTok. And finally, the story we're going to
Speaker 2: close on is that Larry Ellison has been doing a
Speaker 2: hostile takeover bid of Warner Brothers. Now Warner Brothers currently
Speaker 2: is set to be bought by Netflix. Larry Ellison kept
Speaker 2: on submitting bids to them, and his efforts to actually
Speaker 2: get the purchase to go through were consistently denied. But
Speaker 2: in the wake of that, they're attempt to get to
Speaker 2: a hostel takeover bid where they just go to the
Speaker 2: shareholders directly and try to buy them out at what
Speaker 2: they claim as a higher share price. I'm not going
Speaker 2: to go into that whole thing as a fiasco, but
Speaker 2: what is interesting for our purposes is that David Allison,
Speaker 2: who's the guy running Paramount, who's the guy who's been
Speaker 2: directly running the ideological purchase, has met several times with Trump,
Speaker 2: and last time they met, Trump has promised that he
Speaker 2: would change the coverage of CNN in order to make
Speaker 2: it better for Trump. Now. It's also worth noting that
Speaker 2: buying CNN is not part of the deal for the
Speaker 2: Warner takeover bid by Netflix. Right if Netflix takes over
Speaker 2: Warner Bros. They don't get CNN. Under Paramount and Larry
Speaker 2: Ellison's deal. They would get CNN now, even though CNN
Speaker 2: has done a whole bunch of unhandshit like having Ben
Speaker 2: Shapiro on to do fucking electron coverage Jesus fucking Christ. Okay,
Speaker 2: Trump has still been mad at them for reporting even
Speaker 2: a tiny bit critically about his administration. And Trump has
Speaker 2: been kind of refusing to pick a side directly in
Speaker 2: terms of the takeover bid for Warner Brothers in the
Speaker 2: fight between Netflix and Paramount, but he's now said that
Speaker 2: he wants to make sure that CNN is sold and
Speaker 2: that it should get new leadership, presumably along the style
Speaker 2: of what happened with CBS. And so this is sort
Speaker 2: of the final phase of all of this, right, which
Speaker 2: is trumpdministration has the ability to use is quote unquote
Speaker 2: antitrust power in order to stop one of these two
Speaker 2: companies from doing this buy out, and Trump administration is
Speaker 2: using the fact that the media is being bought out
Speaker 2: by his allies in order to try to get people
Speaker 2: to buy CNN and simply eliminate negative news coverage of him.
Speaker 2: And I don't really think I need to explain why
Speaker 2: it's extremely bad that the president of the United States
Speaker 2: could simply order a news outlet to be bought out
Speaker 2: and then suddenly it's bought out. I think it's kind
Speaker 2: of self explanatory why that's unbelievably bad, But that is
Speaker 2: the situation that we may rapidly find ourselves in because
Speaker 2: we don't live in anything that even sort of looks
Speaker 2: like a democracy. We live in the dictatorship of capital.
Speaker 2: And a thing about the press under a dictatorship, even
Speaker 2: one that's as decentralized as the distainship of capital, is
Speaker 2: that one particularly fascist faction of capital can simply roll in,
Speaker 2: buy the media and take control of it. And that's
Speaker 2: the project that we're seeing now. But these people are
Speaker 2: not under We beat them before we can beat them again.
Speaker 2: And in some ways the project is kind of self
Speaker 2: defeating in that they have spent a significant amount of
Speaker 2: time hollowing out people's trust in these institutions. And there
Speaker 2: is an extent to which, as bad as all of
Speaker 2: this is, they may simply be taking control of a
Speaker 2: husk that they had already caused or rot from the inside.
Speaker 2: And meanwhile, all of these, all of us control of
Speaker 2: the media that they've been taking has not stopped everyone
Speaker 2: from fucking hating them. And that's the note that I
Speaker 2: want to leave everyone here on. It doesn't matter how
Speaker 2: much of the media these people buy, everyone still hates them.
Speaker 2: We can fight them, and we can.
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