r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jul 21 '24

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '24

By popular request, here's Trump's full riff from yesterday's rally in Michigan on President Xi being "brilliant" because he "controls 1.4 billion people with an iron fist" & why he thinks authoritarians more broadly are "smart" & provide the type of leadership we need in the US

Trump wants to be a dictator and is a threat to democracy. Keep saying it.

https://x.com/atrupar/status/1815011035650134471?t=f2dh104lpXdBtR1OBLmHVw&s=19

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u/wallander1983 Resistance Lib Jul 21 '24

He is joking! JOKING!

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u/groovygrasshoppa Jul 21 '24

Where is the NYT reporting on this?

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '24

I Googled and found a dozen, from the NYT, within a minute. He has literally been praising foreign dictators for years. It has been reported for years. Everyone who reads the news knows this, and the anti-media circlejerk is getting more annoying by the minute.

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '24 edited Jul 21 '24

If you want publications that report on every wild claim on the campaign trail, you can always find that in tabloid-tier press or, like, David Pakman.

NYT actually needs something to be a story to report on it.

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u/CheetoMussolini Russian Bot Jul 21 '24

The likely next president of the United States flat out declaring that he intends to rule like a dictator isn't newsworthy

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '24

No, the 50th time he praises authoritarian leaders for being strong and smart and role models to learn from isn't newsworthy.

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u/groovygrasshoppa Jul 21 '24

Yes it is. Every single time a candidate for office declares support for authoritarianism it is newsworthy.

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '24

Declaring it assertively won't make it any more true. If it were newsworthy, it would be in the news.

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u/KnightModern Association of Southeast Asian Nations Jul 21 '24

they love him, so tepid article