How to know all you need to know about the level of corruption the US is suffering: compare the dearth of news articles regarding the president's net worth increase of $3 billion dollars since taking office with the plethora of news articles covering his wife's wardrobe choices.

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xnx 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

> compare the dearth of news articles regarding the president's net worth increase of $3 billion dollars since taking office

Outrage fatigue. The actions are so constant and outrageous that it's hard to keep up. There's an item every single week that would've gotten a president impeached 20 years ago.

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Terr_ 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Never before has any administration made me feel like I need to create a goddamn mind-map or wiki just to document the hundreds of crimes and scandals with unique primary keys.

Even when you drop the detail level down to exclude individual names it's just too damn much.

I wonder if there's some prior-art in The investigative journalism field which could be relevant...

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mullingitover 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

McSweeneys published an exhaustive list before the 2020 election[1].

[1] https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-complete-listing-atr...

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zeven7 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I began keeping my own little list of things after the inauguration. It's very incomplete. I would love to see a broader effort toward a more complete list. I'd also like it to be limited to extremely serious and verified, indisputable information. There's enough cruelty and corruption that we don't need to count things that might be taken out of context or easy to dismiss.

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sho_hn 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Setting up this wiki to collect and organize the massive amounts of information seems like an excellent idea.

A Trumpedia documenting the extent of the case, with cross-links and what not, could be one of the game-changing educational tools of the century.

If you figure out write rights and moderation.

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none2585 2 days ago | parent [-]

It's an exercise in futility - it does not and will not ever matter

	▲	braebo 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		I’ve fantasized that an ideal version could help equip me with ample evidence when debunking propaganda during in-person conversations with the only partially-indoctrinated. Is it too optimistic to hope that the network effects of a very popular resource with exceptional UX could, at the very least, nudge a needle somewhere out there?

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benjiro 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> Outrage fatigue. The actions are so constant and outrageous that it's hard to keep up.

That is exactly the idea... By dumping non-stop the most nonsense things into the news cycle, the actual interesting events gets overshadowed.

Oooo, oooo, Trump said X ... lets all focus on X, ignoring corruption or people's rights slowly being dismantled... This was literally in that 2025 Plan.

And the issue is that people actually seem to have more and more comprehension issues.

A while ago i made a post regarding a specific hosting provider not releasing any new products in 2025, clearly talking and listing hardware releases from the previous years.

The first two comments pointed out that a interface change was a new product (its not) and a product launch from end 2024 (2024 != 2025). Point out that those comments are wrong. downvoted, ... again, and again.

Its like people seem to lose the ability to read, or critically think about what is written. Its one of the main reasons i do not like to post on most social media platforms anymore. Its like people want to argue, need to oppose what is written, be outraged by what they see. Like we all gotten dumber or maybe social media / forums etc only showed how we really are.

And all that news feeds into this. The people behind Trump understand that people have this lacking ability, and know that if they flood the news with nonsense, actual journalism simply dies. It also does not help that most news is owned by big corporations, with often dubious links, and the main motivation being profit!

	▲	xnx 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		It's a difficult information landscape. Our brains are developed for foraging berries and maintaining a social network of maybe a few dozen individuals.

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ahmeneeroe-v2 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

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xnx 3 days ago | parent [-]

No coordinated collusion, but very much yes to Russian interference with intent to benefit Trump.

	▲	ahmeneeroe-v2 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		So no Russian collusion, but yes to something else completely unrelated. Did I get that right?

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lotsofpulp 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

How to know all you need to know about the level of corruption the US is suffering: The majority of voters voted for a traitor that supported overturning an election, and campaigned on pardoning traitors.

The number of articles about a measly $3B is far down the list (which is impossible to verify anyway).

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terminalshort 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Depends on your sources I guess. I have seen many articles about Trump's corruption and basically zero about Melania's fashion.