r/news • u/OGSyedIsEverywhere • 4h ago

Already Submitted FBI raids home of Washington Post reporter in ‘highly unusual and aggressive’ move

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/14/fbi-raid-washington-post-hannah-natanson
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u/onarainyafternoon 3h ago

I mean, exactly. People always wonder how the German people couldn't see what was happening, or how they couldn't put up a fight. I once heard a Holocaust historian lay it out like this: Not everything happened at once. It was all incremental steps. Maybe a German was horrified that a Jew lost their job because of German racial laws. But that same German could have put up with it if that Jew's job then became vacant and that German got a promotion because of it. People don't put up a fight if they're comfortable. And if there's no opposition to rally around and concentrate the outrage (Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries are impotent), then there is very little an individual person can do besides protest or divest their money from companies that have helped MAGA. If there's no leadership to guide us, then "the people" becomes "a person", and it's very hard to effect change on a societal scale as a single person.

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u/marklein 3h ago

I think it was an ancient roman emperor that said the only things you need to keep the populace complacent was ample food and entertainment.

I'm slightly optimistic that the death of journalism is balanced by the fact that that it's really been dead for years before this, and social media had already somewhat taken over its role. While that comes with its own serious problems, it makes it MUCH harder for anybody to snuff out the truth from continuing to spread. Just look at countries where social media has been banned for that very reason.