What this week’s Trump Twitter war against the mainstream news media teaches us is that CNN should be worried — but not about Trump’s attacks, rather about the fact that an increasing number of U.S. citizens are forming their political ideas based on alt-right rants, and not on anything that even remotely resembles information.
Rather than fight Trump, outlets like CNN have to take seriously the fact that a major portion of the population simply doesn’t trust them. Even worse, they don’t find CNN interesting or compelling.
There is increasing evidence that right-wing hate speech is growing in power and force across the major social media platforms and into everyday life.
I want to see journalists swinging from telephone poles.
Ryder Taylor
Salon is literal garbage.
Ian Morris
You just have to meme better, stop feeling sorry for yourself and get your meme guns out.
Cameron Carter
didn't snoop dogg make a "meme" that he shot Donald in a music video, that seems way more influential than a guy posting a WWE lighthearted trump over CNN meme
Anthony Thomas
People forming their own opinions seperate from corporate media is a threat to democracy
Jayden Martinez
>parody
Democracy damaged and eternally BTFO
Alexander Morgan
wait, what damage did talk radio do to democracy?
Charles Murphy
>yfw random people on the internet more influential than multibillion global news corporations >and those random people don't even trying Sure feels like cyberpunk is now.
Sebastian King
>Memes >Damaging democracy >Memes made by the American people >American people like memes >Majority of Americans like memes >A threat to democracy >A threat to (((democracy)))
Connor Perry
>flag >retarded ass post I laughed Everytime its a potato nigger
Luis Morales
>implying phones can play gifs
Levi Sullivan
>outlets like CNN have to take seriously the fact that a major portion of the population simply doesn’t trust them I wonder why.
Carson Mitchell
>Rope >Tree >Journalist Some assembly required
Angel Williams
what are you talking about leftists are extremely adept at memery :^)
Aiden Reed
>FORGET OUR BULLSHIT PROPAGANDA, MEMES ARE DEADLY I fucking love the trump timeline. You have these fucks just admitting their bullshit right up front and destroying themselves.
Easton Hughes
>forget fake news Yeah, nah.
Carson Butler
>1 Post by this ID
Bait! Saged
Luke Mitchell
Are you kidding? It's a constant barrage of attacks on the Democrat party.
Mason Bailey
We'll, they can, soooo...
Eli Ross
FORGET FAKE NEWS, GOYIM-- ONLY REMEMBER THE SIX MILLION
Parker Robinson
I need a better phone
Kayden Jackson
Have a (you)
William Diaz
REMEMBER THE 6 MILLION MEME SHOAH
OY VEY GOYIM STOP WITH THE MEMES
Levi Ortiz
>we couldn't compete on talk radio where you have to explain your arguments and sustain them over time >now we can't compete online where you have to explain your arguments, or boil them down to effective memes >therefore these things damage democracy P A T H E T I C
Kevin Collins
...
Levi Gomez
Progressives got BTFO when they tried to start their own radio channel. It's hard to sell cancer, that's why we have NPR and PBS forced on us.
Landon Barnes
Can you get a seizure from this? I assume it can happen with predisposed people.
Grayson Nguyen
Isn't there a saying about how libshit always accuse their enemies of doing what they, themselves, are doing? I see this a lot. Hypocrisy doesn't even bother them, yet neocons keep calling it and nothing happens.
Asher Sullivan
Theyre acting like millions of people are being brainwashed when the reality is that millions of people just hold different opinions of them
Jonathan Morris
>forget a dishonest press informing the public, frog cartoons and gifs could do more damage to democracy Does anyone take them seriously anymore?
Ryder Powell
Maybe
David Price
>alt-right
Zachary Moore
RIGHT WING FASCIST BIGOTS LIKE SEAN HANNITY HAVE A RIGHT TO SPEAK, NOT A RIGHT TO BE HEARD!!!!!!!!!!!!11
Nathaniel Morris
Imagine the hysteria if you posted that at a CNN reporter.
Henry Gutierrez
the modern state of journalism makes me so glad I switched majors
Dominic Adams
>oy vey stop noticing our propaganda!
Benjamin Collins
>Let's talk about the danger alt-right memes pose to deomcracy
The greatest threat and underminer of democracy in my lifetime has been the mainstream media. They have destroyed American civic life. They have destroyed western intellectual discourse. They have spread hysteria and insanity in every public channel. The internet is the only thing keeping people sane because it is the only place people can laugh at them!
Sebastian Barnes
It's the individuals decision to hear out another person.
Austin Sanchez
You should return that phone to the apple store in Hamburg, stealing is agianst German law.
Good, you have to remember what the vikings did to you.
Colton Martinez
If you view media as a means of controlling public opinion, then, yes it is.
Michael Foster
DAY OF THE ROPE
Cooper Morales
Eire bro is right. We have to stop people from thinking for themselves. After all, it's CNN's job to control what we think. This epidemic of people not listening to CNN must be stopped and CNN's power restored, otherwise democracy will fail. How are people supposed to know who to vote for without a massive propaganda machine telling them what they believe? Trump and his alt-retards have gone too far this time. SOCIAL JUSTICE WILL PREVAIL!
