• vala@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 days ago

    The article itself is basically an empty assertion.

    Colbert was bought and paid for by corporate media and he has now outlived his usefulness to them.

    They kept him around for so long because he didn’t seem to have any issues with pushing capitalist propaganda regardless of how it hurts people.

    What really got me was his disinformation campaign about vaping. The science was already out at that point and he ignored it because he was told to ignore it.

    This is just one example.

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      2 days ago

      well firstly vaping isn’t a left/right biased issue.

      what disinformation about it did he push?

      even if it was incorrect information, it doesn’t mean he was paid to push it. he could have just been, you know, wrong.

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        It’s a capitalism Vs science issue. I’m not saying he’s right wing, I’m saying he’s a capitalist that puts profit over truth.

        It’s just so transparent.

        https://youtu.be/PMtGca_7leM

        At this time the NIH studies were already out and just being ignored because they were inconvenient to corporate America.

        Colbert doesn’t want solutions to anything. He wants problems to make fun of.

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          Colbert doesn’t want solutions to anything. He wants problems to make fun of.

          You do realize the man is a comedian? Making fun of problems is kinda his job description.