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‘This is the reality’: Far-right Newsmax and One America channels grapple uneasily with Biden’s electoral college victory

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  1. [5]
    Good_Apollo
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    Uh oh. Are the Trumpers now going to write off OANN and Newsmax as traitors too like they did with Fox News? Where will they turn to now? You’d hope at some point they’d have to ask “Are we...

    Uh oh. Are the Trumpers now going to write off OANN and Newsmax as traitors too like they did with Fox News?

    Where will they turn to now? You’d hope at some point they’d have to ask “Are we wrong?” After continually saying “The World is wrong!”.

    6 votes
    1. [2]
      JXM
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      Some even smaller, more niche right wing media group will pop up and gain steam, just like NewsMax and OANN did when they decided Fox News wasn't conservative enough. Or, Trump will start his own...

      Some even smaller, more niche right wing media group will pop up and gain steam, just like NewsMax and OANN did when they decided Fox News wasn't conservative enough.

      Or, Trump will start his own loony media company and they will all flock to that instead.

      4 votes
      1. Omnicrola
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        I would bet no small amount of money on this.

        Or, Trump will start his own loony media company and they will all flock to that instead.

        I would bet no small amount of money on this.

        1 vote
    2. Eric_the_Cerise
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      After well over a decade of tilting at my own personal windmills, the World stubbornly continues to use Facebook and Google products. It has never once crossed my mind that I might be wrong. I...

      You’d hope at some point they’d have to ask “Are we wrong?” After continually saying “The World is wrong!”.

      After well over a decade of tilting at my own personal windmills, the World stubbornly continues to use Facebook and Google products. It has never once crossed my mind that I might be wrong. I remain 100% certain that I am right and the World is criminally, negligently wrong in this.

      I have every confidence that the vast majority of Trump's base feels exactly the same way.

      Of course, the critical difference is that I actually am right, while they're all a bunch of nutjob whack-a-doos. (Sarcasm? IDK. It's getting hard to tell.)

      4 votes
    3. PapaNachos
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      Eventually it's just going to be a Markov chain that generates headlines about how owned the libs are.

      Eventually it's just going to be a Markov chain that generates headlines about how owned the libs are.

      3 votes
  2. ShroudedMouse
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    Sometimes a bubble is more stable when it's made up of two smaller bubbles. I wonder if OANN/Newsmax treating Fox News like 'the new left' is a way to further ignore other media sources. I mean,...

    Sometimes a bubble is more stable when it's made up of two smaller bubbles.

    I wonder if OANN/Newsmax treating Fox News like 'the new left' is a way to further ignore other media sources. I mean, if you can listen to both sides by going to Fox News and then OANN, you must be well informed right?

    4 votes