Josiah Bennett
Fake news? Psh. The REAL danger is memes. Memes, I tells ya!
Take away my shitposting and it will be torches and pitchforks. I've got too much rage to be silenced.
Xavier Martin
(((pure coincidence)))
Juan Perez
That was "different."
William Price
I can picture Brian Stelter selling this on CNN
Dylan Torres
What the fuck is that smush on the bottom right?
Brandon Russell
I think it's the symbol for the Sikh or Hindu religions. One of those asian shit skin religions.
Luis Walker
hinduism
poo in loo basically
Leo Diaz
>It's 2017 and people STILL don't know how memes work
These people probably suck Darwin off despite this ignorance.
Ian Perez
Democracy is over rated, I want a fashy dictator who is a righteous man that cares for the European people.
Henry Foster
wtf I just opened this and my entire family died from seizures, thanks a ton man
Samuel Wright
>ARE YOU >ALSO >FRIGHTEEEEEENED?
Elijah Roberts
Welp, time for Microsoft to unveil its auto-censoring keyboards.
Leo Sanders
This image fucks with my head so much.
Dylan Hall
>all religion thats not christianity is jew tier now shooting yourself in the foot tbqh
Elijah Robinson
>He isn't K120 master race
Blake Watson
based
Adam Peterson
HOW DARE YOU NOT BE AS PROGRESSIVE AS US GOY? HOW DARE YOU THINK DIFFERENTLY FROM WHAT WE TELL YOU? OUR WORD IS UNQUESTIONABLE TRUTH.
John Johnson
I see a pepe when i stare into the gif
Brody Adams
Christianity is older than the first Jew/
Carson Gutierrez
If someone told me 5 years ago while browsing /new/ that the future board would help get Trump elected, and weaponized memes would strike fear into the hearts of the left I would have laughed.
This timeline is almost too much to handle. I'm not tired of winning yet though.
Nathan Allen
>Rather than fight Trump, outlets like CNN have to take seriously the fact that a major portion of the population simply doesn’t trust them. Even worse, they don’t find CNN interesting or compelling. >There is increasing evidence that right-wing hate speech is growing in power and force across the major social media platforms and into everyday life.
Hahahaha holy shit >Nobody fucking trusts us because of all the shady partisan shit we did during the election, like giving the DNC the debate questions, IT MUST BE THE FAULT OF THE EBIL ALT RIGHT!
Luis Jenkins
WHAT ARE THEY DOING???????
MEMEWAR NOW
Chase Watson
>when you're so out of touch that you're actively losing the battle to connect to the people to a group that is intentionally out of touch and take pride in that fact
Tyler Ramirez
The writer of this article literally wrote a book titled 'is satire saving our nation?'
>This book shows how we got to this place and why satire may be the only way we can save our democracy and strengthen our nation.
Bentley Russell
Kek. guess she meant left-wing satire.
Xavier Cox
That's shoop or real?
Luke Smith
>hate speech
Jaxon Cox
Thank God we got a Constitutional Republic with a few democratic processes and not a Democracy, or we'd be in a lot of trouble. Now go kill yourself you degenerate faggot shit-skin urbanite scumbag.
Juan Lopez
>Rather than fight Trump, outlets like CNN have to take seriously the fact that a major portion of the population simply doesn’t trust them. Even worse, they don’t find CNN interesting or compelling. uh oh, better censor critics of cn then
Caleb Baker
How is media a democracy?
And wtf I love corporatism now
Connor Wood
I seriously hope someone starts killing these journalists.
Full disclosure, I'm not threatning anyone specifically, I'm not going to injure kill or target anyone and nor am I asking or trying to get anyone to commit any crime.
I just kinda hope someone does so I can laugh at dead journalists because they deserve it.
Levi Martin
This is user's wife. You're disgusting gif just induced a seizure. The police are on their way
Jackson Ward
>When you're so much better, everybody else tries to make it a crime to not shit talk you
Evan Barnes
Why the fuck do you leftist cucks have to come here, your not welcome here ok, please go kill urself for the 50th god damn time. The reason why you will always lose is that we have these memes, Epep has already been turned into a Nazi, and pepe will never die, Kek shall always be praised and shall lose.
Carson Allen
THIS IS HIGHLY PROBLEMATIC
Nicholas Reyes
Speaking of hacks that it'd be nice to see swing from a rope
Jose Gomez
no, u c, he wuz, uh... a nigga. N az a nigga, he gotz a free pass to do nythin he wanna do. Cuz he be a nigga and da evil white supremacists b repressing 'im! dont b white, dat ain't righ, u heer me? onle da blahk man getz da free speech an stuff, mon!
Joshua Moore
>Right-Wing Hate Speech You leftist fags must understand that hate speech is free speech, it's protected under US law, so and less your living under the horrors of the police states of Europe you cannot censor us, on top of that even the foreign fags from Canada can say whatever they want here because this is a site with its own jurisdictions and laws, please fuck off.
We don't live in a democracy you lying fag, we live in a representative-constitutional-republic, please "educate" yourself on said matters before posting stupid shit for the already stupid ass fake news site that is salon.
