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marcusverus | 1 month ago

He's clearly alluding the fact that the Biden admin did far worse.

The great sin of Trump's FCC was a single ill-advised tweet by FCC chair Brendan Carr... in which he threatened to enforce the law as written. For comparison, the Biden admin's FBI actively engaged in purely political media manipulation in service of the sitting president's campaign, such as when they lied to Facebook (and presumably others) to "prebunk" the Hunter's Laptop story, which directly lead to a near-total ban of a factual news story.

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cycomanic|1 month ago

You're joking right? People got arrested and jailed for posting a Kirk meme https://edition.cnn.com/2025/12/17/politics/retired-cop-jail...

Let's not even talk about all the other rhetoric of arresting and even killing people who voiced different opinions coming from the current regime.

marcusverus|1 month ago

> You're joking right? People got arrested and jailed for posting a Kirk meme https://edition.cnn.com/2025/12/17/politics/retired-cop-jail

How are the actions of the Perry County Police Department relevant to this conversation?

> Let's not even talk about all the other rhetoric of arresting and even killing people who voiced different opinions coming from the current regime.

Hysterical nonsense.

throwaway902984|1 month ago

He wrote that the FCC wasn't a government agency. Hard to argue that is correct, or that their political pursuit of one of trump's "enemies" isn't actually political.

It was more that a tweet no, but an interview with Benny johnson, an avowed political figure paid by Russians at one point?

marcusverus|1 month ago

> He wrote that the FCC wasn't a government agency. Hard to argue that is correct

You're harping on a detail that hardly matters in order to avoid the broader point, which is rather silly. The FCC is a government agency. Brendan Carr made an ill-advised tweet, which doesn't hold a candle to Biden's use of the FBI to spread misinformation and induce censorship for political purposes.

> or that their political pursuit of one of trump's "enemies" isn't actually political.

Of course it's political. It's political when both sides do it.

> ...paid by Russians at one point

Ah, I see that I'm wasting my time here.