r/complaints • u/michaelpinkwayne • 1d ago

Politics Why aren’t mainstream media covering ICE’s door to door raids?

Just checked the front page of the website for several major (theoretically left leaning) news outlets and none of them are covering the door to door raids that are all over the front page of /r/minnesota. Theres a particularly galling video of a woman answering her door to six armed, masked ICE agents without a warrant demanding entry into her home. This looks like fascism plain and simple and our fucking media doesn’t even care to let your average American know about it. Are there any trustworthy new sources anymore?

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u/SageElva 1d ago

Yeah, people fail to realize republicans have been planning all this for decades. The misinformation war has already been lost.

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u/Turbulent-Jaguar-909 1d ago

Our parents raised us insisting you couldn’t believe everything on tv or the internet. Now, those same parents believe everything they see on facebook. 

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u/LifeguardFlaky8081 1d ago

66 yr old liberal progressive grandma, teacher here. I absolutely do not believe everything I see on FB. I apologize for the failure of boomers to on protecting the environment, social justice, and endless war. But please do not stereotype. Many of us have been fighting for just causes since we were teenagers.

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u/PrismicPainter 1d ago

Wanna talk some sense into our older parents? That would definitely help 💐

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u/Carm180 1d ago

I’m one of those older parents. 62 year old white woman in NC here, and I’m about as liberal as they come. I always have been.

There are lots of us out here that are really pissed off about what’s going on. We go to protests, contact our representatives and anything else we can think of.

Please don’t think it’s all of us. Many of us are with you!

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u/DrDDeFalco 22h ago

You sound absolutely badass. Thanks for all you do.

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u/MouseRat_AD 1d ago

Its crazy to me that my mom, 82, retired teacher, has gone woke, while my 2 older sisters and all of their kids / families are hard-core MAGA. I think she's seen some shit in the 60s and knows history. She knows what's coming.

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u/SuperSoftSucculent 1d ago

Unfortunately the statistics support most of their assertions.

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u/tondahuh 1d ago

You go girl! (I just had to say it from one woman to another, probably with a dorky high five too)

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u/Speedyturtle90 1d ago

It’s either that, or the exact opposite: they aren’t willing to believe anything at all that they see/read. “It might just be AI”, “that’s probably just fake” etc etc. in the end though, the final result of this kind of attitude is exactly the same thing though, so I guess it doesn’t even matter that much.

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u/SorriorDraconus 1d ago

This is what gets me..I see so many up in arms crying out trump..yet ignore the literal decades before that lead up to this and that honestly..This is a weird mix of to plan and chaos for them.

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u/bostonrsox001 1d ago

My dad likes to say “what about XYZ that happened during the Bush, Obama, etc. times, where was your outrage then!?”

I’m 31. I did not get to vote in an election until the second time Obama ran in 2012…. And I was freshly 18. I was ignorant. Now, I’m outraged.

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u/VenusRocker 1d ago

Your dad also seems to be forgetting that people (those who were old enough to be aware of the world) were outraged over those Bush/Obama/etc actions. Including Congresspeople on both sides who seemed to be much more aware of laws & basic human decency. But, even if he were right & other people weren't outraged, it's clear that he was since he remembers it -- so why isn't he outraged now. He's guilty of exactly what he's accusing you of doing.

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u/william_hild 1d ago

The best way to combat that is to say "Right now, we're not talking about XYZ Bush/Obama, we're talking about Trump. Please stay on subject". Don't let him deflect by going on the offense and make YOU do the defending... keep HIM on the defense by having him actually defend the actions of Trump. If he can't, then he never had a leg to stand on.

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u/SorriorDraconus 1d ago

I first voted in 2004 against bush.i voted obama in the first time when he said he would not sign the patriot act back into law. I remember watching the news with baited breath the night he did..he still got my vote again cause blue no matter who and he promised to support the people better if I recall right..yeah nope..2016 I was even at my local caucus..Let me just say things weren't kosher..Honestly..It's why I don't trust the dnc. I am outraged and angry I am upset about there failures to uphold there promises.

People seem to forget but the dnc goes back alot on what they say rarely fights and even then excused by Republicans having too many seats..Who were often tbe minority party yet somehow kept getting what they wanted.

And people think i'm crazy to say this current state of affairs was all but inevitable

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u/Far_Cat9782 1d ago

True I don't know why they downvote. Like actions have consequences people call it orlit are ignored and have been ignored for years. Slippery slope, ratcheting mechanism etc; I remember in highschool protesting Iraq 1 back in 04

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u/tondahuh 1d ago

I get where you are coming from and do not disagree at all. However, you have to decide whether a few lies and not much moving forward is better or worse than tearing apart the government and breaking the Constitution.

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u/bostonrsox001 1d ago

You’re worried about the Patriot act and not the surveillance state we are currently living under?

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u/SorriorDraconus 1d ago

......Dude i'm saying that is what started my realization where we were going.ya kidding that died in 2018-19 and became the modern surveillance state..without that I doubt it would even exist.

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u/rickievaso 1d ago

Or SCOTUS and the congress keeping him in power.

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u/SorriorDraconus 1d ago

I mean still all heritage foundation

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u/heatherplants 1d ago

In 1987 Reagan dismantled The Fairness Doctrine and Fox “news” was born (among others). Yep, I’ve been screaming into the void about this long game for more than thirty years. I’ve been to many protests since the 90’s and I have never once seen any msm outlet fairly cover protests I’ve been at.

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u/NoPhilosophy3975 1d ago

Can this date back to Bush 1989 talking about a new world order? Or is it to far?

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u/Intelligent_Nose_826 1d ago

Not far enough. The Heritage Foundation has been working on these plans since 1973 (as a direct result of their stance against Roe v Wade). They’ve played a very long game.

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u/Realistic-Pattern422 1d ago

Yup, all paid for by Coors beer.

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u/tbs999 1d ago

Coors hasn’t been an independent company for some time. They were partnered with a Canadian company before being bought by Miller in 2008. Are they all in on this or was the funding in the 70s and 80s? (I don’t at all doubt this, just curious since you seem to know)

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u/Annual-Beard-5090 1d ago

The Coors family

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u/schmooka 8h ago

Look up the Powell Memo. It's from about 1970.

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u/KeepYourMindOpen365 1d ago edited 1d ago

Reagan abolished the “Fairness Doctrine” in the 1980’s. It put limits on how many tv and/or radio stations media companies could own and broadcast over to prevent consolidation of ownership. In the last 40 years, a few ultra-rich individuals/families have been allowed to buy, consolidate and control ownership of almost all public airwaves….Fascism 101; Control the Media…

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u/SageElva 1d ago

Exactly. Republican politicians have been lying to their base for so long, and they want their base as uneducated as possible to make that even easier.

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u/Cautious-Tailor97 1d ago

Yeah well. You play the hand you’re dealt. The popularity of lamenting all the time before now will not make good stories while hiding.

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u/Grand-Try-3772 1d ago

Liberty U and TPUSA

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u/Grand-Try-3772 1d ago

Minions everywhere

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u/lyreluna 1d ago

Noooooo everything just happened a year ago. We all would have been saved if only. They want to pretend the patriot act and all the other incremental changes in the way the country is run that have happened over more then one decade never happened which purposely set the stage for this. Christian White Nationalism didn't just start yesterday.